RainStorm day one

Familiarity breeds comfort.  Since I had ridden in Ohio on Saturday, I checked into the hotel in  Richmond on Saturday and chilled while the riders and expectations for RainStrom began arriving and welling.  When I travel, the familiar is comforting.  I enjoy the new and exciting, but once in a while a touch of familiar is pacifying.  I sam looking forward to RainStorm.  I barely completed it last year and feel much better prepared.  Without being obsessive about it, I plan to "ride every mile," including the out and back to the Shoals on day three.