too hard to choose just one...

gaz posted over on the MORE website asking everyone to people their favorite ride(s). here's what i posted...

can i pick a whole year instead of just one ride? last year was a breakout year for me...

i rode a lot and rode better, faster, stronger than ever before. there was the spring douthat trip, riding the southern traverse memorial day weekend, a great day at gambrill (the DCAMB OC ride) early in the season where i realized how much difference the road riding over the winter had made to my fitness, DNFing at schwenkville, cramping up as i crossed the line at the fairhill classic, the massive tour de 'burg stage that i followed by riding the EF/Woodstock Tower loop the next day, wednesday night singlespeed sprints to the line at wakefield, a summer trip down to harrisonburg to show some sm100 newbies the course, but the capstone to the whole year was...

the 2005 Shenandoah Mountain 100... I can't argue with race (ride) that gives you great support and lets you to ride a 1/2 dozen of the greatest downhills i know in one day. just managing to finish in 2004 was great, but the feeling of hitting the last checkpoint at 10 hrs in and racing the last 10 miles up Hankey Mtn to try to finish in under 11 hours (and doing it) is a feeling that i'll never forget.

this year is just beginning; i wonder what it holds... a trip to fruita is just a couple of weeks away and the memorial day camping trip is going down to stokesville again, and in august i'll be doing Trans Wales...