Tonight is the annual Midnight Madness Bike ride at Antelope Island. Drove out to the causeway about 8:00pm and parked just outside the entrance to the causeway. At first they weren't going to let us park in the lot at all. Some people when they get a little power, it goes to their heads.
Rode the mountain bike across the causeway (7 miles) and then had about an hour before the ride began. Right at 10:00pm they let us go, all 1250 of us. Rode out to the Garr Fielding Ranch house (11.4 miles) had a cup of fruit, a banana and some lemonade. Lots of spandex and bugs. We had a slight head wind all the way from the marina and was looking forward to the ride back. It would help push us up the hill. Well about 1 mile into the return trip, at 12:00 midnight, the wind changed to from the north, then the wind changed to a gale and lots of people were off their bikes walking due to they could not pedal against the wind.
Finally made it back to the marina where everyone turned in and loaded their bikes onto their vehicles. Not us, kept pedeling into the gale, now there were whitecaps out in the water. Finally gave in and started to walk. About a mile later, a race volenteer stopped and offered us a ride back to the entrance. We took it in a heart beat. Got back to the car about 1:45am.
Tonight's Miles - 30.8 Miles
Total Miles - 512.8 Miles
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