-Never rely on a hotel to have decent breakfast or coffee. Or have it at all, for that matter. Pack for the worst case scenario- ie: world is in flames. Bagels, medium roast, rice milk, natural peanut butter and jelly.
-Always take your own pillow. No pillow is like your own. No matter how much you drool on the hotel provided padding.
-Crying from exhaustion is okay, after you cross the finish line, at the end of a nine mile climb.
-Sometimes you're going to ride alone. Sometimes you're going to ride the whole race alone.
-Buy rain jacket- immediately.
-60 miles is too far on two bottles. Pack for worst case scenario: ie: riding bike race alone, in headwind, rain, mountains.
-New Mexico is beautiful. I kinda-sorta hate their bike races.
-It's going to take a while to learn how to time-trial. And experience.
- My UA teammates are amazing and fun.
-Despite a long, sad, hard day, I still want to ride my bike. And that's pretty cool.
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