Floyd Landis Challenge TT

Saturday, June 30th, the weather was perfect, 75 degrees, little wind, clear, sunny. The start of the TT was at the Riverview Elementary School in Marietta (west of Lancaster). This is a 28 mile race with each racer leaving at 1 minute increments. About 10 entrants were there for a 10AM start. At 9:45 AM there were questions about the route and since it was not painted I volunteered to Race/Paint with a 10 minute head start I went out with a can of paint to put down arrows at each turn so there would be no question of where to turn and no one would be lost. We had 2 small climbs in each direction, Chickies Rock and Turkey Hill, the rest of the route was rolling with very little traffic. Somehow I stayed out in front even with painting arrows and taking about 5 minutes at the turn around deciding where the safest and best place would be. Thanks to Mike Ridgeway for hosting a great race for "CycleSmart".

06-23-07 Longest Day

The Longest Day is also known as the Lancaster Longest day Challenge, consisting of 400 miles with ~28,000' of climbing. The climbs are short and steep, as soon as you get to the top of one climb you have a steep descent and a climb right after crossing a stream, there are many covered bridges on this route in the heart of Lancaster County. There were many Amish children, teams of horses working the fields, horse drawn buggies, truly a step back in time. The weather was dry, sunny, warm and the headwinds were variable depending on the direction I was riding!!!
Oh and don't forget about the two laughing Amish Work horses we passed playing in the cornfield at 2:30 AM, crossing the road to the alfalfa field across the street, that refused to let us by on the road.
Thanks to my CREW! Fred, Hummel, Beth, Diane, Chappy.
My time: 29h:59m to complete.
Previous Longest Day Record 35 hours