Black River Grand Prix Race Report
It's been a long time since I wrote anything here about bike racing, but I had a really fun time racing my bike up in Vermont this weekend and I wrote up a pretty wordy account of it on B2C2 Slack. Figured I'd archive it here in case anyone still reads blogs and/or ever uses Google to find out if this race is awesome (it is). -------------------- So I showed up the night before at Harry's dope campsite at Smuggler's Notch pretty hungry. No worries though because I can just eat one of my clif bars before I go to sleep right? Haha wait, I go to hit the Mint Clif Bar and Harry is like "aren't those caffeinated??" OOPS. So we got to choose between sleep and calories and we chose sleep. But I woke up starving, ate an absurd amount of breakfast, ate another clif bar before the race, ate all 4 gels in my pockets during the race, and still was barely not bonking by the end of it. Anyway the race started with a silly paved prologue lap that did absolutely not