It seemed easy

Until it wasn’t

Hubris is the enemy of comfort.

Dear reader,

Having completed 300 km in 24 hours I thought I had this endurance biking thing under control.

A mere hundred kilometers, how hard could it be?

Well, I guess you can say it depends.

100 km of riding smooth roads isn’t that difficult.

Riding the loop around Lake Charlotte is anything but smooth some of the grades on the climbs were incredibly, steep the ground loose.

But I knew this getting into it.

I imagined that after doing these more difficult rides, this would be a breeze.

It could well have been if I was merely riding with Zeke.

Today, we had four others with us.

And those guys liked Riding fast.

They pushed the pace.

I struggled to keep up.

What took Zeke and I a total of 9 1/2 hours of rolling time before they pulled off in 6 3/4 hours.

It took me a full hour longer than it took them. They spent a lot of time waiting for me.

For that, I am grateful and humbled.

What’s more I was nearly 2 hours quicker on the trail than I’ve ever been.

Hubris leads…