Pain. Wind. And lots of freshly-plowed fields we seemed to be riding right through the middle of.

We hit this one section about 20km in where the was dead in our faces across the field, uphill, and the ground was super-soft... and special guest rider Allison Sydor drop(e)s the hammer on our sorry asses and gaps up to the next group. Just like that.

Just a quick reminder of why she's the pro, and I'm the schmoe.