All for car recovery

Today, began EARLY.

6:45am out of here. 11 degrees out, 2 degrees warmer than yesterday thankfully! We rolled up the coast to Nytro in Encinitas for the Swaumi’s Saturday Big Loop Sufferfest. The big loops is 80 miles. The ride up to Encinitas is 1:15hrs at a fairly decent pace. Add all those miles up and you’ll figure out that it was a long day in the saddle.

Failboat factor 1 – Stupid me, forgot my water bottles on the counter at our house. *EGAD!*

Coolness factor 1 – as we decended Torrey Pines, a BMW Motorcycle tucked in along side of us. Egging us on to roll in behind him. So we did! Matteo said we were ripping along at 69km/hr at the fastest point. We covered 2-3 km’s VERY quickly. Thankfully common sense got the best of us and we shut it down. The last thing we wanted to do was gas ourselves before we even got to the ride.

Failboat factor 2 – FLAT TIRE. *ugh* Teo got a flat in Solana Beach. Not far from where the ride was to begin (1 town over). Pull over, quickly swap the tube and use Co2 to get back in the road quickly. Then TT (read – hammer) our faces off so we can get to Nytro before everyone rolls out.

Coolness factor 2 – The guy at Nytro was kind enough to give me 2 of his shop bottles! How awesome. He’s a Canadian fan too!

So with 30 seconds to spare, Matteo stuffed his supplies into his jersey and I slammed my bottles in the cages and we were off.

BIG Group.

The roll out was slow, which was nice. We stayed at the front, keeping an eye on the pace. Matteo was riding like a champ. We started into the hills and within no time, the hurtlocker door was blasted open. I dangled a little, caught the lead group…. let them go again…. caught them… let them go. Frustrating. Matteo was flying!

They finally got away and then it started to shred apart. I eased up, because at this point I was in never-never land and wanted to save some gas. Settled into the second pack, and the taps were opened.

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