aikigreg
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For the first time in any brevet that I have done afaik, I was the only bent in the brevet this weekend. I did the 400k (255.5 miles). I almost didn't go. When I woke up it was raining and fairly windy and twice I walked back from the garage to my house, but didn't go inside. I decided I'd go to the start and decide. It didn't help that I was more than a little scared about doing a 400k solo - there was no one else doing the ride. Plus, I had a pretty hard time staying awake towards the end of the fleche, and that was fairly flat and not a full 400k and I was with friends. It stopped raining as soon as I got the bike loaded and I never had one drop of rain the entire ride. It also turned out that the 400k route spends most of it's time on the 600k route, but I chose to ride my own ride and was alone most of the time. 1st 100k - MW to Tolar - fairly easy section. Up some hills in the beginning but then you go DOWN Cherry Pie Hill and the elevation profile is generally downwards. There was some wind but a fairly easy ride and I rode conservatively and alone, with about an 18mph average. Vickie's mom Dottie was providing SAG and the tables were filled with hard boiled eggs, pb&j, pimento chees, ham, fruit, nuts, fig newtons, water, and wine to toast a recently passed fellow randonneur who many knew. Vickie, Sharon, Pam, and others were leaving and urged me to join them, so I grabbed a pb&j, stuffed it into my jersey, and took off with them.
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