Rest Week and Nats Course Ride

Luckily this was a scheduled rest week as work is smoothering me, its really starting to stress me out. This juggling act of Family, Work, Training, and Racing can be likened to that guy juggling the 4 flaming objects as another gets thrown in, what will happen? Will he keep them all spinning in a harmonious cycle or will they all come crashing down in a flaming fury? A couple runs and some easy road rides was really it this week with the exception of yesterday. On Saturday an "unannounced" show and go on the Nationals course was rumored to be happening so of course I went out there to see who was going to show and throw down. By the time we got rolling, there were 25-30 peeps to ride in the course and test the newly built stairs. The Start/Finish long paved hill is hard! Each time thru, it gets steeper and longer. The stairs are also going to be a big factor in the race as they are right before that finish section. There are probably 12-15 steps on each of the TWO back to back Stair sections. The steps aren't that tall, but the spacing is just enough to make it awkward. Not close enough to take 2 steps and far enough to make it a real long one step/leap. Trebon and Wicks won't have any trouble, but for the rest of us not endowed with 40 inch inseams, it will be challenging. At the top of the 2nd set, there is another 50m of slight uphill.... to run or remount, it could be the deciding factor. I didn't get a pic yesterday, but I'll try to post one soon.