2011 Tour of the CA Alps - "Death Ride"

Completed the Tour of the CA Alps ...AKA "Death Ride" this weekend.  Was truly an Epic Day.  Covered 129mi, including 5 mountain passes all over 8300ft, and encompassing >15K ft of climbing ($15.3K per the Garmin when it quit 7 miles from the end).

It was a clear hot day in the saddle for a total ride time of 8:31 which was good enough to be the 10th registered finisher of all 5 mountain passes.

Some stats from the day:
Calories burned - 10,681 Kcal
Consumed - 4910 Kcal including:
14 water bottles

10 Infinit drink packs @ 250Kcal each
2 GU chomps
2 Sport Beans
12 fig newtons
30 pretzel twists
2 cans V8
4 lg chunks watermelon
3 bananas