I was fairly slow in riding this. My level of fitness is lower than in times past, and I generally took it easy on any climbing at over 5% grade, and was not pushing the pace later in the afternoon and at night after it began raining, which was mostly the case over the last 70 miles. (Also, I had ridden up to the Baldy ski lift the day before, so that might also have contributed to my lack of speed on this one, lol.) Also slowing me down, I stopped to take pictures from time to time up until I was departing the Pine Mountain Summit area. I rode solo all day, which was a natural result of starting about 53 minutes behind everyone else. I didn't catch Terri until the control in Lake of the Woods (mile 84.3, 8 hrs into my ride) where she gave me half of her sandwich, allowing me to leave before her! (Haha) I kept hot weather clothing on until I put on my rain jacket out after 3 Points, when the rain increased from a light drizzle, and when I was almost finished with the last significant climb on Lake Hughes Rd I stopped and added in an underlayer, long fingered gloves, and my visibility vest, all of which kept me plenty warm, and was even too warm at times, but unzipping the vest and rain jacket took care of that. I felt strong and rode hard after leaving Gorman until I started slogging up that first long hill after turning at 3 Points. I had some GI distress which forced m,e to stop in Gorman, and I was feeling "perky" afterwards! ;-)