Flight of the Dove 2007 is history.

The route I rode for the metric century was the same as last year, so I won't spend a bunch of bandwidth on that. Suffice it to say the route was as good as last year, maybe a bit better because of some road resurfacing.

It was really neat to see all the support for this event. There was a banner up listing businesses and whatnot that sponsored the event. I counted about 60 of 'em. Good work by the organizers all around.

I think I heard that there was about 230 riders (the shopping center parking lot where we started was just about packed), a nice increase from last year. I guess some of the little additions (like the raffle for a set of MIchelin tires, auction for a signed picture of Lance Armstrong, and adding Subway sandwiches to the menu) brought out the crowds.

Weather was a good bit warmer and more humid this year (some of you may have noticed the heat wave in the southeast USA), but since we were riding in the morning, I didn't have any thermal issues other than feeling nice and cool when I started up again at the rest stops. A bit of a breeze mostly out of the west worked to wear me out on the return to Clinton, but...

Bottom line: 100.45km / 62.39 mi (didn't miss the turn into the shopping center this time), about 4:05 elapsed time, 3:39:15 riding, average speed 27.49kph / 17.07mph / 7.63m/sec. a Subway sandwich and a pint of chocolate milk.

And the T-shirt is way cool! Those of you who work with me and wimped out will get to see it Monday .