Up until November/December the plan for 2019 had been for a fairly quiet race year with a DK200 as the goal event and if I failed to get in through the lottery (gone are the days of just signing up) I would throw my hat in the ring for the XL 350 mile version. Then things turned on a dime, everything got thrown in the air and landed mostly as follows;
January 20 Rivet Raid; mixed surface ride through the Santa Monica Mountains with proceeds going to restoration efforts post Woolsey Fire
February 9 Rock Cobbler 7.0; as per my last post I missed the 2018 edition. Rumor has it that the 2019 version involves some swimming?!?!
May 5 Belgian Waffle Ride; actually, I am 99% this will be the Belgian Wafer Ride, all the fun gravel bits and none of the remorseless Ramona suckfest
June 22 Haute Route Rockies, CO; seven days, 770km and 20,000m of elevation gain in the front range of the Colorado Rockies. This is my A event for the year
August 23 Haute Route Cedar City UT, similar format to the Rockies only this one is 3 days instead of 7 and this time Becca is riding too, we still working out if it’s going to be a team event or if we will ride it as solo riders
September 27 Haute Route San Francisco CA; detecting a theme yet? 3 days again, this time we head up the coast to San Francisco at hit some of Northern California climbs!
Other events not scheduled;
An Everesting/ High Rouleurs …I have been carrying the High Rouleurs monkey on my back for several years now and with all the climbing I will be putting it could be the year it gets shrugged off!
I’ll also be chasing Becca around as she does her crazy stuff…trust me, she is taking crazy to 11 this coming year!
I’ve been kinda busy, riding my bike and work and stuff!
Wrapped a pretty epic 2017 with the following notches on my belt:
Crushar in the Tushar
Everesting on Zwift
Mauna Kea Ascent
Bike leg for Carpenteria Tri…we came second!
A tad over 12,0000 miles for the year…rode every single day!
Exercised N+1 several times:
Picked up a NOS Cervolo R3 to live on the Kickr to replace the existing R3:
Traded in my trusty Linskey Cooper CX for a Linskey Cooper CX! No really I did!
Also picked up a belt driven single speed CX bike, I have 4 months to figure that out!
This year has had a pretty mellow start: 4 Days to Fitness, BWR Camp, SPNDX Stampede and BWR! OK maybe not that mellow!
I’ll get round to back filling some of this at some point, in the meantime I start writing forwards, thanks to James, who I met last weekend for the kick in the pants!
So Yeah! I kinda ninja Everested! That is I did it mostly while no one was looking! The plan was to go for it and if it worked it worked and if it didn’t I would see how far I could get! Somewhere around the half-way point I let the cat out the bag and then gritted my teeth to the end.
It was on my mind and then on the cards after DNFing the HRS back in July. I had found a hill nearby which looked pretty good but there was a gate and I wasn’t sure if it was going to be locked at night and I couldn’t take the risk. So at the last minute I changed it to another hill.
This was much different from the ride last November. My Hill choice addressed some of the challenges I faced last time. This ride was;
Much closer to home so it would be easier for Becca to support me.
In a more residential area so there were some street lights.
Was a much shorter segment. This segment was a fraction under 2 miles up with the elevation gain of 500’.
So the math was 54 ascent/descents for the Everesting and if the door opened it would be another 8 more to roll up to the High Rouleurs 10,000 meters “Limit” ride.
The ride spanned the Sunday and Monday of Labor Day holiday. I started just before 7am on the Sunday. My Base camp was the minivan which was stocked with all the usual goodies. My plan was to ride with one bottle and 2 bars and go back to the van when I was empty, roughly every 90 minutes, to replen. This would be around every 5 round trips roughly 20 miles.
The weather was cool and cloudy and was pretty much as perfect as I could expect for the time of year, it warmed up to around 90f during the day but it was by no means blistering hot. At the other end of the spectrum the night got really cold I ended up having to shelter in the van with the engine on and the heater running a couple of times during the night just to warm up. This was despite having wrapped myself up in essentially what passes for winter clothing in Southern California. In the end I wore everything I had. Five layers on top and two on the bottom along with long fingered gloves and warmers etc.
Becca played her usual guardian angel, although I would argue that she is just an Angel with the amount of crazy shit she puts up with! She brought me three square meals during the day, mostly Del Taco French fries or burritos and coffee during the day and then breakfast the following morning.
