Every year my friend George Thomas puts on a RAAM qualifier called Race Across Oregon. RAO is a 520 mile race with insane amounts of climbing. Seriously, there are only 2 relatively flat parts on this course, one is 10 miles and comes very early on, the other is 20 miles and comes in at somewhere between 300 and 400 miles I think. It's a killer.

Needless to say, I'm not doing the full RAO. But my BF and I will be doing a two person relay for the baby RAO which is just as hilly but only 190 miles. We decided to do it at the last minute as a way to get a good training day in, under fun circumstances. I'm excited.

I'm dedicating my ride tomorrow to Raleighdon.