Originally Posted by PrincessZippy

What a hard, hard day. When Marco made it to our rest stop on Hamilton I wanted so much to just give him a hug... but never having actually met him in person... I thought that would be weird. I had been worried about him since I had expected to see him much earlier in the day and he was not on our DNS or DNF list. It was gut wrenching to have the riders coming and telling us what they knew and asking us if we knew anything more. Just sad.

Veronica