Stage Three of the Deschutes River Valley Time Trial Festival is the longest stage of the festival. The stage consist of just one road, Bake Oven Road. You climb it and then you turn around and descent it.

Going into the stage, I was last in my age category. I did not want to be last after stage three, so as soon as I started, I brought my heart rate up to what I felt I could sustain for three hours. I was riding hard, but I was holding something back. In the end, I was ten minutes faster than my competition allowing me to finish in next to last place.