So just 12 hours from now, I’ll be in the middle of my first road race. I’ve done my share of criteriums and have tackled a time trial as well. A road race is kind of like if you took one of the big big races (Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, Tour of California, etc.) and did only a single day’s stage, albeit shorter and slower than the ProTour teams.

The team kit is clean (third time washed this week) and drying for tomorrow’s race. I go from not racing at all throughout June to now two races in less than a week! Anyway, be thinking of be tomorrow morning. The race commences at 8:05am in Thomasville, NC. Race report and photos to follow.