Eight of us set out on Greg and Stacy's Four Rivers 200k brevet on Saturday. Kerin, David Danovsky, Garrett Eves, and Hoang Nguyen took off in a fast group while Greg, Stacy, and I waited for Debra who was running late.
The weather was perfect, with almost no wind and temps in the 50s.
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| Waiting for Debra |
Riding along Huntington Beach bike path it was overcast and calm - perfect.
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| Stacy is getting very good at selfies |
We rode a very gentle 14-15 mph inland to the Shell station at El Monte.
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| Happy to be halfway |
Headed back on the Los Angeles River Trail we didn't have too much headwind and Stacy captured this rather nice weather effect.
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| Like a scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail |
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| Long Beach Marina - the sun came out |
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| The fast crowd at Chronic Tacos |
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| The slow crowd an hour later |
As we were making our way through Marina Pacifica on 2nd, a speeding car span out of control and missed wiping us all out by about 100'. Take a look at the picture below. We all stopped as soon as the accident occurred. Look how close the car came to some of us. It's amazing she missed two cars, five cyclists, and didn't crash through the guardrail into the water below.
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| Missed me! |
The egg salad sandwich I had at the Shell might not have been as fresh as some. I started having stomach cramps about three hours later and had to spend some time in the rest room at the beach. Fortunately we don't have any photographs of that.
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| Fast group at the end |
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| Greg waiting for someone to do something |
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