Sick and twisted road ride

[Brick]

http://www.horriblyhilly.com/home.html

100k and 200k events with over 10,000 feet of climbing in the 200k event

*ouch

[PWAXON]

At this point I'm happy to finish the Iron Man. Ouch is right!

[funky-funky-chicken]

My inlaws live down in that neck of the woods, actually in the small town of Stueben. There are some awesome roads for riding in the southwest Wisconsin neck of the woods. I've also passed through the area while returning home from a bicycle tour.

I raced the 12 hours of Blue Mounds at the Blue Mounds state park. There are really nice camping facilities there at the park, a pool, and some great singletrack. (That is of course if you decide you want to ride more.)

This could be a cool event to try!

[Brick]

My inlaws live down in that neck of the woods, actually in the small town of Stueben. There are some awesome roads for riding in the southwest Wisconsin neck of the woods. I've also passed through the area while returning home from a bicycle tour.

I raced the 12 hours of Blue Mounds at the Blue Mounds state park. There are really nice camping facilities there at the park, a pool, and some great singletrack. (That is of course if you decide you want to ride more.)

This could be a cool event to try!
I thought this tidbit in the course description was interesting:

"We recommend a minimum of a 27 tooth rear cassette. Many successful completers of the HHH have used a rear MTB derailleur with a 32 or 34 tooth, or a triple crank."

[SickBoy]

For hilly events like this you could run a 27 and switch to a 50-34 compact crank as well. That's what I am doing for riding in France this summer during the TdF. Nashbar has an ISIS compact road crank for really cheap in the back of the catalog alongside the " frame' " frames.