Talk about a M'F'n Grand Slam Home Run Hat trick Triple Double Shutout Perfect Game!

Maybe my longest title ever but it f'n fits.

I won today with a solobreak off the front from the start.

Would never have been this awesome with my friends.

Brian Goldberg who worked his ass off for 12+ hours yesterday so he could take the day to ride with me.

Dave Foley aka Solobreak aka Negacoach aka nicest guy around for meeting us and bringing us to his house to fill water bottles and then giving us the goddamn best route I hadn't found yet from his place to Dot Ave in the most kick ass maner. SO GOOD. So good to see Robin there while we were refilling bottles.

Kevin, Jamie, Tyler and Brian(?) at Firefly for more water, a destination and a peek at their new adaptive butting (trademark) tubes and all that. Oh and for the donuts. Yeah I had a couple donuts.

And Tyler esp for the encouragement that Barrington Coffee is only 2 miles away...  well duh yeah how can we NOT go for coffee (OMG STILL THE BEST). Memories of stopping there with Dean and meeting JLSCX and Cait there.

And Dave again for offering to refill waterbottles again, and then giving us best route to avoid Bay on the way home. It was kick ass again! Goldberg almost didn't die a couple times but he made it home.

AND THEN 118 miles into the ride I tagged into the Smackdown on Pine. Yes. I figured a nice long warm up was my problem.

Guess what? It kind of was awesome. I felt strong and felt really good. Once I got some fluid in me. Goldberg and I were out of water at mile 105 or so.

IT WAS REALLY HOT TODAY. OMG SO SWEATY AND HOT HOLYFUCK.

We needed one more water stop between Dave's house and the smackdown. I managed to survive and even drop everyone (well not the kid John on the solobreak or Fuller chasing him) but the group of Fox PKS Greve and ? I missed who the other strong looking PKS sized guy's name was. Anyway, I felt good. Hillside kicked my ass but I wasn't quite last and kept Fox in sight.

Rode back with them, out of water though, drained Fox's bottle and a handful of swigs from PKS's so critical and so appreciated.

Then while I'm wondering where the hell or how the hell am I going to make it home, Justin C shows up coming down the Linear park and I drain his last half of a bottle and make it home to be greeted by the dogs being walked with soccer kid and my wife.

Can you get a better welcome home than dogs that are soooooooper excited to see you?

Not really. And yes, my wife was very happy I was finally home, also that I was safe. And she got pizza and driving to RIC to get dancer kid so I can sit here and eat pizza, drink water and write (I should really get in shower and wash off sunscreen).

Goldberg was very much influential and helping get over the whole stupid competition, Fox said more or less that my competition was cheating all for the same reasons: "Is there a catergory for a guy with two jobs, a wife, two kids, two dogs, a guinea pig, and who does all the food shopping and the cooking (except when we order pizza)? NOPE THERE ISN'T! Yes I took a bunch of time off to get these miles in, and when I'm retired (if i ever retire) I'll then contend with the competition again. Till then? It is all good. It was a good incentive to get me riding more and more and more.

Benefits? Me. I think I need about two weeks of active pedaling recovery to start to begin to reap the full physiological response of this massive month, but either way anyway, even if i'm not any faster or different after it, it was worth it. It was awesome.

And thanks, thanks Fatmarc and Chip for you comments, your encouragement along the way, I appreciate it.

Good place right now GeWilli feels. Worked through it the way I usually do, pure abject stubbornness and unwillingness to quit. Keep going, do the right thing, keep doing the right thing...

So thank you.

Everyone. Like I told Jason and Goldberg on Saturday's hotter than hell 80 miler...  in response to "it takes a village" i fired back "Yup, It takes a village to raise an idiot, like me!"

So thanks village [people] Hugs to all, heck maybe it was the Shoogs has a Posse sticker on the seat tube that has created the magic. Or not washing the bike, or ... the village....

I'm now full of pizza time to shower...

again.. thank you everyone, esp those I missed naming specifically, my brain is not so perfect (duh no shit knucklehead) so forgive me...

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