BRCM Lunch - Bike Path -> Laguna -> Ridgeline to Summit -> Sunnyhill -> Bonita -> MacArthur-> In.

GPS stats: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82173485

We had a good turnout today, somehow most everyone decided to wear the white. After convincing Verm to forego the flogging himself on the hills we took off with ten, despite Gary and Rich having to stay back today.

Right off Verm, with his sandbags, started pushing the pace. Even in the back the power necessary to keep up was somewhere around 400w (high). Seon must have instigated him, as he was up front initially.

It was pretty hard to see the dynamics up front from my cherry spot right behind Adrian (10th). Lots of traffic on the bike path and so many of us made for some dicey moves. Todd said he got a little close to one of the joggers, not sure if everyone was using hand signals or not, but it was a close call. There was no exchange of words, this time.

After the S-turns once Adrian moved up, and we got split up a bit. By the end of the bike path we were running a 24.3mph avg, with the help of a little tail wind. The four of us up front got along the 405 and I tried to contest Adrian's sprint zone dominance. Vince and Todd had done most of the work leading it out, so we were setup well for it. I think Adrian let me have it.

By Ridgeline Verm caught up, and charged the hill with Vince. Todd, Adrian and I thought it better not to push the sandbag crew, thinking we might kill them. Eventually, we forgot about their cardiac welfare and Todd dialed them in. After that, I blew up pretty spectacularly, with Vince and Todd in tow. That was about the last we saw of those guys, Todd had a crank issue so turned back, and Vince was gone (miraculously to reappear at MacArthur).

Pretty quickly all the guys made it to Summit Ct for our regroup. At this point Jaffe, with Sandy in tow, explained his minor delay in arriving, he actually had stopped to obey a traffic signal. Then we headed down to Sunnyhill and across to Bonita. Enroute Verm mentioned he had filled so many of his bottles with sand that he was a bit low on water, hardcore! He still led us up and over Shady.

At some point Adrian got back in the front and really got moving. He was leading it out for quite some time, in the wind, taking us up to 37.6mph! Impressive.

Vin and Mike led us most of the way across Bonita, where we reconnected with Vince. And, since we were at 20miles already folks just headed in on MacArthur, instead of going over to Jamboree.

I think Verm broke away at one of the lights, and nobody wanted to contest Adrian for the final sprint.

Good ride today, I had us at a 21mph avg with about 1200ft of climbing.

thanks,
Shannon.