She even brought her new steel gravel bike and rode with me for a little while and also stopped to grab some photos but fundamentally I was by myself for this one.
Now the thing with Everesting is that you just ride. It’s you, the bike and the road. Life moves on all around you but you are just riding up and down. In the middle of the segment was a parking lot for a trail head. I spent a fair amount of time watching hikers, bikers and runners come and go. I was riding past when they arrived and I was riding past when they left. I am pretty sure I was riding past when they came back the next day!
In the end the riding part took about the right time over 20 hours. What took much longer than expected and much longer than it should have was my stopping time. Even allowing for the warming up I ended up being stationary for 9 hours! I’ll be honest and say I have absolutely no idea how that accumulated so quickly and so much. My plan of stopping every 5 laps was reduced to every two during the night but even so it was a staggering amount of time to be still! It adds up to about being stationary for 30 minutes in every hour, this is an average, of course, but it’s a stark ratio.
With it being a couple of weeks post the event this still somewhat sours the achievement. As expected I slowed down during the night and my laps doubled in time when compared to my first lap of the day. Some of this is due to increased caution while riding in the dark and some of it is due to being tired and not wanting to do anything stupid! At the time they all felt pretty speedy! With all that said, it’s still a hell of a (daft) thing to do!
A blank slate to a full bucket!
So that’s a pretty short write up on a pretty long event but I’ll spare you the lap by lap recount which, to be honest, is mostly forgotten!
You can read my recap from my first Everesting here and the DNF from the HRS here. Both of which have much more comprehensive lessons learned and some hints and tips for those of you considering this.
I wouldn’t say the HRS monkey is off my back but it’s back in the cage for now! I am sure in time it will get pissed and start throw shit at me to express its general displeasure!
My submission from last weeked’s ride was approved by Hells500. My report is still pending but that’s number 2 in the bank and was a somewhat facesaving event from the failed HRS from July!
The rain during the week and on the Saturday prevented me from riding both days over the weekend and killed off my High Rouleurs attempt for that weekend. The climbs we not the issue and the actual rain during the ride would not be either it was the descents. Some of the roads are pretty rough, throw in the mix, mud and rocks being washed onto the road it was just too sketchy for me. It was decision that was proved right as I was standing on the edge of the road watching the rain come in sideways as hardier souls than me climbed up one of the many ascents into the Santa Monica Mountains. I was happy to be out there for the riders and did my best to provide physical and mental support for them. No doubt it was a tough day.
So on Sunday I loaded my bike into the car along with various layers that I had purchased last minute from Pactimo, including the Ultra-Lite rain jacket and the Evergreen Vest. The day was all about layers. The host hotel in Agoura was bustling was cyclists and I was forced to park at the back of beyond. I finished off readying my bike and headed to the front of the hotel where the official start line was I realized, as is my method operandi, I had missed the start of the event. I wasn’t the only one though and so I rolled out.
You would think that by now I would have covered all the roads in the Santa Monica Mountains but the truth is there are a lot of roads that I have yet to ride up or down and there still is with this ride I was able to cross off a few more. As we rode into the mountains we disappeared into the low cloud and mist. I was glad I was wearing the water proof jacket as the water accumulated on my body and rolled down my glasses! The ride was broken up in my mind as four loops. The first two would take me through and around Topanga Canyon State Park at the southern end of the Santa Monica Mountain and the second would be at the other end of the range with loops around Decker and Mulholland and Yerba Buena and Deer Creek. Some the climbs I had ridden up and down and others I had ridden up and would be descending this time around Yerba Buena and Deer Creek specifically fell into this bucket.
The Topanga section went by without too many problems and I would put and remove my layers when climbing and descending respectively. The first loop was all very familiar from living in the area a few years ago. As I had missed the start I was essentially at the back of the ride but slowly I started to catch up with people and pass them. After the first climb and descent we hit the first Aid Station.
I was pretty self-sufficient with a pocket full of Lara Bars and I had drunk that much. Maybe half a bottle in a couple of hours. I pushed on through after a short connecting section on Mulholland I started the second loop which was up Stunt. I have heard mention of it in the past but never ridden up it. It’s a typical SMM climb with switchbacks to a saddle followed by a descent. It has a total gain of around 1200’ over 4 miles and averages 6% going up to around 9% in parts. Once again I just sat in and pushed on passing some more folks and then being passed by a small bunch that were climbing like a freight train! There’s always a bigger fish!
