long ride, lots of climbing

today jason, erin and i set out for a nice ride of the alpine loop. early on i was working it to convince them both to go over suncrest on our way there...finally they caved and we did...it's sick and wrong but i like the route from north to south much more....so we went on over, got to the ranger station at timp and filled up water. we also decided at this point that we were just going to go to the summit and ride the AF side back down as i also convinced them to ride suncrest back as well....so at the top jason and i waited a few mins for erin then we railed it down....well i railed it down. i got to the ranger station and filled up on water again but jason and erin were no where to be found. i waited quite a long time then the arrived, jason had flatted, pinch flat kind of odd.... they filled up on water and we were on our way again.. suncrest on the way home was hard! think we were all a little cooked so we took it in stride and just did our damnedest to make it to the top.. at the top jason was riding through the sprinklers, weirdo....i was sitting on the grass as my feet were hurting (breaking in new shoes).... we headed down, it was fast...we re-grouped at the harmons which was kind of odd for me.... erin went in and brought out 2 cokes, 2 salted nut rolls and 1 cheese sandwich....the coke saved me, the nut roll was interesting and i'm still craving another bite of a cheese sandwich. on the way back home, i began to feel a little bit more normal......think the sugar was kicking in.

long ride, next time i should be a little more in tune with how my body's feeling and do something about it.