Today, Dan, Tony, Angie, and I (in order of finish) rode in the fat tire Birkie: a fat tire race in the snow on the Birkebeiner ski trail near Hayward, Wisconsin. We did the 20k route, versus the 47k.
I learned some things, such as:
- I should have had oatmeal as planned, instead of what offered insufficient calories to make it to the 8k water station in strong, non-wobbly fashion.
- The trail is very hilly. I will never, ever, EVER! cross country ski on it.
- Airbnb has some nice offerings.
- Cable is a cute little town, with a good bookstore that gave me a free book by my new favorite author!
- The Angry Minnow brewpub (as opposed to my local Angry Catfish bike shop) has really good food.
- The Moccasin Bar has really weird dioramas of taxadermied animals.
- I am really out of shape.
- Wiping out on your bike in the snow is kind of funny the first time, but not the second time.
It was a good way to end the winter, but now I'm ready to pull out my road bike.
(I wish I had photos of the race. It was pretty amazing to see hundreds of fat bikes out in nature.)
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