The temperature was great, cool and cloudy and I just rode within myself making sure to eat a bar every hour or so. At the top there was the second Aid Station and I stopped to take advantage of the potta-john and refill a bottle. With little fuss I back in the saddle and heading back down Piuma. I took things nice and steady and while I was often passed on the rides down, there were few if any people who it didn’t repass on the climbs back up. Back onto Mulholland making sure not to miss the turn we were then directed by way of the third Aid Station up Rock Store and into the northern section. A quick descent down Mulholland all the way to the coast. It was a right hand turn onto PCH for a short section and we were onto the penultimate climb up Yerba Buena, 3 miles 1050’ at 6% maxing at 14%. It’s a pretty shitty road and the rain had washed a fair amount of dirt onto it too. At the top of the road there was another Aid Station, the one I had worked the prior day so I knew what to expect. I had ridden most of this loop but the other way round and the next mile would be the worst. 450’ of gain at an average of 8% maxing at 18%. Sit down, stand up, just keep pedaling. I passed people walking and I passed people riding. I was very grateful for my gearing choice of a 34/32 on my bike and I just span and span and span!
At the top there were a few rollers and then the nail biting descent down Deer Creek which is 11% and twisty! At the bottom a left hand turn and a quick jet south on PCH for the last climb up Decker; 4 miles, 1509’ of gain at 8%. Once again just sit in and keep moving forward. It had warmed up as much as it was going to at this point and people were struggling. 36 minutes later I was almost at the top but I was at the last Aid Station. One more bottle refill, a short down a sharp up and it was basically a 10 mile roll back to the start/finish and a couple of laps around the parking lot to hit 106 miles!
On the clock 8:14 moving time. 9:02 in total, even though I thought I had been pretty quick. 12,933’ of gain. Garmin tells me I was climbing for 4:56 so well over half the time and of that I was standing 1:17…I love my Vector pedals!
There is a bunch of other crazy data on Garmin Connect and Strava if you want to check it.
At the end there were 180 finishers of which I was 80th, and 31/96 for my Age Group. I really am never going to be at the fast point end but like a diesel I can just keep going!
Overall it was a great day. The course is challenging and would make a great High Rouleurs course. No doubt riding it twice on consecutive days and then adding another 4000’ of gain and 26 miles would really be a big bite to take but that’s the joy of having a flip top head!
Overall the race is well organized. Aid Stations are frequent enough and they made a great call on moving the event due to the weather. Had it been hot it would have been a very different day! I would say that they are very strict with their rules about on road support etc but as long as you play nice they play nice with you. For me I just turn up and ride.
This is a list post. It’s all the equipment list that I used for my Everesting ride, if you have any questions leave a comment below and I will do my best to answer.
Bike; a 2010 Cervelo R3, the R3 is their “comfort” bike, think Paris-Roubaix rather than Tour de France. The bike comes pretty well speced with a full Shimano Ultegra groupset and 3T cockpit and seat post. I have had this bike since new and other than replacing things that have worn out, cassettes, chain, bar tape I have hardly touched it in terms of upgrades. I had originally switched out the Fi`zi:k stock saddle for a Selle Italia model. This year that was replaced with an ISM Prologue saddle. I was riding in Speedplay pedals but switched these out for Garmin Vector 2s in September.
Drivetrain; for this ride I swapped out the 11-25 cassette for a 12-30, I also put on a Compact (50/34) Chainset, this change meant a shorter chain.
Wheels; after some research and before receiving my OrbisII wheels from 3T I opted for Shimano DuraAce 9000 C24s, lightweight and stiff. I was obviously more interested in the weight. Tire wise I had Continental Grand Prix 4000 IIS (23mm). Inner tubes were Avenir Lite 700x23x48
Lights and Power; I was fortunate enough that Garmin also sent me a Varia Light set. I was really impressed with these. I supplemented these with two Vomlite Cree lights on the front and a Magnus Innovation Bold II rear light. I had no expectation of any of these lasting through two nights. The Vomlites needed mains power so Becca charged these when she went home during the day, the Garmin and Bold lights were USB chargeable so they were charged in Base camp. I used an Anker PowerCore 10400 to charge my Garmin Edge 810 on the fly
Data Measurement; I mentioned I used my Garmin Edge 810, I recharged it once during the ride. I also had on my Garmin Fenix3, this was a backup. Like this 810 I charged it once during the ride and when I saw that the 810 would be good through to the end then I ignored it. It captured everything except the last couple of hours.
