Friday, June 10, 2016

Day 4, June 8, 2016, Paso Robles to Santa Maria

Day 4, is an 89 mile ride with almost 4800' of climbing. The 2 biggest hills are nick named Evil Twins.
At the top of the second hill, is the half way to LA point, where proud cyclists snap photos.
It is often difficult to get the whole team, in the same place at the same time, but we got pretty close a couple of times. This was before ride out.
This was at the half way point.
Here we are with Coney while we waited to get let out of the half way point. They were letting cyclists leave the stop10 at a time, for safety reasons, due to the steep grade.
Even though she missed our team shot, Letitia was in the video holding up her bike.

This flat was between two of the downhills. The joke was: How many PG&E employees does it take to change a flar? But seriously, the team was very supportive of each other.
We then rode together down the second hill and found David with a flat. He was having his changed by a sweep team of two folks we regularly train with.
Since most of us were together again we snapped another photo.