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UGHHHHHHHH 4.5 hours in the saddle today . It started out at 7:15 am .I met Jeeves and Ben with the SC trip just around the corner we needed to get some good hills in . Ben bailed 10min into the ride . I looked back to tell him , if we were going to hard to say something and we'd slow down . At the same time Jeeves said how's Ben , I was like hes not there . He looked back and saw him on the other side of the road going back . We just scratched our noggin's and kept riding . The first climb is about 25min long , we tackled that with no problem . With a long decent into the TUCK . The second climb can be broken into 3 parts, however you slice it the total time climbing is about 50 -55 min .The first part is not to bad you can get in a good rhythm . part 2 however is not so easy , the first slope is about 18% grade and 300 meters long . the 2nd slope is 20% and is a little longer than the first . This one is a kick in the balls because you get like a 20second breather before hitting the 3rd slope. This one sucks , I have yet to go up this one without asking myself why . Topping out at 24% yes 24% this 400 meter nugget of joy will make you weak in the knees . I hit it and said to myself just get it over as fast as you can . I can hear Jeeves's carbon wheels behind me WOSH WOSH it sounded like he was about to plow me over ,I was thinking shit I am maxed he's going good . I made it to the top and looked back and saw that he was boxed which was a sigh of relief because I was stuffed . I kept the pace going to the little decent , the only reprieve of the climb . Its 1/2 a mile long and is just enough to get you out of your climbing rhythm . You take a sharp right and your on to the finial part of the beast . This part takes about 15 min and is about 5% all the way up . I find it very hard when you start it to get into a good rhythm , Cocci is always good on this section that little fuck slips right back into the pace witch always puts me into the hurt locker so I was happy he didn't show . Over the top and its a long decent into Prospect , we were 5 min's ahead of schedule and I knew that was bad . I padded the time table by 15 min due to it being the first time doing this ride in 2009 . So now we were 20 min ahead FUCK . We got to the Stop & Shop and sat around for 25 min before everyone was ready to leave . By this time I was shivering cold and with my first pedal stroke I knew the rest of the day was going to suck . My legs were stuffed I just could get them going again . I have a hard week of training ahead of me so I just let the ride go on the false flat by the shooting range . I caught on to a group at the short cut but didn't want to go as hard as they were going and just kept my pace and put another 45mins to make the time I wanted to do . I know that Jeeves and I will sleep well tonight .