Quote Originally Posted by sulis View Post
This is my dream ride. I am no where near ready to race this year, but I hope within the next few years the dream will be a reality.

Good luck to all those who enter.
sulis, if you do Desperado this year, you'll have completed a ride equally as hard (confirmed by more than one acquaintance that has completed both in the same year)! The difference is that LOTOJA is a race, so there's more pressure to ride hard & fast; that can make it feel harder. They have similar climbing totals and I think LOTOJA is only 2-3 miles farther. The thing that Desperado has that LOTOJA doesn't have, apparently, is the wind!

So I think that you'll be doing LOTOJA sooner rather than later!