Rick, I rode the Cool Breeze double-metric last year and am signed up again this year. However, this year I'm adding a couple of miles because the 18th is my birthday and I'm going to ride double my age in miles, so I'll have to add about two or three miles to make the goal. Last year, I hung with a small group to the summit at Thatcher School, then went solo after that. Will cut down the amount of time goofing off at the rest stops this year. Just in and out this time, long enough to grab about 200 calories and top off the water bottles. The run in from Carpentaria to the finish is very fast with the prevailing ocean breeze pushing us. I finished pretty strong last year.

Several things that I really like about the Cool Breeze is that all the big hills are front loaded and you have the wind with you on the return leg. The weather also cooperates most of the time. We're up and over the interior hills before it really starts warming up, and then we're along the relatively cool coast. It's a great ride!