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Boulder train-cation: day 6

After 4 days of climbing, descending and doing more climbing and descending, we were seeking a "flatter" ride to open-up our legs. We reached out to our friend Laura  (who is also training for Kona) who lives in Boulder to see if we could link-up with her for her long ride. She was happy to have us tag along and we were happy to have such a great (and strong) tour-guide.  The ride was exactly what we needed. Flat with a few rolling hills and one climb to see  Carter Lake .....every train-cation ride should include a beautiful view after a climb.  It was super windy with a lot of headwind and cross wind. Perfect Kona training!! Karel and I have not trained on flat roads in over 1.5 years so it felt so great to settle into a rhythm and steady cadence. And when I say great, it was far from easy as I was sitting on Karel's wheel...and he was feeling really good...and riding super strong.  We finished with 70 miles in around 3.5 hours which...