Clothing and Shoes; it was cold and it was only during the middle of the day that I was able to get the “warmers” off and get down to a Jersey, Vest and short fingered gloves, other than that I wore pretty much everything all the time! From the bottom up:
Bontrager RXL Shoes
Pactimo Alpine Toe Covers
Defeet Socks
Pearl Izumi leg warmers
Pactimo Ascent Pro Bibs
Pactimo Zero Weight Base Layer
Pactimo 2.0 Jersey
Pactimo Breckenridge Vest
Pactimo Breckenridge Jacket
Pactimo Cascade Jacket
Pearl Izumi Arm Warmers
Pearl Izumi Cyclone Gel Gloves (long fingered)
Castelli S Uno Gloves (short fingered)
Pactimo Neck Gaiter
Pactimo Cap
Pearl Izumi ear warmers
Headsweats Skull Cap
Louis Garneau Course Helmet
Miscellaneous;
Oakley Fast Jacket glasses during the day and Perfomance Bike clear glasses at night
TransIt saddle bag with spares
Camelbak 21oz Podium Insulated bottle
Garmin Edge/Varia mount
Garmin GSC10 cadence monitor
Serfas Bento Box to hold the Anker power
Food/Nutrition; Much of my food was from the Skratch Portables book. Becca cooked up a storm in the kitchen with baked eggs, French Toast muffins and Mushroom Swiss Fritata. Becca also made up Skratch Raspberry Bars. beyond that I was also stocked with Lara Bars, Chips and Bananas. Fluid-wise I lived on warm Skratch Apple and Cinnamon, I would get through a bottle roughly every hour. This was supplemented with Hot Chocolate, Mexican (real sugar) coke, chicken noodle soup and good old coffee!
With the exception of some of the cold weather gear everything had been tested in the months prior. The wheels/tires were used for the Westlake Century and wheels and drivetrain was used for the Mike Nosco Memoroal Ride. The lights (except the Varia) were used at 12 Hours of Temecula.
So as I said this is list post and this is everything I can remember.
It’s been over two weeks since riding my Everesting ride and to be honest this is the first time that I have really had a chance to sit down and write up the report. Within 6 hours of finishing it I was on a plane traveling for work and as I write this I am sat on another plane, in a remote office, in a hotel doing the same thing. I don’t travel much for work but due to several projects that are coming to a head in the last couple of weeks it’s just been a busy time of year.
As a reminder, Everesting is basically finding one hill (or Strava segment) and riding it non-stop...or reasonably non stop until you accumulate 29,029’/8848m of elevation gain. My “Segment” was on Mulholland Highway Climb, riding from PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) to the summit. I actually started about 200 yards before the Strava KOM Segment and ended about the same past the finish. Here is the logistically math:
I gained around 1610’ go up and another 210’ going down, so the math meant that I would need to ride it 16 times. Decent elevation gain is perfectly legitimate
The stretch of road is just over 7 miles long, so an entire Segment would be 14.2 miles
Total mileage would be between 220-230 (obviously only half of that was up)
Based on previous rides I estimated and ascent would take 50 minutes and a descent 25, round trip time 75 minutes
Overall time for the “event” allowing for some stopping time, between 21-22 hours
So with all that said let’s get on with the report.
Due to Becca’s collar bone break the original date was pushed 5 weeks and I decided that the Sunday of Thanksgiving would be a suitable date. My rationale was twofold; the road should be a bit quieter as people would be traveling over the holidays. It was as close to a full moon as I could get, Sunrise was around 6:30am and Sunset around 4:45pm, not a long day by any stretch and so a lot of riding would be during the dark. With that in mind my original plan was to start at 4am, this would give me conservatively 4-6 hours sleep the night prior which would be important as I would be going for nearly 24 hours. That got changed at the last minute when we did the math and realized we would be finishing well into the night of the next day. So we changed it to a “wheels down” target of 2:00am with a target finish time of 10pm the next day.
Becca has covered a lot of the preparation in her post. I can add that I prepped my bike on the Saturday. this was pretty minimal, basically changing out my training wheels for the Dura Ace C-24s. Giving it a final clean and lubing the chain. I had road tested my lights the day prior and everything was working fine. With that it was just a case of topping up the batteries of everything that I would be using. I’ll write up a post on the final bike configurations so folks can skip to that in the future.
