Race coming….bike ready?

    I'm doing the Harvest Man 70.3 this Saturday, and while I know I'm ready, I've no confidence in my bike. Every ride something continues to go wrong. Despite this, I had a great ride last Friday, roughly four hours at 200 watts. A long, slow ride. It was good. Of course, that excludes the ½ hour dealing with a loose rear cassette, loose crank bolt, and a few other things. I also had a good ride yesterday. I did a real short but somewhat intense 40min ride with three five minute intervals at 270-290 watts. It was a really good workout, especially when followed by a 20 minute run. I feel physically ready for Saturday, but I'm still harboring doubts about this bike… yesterday the Garmin on it was being difficult, and the cassette was threatening to loosen up at the end of the ride. Sigh… I'm somewhat frustrated with the whole thing. I'm taking off to get worked on, again, tomorrow. We'll see how that goes. I'm rather sick of equipment problems, I have to say. I've started taking a complete bike tool set to every ride… that's not really a good sign, is it? Anyway, I should have good news on Sunday. I'll make sure everything is tightened down and lubed up for Saturday… wish me luck!