100% Smashed 100% awesome ride

I finally got out and did a long ride. My last long ride was around 60km and I needed more time on the seat. I was meant to meet the Wellington group at 8am but wouldn't make it time so waited at percy's reserve for the bunch to come past. About 50 people came wooshing past on their dream machines and I tacked on the back. Majority of them turn off up Haywards while 6 or 7 of us carried onto the Akas. It was warming up and the sun came out but as we reached the top of the akas there was heavy cloud and it was raining. We waited at the top for everyone to catch up and who came up the hill, all the Upper Hutt riders. Was bloody great to see familiar faces. A guy also stopped at the top who was training for 8laps of Taupo. He had done 400k the day before and was doing 200k that morning. CRAZY. We descended the other side of akas and to my great horror my back break was off. I went down ridiculously slow in the wet. The wellington and Upper Hutt re-joined at waikanae and we had an awesome northerly to push us down SH1. Man did they put the pace on. My legs felt like they were going to fall off. And again I tried to bridge a gap and only just couldn't make it. So I retired to bunch two which wasn't to bad when we hit the Paekakariki hill. The front bunch smashed themselves on the flat and the first piece of the hill which meant me and two others managed to catch a few of them on the ascent. After that it was just pure pain. Threw a red bull down my throat and I was back on track. 5 hours riding. 120km later and I was home. Really glad I got out for that. Feel fantastic. Tomorrow maybe not so much. Heres todays elevation graph. the descent from first climb isnt actually that steep. I just forgot to hit the start button again.

SH2, akas, SH1, paekakriki, haywards, home