Registered for the big race today, starts tomorrow at 6am, if all goes well I should be done before 4PM. 4,500 meters of uphill makes for about 15,000 feet of climbing in about 80 miles. I'm scared. Really scared.
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It was a cool experience, lots of little villages with kids handing out banana halfs and bottles of water and ice tea, all the roads were closed down. I think i read that the race has thousands of volunteers.
The weather was real nice for riding until the afternoon, mostly cloudy with a bit of sun here and there. The course was a lot of fire road and some real nice sections of singletrack, and nice views of swiss valleys.
Strangely enough, out of the 1400 or so competiters I ran into one of the other 5 or so americans who happened to be from Missoula. He was a good guy, we hung out drining hot vegitable boullion after the race was called off waiting for the bus back to Verbier.
Thats enough for now