God, I hate it sometimes when I do things in the spur of the moment. I went to my office, looked at my schedule, vacation plans, etc., and changed things around drastically to be able to do this. Then, I went and signed up for it. Now, I am getting to sit down and think about it, and I just realized how painful this is going to be. The only comforting thing about it is that it will be right after I come back from riding in Spain and Portugal for a couple of weeks. If I pick up a Eurotrash accent while in Europe, maybe I can course at everyone in Spanish while I am suffering up one of those hills. Sorry, mountains!!

Now I need to go to PBK and order a granny cassette since the ones I own are all 11/21 or 11/23. I don't think I can do bigger than 13/26 without getting a longer chain. Right?