Quote from Bud_Bent on Sep 11th, 2011, 4:37pm:I rode the 60 mile route at the Cowtown Classic yesterday. I spoke to Joe, Diane, Eddie, and Mark L before the ride, and saw Mark L again afterwards (great to see y'all!). I like the route this ride uses, but it's not a great route for speed. It's mostly tiny Johnson County roads, with lots of turns, gravel in many of the turns, and some rough stretches of road. I didn't hear how the turnout was, but there looked to be several hundred riders.
I rode to the start of the ride, then home again, so ended up with 69.7 miles. On the ride itself, I had a total of 60.3 miles. I only made one 5 minute stop and finished the ride in 3:21. My on the bike average was 18.4 mph. That's probably about as fast as I can do this route, almost 1 mph faster than I was on it last year.
It's an odd course, can't get much speed on the first third of the route with the turns and rough road but it really screams after that. I finished with a 20.9 average and didn't stop at all, ended up being a decent ride but next year I'll likely do the Pryor Oklahoma DJ Jam ride and look for more dogs to hit