Four River 200k

Amber and I decided to ride the Four Rivers 200k but starting at Yorba Linda park making a total of 121 miles. It was our first time at this distance for some months. The weather was overcast, cool, and windy with the promise of rain. I hadn't brought a jacket :-(

My kind of weather

We had a headwind to the beach and a sidewind at the beach. We ate at The Crema (of course) and then headed to El Monte with a strong tailwind. It's hard to enjoy a tailwind when you know you have to turn around and battle it later.

To our surprise, the overcast persisted all the way to El Monte which was very nice. After a quick stop, we turned into the headwind and rode to Long Beach. As we got close the sun came out and so did all the trail users. All of a sudden the trail was packed with people acting as though they had never see a bicycle before. Small groups spread all across the trail, people crossing it without looking, the usual stuff.

We ate at Chronic Tacos and the quesadillas hit the spot after fighting the headwind for 25 miles. We took Atlanta back to the SART to avoid the continuing bad behavior on the beach trail. We had a powerful tailwind all the way back to the cars. Total elapsed time was 9:36 which we were very pleased with especially as we had taken our time at The Crema and Chronic Tacos. If we had been more disciplined through the controls we could have had a nine hour ride. But where's the fun in that?