Good Times

End of another exciting adventure weekend. In a series of exciting adventure weekends. Saturday we rode the 43 miles to Port Townsend and made camp. Enjoyed an incredible dinner with more tasty delights than I deserve by fireside and crawled into the tent at 1000. By midnight it was raining heavily (but not hard enough that the end of the world would come from a flood). I awoke with my iPhone in a puddle near my head. This morning we had marvelous breakfast, bagels, pancakes, crepes, rhubarb pie and lots of coffee as we chatted about the rain, stiff necks and the race, by fireside. The Rhody Run 1100 is a casual start time by anyone's standards, and after an easy warm up and stretch we were ready to line up and test our training.

Perfect race conditions, overcast, about 45 degrees and little wind. It's a 12K with some hills, lotsa rollers and one killer descent. I was out to beat my back-to-back 55's of the last two years and Stephanie was out for a PR. Afterwards (and after more pie and cookies) we rode home, ending the aforementioned excitement. Here are the final results from our intrepid multi-sportif Bainbridge Squadra (of whom I am very proud):

Corey: 50:32* 8/70

RCVman: 51:58* 2/99

Stephanie: 1:01:59* 3/128

Kerry: 1:03:37* 16/135

EJ: 1:08:35 36/77

Steve: 1:43:59 26/42

With all that behind us, it is time to get in as much rest and recovery as we can before 0530 when we hit the HoM for another HIT spin. Then we head into the final two weeks of peak and taper for the NODM on June 5.

Well done squadra. Congratulations, and thanks for the great times.

* Course PRs.

The 2011 crew: (l2r) Ej and Sam. RCVman (charged with banana security), Corey, Kerry, Stephanie, Steve. Not pictured: Spot. Well done mates. Campsite at Ft. Worden State Park.