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If you have an automobile and a desire to stay in affordable temporary lodgings – this is the weekend for you! The Tour de Ephrata  takes place on Saturday and Sunday, along with the twin Mass-a-races, Sturbridge and Palmer.  Closer to home the Kissena Velodrome has it’s opening weekend. The Spring Series has it’s final race of the season on Sunday. And finally, the Tour of Belleville occurs on Sunday also. If you’re not racing this weekend, you’re just not trying.
what happened to George today?
in Girona, Spain since last Sunday, and couldn’t get a ticket back early enough to make the race. The bright side is Girona was awesome – easy to see why the pros train there.
today wasn’t that pleasant – rainy and cold…you didn’t miss that much.
http://kissena.info/more.php?id=311_0_1_0_M
this from the Kissena website, Eric Robertson won the 3/4 today…here’s his training diet. Awesome.
1. Huge carb meal the night before – Mexican – bedtime 1130 PM
2. Quite a bit of liquor too – last week it was wine, this week it was tequila – I’ll have to stick with the tequila from now on – had a pitcher of Margaritas and a Pina Colada
3. 2 slices of pizza at 5AM, with 2 glasses of orange juice
4. 1 powerbar at 6AM, with water
5. 4 sportlegs tablets at 530 AM
6. 1 gel while at the start line
7. NO WARM UP!
8. 1 bottle blue accelerade
9. 1 gel at 6 to go
10. 1 gel at 2 to go
11. Do as little work as possible the whole race
12. Find the good wheel at the finish
13. Sprint like hell
Write a thankyou card to George for being in a foreign country, because he would have beaten you and had time to recite the constitution.
http://www.velonews.com/photo/75504
Well paid after a weeks worth of tempo and otherwise lackluster results for the annual bidget and “Tour” aspiration.
$5,000! Split between riders and staff makes about a dollar per mile, roughly.
Sign me up!
(As if I had the talent, brains and guts…)