One Speed Open Course Preview!

Rafael is out of town on a bike tour right now, so I (David (who won’t be here for the race and thus can be privy to the course ahead of time)) was bestowed with the honor of creating the 2010 One Speed Open course.

Lil Ter-Ter and myself went out this morning to try to plot out this awesome course we came up with on the Google Maps.  Or at least we thought we were plotting a course.  It quickly became clear that our petty designs were for naught as our proposed route dwindled first to a private neighborhood road with some unfriendly locals, then to a steep-ass hill atop which a man sat brandishing a rifle, then a deer trail, then to an overgrown bramble, deeper, darker, further, until the clouds and the vines blocked the sun, the branches reached themselves around our bodies, and the wind whispered, “this is not your path.”

Ter-Ter cried out to the sky: “Oh Great Bike Gods, Most High, huck down upon us and show up your path!”

And lo the Bike Gods did.

The clouds parted, and a path out of the brush opened up behind us.

We were guided back by the now-friendly, gun-toting mystic of the hill.  He never said a word, just walked along with us back almost to where we started, then he stopped, and pointed his gun in the direction of a road we’d never seen before.  He looked down his barrel for a long time, then looked at us, set his gun at his side and nodded.

We knew what we must do.

We followed that beautiful gravel road, and we rode it fast, blown along by a tail wind that directed us at every intersection.  It blew us East, blew us North, blew us South, blew us West; blew us over bridges and up hills.

The wind blew us over red clay roads that were smoother than pavement;

Up hills steeper than stairways;

Off hucks more sicky gnar-gnar than the X-Games!

Finally the wind dropped us off at the exact same place that last year’s One Speed Open ended.  Unbelievable, right?

I can’t tell you what the course is, but I can offer these details:

-The route was divinely inspired

-It’s more than 30 miles long

-There are fast sections

-There are climbs

-There will be gravel

-You probably won’t have a tail wind the whole time like we did