Time for the Nationals Debate

Should I stay or should I go?


Actually think my mind might be made up, but in case someone's not paying attention SWA just dropped their fares, $120 each way. So fly out of Manch or PVD into PDX and save a mint on airfare vs flying into Redmond/Bend. Right now you can get there for $280 with taxes, add the $50 each way for the bike box and you still have enough cash to rent a minivan and drive to bend... Hell the drive from PDX to Bend is shorter than Grumpy's drive to a regular cross race.

It is tempting, but this year is maybe time to chill, let the season finish out how ever it does, no pressure, maybe do Ice Weasels or something. We'll see.

With the schedule it sounds like I could do the B race, the Singlespeed race, and the 40-44 race, and the clydesdale race if they have that again. Add all the Time Trials in there and wow you've got one solid week of racing. But. It is a looooooong way to go. We'll see what happens. At least there isn't a penalty for registering late (well there are a couple monetary ones) and hell you can even wait till you get there to register.

The Team does have a super slick killer pad to stay at this year, a mile from the venue, if that far.

Oh and hey - check this out... Solidly - why a 2/3 race anyway? Doesn't anyone pay attention to Verge? seriously. Someone's gotta fix that. So maybe you'd only have 120 racers lined up. And an 8-9 min lap isn't really short.

And commuting to work in shorts and shorts sleeves? Doing hill repeats on foot in nearly 70°F weather this morning? WTF? Is it really that warm now?

Crazy...