I left Hartford, Ct at 6, and it was raining buckets. To the point where I almost turned around and back to bed.

The rain stopped by New Haven, though, and it really turned out to be a brilliant day for riding.

Too bad there were so many a55h0les out there. We abbreviated the ride due to several issues:

At the 30 mile rest, one of the marshals was saying that we may have to walk across the Verazanno Narrows bridge (2+ miles), the guys I was with were hung over, and we wanted to ride in Manhattan traffic, where it was safe. We bailed at the Brooklyn Bridge.

Even during our shortened ride, the number of bungholes was amazing. We've done BNY many times (~10), and can't remember it being this bad.

Overall, a good day.