Wow, What a day.

I had forgotten how painfully long the days leading up to the RAAM really are. The team rallied around Albert's house to take care of the thousands of little things than needed taking care of. Everything from stickers to bike racks to bikes to food to route to strategy to what to do if a rider goes down. A lot of stuff. It took us nearly 8 hours to take care of everything but we managed.

I need sleep in a really bad way but wanted to drop a line to the Blog.

The team actually managed to get together and rode about 10 miles in our pink kits and mostly pink bikes (we were missing one bike). We got a lot of honks, hoots and hollers....I think most women could tell we're doing something with breast cancer and I think most men thought we were taking part in the gay parade. We even got a few nasty remarks...but, we're focused on what we're doing, which is riding for Erika and for the millions of people touched by cancer. Frankly, those who want to make off color remarks can just kiss our collective pink butts.

Okay, off to bed I go.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for updates as we are able to post them.

One final thought. Tomorrow's is our long winded inspection process. We'll be at the race headquarters for about 7 hours getting all our cars and bikes checked by race officials. We are all dreading tomorrow and just want to get on with the show. We have all made a promise to help keep each other in check and remind one another why we're doing this. I am personally focusing on helping to boost morale by joking around and maintain calm. This ought to be interesting!!!!
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Kam Zardouzian
Raceplan Coaching & Racing
www.raceplan.com
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National Director of Collegiate Cycling
USA Cycling
Kam@usacycling.org
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Founder, Del Mar Criterium Series
www.delmarcrit.com