One thing I'm afraid of is heat. I'm not one of your small tropical persons.
On last year's 400K, I lost all kinds of time struggling from shade tree to shade tree through a sweltering afternoon that I should have experienced much further along the route, having built up enough time cushion that I could take a break somewhere cool—except I'd stopped early in the ride to help someone I shouldn't have helped. He wasn't prepared, and as time dragged on during the repair stop, that fact became i...
Published on June 21, 2010 17:18