Tuesday, December 11, 2007

I don’t have a whole lot to write this week, but I’m desperate to put up a new blog post to maybe just maybe get either the bunny ears picture or the ‘I just crashed after four seconds’ picture off the main page. I went after Schmalz for putting them up and he promptly threw Shen under the bus by saying that he chooses all the photos. Therefore I now have ‘Andy Shen’ written on my knuckles like Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear.

After surviving the Roller Racing on Tuesday (not often that one’s inability to compete in an event is shown from two angles and placed prominently on a website), I was able to put together a steady week of training. Road on Thursday AM, light bike on Friday and a fun steps workout with other members of Organic on Saturday. Twelve sets for the day. Just about an hour’s worth of work. The stars aligned on Sunday and I was able to get out for a solid team ride. Schmalz was kind enough to grace us with his presence, but I didn’t see a whole lot of him as myself and Jon Shannon dropped the chase group pretty quick. Basic fare at the Spoon (smacktalk and muffins). The ride back was fun. I don’t know what other teams do but our basic M.O. is to launch attack after attack on the way down 9W. I’ve spoken to other riders about this and I think, for me, it’s a side effect of having limited riding time. When one doesn’t have a lot of time on a bike any riding tends to be a hammerfest. This is a combination of a desire to ‘make up’ for a lack of training time and the plain old-fashioned fun of racing your friends. I’m sure that this practice as it relates to building race fitness is rather unsound (as unsound as Shen’s mind – take that, picture taker!) but regardless Sunday was a good time. Let’s hope the dry weather (who cares if it’s cold) sticks around – I write this as weather.com is carrying story after story about a coming ice storm for this Thursday.

In other news: ‘The Ride That Doesn’t Exist’ is not going to take place at Engineer’s Gate at 7:00 AM on January 1, 2008. It won’t be going to Bear Mountain and nobody should consider riding in it. That being said – hopefully I’ll have the chance to not take part in it.

Also, did anyone else around here watch ‘Mad Men’?….Good TV – NYC in 1960 – good stuff….Just thought I’d toss that out there.

That’s all…

Have a good week all.

Brian