Tastes Like Chicken

Starting with a CX loop, the Citizen's Course at Southern X promises about 30 miles of up and down in Dahlonega, GA before finishing with another CX loop. Looking at the map, it looks like a leg of chicken, tied to a string -- like a southern fried kite.

The ride looks to go up, steeply, to a rest area about midway before the trek back, which looks to be primarily downhill. The good news here is the pain seems to be focused on the first half of the ride. I'm hoping to muscle through the halfway point without utter exhaustion and figure I'll be good thereon out. Looks like I need to get some climbing miles in!