I've been doing the regular Montrose ride for over 15 years, but this past year saw me off the bike a lot. I lost a lot of fitness and gained too much weight and so I thought I would do the 8am ride, remembering people describe it as a tempo ride. I thought, cool, here's a ride I could just sit in and not worry about accelerations, sprints etc. I was wrong. They totally drilled the Campus Sprint and ramped up the pace along Arrow Hwy. I kept saying to myself, these guys don't get it. This is stupid. I might as well just suffer on the regular one. Like someone said earlier, the guys at the front are survivors on the regular ride and players on this one.