Ride 12/28

Ride was good but shorter than I planned. Road with Graham who rides for CTS U23 team. Was on call for the ambo so needed to stay within 10 min of station. I road up to Jerome twice before I was called in to cover station. First time was a warm up graham started the pace between 11-12, I quickly said I need to warm up first. We set in around 9-10 mph and chatted as we ascended. He told me how he has become pretty good friends with tom Danielson who road for Harmon cervelo last year. Tom comes in quite a bit to the shop he works for. Talked a bit about races for this season how he's going to warm up for the UCI Pro season by doing some of the local MBAA races! We talked about routines. Second time up I didn't talk much graham set a good pace up we bounced from 8 near the bottom and 13 closer to the top. I fell back just bellow the high school. I donno what happen but my legs just stopped. I tried pushing it as best as I could but couldn't hold his pace. Kids a monster going to be a big shot in a few year if not sooner! The steep section wasn't horrid but just couldn't turn the legs over like I wanted to! Still kept spd up around 7-9 on the 16-20% grade section. Meet graham at top by one of the galleries and we continued on past gold long mine and onto the dirt road to Perkinsville. Quickly turned back around and headed down part way down felt pager go off twice, time for me to go to work. Graham desired to head over to Prescott and back to finish his ride! Kids a monster!