aaaah - that may be a case of my mouth being in better shape than the rest but thanks.

Looking closer at the height profile: first there's about 1100 m elevation from a lowlying village up to a mountain pass, then it goes straight down narrow hairpin bends where I try to not shoot straight off the mountainside , then it's pretty much flat a long stretch out along the fjord, then there's another hill of some hundred meters elevation, a bit up and down, and finish.

I guess it's mostly mental, but I need to get used to doing long hills without breaks. I'll try for the twice a week tactic.

This is a small race and I risk ending up pedalling all on my lonesome up these (gorgeous, beautiful, spectacular) hills. Ooh, hope we get good weather. Psyched up a bit now