Day 3 Ragbrai – Tuesday – Carroll to Boone
HOT is what continues to describe this ride, so we took off early from Carroll. We also wanted to be on the road, so maybe there was a chance that we would see Lance whiz by. About 20 miles into the ride, a Livestrong entourage did whiz by going fast. Maybe Lance was in that group – couldn’t tell. Kristen thought one of the bikes looked really expensive and was sure it was him. It was just a black and yellow blur.
I was biking along when someone came up next to me and recognized me. It was Mark Hannasch, a good friend from high school. He has done this ride for the last 17 years. His mother had told him that I was riding (she had heard it from my sister) and he was on the look-out for me. We road together for about 10 miles and caught up on each other’s lives.
By noon, it was really hot and the sun had broken through the clouds. The day was also really flat riding and so no coasting down a hill and feeling the breeze. Shade was also few and far between. We needed to stop every time we did see a shade tree and so the biking was slow. We bailed out again near Pilot Mound and sagged the last 15 miles into Boone.
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