The Base Camp minivan was packed with the exception of the bike which would go in the next morning. We had or at least we thought we had organized things pretty well but during the next 24 hours things would get lost in the car and generally disorganized.
Base Camp!
In bed around 7:00pm with the alarm set for horribly early 11:30pm. The next morning later that night the alarm went off and we were up. The poor dogs had no clue what was going on as we herded them into the garage in the middle of the night!
The drive out was uneventful, 45 minutes through the night, we took separate cars as Base Camp would be parked with all the gear and the other so Becca could roam as required. The plan was to leave Base Camp at around the 3 mile up mark, free parking and out of the way on a reasonably straight and flat section. Easy and Safe to stop at. Becca parked her car and we drove to the bottom of Mulholland.
Wheels down 1:50am!
Ok so to be honest out of the gate things were a bit blurry. It was cold, it was early. I had a long way to go and wasn’t focusing on that, just on one lap at a time. By the time I was a bit more copacetic, I was four laps in. 57 miles or so and coming up to 7300’ in 6 hours. Around 5;00am some friends, Pam and Mark, showed up to provide moral and physical support. Becca had been following me up and down for nearly 4 hours and much like sitting in traffic that moves at 5 mph it was exhausting. At best she is not a night person at worse she is someone who falls over without 8 hours of solid sleep and she was well into the red at this point! I sent her home. she needed a nap and the dogs needed their breakfast.I just kept pedaling, around 9:00am she came back with the ever popular Starbucks Morning Bun and some hot chocolate. Yes there were plenty of jokes about coffee rides and so on.
Coffee Ride…actually Hot Chocolate!
Overall I was feeling pretty good all round, it was really just a case of keep on pedaling and pedaling, nothing fancy just spin the wheels, the problem was I was riding too slow. An ascent was taking closer to to an hour and decent was more like 25 minutes, this might not seem like much but over the course of a day it added up to nearly three more hours! At 10:00am we came to the realization that this was going to take me well beyond 24 hours. I was 8 hours in and had covered 72 miles. I was roughly a third through and I wasn’t expecting to get any faster as the day went.
I sent Becca home, we left Base Camp in the middle and just rode and rode and rode. During my 6th ascent I was passed by a few locals who I know and they gave me cheers as I turned around and headed back down. On the 7th I met Nick who was riding down looking for me. He stayed with me for another 2 laps, basically until it was too late for him to stay any longer because it was getting dark. He talked my ear off for a good three hours and kept me honest going up and down. My fastest descent was one of these and the climbs were at a solid and steady pace.
See the guy on the left…boy can he talk and that’s a good thing!! It did warm up enough to take off Leg Warmers and long fingered gloves but that was it!
Nick said his goodbyes and I loaded the bike up my lights for the first descent into the next night. the climb back was awful, by far my worst. I was in a really dark place. I wasn’t sure if it was because I had ridden too hard the prior hours, something that I was hugely aware of. Was it because it was getting dark and cold, was it because I was coming up to 18 hours? Was it all of these or none of these!?!
At the top of the climb Becca and I had a heart to heart. Was I going to do it, would I actually finish, if I wasn’t why drag it out any longer than necessary. If not when would I retry? I immediately said if I DNFd I would try again in a month with another full moon! I had some Advil and hot coffee.
Becca had one foot out the door, I said I wanted to ride to the bottom, at the bottom I said I wanted to ride halfway to Base Camp, at the halfway point I wanted to ride to the top. At the top my head was back in the game. Lap #10 was done, 6 to go, roughly 11,000’ and 85 miles. In my mind I was in the downswing to the finish. Mentally I had broken it down to three sections, the first 10,000’ would be fun, the next 10,000’ would be the hump and the last 9,029’ would be the countdown. I was closing in on the countdown.
