There will be many other riders with support at those 3 locations (myself included). On Friday when we all meet up - find someone with support and ask them to help and work out how to do it. ie. how you will recognize each other, how to handoff, or will you stop, etc. Plan to meet up at a specific time and place on Sat morning to hand-off your bottles.
With this plan of yours to stay with the lead Century group - If you do go for it and really hang in there and are gassed as the end. You can take a short break to rest up, refuel, etc, and then hook up with a group on the 10 mile loop. What is really good about the "pit area" is that it is about 1/2 mile long, then turnaround the timing gate and back out 1/2 mile then to the loop again. If you setup near the entrance to that 1/2 stretch, you can see a group that is coming and together that you want to get with. You will have a good 2+ minutes to get ready for them to come past you on the way back out. With your awesome sprinting abilities you should not have any trouble bridging a gap to them. This is going to be pretty fun. I am pretty sure Kyle and Jesse are in the 100 - so hoping it will be decently fast to get a great avg for the 1st 100.
is on the way. Yes I managed to sign up for the Century just inside of the deadline. No way will I be setting any speed records (20 mph average? -giggle) and I’ve never done anything like this before. At this stage the simple goal is to finish and kick it harder than it kicks me. Aiming to be on a V20 but it in a pinch could be an S40- stay tuned.
Great news a great to have you!- FYI - You only had to sign up for the Battle of the Brands by the 15th. You can pretty much register at Sebring anytime you want. Just more in person. Don't worry about the speed. There will no doubt be a large group to draft with for a 5-hr Century Goal. For the Century there is really no time limit, except maybe 9 hours. As long as you finish you will get credit for the official Sebring Century milage it will be credited towards Crubike's total. Where the speed and ultimately distance matters is in the 12-hour race where actual miles in the time limit counts. The more the better for Cruzbike in the final Tally . Look forward to meeting you.Well, in the spirit of supporting the Tribe, international reinforcement
Same here - At least a year and 10,000 s(miles) ago! - Oh yeah, and one cannot forget the $5k transmission rebuild after I got homeLooking forward to seeing you again Larry... feels like ages since Kentucky!
Holy er holey cheese er.. plan is good. Especially better than no cheese er plan.
Will be looking for that wine skin at the turn around!
I got a Battle of the Brands email from Bacchetta a couple of days ago -- I'm on their mailing list because I bought a handlebar for my Q -- saying, in part:
Wow - 45 bents at Sebring - That would be unprecedented - maybe they should make this a "year-long" challenge and highlight a different event each month in different parts of the country!
