Oh h*ll yes!
Orrando’s spring 600k was just published, and, aside from it starting in Newberg (so I’ll have to finish a 600k and then ride another 50k home so I can shuffle the bears off to school the very next day) it looks like it’s going to be lovely.
The only bad points of it are
- Slab Creek Road, which is full of wheel-stopping potholes that I’m going to have to pick my way very carefully around, and
- the Logsden gravel, which I’m going to have to ditto ditto ditto.
Time to ride lots. If I’m able to ride this, I’m going to have to do 700k of solitary riding, and that means that I’m going to have to go fast enough to get off the effing Coast Range before the sun goes down on the first day, and that means I’ll need to do 12,000 feet of climbing much faster than I’ve done it in the past.