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S3EP09: The Road Less Pedaled: Finding Joy in the Pain: One Year of Podcasting!
Saddle up for an adrenaline-pumping journey through the wild world of cycling as we mark our one-year podcast anniversary! What better way to celebrate than sharing our most hair-raising bike adventure yet—conquering the legendary Pine Flat climb in Sonoma County. Picture this: brutal 18% gradients, depleted energy reserves, and the unexpected soundtrack of semi-automatic rifle fire as local recreational shooters turn the mountainside into an impromptu range. Our mission? Touch the fabled yellow gate that professional cyclists have made legendary.
The cycling excitement doesn't stop there. We break down Simon Yates' incredible come-from-behind victory at the Giro d'Italia, where he overcame a three-minute deficit on the final mountain stage to claim the pink jersey in spectacular fashion. Then we venture to Kansas for Unbound Gravel, America's premier gravel cycling event where over 4,000 riders tackle everything from 25-mile courses to the mind-boggling 350-mile XL route. You'll hear incredible stories including a seven-months-pregnant woman winning her division and a 94-year-old completing the 100-mile course—proof that cycling knows no boundaries.
Looking ahead, we preview our upcoming Gold Country Cycling Challenge, our fourth consecutive year tackling this beautiful route through historic mining territory. From pristine forest-canopied descents to the infamous lunch stop that riders must "earn" through punishing climbs in scorching heat, we share why this event has become a Team Peach tradition. We wrap up with a fun new segment called "Going Deep," borrowed from ultra-runners who use thought-provoking questions to distract from pain during endurance events. Whether you're a dedicated cyclist or simply love stories of human endurance, this anniversary episode delivers excitement, inspiration, and plenty of laughs. Subscribe now and join us on this continuing journey!
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Speaker 2:hey welcome back to peach podcast with doug and daryl daryl, daryl, daryl. It is June 4th when we are recording this. Tomorrow is June 5th and I believe June 6th. June 5th or 6th was our actual I mean, I know last year was our 53rd recording, which marks a year of recordings, but we actually started our first recording on June 5th, I believe June 5th or 6th of last year, june 5th, june 5th, june 5th. So, man, this is our official one year of being on the air. Dale man, congratulations, brother, congratulations. And today, on June 4th, is global running day. Global running day, june 4th. And although it is global running day and I did knock out a little 5k this morning, just just going to say, just going to say that I saw, yeah, I did knock out a little 5K this morning just gonna say I saw that yeah got that out of the way for the Global Running Day.
Speaker 2:But today we're gonna dive deep. We're gonna turn the corner a little bit and peel back some cycling. Let's go deep on some cycling. Daryl, I know you're huge into endurance, running podcasts, but I also know that you are a huge fan of watching um tours cycling tours on uh YouTube or on TV on on the sports channels and whatnot. What's been going on in the cycling world these days?
Speaker 3:Well, um, a lot. There's uh Juro um Juro d'Italia, which is basically the uh Italian 21 day uh racing event, very similar to Tour de France. And then we had Unbound, which is a massive gravel event in the US, but I heard there was a little gate touching this weekend. Some cycling with you guys. There's some epic rides up in SoCo. Yeah, and maybe just spend a minute because you cracked touching the gate on Pine Flat.
Speaker 2:Yes, the famous Pine Flat, and I didn't know it was famous and neither Eric or I had done it. I know you had done it a couple years ago, maybe a few years ago, with Dave and Jamie and some of the SoCo guys. But we were actually planning to go do another coastal ride and get in about 70 miles with about 5,000 feet of climbing another route. And last minute Dave's explaining the routes to Eric and Eric was saying well, I thought we were doing Pine Flat and I'm inside getting on my shoes and the next thing I know we had. You know, the course has changed and we're no longer doing the coastal route, we're going to go hit Pine Flat. And you know I'm thinking okay, it's called Pine Flat, it can't be that bad. There's the word flat is in the damn thing. But when I was done with that ride and I put it up on Strava I said did Pine Flat? And there ain't nothing flat about it, damn it. But it's a. It's a brutal ride. I guess what it's famous for.
