Dead City Alleycat/ Dead the next day

Saturday I went to Washington and participated in the Dead City Alleycat. It ended up starting about 5:15pm and was perfect temp once we got moving. There was a Rally to Restore Sanity with John Stewart in DC and with Saturday also being THE party night for Halloween it was crazy busy for a Saturday night. I rode the Fixed gear (3 speed) james frame and it did well except the back wheel got knocked out of alignment from a large pot hole. i kept up with the top five until the 4th check point and they pulled enough of a lead that i lost them on one of the harder to find checkpoints. I lost a bunch of time at that (the apple bob). Luckily i had my map and had prelocated all the other points. I finished the race next to last but won Best Out of Towner. The prizes were CRAZY!!.. I won a pair of shimano road pedals, grips and matching bar plugs, a great pair of knickers, and $50 gift cert to Seagull Bags (i'm getting a cool custom fanny pack). after he was done handing prizes out he said for anyone who finished the race to come up and grab more stuff. I got a cool long sleave event shirt another t-shirt, and an AWESOME OUTLIER merino t shirt!. love their stuff.
after i watched some gold sprints which is two guys racing on rollers in a 100 yard computer dash record was 23 seconds and the winner won by .002 secs (they were supposedly averaging 48 mph) and went home.

Yesterday i went for a group ride. almost 40 miles. i got about 25 miles and my stomach started growling. At about 30 miles I blew the FUCK up. legs were fried and no more energy. I ate some choclate gu (thanks charlie) and i think that got me back but i was going about 13 mph with the wind on my back. thanks to bobby and laura kennedy for the food at the baseball park. it was tied for, if not the worst, i have ever crashed and so hard to finish.