Trans Iowa Training.

I've started training for the TransIowa....a 300+ mile gravel race across the hills of Iowa. Typically only about 10-20% of the riders that start it actually finish.  I've never road anything this far so I'm not out to win the thing, just to try and finish it. 

 This is a "rolling hill" in Iowa, on it's own it's not so bad but these go on FOREVER.

 Saw these guys on a training ride last night (40miles), I guess Texas isn't the only home to these bad boys HOOK UM HORNS!!!

Stopped to oil my chain in the first shade I could find on a 97degree day.