Speaker 2:There's a local rider, levi, down in the Sonoma County area, as well as other major professional cyclists use that route. They take that route and there's a gate 12 miles up the hill at the very dead end, dead ends up there. And you've, you've got, you've got to navigate gunshots, daryl, but apparently going, going through, getting to the top of the mountain, navigating through the gunshots and then touching the yellow gate man, if you survive, to live about it, you're part of the local legends. Uh, you know, and what they do, so you know, to hit that iconic route, knowing that a lot of the professional cyclists have done that, they have touched the yellow gate and put your hand on that gate where many other famous cyclists have been before. And you know, I've heard that there's gunshots and I'm like, okay, well, how bad could it be? How bad? You know, like sure there might be gunshots, Maybe there's a shooting range down there or something. But no, daryl, there's like I mean, these are these loud bangs, semi-automatic rifles, pistols, nine millimeters, and it is loud, and you are just freaking out, going. What in the hell? Or where in the hell am I at right now?
Speaker 2:I had, uh, dave had some problems with his chain or his derailleur and him and Eric had pulled over to take a quick look and I uh kind of tagged along with his other cyclist that was going up the mountain as well. We were having a conversation. So, uh, I heard Dave said he was going to pull over, but I was just going to cruise up with this other cyclist just a little bit of a head. But I ended up getting uh, I guess Dave had a little more issue than he bargained for with the derailleur, so I got a little bit ahead of them and so I found myself. The other cyclist I was riding with was only going so far and turning around.
Speaker 2:So about mile seven or eight I found myself completely alone out in the middle of I don't know where the hell I was. I mean, it was like you know, if you get lost there, you ain't coming back, kind of thing. And then all of a sudden I hear this semi-automatic, huge, I don't know what kind of gun, rifle it was, and these other guns. And I'm coming around this turn after climbing anywhere from 12 to 14 to 16% hills, sweating my ass off. We didn't have a stop before to get any kind of breakfast or anything because we changed routes last minute.
Speaker 2:I'm massively depleted, my legs are cramping, and I look down the road and I see these couple guys, you know, with tons of weapons in the bed of their truck and they're just like firing off stuff, you know, left and right, and I'm just trying to whistle at them and catch their attention because I have to go by where they're shooting across and I can see them and during that they can't hear me cause they got the head, the head muffs, air muffs on and all that.
Speaker 2:So in between loading and reloading I was able to catch a break and get in between them and they saw me. They clearly saw me. But, dude, that that's like a lot of anxiety trying to get through that one place, man, a lot, and the whole time you're hearing it, cause you hear it well before you see it, and you're like shit, are they shooting this way? I might you know, like what's going on? And uh, but at the, the last mile of that climb is anywhere from 16 to 18%, for uh, for a mile there, for a minimum of a mile, and I would say the last three miles is anywhere from 12 to 18%, and it's not even a really fully paved road.
Speaker 3:That last quarter, that last mile it's kind of semi gravel ish.
Speaker 2:Yes it's, it's nasty and uh, but because I was, uh, massively depleted, I was completely nutritionally unprepared. I had massive cramps three times. One time I barely almost unclipped because my legs were charred on the horse and I thought they were going to seize up. But I got off the bike. I leapt off the bike and stood up straight and like please don't seize up, and I was just trying to and sucking down whatever little water I had, trying to get some more electrolytes. I had some salt tabs and get those in me as well. But made it to the top, touched the gate, uh, eric was there, dave was there, it was all good. Uh, it was quite an adventure and uh, we were all wiped out at the top but enjoyed getting down, except a little anxiety again getting back to the shooters. And apparently it's completely legal to just take whatever kind of guns up up to that Hill and just let them off, because there are.
Speaker 3:When you're, when you're, you're on that road. So you're basically in SoCo, um, a little bit North of Hillsburg, and you're on river road, which is already kind of a small little road, Right, and then you take that, right, you, you basically, like you said, go 12 miles out on a it's not a private road, but it feels like it just climbing up in these Hills where there's no law, there's no nothing up there, right, um, and uh, yeah, it's um. I remember they told me, oh, there's some guns and some shooting up there. I thought they were kidding with me until I saw all the little bullet, bullets, um, casing shells about mile nine. So, but uh, it's a pretty cool ride up there. You, just, you just kind of out on your own.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could have sworn. At one point I heard a banjo and some squealing man. I said this shit is some deliverance. Shit out here, man.