We both recommitted. Becca called Pam and Mark for help. They were amazing, they turned up with a traveller of coffee from Starbucks, which I chugged down with a large slice of Panettone. Becca parked her car and rode with them for the rest of the night and into the next morning. From around 10:00pm through to 6:00am the next day they followed me up and down. The descents were getting colder and colder and I had run out of clothes, (see equipment post to follow). My teeth were chattering and I was shaking with cold, the temperature was in the early 30Fs and then there was the wind chill. Of course the climb was warmer. Laps 14 and 15 were pretty rough, I was very tired, sleepy tired and I knew I was meandering all over the road. As it was the middle of the night and there was no traffic I would like to think I was just riding the tangents but to be honest with hindsight I was amazed it didn’t fall over sideway! Pam got some video:
The descent of Lap 15 was a real turning point, despite the cold I knew that the ride up was going to be a victory lap. So at the bottom there was no hanging around I more or less rolled around and headed straight back up. Mental math had kicked in and that combined with the tiredness had me pretty much in a fuzz. I was watching the elevation gain tick up as I rode along. Every so often it would stop and like a watched kettle doesn’t boil I would stop looking. I had turned off the backlight to save battery so ignoring it was almost easy. By this time all my back lights had died despite being charged during the day and I was down to the last dregs of power on my front light. Luckily the headlights of Pam and Mark’s car lit the road ahead of me. With a mile to go on the final climb I knew that I would have to descend one more time to make up the 150’ shortfall.
The clock had rolled around and the sun was coming up again, I was treated to a glorious sunrise over the Santa Monica Mountains. A couple of miles from the bottom the elevation rolled 29,029’ feet. Minutes later I was at the bottom being congratulated by Becca, Pam and Mark. I very carefully stopped my Garmin and made sure the file saved, this took several minutes due to the file size. Finally it uploaded and we headed back up the hill to collect the parked cars and say our goodbyes!
I took photos of my Garmin Edge 810 at the end of every lap although I missed a couple…including the finish!
I have plenty of thoughts and reflections on my training which I will write up in another post. But these are some the immediate thoughts:
Do not underestimate the time this will take. It’s not a race you have to pace yourself, that KOM time is not what you are aiming for.
Get help, and get your help some help. Yes you could do this all by yourself but I think that would make it harder. Help comes in shape of on the side of the road and riding along with you. Without a doubt with Pam and Mark helping Becca and I this would not have been a success. Nick accompanying me for two laps was great, he did all the right things, rode my pace, talked and took my mind off things.
Rely on your help, give them some guidelines but let them figure it out. When you’re tired having to decide if you want a peanut butter sandwich or a piece of Panettone is something you don’t want to think about or probably can’t even begin to fathom. Be given food, eat it, move on.
Be organized. If you have the space, have separate boxes for lights, batteries, food, fluid, clothing and so on. As with the decision making you want things to be easy, being tidy avoids the frustration of rifling through things looking for that one crucial thing.
Food and Fluid, obvious really, eat lots drink lots. I ended up on Panettone, M&Ms and coffee. I did start on a smorgasbord of Skratch Portables. I virtually lived on Skratch Apple and Cinnamon which was served warm, I was getting through a bottle a lap, so rough 16 bottles of fluid supplemented with hot chocolate, coffee and Mexican coke.
Bring more of everything you need, you may of may not use it but you do not want to run out of it. Same for clothing, better to have it and not need it.
It goes without saying that this was a massive undertaking, not for me, but for Becca, Pam and Mark. There was no way I would have been able to have completed this without them. I can’t even begin to imagine how exhausting driving up and down a hill at either 5mph or 25mph in the dark through two nights was but they did it and for that I am beyond grateful!
I am also super lucky to be supported by some fantastic companies;
Pactimo; everything I wore on the day with the exception of my leg/arm warmers and long fingered gloves. Their Ascent Pro bibs performed flawlessly. All told I wore them for nearly 30 hours!
Skratch Labs; Apple and Cinnamon Skratch and a wide selection of real food portables kept me going throughout the day and through two nights!
Headsweats; even though it was a cool day I love their Skull Cap, keeps the sun off your head and the sweat out of your eyes!
Garmin; obviously they kept count for the event I was running an Edge 810. But beyond that their Vector 2 pedals allowed me to train smart and their Varia lighting system worked flawlessly.
TrainerRoad; as mentioned I will write a separate post on the training, but it may surprise you to know that nearly 70% of my training was done indoors!
So this event ends my year and the rest of December is downtime, travel for work and the holidays will fill up the rest of the month which is rapidly drawing to a close. I’ll actually be back on a training plan working up to Dirty Kanza 200 in the next week. You know I can’t sit still for long!
Base Camp! 
