Bike Against the Odds

Today we did a nice local charity ride for breast cancer research called "bike against the odds".
I rode down from home around 7:30am to meet Marisa and Lorri (ahem!) for an 8am start near Lake Merrit. While hanging around to pee and sneak a few danish before we started, I ran into Alfie and Lisa. They bought our mtb tandem a few years ago and we briefly joked about what a giant beast it is.
We headed out around 8:30 for the 47 miler, with 2 other teammates of Marisa's from cyclosports, Lisa V, and Kurt. Didn't see any velogirls along the route, but did see a plethora of the cyclosport team, mostly guys hammering, at the bottom of Redwood and Pinehurst. Saw many of my own teammates going the opposite way on Pinehurst - hard to miss in that starchy white and green kit.
We kept up a nice pace and cruised through Moraga into Orinda and then up Wildcat and along the ridge. The day ended up being quite beautiful after a morning of some pretty thick chilly fog.
More pics are HeRE.