biking race (Day 3 - Crank the Shield) 5:20:00 [5] 75.0 km (14.1 kph)
Nice prologue ride where fb graciously kept me company...what he didn't know was that I drafted off him for a good chunk to Sir Sam's. Sucker.
Weather was perfect and we totally deserved it after yesterday! Started with super fun single track through Sir Sam's. Up and down and up and down. Loved this riding. Road stretch to Hydrocut which I loved even more the second time around. After 40km my luck ran out and I had a bike mechanical - must have damaged my derailleur as it lost a pin and continued to enter into my spokes. 2 lovely guys helped me out only to realize that every time I switched gears the same thing would happen. Ugh. I decided it was too close to the finish to let a ridiculous bike mechanical ruin my day so off I went with both rings in the middle. Well...it wasn't flat and there was still 17km of single track - I ran a shit ton of hills while pushing my bike and threatened to leave it for the bears. I went to some tough places and cried a couple times but I earned a hell of an ice cream cone tonight. Tough 3 days for anyone - both physically and mentally.
thanks, fb for waiting around for me at the finish - he won't admit it but he did awesome.
Definitely would do this race again in a heart beat. Such a great weekend!