Hot100 & DEC Fall Century

Nearly 200 miles in 2 days.
Sunday was the Hot100 in Currie, NC put on by Cape Fear Cyclists(CFC). The ride certainly lived up to it's name. It had to be about 95, but thankfully, it wasn't too humid. The ride was made up of four 'loops' of 18, 25, 27 and 30 miles. Ride all four and you'll get 100, or you can do any combination and ride whatever distance you choose to. Kim and I rode two loops, about 43 miles together, but the heat got to her and she decided to call it a day after that. I ended up riding another 48 miles solo and finished just before a serious downpour started. The guys from CFC gave us lots of goodies to bring up to J-ville with us for the DEC Fall Century.

The century was great. We had 23+ riders at the start and with riders joining and dropping off we ended up finishing with 21. 19 riders completed the entire 100 mile route. The first 30 miles, thru Swansboro and up to Atlantic Beach was pretty windy. But once we made it to Morehead city we turned our backs to the wind and had some relief for a while , at least. Kim, Rachel and Michael provided some excellant supportfor all the riders and only three riders had any troubles while riding. We thought that we were going to have a serious headwind headed out to Maysville for the 4th leg of the ride, but the winds ended up being just a cross-wind and it wasn't too bad. Rowdy, Chuck, Steve and I were the lead four, but Steve couldn't hold the pace and had to drop off. Chuck and Rowdy started getting pretty tired about 7 miles from Maysville, so I did a good deal of the pulling. There was any sprint at the end. I was by far the strongest rider that day and I decided just to pull them in and they elected to just ride trail and get to the rest stop. After we regrouped, everyone remounted and we headed home. Great job to everyone that came out, especially the support drivers. Without them we would have had much more problems than we did.

Time to get ready for the ITT & TTT this weekend

Ride On!
-Super Dave