Century Ride #1

If only the entire day was this nice!!! By the way, this is Greg, not Megan. My brother, Wade and I decided to register for the St George Century Ride, which is a 100 mile ride through the St George area. We started out at 8:00 AM with temps in the 30's in a light misty rain. Everybody there felt the same as we did that we were all just a little bit die hard to be out in weather like this. But the money was paid and all non refundable so off we went with the other 150 riders. We headed east out through Washington and past Coral Canyon Golf Club, and then down past Sand Hollow and into Hurricane. About this time is when it started to snow on us. To make matters worse I got a flat. Changing a flat tire in a snow storm really makes a guy cold. I got that one changed and to make matters worse, 15 minutes later I got a second flat. And to add to that I think that I was pre-hypothermic. I had some uncontrolled shaking that I couldn't make go away. I was thinking that I might need to pull out of the race. I decided to give my tire one more shot. So I changed it and put some duck tape between the tube and the tire where I was getting the flats. That did the trick and I was able to continue on.



Shortly after mile 50 the weather started to improve a bit and the sun began to peak through the clouds a little. But still cold for St George. We pressed on and I was feeling good about being able to finish despite most of the elevation gain in head of us. At about mile 63 we came to another rest stop where we were told that all riders needed to turn around due to snow packed roads in Veyo. At that point we only had about another 7 miles of climbing with most of the remaining 30 on a downhill grade. A little disappointed we turned around for the last 10 miles back into St George to the finish line. In these pictures we had just removed our jackets for the photos. I learned a couple of things on my first century ride. Don't register for a ride until the weather for ride day is known. And you can wear a full on Walmart poncho on a bike in a wind storm. I wish that I would have had a camera to take a picture of that guy. All in all we had a good time and I am already looking forward to the next....if my wife will let me. Love ya babe!!