Three … Two … One

The countdown continues as we complete last-minute prep like loading maps on devices, wrapping new handlebar tape, and color-coordinating our riding outfits. Nervously we watch weather forecasts for the Puget Sound area. And, as always, each of us spends an hour or two most days pedaling the stationary bike through various virtual landscapes, some of which resemble, in weird science-fictiony ways, the actual 3-D Pacific Coast. And some of which do not.