The rest yesterday paid dividends for my stump and I was feeling much better this morning. We also were able to sleep in until 830 this morning because the ride was so short today, only 53 miles. The ride was much different than the rest of the days. Today we had to deal with traffic and stop lights for the majority of the ride, the best part was a 5 mile stretch of beach boardwalk just south of our hotel in Marina Del Rey. For lunch today one of the riders arranged for us all to eat at his friends restaurant right on the marina in long beach. All of the stop lights made the short ride more difficult than it sounds because it was hard to get in a groove. The blisters on my stump hurt pretty bad by the end of the ride but I should be ok for one more day! 73 miles tomorrow and we are done!
Last night Floyd Landis joined us to hang out for a little while and he also road along with my group today. For those of you who aren't cyclists, Floyd Landis won the Tour De France a couple of years ago but ended up getting caught doping so they revoked his title and banned him for two years from pro cycling. I guess the only reason that Floyd joined us is because he is dating (might be a stretch of the term if you know what I mean) a girl that is doing the ride this year. On the ride, Floyd and his girlfriend were leading us and they ran a red light and the rest of the peleton and myself stopped for the light, then all of the sudden a mini van made a U-turn at the light and pulled up close to them, turns out it was an unmarked cop car. The rest of us law abiding citizens hooted and hollered from across the intersection as the former Tour De France champ was pulled over for running the light and we all took pictures as we road by.
I forgot to mention that Christian Vande Velde has also been riding with us since Big Sur, he is on the Garmin Slipstream pro cycling team and he placed 4th at this last years Tour De France. He is very nice, down to earth and incredibly fast on a bike. He averages 35 mph on flat ground!!
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