Speaker 3:But that was all good, so maybe not. So. Deliverance is the Giro d'Italia. It's a cool, cool event, 21 days kind of those ones where I think most of those tours they're about. They're 21 days, doug, and generally I think they give them two rest days in between. They they like ride for about seven days and they have a day off in this, and so I'll give you the short version, but it kind of came down to the last stage. Stage 20 is the big stage, the final climbing, and then stage 21,. They basically do kind of a ceremonial ride. They go into Rome. So this guy, del Toro, who's part of the UAE team, he's only 21 years old and he wasn't even the top rider for, uh, the uae team. He's a mexican. A mexican has never won a grand tour, so a lot of fanfare and he was in first. Uh, richard carapaz was in second. He was about 21, 21 to 30 seconds behind him, so they were kind of battling it out, and this guy, sim Simon Yates, was three minutes back.
Speaker 2:In a bike race.
Speaker 3:that's quite a bit. And so they're going into the last climb, and these are some big, big, big climbs. Simon Yates takes off ahead of the guys. So Simon's in third, three minutes behind Del Toro and Richard Carapaz. One and two are looking at each other making sure that they are staying together. Simon Yates made up his, he took off, climbed and actually beat him by five minutes and one. He went from third to first in the last 20.
Speaker 3:And he went off by himself. So as you know, Doug, that doesn't really happen, right. And the first and the second guy stayed together, but they said, oh, we'll let the guy go up, Simon Yates. And Simon Yates went up and they couldn't catch him.
Speaker 2:That's crazy.
Speaker 3:He ended up winning and it was really cool and it was probably, they say, one of the most exciting. So Simon Yates literally wore. You know they had the yellow Jersey for the uh tour de France. It's called the um uh Rosa. It's a pink Jersey. He wore it only one day and won the entire tour.
Speaker 2:It was the day that mattered.
Speaker 3:Only day that mattered, I guess.
Speaker 2:Well, that you know D, that you know daryl gosh to come behind, for him just to catch them in that three minutes yeah, that he was behind, that's a feat in itself, but then to go on and pull ahead of them by five minutes, that I've just that's just unheard of.
Speaker 3:That's insane unheard of unheard, wow and uh, and they were yelling at him until he basically won it, which is really cool. So that's a big event. In Europe. We got the Tour de France coming up in July, and then in the US there's this thing called Unbound and I know you've heard a lot about it and we were doing some research ahead of time. Gravel racing has become huge in the US, the US right.
Speaker 3:And so it's kind of a combination. Maybe, Doug, can you talk about it. It's, it's. It's kind of like not a road bike but not a mountain bike, it's somewhere in between.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean you, you said it right there. It's not a road bike and it's not a mountain bike and it's literally in between the gearing and all the gearing is a little bit in between. You're not going to get full on road bike gears and you're not going to get full on. You do get closer to mountain bike gears. For sure you have definitely fatter tires than you would have on a road bike and some of those tires will have medium size to small size knobbies on them. They're not going to have the big mountain bike knobbies on them, but they will have some knobbies on them for some traction, because you're going to be out in gravel.
Speaker 2:It's called a gravel bike. They're a little more durable. They're built for you know a lot more beating up and you know you sit a little more upright. Well, unless you get a super high, high, high-end, raced gravel bike, they're going to set it up so that you are down like on a road bike. But a lot of the the common gravel bikes that you get for the common everyday person are going to be a little more sitting up. Uh, matter of fact, I'm thinking about getting a gravel bike because, uh, as I age and everything starts hurting and whatnot, I just I think I prefer to sit up a little bit more. I don't need, I don't have the need for speed these days, I just want to get through the damn ride yeah but uh, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 2:They're fun bikes and uh, I think we, team peach, will eventually be shifting over to gravel bikes at one point in our in our lives, looks like I think so every once in a while.
Speaker 3:You know, doug will be on the bike trail and we'll be, riding and then all of a sudden a bike will come up next to us and then they'll just jet out and go in the dirt and we're like whoa, where'd they go? Right, they just take off. So they it's a little bit of best of both worlds. It's cool, um, but it's a four day event. Um, it's kind of the premier gravel event in the U S and kind of the world. Now it's an Emporia Kansas of all places, in the middle of.
Speaker 3:Kansas and it's called the Flint Hills, these prairie Flint Hills, and if you look at some of the pictures, we'll put a few of them up on Peach Podcast on IG, but they have over 4,000 people. I mean, emporia is a small little town that come in. They've got a whole bunch of different races, everything from 25 to 50. But the main races are they've got 100, the elite men, the top professionals, do a 200 mile race, and then they've got this one crazy endurance one called Excel and it's 350, um miles. Um, and I just want a big, big shout out to, uh, vince Murdoch. Um, vince is a local Sacramento guy. Um, he's a MMA fighter. Um, and he's also been super big into the cycling scene. He's actually started his own kind of a cycling team called enjoy cycle. Um, we see him around from time to time. In fact, I'm sure Doug will see him at death ride this year. He always has his team there.
