Made it back from New York but , not with out a few problems. The ride went good and no one got hurt. I about 12 miles into the ride had a chain problem, but got it fixed. Started to ride to find Tea & Michele ahead of me, then the tire had a blow out! I took the tire of got the tube out and went to put the spare in. Dry rotted, the tube was shot. So, then I was going to have to patch the hole in the tube I took off. The tire cement was dried up and no good. One of the marshals on the ride gave me a tube and I put it in. Then went to pump the tire up and my pump was not working? Another marshal had a foot pump for me to use. We started pumping the tire up and seen there was a split in the side wall of the tire! It was a little over a mile to the first rest station and there I could get a new tire, so I started to jog the mile, hope to not lose more time then I had to. Had a new tire put on and raced out a head just in case I was close to any of the cut offs., but wasn't. Caught, Tea & Michele at the third rest stop around mile 20. We finished the ride at 3:00 PM, two hours earlier the the last time we did this ride in 2000. If not for the tire problems we could have been done around 2:00pm?
Tired now but, have fun!