Hell yeah, f@&k yeah!

Ice, ice, baby?

40’ @ 118bpm

60’ @ 125bpm

50’ @ 122bpm

Amazing race! Crazy windy, gusts to 35-40kph, over a mix of dirt road, paved road, and farm lanes. Rode away early with Osmond Bakker, Bruce Bird, and Gaelen Merritt, all of Wheels of Bloor (Toronto), and worked together well until they started attacking with 30k to go. So I took my inspiration from Stannard, and countered, going clear for about 5k, until turning into a cross wind. Regrouped, Merritt attacked, and I had to let him go. With 10k to go, Fortuna smiled, and I attacked into a series of turns into a Mennonite farm, Osmond and Bruce chasing together. Was holding a couple seconds until coming to grief on a ice and mud-infested turn, went down, Osmond passed. Bruce went down too. Got the chain back on, eventually got back into my road pedals, and went hell for leather to chase Osmond back down, catching with about 3k to go. He sat up, but with a turn onto the final pea gravel trail looming, there was no time to attack, so I waited until I had a window on the trail, slipped by, and went full gas. It worked! Merritt was in sight, but I ran out of road, hitting the final 60k stair run-up pretty gassed, and mostly focused on not exploding. 2nd locked, the best outcome I could have hoped for under the circumstances. And then my car's engine blew out on the way home.....

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Hell yeah, f@&k yeah!

Ice, ice, baby?

40’ @ 118bpm

60’ @ 125bpm

50’ @ 122bpm

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