Andy Powell tackles ToAD: Blue Mounds
⊆ June 19th, 2009 by racerx | ˜ Comments OffWell, all those pre-race butterflies and nerves didn’t help much today. What I thought would be a top 5 slam dunk turned into a lesson in gear preparedness. While I would like to find a valid excuse for my poor performance, the underlying root cause is that I suck.
The course is absolutely beautiful and the climbs did not disappoint. I don’t think the profile on the ToAD website was accurate because the grades we much more than the max 10% listed. My computer reported 17% max grade.
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