I know, I know, that’s why I didn’t want to come off as an a-hole in my last post.
Born in dirt, gotcha. 
I thank you for the constructive criticism though. You are right, I should stay off the highway until after the BRC at which point I plan to be proficient enough to be safer on the highway. This is good…it will give me another goal to work towards. In the mean time I will keep my riding on base and those short city rides back to work after lunch, when traffic is low. That should give me good practice at a lot of things. Just put up a post-it with big bold letters, “STAY OFF HIGHWAY UNTIL AFTER BRC!” lol. I live my life through post-its now haha.
