Harvest 50: Late season bike racing
The Harvest 50 started relatively slow, for a race. I rode not the usual carbon road bike setup, with 110 lbs in smooth 23 mm tires, but with 50 lbs in 40 mm jagged-treaded tires on my cool, new-to-me Ritchey Ti-cyclocross bike. The first five miles cruised along on asphalt at 18-20 mph before we turned onto country, crushed-rock roads. This was a gravel race.