Dispatch: Two Wheels To The Top Of Austria For The Giro di Mankei

Dispatch: Two Wheels To The Top Of Austria For The Giro di Mankei

This is not a bike race. It cannot possibly be a bike race because we have all agreed that it would not be a bike race. And yet, here I am.  Five bright red lights on my head unit flash the warning of an untenable pace; an unsustainable heart rate, and the familiar desperation of watching the invisible elastic holding my wheel to the wheel in front of me, begin to stretch and fray. The road bends gently to the left, aiming further skyward. We co…