ahhhhh

post lunch (maybe i just needed calories to feed the brain)

and post diagnosis and solution initiation, i feel much better.

stupid Procon pumps. Peices of shit. Dumb carbon vane pumps. Sure they have advantages. But when i was interviewing here they had someone in fixing them. And i'll wager my headache now is those people who charged a boat load to fix the chiller DID NOT prime the pump before operation. I had another pump that lost prime (on accident) and it lasted less than a year after that. So, new pump ordered. We'll see it tomorrow i hope.

Diggin through the pre-reg list for sunday... looking at the catchall Masters 35+ catagory... we've got a handful of 45+ guys with good placings (marro, borrello and callahan) toss in C-burke to that mix i'd wager. And then a bunch of folks all over the map. This race i predict will string the hell out. Will be intersting to see how the groups break down.

Will Borrello, Burke, Callahan and Marro be the front group?

From the promoter:

The course is technical, but very fast, even in the rain, with plenty of
areas wide enough for passing; don't expect too much mud either, as the
ground packs nicely. The course is nearly identical to last year, but we
have changed the first two turns to accommodate the start better and
reduce the likelihood of a bottleneck.

Reduced bottle neck will be good, i guess... here's to me trying to decide between going for broke at the start hoping to settle in, vs staying w/in the limits and slowly building... my gut and brain think i gotta blast off in the front, stick in the lead and find a point a few minutes into the race to equilize, cause time lost at the start sucks. I've had a shitty start and nothing like having to work through slower riders... but then i've also done the opposite, exploded out of the gate, and pulled the hole shot out of my ass and then had a core meltdown a few laps later... however if i can keep from having the core meldown i should be okay... 'course this is being said having no notion of my current ability stacking up to others outside the crits i got shredded on...

Here's what it looked like the other morning on the bike path: