Before the official start, I'll have to deal with my overweight luggage (45 kg instead of the already generous 40kg Lufthansa allows for Frequent Travellers), a loooong day of travel (I leave home at 4 a.m., then it's Turin-Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Los Angeles, LA-Las Vegas...) and some minutes of 'cultural shock' driving to the hotel. It will be the first time for Effetto Mariposa at Interbike and I'm looking forward to it, with a mix of excitement and anxiety. It's probably my seventh Interbike... but attending it as employee of a big company or as 'one-man-band' of a newborn brand is a completely different ball game. We'll see if this year I have some energy left for my morning runs on the 'Strip'!