Category: Bald, Front Wheel Drive, Recumbent

This Sunday I will be racing in The Fat Cyclists 100 Miles of Nowhere event.

Things I like and/or eagerly anticipate about this race.

• The Cause: Registration dollars go to LiveStrong to fight cancer
• The Distance: 100 Miles is a great distance – far enough to sound awesome to 99% of your friends and family and not so far that you can’t muster the next day.
• The Fattie Family: I will be racing against hundreds of fellow Fatties in hundreds of categories and the stories that will ensue will be worth being a part of.
• My Family: Arguably the best thing about this event is that my own family will be able to attend – You know – if you can’t bring your family to the race, bring the race to your family!
• The Location: It is unreasonably close to my residence – I think bathrooms, food, mechanics, and other support will be easily accessed with lines MUCH shorter than any other race I have ever attended.

That brings up the one thing I am not eagerly anticipating about this race.

• The Course: Since I live on a hill and because it just so happens that there is a 1.025 mile loop within spitting distance of my door event organizers chose what turns out to be what many racers have complained is an unnecessarily challenging event – net elevation gain will, of course, be zero but along the way, with several rollers and a large handful of false-tops, the elevation profile will result in approximately 14,000 feet of climbing.

I can only hope that the pro’s outweigh the con’s on race day, Sunday June 5th. If you want to come down to the race – start time is 5AM with an expected finish between 11AM and 12 Noon PST.

I am feeling good, beginning my tapering today, and so I will make a gutsy prediction –

I will take the win in The Bald-Headed, Front-Wheel-Drive-Recumbent category.

My strategy will be to make an early breakaway and then hold off the peleton using my superior aero technologies (both recumbent AND bald) and then on the climbs I will engage the strong climbing ability of FWD.

So…ahhhh-I’ll be pretty much unstoppable.