Some of us decided to take a day off from the race while sole team representative John Vahlberg slogged away in the mud to take 74th in the men's 50-54 division. Our goal was to see a bicycle museum about an hour and a half drive north on Bainbridge island.
The day would be rainy so it was nice to not be spending the whole day standing in the wet weather at the course. The drive was uneventful and we were looking forward to seeing this legendary collection of old bicycle memorabilia.
We were greeted with this sign- closed for the day ! Seems that the owners of the museum were at the race......we literally passed each other on the road at some point that morning .
Nevertheless we did get to look in the windows and get a hint of what was inside. No doubt the collection is extensive and spans well over 100 years of bicycle history. Sadly, this was our only day that we could spare to do a non-race related excursion so viewing the collection will have to wait for another trip.
We wound up getting beers or hot chocolates, depending on who you were. There was an excellent market there so we stocked up on supplies so that we could make another big team dinner- Linguini Carbonara.....a team tradition going back a number of years.
One thing about cold weather-it makes one hungry and a meal like this at the end of the day is really a good thing.
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