Originally Posted by txags92

They absolutely made the right call! Between about 11 am and 2pm, the area around and west of Bastrop got about 5 inches of rain. That would have been a disaster with 5-10 thousand riders in the middle of it. I know a few folks might have been able to finish ahead of the storms, but the vast majority of the riders would have been somewhere in the middle of those storms.

As for the ride, it was a blast for me. I took it easy and rode with my wife all day long. She was riding hard and was pretty sore afterward, but we finished the day with a 17.7 mph avg for 94 miles. By far her fastest day one ever.