Speaker 3:And uh, this year he was uh raising some money for um, uh, some brain research. Brain research um, vince has got a great story and everything else him and two of his other guys this is his second year um that he's done the xl 350 and he's a great follow on uh, ig. He's got a lot of different things so he'd raise some money. Him and two other guys were out there. He finished in 24 hours damn, 24 hours, I think he's right under 23 something.
Speaker 3:Uh, him and his other guys, and they finished pretty close together and I think he was right about number 20. So he did really well.
Speaker 3:Um, that's massive Well uh, did really good and just awesome. And now these days they've got all these streaming, so they've got a lot of videos and you can watch it real time and everybody's got their trackers. So it was it. I do want to call one shout out Doug, we were talking about it. So you're riding out in the middle of these basically flats and they're rollers and you were literally on these farm trails and everything else and it's this huge big circle. They do anywhere from 200 to 350 miles big circle. They do anywhere from 200 to 350 miles. Um, you basically have to carry pretty much all your own stuff, right? So there's some water stops and so, so they have big old kind of backpacks on them and everything else. And you know, when we go into one of our um aid stations, right, right, we go in there, we get off our bikes, doug, we go have some they got sandwiches and cookies and bananas and cookies and some, some things and some pickle juice, and we say hi to everyone.
Speaker 3:These people pull up and it's like a pit stop man. They pull up, they, they redo their water, they throw everything in there and then they take off. It's literally they call it a pit stop. It's hilarious, Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And there ain't no lollygagging. You and I would be like we got to go fight to get Dave out of the aid station. He's going to talk to everybody, but it was really cool and we do got to call out one of the most amazing things. They have a 50-mile too, and Isabel King was the 50 50 mile women's elite winner but wait, daryl, she's not just the women's elite winner.
Speaker 2:There's something very special. I think she had a superpower with her on that particular ride.
Speaker 3:She's seven months pregnant, yes, and on her camelback kind of the the water on the back kind of her pack. She had a picture and it says baby on board.
Speaker 3:Yeah, one of them little yellow diamond pictures and she won the women's elite and she said, when she catch up to the men because I'm sure she blew away tons of these men's they would say oh, that's great, how far along are you? They're talking about the pregnancy. And one of the things her IG post was really cool, doug, is that she said hey, listen, number one, crashing is not an option, right, like you're on a gravel bike, she's like no. So she stayed away from big groups, she passed people, she went really quick, she tried to like isolate herself and that's. She ended up winning the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Really really cool story. So, um, anyway, I just want big shout out uh to the people, big shout out to Vincent team and the local guys from Sacramento for um, uh, completing this for the second year, uh, and also raising money, so looking forward to. I'm sure we'll uh give them uh a couple of fist pumps at um a death ride.
Speaker 2:Real quick there. I'm just going to shout out, shout out. I'm just going to throw out some numbers for people who are cyclists On the 200 mile, there's over the 200 for Unbound, the ride in Kansas, the race in Kansas. The 200 miles, there's over 10,000 feet of climbing in that as well. And the 350 miler there's over 16,800 plus almost 17,000 feet of climbing on that. And these people were doing that. Daryl, what, what? Uh, real quick, what are the? What's the? The first place people. What did they come in in?
Speaker 3:the 200. He came in under nine hours. Nobody had ever done that before he the top winner uh came in uh about two hours and, excuse me, eight hours and thirty nine minutes. That's insane. And the 350 came in at 17 hours.
Speaker 2:That's freaking nuts.
Speaker 3:They're averaging over 20 miles an hour on gravel. With all of that elevation, the amount of I can't even.
Speaker 2:I can't even fathom. I can't even fathom Like I don't even know what that looks like or feels like. That's just insane, insane. That's badass, though Badass.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's cool. There's some cool pictures and everything else and I don't know getting a little itch. Like Doug said, team Peach might be having a gravel discussion pretty soon as we get a little older. But, um and Doug, hey, we looked at some of the pictures right. So of the 4,000 people, there's probably three 400 pros, elites right. The rest 3,500 or 3,700 people are just everyday people like us.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:And we looked at some of the pictures and they're just out there crushing it Right, just testing themselves.
