Stage Two of the Deschutes River Valley Time Trial Festival is hard, very hard. It is hard because it is an uphill time trial. It is hard because you ride this in the afternoon of the day your rode state one.

The stage is one long continuous climb starting from the Deschutes River and climbs to the east. As soon as I started, I brought my heart rate up to the maximum I could sustain and kept it there. I tried very hard to catch folks, but it was not to be. I may have caught one or two, but my time was the slowest in my age group.