I going to need a rope and some cunning....

As you can see from the graphs and charts, Im going to be deep in the hole from from the gun. 10 miles of serious climbing to start the Fools Gold 50 miler. I figure that a rope and a few brackets carefully latched to my team mates bikes and Im totally solid. If you look at the graph, the first 5 miles are the toughest, so if I can avoid blowing my stack in the early stages and put the ego in check I get to recover on what looks like a blood curdling downhill. Im assuming that the speed and altitude should cool me off nicely. I have to remember to detach the batarang from Fatty's seatpost BEFORE the downhill. I've been practicing this in the yard with my dog and think that I just about have it down.

The old clock on the wall...oir counter at the top shows that any fitness I needed to gain better already be there. Its nothing but easy spin on the schedule between now and race day. Im fairly certain that depot joe knows that we were serious about him having to carry beer.

If/when I haul my ass up hill #1 there will be yodeling. Im just warning people. Those arent screams of fear, thats yodeling. Im sticking to that story.