2008 Tour de Georgia

James, Meg, Mary, and Crystal arrived last night and I cooked an Italian sausage and penne for plenty of carbo-loading and afterward we watched Brasstown stages I had compiled from the previous three years. Breakfast was granola and yogurt with strawberries - my usual. We had a relaxing depart this morning - caravaning three cars about 10:30 AM to the intersection of 180x129 - but had to park on the other side of the bridge because there were so many people already parked nearby. Meg started out too fast and blew at the first 10% climb to Jacks Gap. Crystal was dizzy but recovered with a gel, and later Meg was fine too. Climbed Brasstown to the wall, then turned aroun and watched the race below the 3km-to-go sign with Crystal and Meg, while everyone else made their way to the parking lot. Cary stopped to chat for a while, and we spent an hour or so with a course marshall, and good weather as the race came by in the afternoon. Fast return and then found out Meg had hitched a ride to the car while we waited.