Originally Posted by KendallF
I'll join wrote4luck in the "butt kicked" category. Made 4 laps in the mid-front of the pack, legs feeling fine but progressively more overheated. I was drinking but my bottles were blood warm at this point. Start of the 5th lap I imploded. It was either pull over or fall over so I pulled over.
Props to anybody racing in the weather today. Just riding back and forth between Gainesville and the race course was pretty brutal and that wasn't at race pace.
The beginning of each lap is a bit of an ass kick, isn't it?
I have ridden up that pitch lots of times over the last 25 years. When on the bike it doesn't look anywhere near as steep as it is.