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As in stage races past, I have a partner guaranteed to race me into the ground. My current partner, Gavin Hayes, has raced in something called “World Championships.” Who am I kidding? I’m a dude with a job and a mortgage, looking at the backside of Corum 163-257-47-F408-PN76R Ladie's watch my thirties. For most people, a vacation translates into a rented house in Nantucket and a week of getting sauced at noon. Or wearing a beret and sipping espresso at a cafe in Paris. And yet I choose to wear a white spandex race kit and puke my brains out on Boreas Pass.

So here I am, not quite May, not quite fit, and not quite certain this will go as planned. But I do know, like anyone planning on racing the Breck Epic, or any other mountain bike stage race, that the event isn’t just the week it happens or the ten days Corum 163-257-47-F403-PN75R Ladie's watch you’ll be gone. It’s the cold, rainy road rides, the urgency of your training, the impulse purchases (a thousand bucks is totally reasonable for wheels) the days before you leave, and the stories you’ll tell for years to come. Yeah, I’m ready for that crazy big wheel bike and the Breck Epic.--Jeff Carter

I look back and realize I learned a few things that day. It was the week after my first Leadville 100, and I was totally impressed with myself and my new big belt buckle. I had flown back for a family vacation in the Berkshires. My suburban Connecticut mother, about as in touch with mountain bike racing as our last president was with reality, had Corum 163-257-47-F401-PN74R Watch mentioned “Oh Jeffrey, they have mountain bike races there.” Sure enough, there was a thriving weekly race scene there and evidence of a recent 24-hour race on the property. Five PM, start by the barn. “Neato”, I thought to myself, but down deeper I thought: “Shit, I’m gonna clean up.”