Haleiwa Metric Century

Closed out a good training week in style today at the Haleiwa Metric Century, a 100K (62 Mi) ride from Haleiwa to Swanzy beach and back. I've done this ride three times, but today it was nice that it felt like any old training day and not some arduous journey. I hadn't intended to hammer the ride, just wanted to get time in the saddle

I started out with the main pack, probably 60-80 riders in a "peloton". There were a couple HACC guys I was staying close to so I had someone to talk to. I gotta admit, I don't really like riding in a big pack like that. I'm not super-uncomfortable, but there's very little margin for error when you have other guys on bikes cruising at 23-26 mph inches on every side of you, and there's so much air moving around that you don't have to work at all to stay in the pack. I was getting bored and figured "meh" and somewhere around the 15 mile point I dropped the ol mallet, screamed "HACC ATTACK" at the top of my lungs, shot about 200 yards in front of the group, promptly got tired and got passed by all of them.

Then I spent the rest of the ride noodling about with the other HACCers, made it back in 2:45 (ride time -10 min break at the halfway point) and scooted home and fell asleep with sammy. Bekah thought it cute enough to snap a photo. Aww.