Speaker 2:It was real cool seeing, cause you see a ton of photos, but there's every body shape and body size, you know to to every and people who, normal people, who have, you know, 40 hour a week jobs, who are raising families Again, you heard one of them who won the damn women's uh is was pregnant. So you know, I mean, it's just everyday people finding time in the gaps to prepare for something like this. And I wonder how many people went out there who didn't really prepare, who just wanted to get out there and try it out. Because there's those people too and, uh, you know the huge shout out to them because you find out. You find out what you're made of when you go out and see what, what, something like that's all about.
Speaker 3:So that would be fun to do. It would be. The oldest person was 94 years old.
Speaker 2:Get out of here.
Speaker 3:He was he, uh, I think he was doing the hundred and he finished it so damn.
Speaker 2:See, darrell, that's what it's all about. Man, come on, man, that's what. I'm talking about.
Speaker 3:So it's uh, like you said, it's the um, uh, the 4th of June. This weekend we have the gold country cycling challenge. Yes, cool, fourth year, team peach. Um, I'll just a couple of things and I'll let Doug kind of walk through it. It's uh, we go to the Nevada City Fairgrounds is where it starts, outside of Grass Valley. We just see some incredible things. We go through different parts of Nevada City, we go through Grass Valley, we go down to the Yuba River, up by Bullard's Bar, a lot of the real, authentic gold country, historical, different ways. There used to be that one professional bike race called Amgen and they used to use part of that route and I don't know how we found it. But it's a cool ride, doug. So why don't you talk about the ride? And then we'll talk a little bit about some of the fun stories we've had, because this will be our fourth year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, like you said, it's a beautiful route out in authentic historic gold country area. There are some parts of the road that are nice, they're good, they're fair, there's no potholes, they're good to go. But there are other parts of the road that we had talked about earlier, daryl, that are just pristine and so fun and tree covered areas where you can just fly and go down these hills and from the top to the bottom, and as you're going from the top lying down, uh, one of our most favorite hills that we get to go down, you know, I think we all have a moment where we're pausing and saying, shit, we got to climb back up this thing later.
Speaker 3:Oh, I know, I know exactly where that is. Um, you're in this canopy garden and you're going about as fast as you can do and uh, yeah, so, uh, so it's cool. So, Doug, oh, walk us a little bit about. We, we head out, um, we head out the fairgrounds and then we kind of go through the city.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go through grass valley nevada city yeah, do you remember the one year?
Speaker 3:um, they have like on the ground, because there's different courses. They'll have arrows, so they'll have the, if you have a yellow bib, you'll follow the yellow arrows.
Speaker 3:If you have a blue bib, you'll follow those. One year or three, four miles into it and we're following the arrows. And it just didn't make sense and we think some kids in the of the night, maybe drinking or something, messed around with the arrows and pointed them in the wrong direction. Yeah, they were messing with us, but uh, but yeah, you do that and then you go do the big canopy downhill and do. We just got to make sure we got to talk to Eric. Eric might go need for speed. Eric can hit well over 15 miles an hour down that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, go need for speed. Eric can hit well over 15 miles an hour down that. Yeah, yeah, yeah he's, he is fast, but yeah it's in. But you know, when we get to the bottom of that hill though, one of my favorite parts of the ride is when we make that left. We cross over the river and we make a sharp hairpin left and then all of a sudden, that's the ride from the bottom of the river up and through bullard, spar and all that area. But, man, I think that's like almost national forest area or something, cause it just it seems like a very small road.
Speaker 3:It's a. We go over that bridge, doug, and it's literally that little left. You don't even really see it as a road and you'd be like you're kind of on this private road and I do think it's part of a national forest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but at that I love that spot Cause it's shaded, it's beautiful, it's like a small little lane. You might see one or two cars, but that's a beautiful ride and then it brings you all. Then we do this kind of figure eight thing, come back around. Where do we end up? Captainville, camptonville.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 3:Camptonville and then we circle back around and head back towards uh North San Juan area, and it's cool because we we go through one of that aid stations, Then we go take the figure eight and we come back to it. Yeah, so it's almost like uh and um, I gotta admit it was our remember our first year. Uh, we wore our first peach jerseys. Doug, tell everybody about our first.
