Well sometimes you do a race for the t-shirt and then there is a ride for donuts. Okay I thought how fun and yummy! Now I can say the first one was great the last one (#8) was horrible as it is sitting in my gut.
Weather--cool to cold and drizzle the entire ride
Riders--Denise (along with Paco Jr and sidekick), Kristen, Jen, and myself
So my story goes like this. We were up early so that we could arrive at Klackle's ORchard to pick up race packets. I am not sure they really had an idea what they got themselves into by sponsoring the ride. They were a little flustered on what to do if you have a line of people needing to register and ones that were pre-registered. We hot our small bag to fill with apples at the end of the ride, a t-shirt that if I had Andrea high-heels and leggings I would have to take a picture (longer dress than Reed's Lake-only in white), a couple coupons for Meijer's Naturals items. All the race volunteers were friendly and smiling through the rain.
So we ride the first ~10 miles before our first donut stop. The first loop had a crazy unexpected hill but other than that was a great ride. We pulled into the donut stop and found a seat. We drank some water, delicious apple cider, and ate some donuts (okay, I ate 4). Yikes! I also belched better, louder, and longer than Kristen. Yes, a proud moment. We then had to pull out and do the next 10 miles before we got a stop for bathroom and donuts again. Brrrrrrrrr! Until we got to riding again it was quite chilly. I think it is during this leg and not too far into it that my bike started to rebel. If I wanted to shift to my easiest gear and onto the smallest ring my chain would jump off.
So we arrived at the second donut stop and I felt the need to ingest another 4 donuts. Oh did my tummy start to hurt. Geee Pam, I wonder why. Please do not mention donuts again for a long time. After not having sugary things for almost 6 weeks I enjoyed a little too much the last two weekends. Now, I wish I could just sleep. Okay, now we are headed out again home-free in 10 miles. It seems like an easy task.
The last leg ended up being "The things that you can only laugh about" because crying would not be any good. So before mile 28 my chain had popped off a total of 5 times and the dreaded -- I got a flat. So I got all my stuff out and began to take the old tube out and put a new tube in with the assistance of Jen. HAHAHA! Wait Jen, I think I hear the tractor. YAhoooooooooo! We've got a ride back. I knew I needed to take my bike in to Village for the chain/gear issue so we might as well hitch a ride and let them finish the tire/tube issue. So we hopped on the back of the SAG vehicle with our bikes. It was a tractor pulled hay wagon.
What fun! So all of you that were home dry and warm. Now you know what you missed out on. This is my take on the ride. We did have fun but would have been better if the sun had been shining.
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