Originally Posted by
SigNC
I did both last year and I think they are very different. B2B you really have about 40 miles of warm up before you start going up hill. BSG you seem to start going up hill at about mile 2.
What caught me off guard last year was after george's gap i thought I was home free........well I ran into a 2 mile long death march up 321 where you can see the hill for literally 2 miles. it looks like a death march with bikes going super slow and people stopped on the side of the highway.
Pace yourself and don't get above your LT very much or you'll be pulled off on the side of the road.
Hopefully it will be cooler than last year.
+1 all around. I don't know if one is harder/easier than the other but the efforts were very different for me.
That plod along the Blue Ridge towards the end of B2B seemed to be never ending. I actually didn't enjoy B2B as much but more than likely because there was much lower participation so lots of stretches of suffering alone.