Speaker 2:I was going to say tell us about the Pete. So, anyway, we, we, you know we get the name we. This was the year that we decided to be, we were going to be called team peach, and so we made a thing of it, and the next thing, you know, we got uh, I think it was you, daryl, you, you gifted us all these, uh, peach jerseys, and, man, these were like Cal trans orange, nothing on them, just a big bright orange Jersey. And we're, there's five of us, and we got these things on and we are glowing, man. We showed up at 5.00 AM, you know, to get the ride started early, and we were glowing like people saw us walking and people, darrell, I got to tell you, though, that first year is what made team peach well known, and I might even say famous, at the gold country ride, because people were every stop.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, you're, you're those guys. We saw you coming from miles away and we could. Those are great, you should wear those. All you know there and everybody can see you coming. And so we had all the comments about, about the jerse. We have toned the jerseys down since then.
Speaker 3:We've toned them down, but that was, you're right, that's when we became famous, because we became known as those and you know what's nice Doug Like. This will be our fourth year and it's a nice good. It's medium-sized event, it's not like a big. It's not a big event and you've got to know the organizer and you actually have given them feedback on different things, um, different different parts that he does well and they can, they can improve upon. It's a lot of the same people each year. So I'm looking forward to you know, saying hi to some of the people. I guarantee it'll be most of the same people out there. You do get to know them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, absolutely I'd love to. You know, I'd love to help them promote and get it out there and, uh, you know, just kind of build the event. Uh, it's, it's a great there's, it's well attended but it's not overly crowded. Uh, they at the end they have, uh, you know, they've got your barbecue and your beers and in the shade and it's all good man, it's all good. But, daryl, tell me a little bit about you know. It's a great ride just before until just before lunch and then you have to earn your lunch. Tell me about, how do you, how do you? What do I mean when you have to earn your lunch?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's, you know it's um, it's pretty, it's a. We do the metric. So it's about 71 miles and about, uh, almost 7,700 feet. So, like Dougoug says, a lot of shade, a lot of cool things. And then you go down to the very bottom where you go over the river there's a very iconic bridge there and you're feeling good. You get down to the very bottom area, about uh, mile 51, and then you got about a six mile to get to lunch and you're feeling great, right, yeah, and then you start climbing and there's no shade, it's about 11 AM, the sun's coming up.
Speaker 3:We've had some hot years, doug Remember. Oh, man, we've had some hot years. I think our first year was the worst and, uh, the only way I could describe it and I know you've described it the same way let's say your, your, your gas tank is on full and you start going and you're going up hills and they're steep, and the sun comes out. You feel you like your gas tank just drains, you feel the energy just leaving your body and you only have six miles till lunch, but those feel like the longest, hottest six miles of your life. And, uh, we've met some great people over there, um, who were, who were some of the people we've met, some great people over there, who are some of the people we've met and become friends with Two women, especially Michelle and July and July, yeah, they had no problem dropping us on the hills.
Speaker 3:Dropping us on that particular segment where we're yeah, and then, whenever we'd- catch them whenever we'd catch them we'd like.
Speaker 2:Oh so you're the badass.
Speaker 3:So you get up to lunch and all you do when you get to lunch is get your food and look for a shady spot. Remember.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you see everyone there. It looks like it's a war zone. Everyone has got their helmets off, their jerseys undone. They're pouring water on themselves. It's like everyone's in a war zone taking a break and uh, it's funny. But yeah, everybody replenishes there. They got everything you need up there. And then the next stop after lunch is the decision point, and every year we talk about let's do the hundred, let's do the hundred, and then we get to the decision point. And what happens at that decision point? Daryl, what mile is it at? And what happened? What typically happens?
Speaker 3:We're only about six or seven miles from the finish and we either go right and go do another, basically 30 miles or 30 miles in 90 plus degree heat with climbing, or we go left and we go six miles, and so far we've always taken the left, or we go left and we go six miles, and so far we've always taken the left and uh, and I remember the I remember multiple times at that station because it just gets so hot You're, you're drinking one cup of water, then you're pouring the next one on your head, and then you're drinking one cup of water and pouring the other one on your head.
