Giro d’Grafton organizer Bill Ochowicz will be on the radio Friday at 4 p.m. to discuss Saturday’s race. (You can listen online.) It looks to be a great inaugural event. The course looks interesting: six corners with one wicked acute-angle turn. Note, however, that winners of the Cat 3 and masters races will receive Festina watches — supposedly valued at $350 — instead of cash, a structure that may encourage the fields to let a solo rider escape.

Also, Scott Van Maldegiam (Spin Doctor Cyclewerks) comments in my previous post with some extra details about Saturday’s Carrol County road race.