just because

sunappe road race sold-out. epic ride time! on backroads it's 130miles from our house to jenn's sister's place in campton, nh. while jenn has dropped me en route a few times, i've never attempted the full trek. am fired-up to give it a go. with the merrimack river way over flood stage - and the anticipated route crossing it twice (and through a cpl towns whose main streets are covered by 4 to 5' of water), things could get pretty interesting (aka, a lot longer than 130miles). plan for the day is to leave early, carry lots of baby-food (andy's word for Perpetuem), tools (definitely an extra tire), and if it's gonna be a long one, might as well continue working-on the fueling plan. Sustained Energy and Perpetuem keep making me naseous, but dish-out the smoothest energy and power. need to figure-out the perfect mix of baby-food and other foods. ALL sugars are out (if it ends in "-ose" it's out, including the beloved Luna bars - cliff bars are for suckers!). Roll w/a plain bagel, hammer bars, some hammer goo (but not too much), maybe a cpl bananas, just enough to get me through, hopefully all on my person - set-up a plan i can roll with at the Mohican (minus needing to fill-up the camelback once). then when i get to campton, there's a little b-day thing for my bro-in-law, great excuse to get shitty. can't beat that. ride all day, lots of beers that night.

nathan sent me a link to a short movie on last yr's 3rd place finisher at 24hrs of Dalton (chris gagnon). some real cool shots in there, only 7-8mins long. has me all fired-up to do a two-four! guess the pain from last yr has finally faded from memory (first thing i said after was, "never again!").