Speaker 3:So it's uh, it's all about just finishing up that last six, seven miles, but it's pretty legit. 71 miles, 77,000, uh, excuse me, seven, 7,700 feet elevation. It's perfect for us, about a month out from a death ride.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, it's, it's awesome, it's a. It's an awesome ride. And again, the event. The coordinators do a great job. Uh, it's all, it's well-marked. Uh, it's you, don't they? It's well marked. They've got the century ride, they've got the metric century, they've got a 50 miler. I think they got a 25 miler, so it's a great ride for anybody who's out there who wants to go out in some beautiful gold country. Encourage you to get out there and check it out and say hello to Team Peach. We're not going to be in the bright orange jerseys. We have orange sleeves, but the jersey is black and uh, are we?
Speaker 3:wearing Pete team peach this year. What, what do we do? Yeah, we will, but we'll definitely put the um, the the fluorescent, um uh, caltrans peach Uh we also.
Speaker 3:We also have one, I think. I think it's our most iconic picture we've ever taken. Oh yeah, so we are at the bottom of Yuba uh river, going over, I think, the South canal, and there's this great bridge, and we asked somebody if they'll take us a picture. And it's great. You're at the bottom and we're all on this bridge and as we're taking it, this older guy, uh, is going and he photo bombs us, going across us, and it's one of our favorite pictures. We're all excited and we got photo bombed by about a 90 year old um guy that probably could have beat us up that hill as well.
Speaker 2:I think he did, I think he did it was good.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, looking forward to that, um, get the teams back together. We've got death ride not that far away, uh, which is going to be together. We've got death ride not that far away, uh, which is going to be, um, uh, basically, uh, second week in July. So this will be a nice wake up call for us. Um and Doug, I'm pretty sure there will not be any firearms at this ride, so you can feel a little safer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, death ride is great, cause they closed the roads and they got CHP out there. We're all good and safe, yeah, but it's a hell of a climb 103 miles and 14,000 feet of climbing. So it is no joke, no joke. So, daryl, you were saying we don't, uh, we're no quote card this episode, no quote card this episode. And you, you wanted to try something new. What? What's going on?
Speaker 3:Yes, so um uh in in uh observation of uh world's running day. I've been listening to some podcasts and the ultra runners. Well, let's say you're day two into some crazy race right they've got this tradition where they try to get their mind off things. So they take this game it's called going deep and it's actually a dating game and you ask each other questions about Going Deep, and so they do it on the ultra run. So we're going to try it on our podcast. So, doug Going Deep, you ready for this?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but we'll find out if I'm ready. Daryl was going to give me a little clue earlier, but I said nah, let's just keep it fun and just keep it. You know, surprise me right on the show. So what do we got, daryl?
Speaker 3:I'm ready, okay, all right, doug, what is one of your simple pleasures?
Speaker 2:One of my simple pleasures Gosh well, I'm a pretty simple man, so it's like every day is a damn simple pleasure. I would say one of my simple pleasures is sitting on a porch with a cup of coffee when the temperature is around 65 to 72 degrees and I'm just just here and looking out at nature and listening to the sounds, or, and maybe one or two close people are by me and having a great conversation.
Speaker 3:So, and maybe one or two close people are by me and having a great conversation. All right, good, all right. Number two what would be your version of hell?
Speaker 2:My version of hell. Yeah, oh shit, that's a good one, man. My version of hell would be doing the Sedona 125 ultra run.
Speaker 3:Good one. And the last one. This is a little bit more lighter touch. You've got a choice. Would you rather communicate with animals or be fluent in all languages?
Speaker 2:Oh man. Well, since I can communicate with animals already, I would much rather be fluent in all languages.
Speaker 3:All right, doug, so I've got the game ordered. I had to explain to my wife why I ordered a dating game that Eric and I are going to use on our next run, so yes curious about that. So I'll give you some cards. We'll have some maybe. Maybe I'll bring a couple for for this weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bring some for this weekend. That would be fun. We can start practicing getting our mind off of the pain.
Speaker 3:Yep Sounds good.
Speaker 2:Great, great show man. Thank you, Daryl, that was fun. I liked that. Yeah, save them cards. Maybe we'll use those for the next few episodes and just have fun with it. But for now we're going to sign off. Happy one year anniversary, daryl. Congratulations, brother. We did it, we did it, we did it. We may alter and adjust our scheduling on when podcasts are going to drop. Daryl and I are in discussion of that right now. It could be right. We've been doing once a week. We may skip to twice a month or every other week. We're just tossing some things around and seeing what floats and what feels right for us so that we bring great content, enjoyable content, every time we get on the mic. But for now just going to sign off and say God bless and peace out Bye.