We took advantage of the few down-hills we could to regain some ground on them, but by the time we got to the Blanco rest stop we were feeling tired and figured most of the faster guys were in front of us.
The funniest thing happened after we left that rest stop. We were absolutely alone for the longest time. It was just us and the scrub brush. Pam was worrying that we had taken the wrong road out of Blanco, but we both knew she had mentioned seeing the route confirmation.
Eventually, we started catching a few groups, and a few groups would catch us on the rollers. We still had enough in the tank that we were bombing the down-hills but the up-hills were long enough that we ended up climbing at or below 10 mph quite a bit.
We probably played hop-scotch with 75 riders during the last 35 miles. We would blow by them heading down, and eventually they would catch us again as we went up. Such is the life on a tandem!
At the 62ish mile rest stop, we had a Team Fatty reunion of sorts. There were four of us there. We got to meet Adam for the first time and Tim was there. After that rest stop, it was kind of interesting and fun that we were feeling the home stretch and not letting very many people ride away from us.
We were still riding rollers, with the exception of one pretty steep little climb where we saw a lady trying to slalom her way up.
She was taking up the entire road and was being a downright hazard until she finally gave up and stopped nearly in front of us. As we were climbing the final hill of the day, we passed this guy. I told him he was doing a great job and gave him a hand-bump! Needless to say, I think he got a pretty big kick out of that!
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