I'm turning 40 this year and I thought it would be cool to go to Hawaii to celebrate.

Thom thought it would be a good idea to do a practice 600K around the Big Island. I actually have to go 1.5 times around it. The roads are good, there's not too much traffic, the weather is great in December...I can cheat since it's not an official brevet and have support whenever and wherever. I figure it will go a long way towards building my confidence about the longer rides.

We locked on all of our reservations this past weekend. I'm very excited. We're spending a couple of days in Kona - two of which I'll spend cycling and Thom will be doing support. After that we'll have a couple of days up at Volcano.

I wasn't sure Thom would be able to get the time off - irritating SAP implementation....

We love the Big Island!

Now I just need my new bike...

V.