My fourth day of riding the Colorado High Country 1200k brevet. I started decidedly DFL, and had a very pleasant ride all the way to the penultimate control, at Vern's in LaPorte. I had caught a number of riders at the first control in Rustic, and many more when I reached the second control at Verns. However, it started to rain there as I enjoyed my breakfast feast, and I decided to wait it out as everyone else went on. I started out again much later, and mostly soft-peddled a slow pace the rest of the way in, around 55 miles. I found myself in a very strange mood; I was resolved to ride fairly easy since I had to drive back the following two days, but I also lacked motivation to peddle in a workmanlike manner. After all the great scenery, these had become decidedly "junk miles", and I was in the doldrums. Even Hector had left Vern's long before me, and so I was sure I'd be the last to finish, but Hector evidently took a wrong turn somewhere along the line and beat me out of that distinction by a good hour or more, although I think he must have stopped to see a movie along the way to accomplish this (jk).