I was looking at doing the Jan. 28th Early Bird, but after looking at the race calendar and comparing it to my training schedule, it looks like my season may start off with the Dinuba Crit on Monday Feb 19th. That will be good prep for the first Merced series on the weekend immediately following (RR Saturday, crit Sunday).

Velogirl mentioned the Early-Birds are typically crash-fests......

~BikeMomma