But we made it to it. We covered a lot of miles yesterday and made it to the cut off point with a couple hours to spare.

That's the good part.

The bad part is that that kind of push comes with a price. In this case that means sore legs on tired riders and a tired crew. I was cautious about any celebration of success - I think we should save that for Atlantic City. More immediately we have to figure out how to help our legs to recover because today we do a lot of climbing and we reach the high point of the race - Wolf's Creek Pass. This will hurt.

We'll figure it out though.

I'm proud of what we did yesterday. Perhaps I should enjoy it for just a moment or two - like smelling the RAAM flowers along the way.