T-2: Check-In and Stuff

So, tomorrow is the big day — the tension is slowly building. The last training session was swept away by the wind, garnished with rain showers and lots of wet, dirty roads. Right afterward it was time to clean the bike. In the afternoon it was time for bike check-in, which is right on the coast at a pretty high and completely exposed location. I briefly held my bike up with one hand in the transition zone and couldn’t put it back down — it basically hovered horizontally in the wind… that’s a first for me. ...

September 10, 2011