2025 GMARA Bitter Pill: A Surprising Victory
26 July 2025
The results were in. Ben had headed home for a shower and a nap, exhausted after a hard day of race pace. “There’s just no way we’re up in the rankings here,” I thought to myself as they called out the second place team - the same crew that had been flying past us on bikes all day, looking fresh as daisies while we ground our way through the Vermont heat.
Then they called our names for first place.
Ben and I had just won the two-person mens division at GMARA’s Bitter Pill 2025, tied on points but taking the victory by 10 minutes on time. For Ben’s first official race with Chaos Required, he definitely got the full race pace experience he’d been asking for.