Saturday some friends and I did the Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge - a 100 mile bicycle ride, also called a "century ride" in cycling circles.
The cast of characters on this journey were: John, Devin, Chad, Guy, Rusha, and myself.
Here's the official website:
http://www.santacruzcycling.org/scmc/
The course was described as 100 miles with 11,000 feet of climbing but my GPS must have been off a bit as I showed close to 17,000 feet of climbing total.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6373947
The ride was definitely challenging, the heat a bit annoying, the climbing on the painful side, but the descending was AWESOME as I brushed against and then over the 50MPH mark a few times.
The food and fluid support was pretty darn good though I did find it a bit odd that an event sponsored by Clif products had PowerBars at the water stops... I would like to have seen the course marked a bit better as we almost missed a few turns and had to really look for the arrows painted on the ground.
Congrats to Chad for completing his first century and
MAJOR congratulations to Guy and Rusha for their wedding in about three weeks!
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