Put a fork in me; I’m done (part 2)
After several years of riding, I finally finished a 200k in under 9 hours.
Barely.
It would have been comfortably within 9 hours, except that I’m running on threadbare tires (Clement Strada; lovely tires except they wear down quickly; 2600 miles on these and the rear tire is almost thin enough to read through) and I lost 20 minutes after running through some glass on highway 224 halfway between Estacada and Barton.
But I still finished in under 9 hours, and that’s more than enough for now! (This gives me a 300 that I finished in just barely over 13 hours, half of which was riding by myself, a 400 that I finished in under 20 hours by myself, and a 200 that I finished in under 9 hours by myself. And if I bother to ride the upcoming 700, this gives me some confidence that I could finish it in ~30 hours riding by myself, though I must admit that I’m having trouble seeing why I’d even want to.)