First Race....

I just signed up for my first race of the season. I think that the best way to describe this decision is, "Go hard or go home." Essentially, for my first Pro/1/2 race of the season, I have chosen one of the notoriously most difficult races in the entire eastern region of the United States, The Battenkill Roubaix. I mean, seriously...the name of the race has KILL in it. That just CANNOT be a good thing!

The race itself is based on the famous Paris-Roubaix race in France in which riders cover a course that includes large sections of unpaved gravel road, cobbles, nasty climbs, and other notoriously evil race elements.

So, our race is 62 miles of pain, including several miles of unpaved road, numerous climbs (some unpaved on both the climb and the descent), and lots of bone jarring holes and bumps. Here's the course map (note the profile at the bottom). Oh, yeah...it's going to ROCK!

Thankfully, I am heading up to Battenkill with some of my new teammates: Jencheng, Grizzly Gurski, Chicken and Goat. So, at least I will be suffering with some of my favorite people!

I have only three words:

BRING IT ON!