Guam’s Southern Loop–Bike Race

This weekend, I got back on my road bike for the first time in a couple months. I had done a couple mountain bike races last month, but that is entirely different (of course). So, as you can imagine, it was a little rough and since this was a true road, I had to take my aero bars off. That’s only a big deal because I was riding a majority of the race by myself and it’s MUCH more comfortable with the bars on. Oh well.
Anyway the ride was the “southern loop” of Guam. It was a 52 mile race, and a rather hilly course. At least, that’s my excuse for why it took me just over 3 hours to finish.
Here’s a map of the course.

Here’s the group as we started the race. It was a neutral start, meaning that we rode as a group for the first 10 miles or so.

Here are a couple of the guys in the race. The one closest is our neighbor Fred.

This is a picture of me and Tara (another friend) chillin.

Thanks go to Mark, who brought his camera, so we could get some shots actually on the race course. So, thanks, Mark!
So, until the next adventure…
–Jim