PBP 2007 Fini

Wednesday: After one last F-1 breakfast, we ride the fully packed bikes to Rochereau for the train ride to CdG. I'd made note that we should figure out which terminal we needed before hand, but failed to do so. We wasted a LOT of time at CdG-2, where everything is French-only, before shuttling back to CdG-1, inadvertently offending the ground-crew, packing our bikes just in time.

So, a DNF. Why? The weather was a challenge, but I've ridden through a lot worse—the 2007 North Carolina flèche for instance. The tailbone problem was an issue, but I wonder if having completed PBP in 2003 I had less determination in 2007. If I had finished this year, I probably wouldn't find enough impetus to try again, but now I've got something to prove in 2011.