Part 1
Well I did eat shit but it wasn’t my fault! I got absolutely T-boned at speed by a guy who lost control of his bike. Everybody fine but my Garmin freaked out and my bike made weird noises for the rest of the ride. For a bizarre 10 seconds at the very beginning the front group took a wrong turn and I was technically leading the pack
Part 2
Post clobbering. Mud mud mud mud. Can’t feel my toes or my fingers. Took a whole water bottle that I never touched. Really fun! At one point my glasses were exactly as see through as Luke’s blast shield. A highlight was returning upstream off the hundreds of 50k riders on their way out. Official time 2:59:16!