Yea, I rode with Ron Iseri. He was on our RAAM crew back in 2018. It was a comeback double for him too ... first one in a long time.

The ride started out a bit ominously. The Sherwin Grade is always a grunt, but this time, we had to do it into some pretty stiff headwinds (15-20 MPH). I am used to headwinds there (the colder air at higher altitude spilling down the slope), but this was unusually windy.

I was concerned that it was going to be headwindy all the say to the 100 mile mark at Lee Vining, but in truth, the winds behaved themselves. The only headwindy section after that was the ride up 203 to the Mammoth Lakes Village. After that, it was actually mostly tailwinds.

I finished pretty strong, but felt beat up pretty good at the end of the day.