The event was a fund raiser for the American Diabetes Association and by the look of it there were over 300 participants so a good success.
Along with 7 other Cycle Folsom Riders and a couple of other we headed out from HP Roseville about 15 min after the first pack. A nice paceline formed and we ramped up the speed over the first 20 miles to about 19mph. After the first rest stop, the climbing began and a few of us decided that, given that we have been on
the bike only once or twice in four weeks, we would not be keeping up with the faster Cycle Folsom team mates.Tour De Cure organizers set up a very lovely route, on mostly rural roads with very little traffic and fantastic scenery. The ride had an early 2 climbs shorter climbs in the 8% range to take us to Far West reservoir. Then after the second rest stop, followed by some steeper climbs ( up to 15%) of Crater and Bald Hill for over 25 miles as we neared Applegate.
Most of the final 35 miles were down hill or flat thought Bowman Road hit us with some 12+ % climbing to keep us humble.
Our lack of riding over the past couple of weeks showed as we
faded a little on the flat run in to Rosevill and missed the 6 hr goal by 9 minutes but with an on bike average of 16.25mph for the ride.Post ride we enjoyed some burritos from Chipotle to help recover...now we turn our sights to the Davis Double in 2 weeks time...
Better get some miles in before then!
Ron and Lisa
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