Tour De Cure part 2

This was my first year doing the Tour. It was very well supported, on the rest stops, and by motorcycles escorting us. Often the motorcycles would stop ahead of a group and point out a turn onto the next road, although the signage was good also. We passed some rest stops, depending on the will of the group. Every one seemed to be very comfortable with Greg pulling us along 18- 20 mph. I spent some time riding back in the pack, chatting it up, riding 2 or 3 wide. The day was gorgeous. 70ish degrees, partly cloudy.

The Bikebeat group stayed together until about 30 miles in Greg decides to ramp it up. As I was hanging on to his wheel at 27 mph., I'm thinking, we still have 70 miles to go! No way I can keep this up! We shortly pulled in to a rest stop, and regrouped. Now came the only real boring part of the ride. The highway is so wide and straight, not much to look at. I did some pulling, as did some others. A flat tire was quickly delt with by our resident mechanic Carlos, and we were back underway. Greg and Rob were nice enough to let me pull up to the Joseph P. Knapp Bridge, then pass on the climb. Hit the lunch stop 55 miles in, the volunteers had sandwiches, water, and sports drinks ready. 30 minutes or so to eat and we were back underway!

Part 3 coming soon.