I more/less ride the way I want to in small groups and had never done an official event or race before. There aren’t a lot of non-race events in my area and I’m not really interested in racing.
I live not that far from Trek HQ. The bike shop I do the most business with was pushing the Trek 100 ride for their 50th anniversary as something we would have a lot of fun doing and we decided to try it.
This not a race. They had 4 different groups that would mostly do a 33 mile loop – 100 miles, 66 miles, 33 miles, and a shorter 20 mile version. We chose the 33 mile option.
Overall we had a lot of fun. It was interesting seeing so many bikes and so many people. The start was more of like a party pace so we passed quite a few groups in the beginning to go a comfortable pace for us. When the 100 mile groups passed on their 2nd loop it was like being passed by a train, they were flying. The overall distance and speed were both our typical.
I am just getting over a bad sinus head cold, I was really sick last week but it relented by Friday and was mostly unaffected on the Saturday event day.
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Event detail: Trek 100 – a charity ride celebrating 50 years of Trek
Dave
