Yeah...
As Murat noted we crossed paths...
I'm cruisin home and there's this yellow and blue rider headed my way - damn who is that? couldn't be murat - he's a west bay'r - damn it's murat... HEY! he doesn't stop - ah well - he must be late if he is out on my turf.
It was a nice head wind heading home. I was slightly overdressed but it served a good purpose. Limiting my work. IE a physical restriction to me going too hard. ?? yeah - gewilli likes to be at a thermal equilibrium.
How do you stay warm in the cold? work harder. IE cyclocross.
It was a nice 40 degrees this morning. Roughly the same temp forcast for Saturday.
I put on the craft sleeveless base layer, arm warmers, jersey and bib shorts. Perfect. Slightly cool, but not cold at all. Working hard but not really that hard. Only averaged
The thread of rain meant that since the little one was probably going to be picked up anyway why not dropped off as well.
Have i mentioned that i like my bike? W/o the trailer there is no squirrelly tippy feeling. That or i've timed the acclimation perfectly. Its a freaking rocket. At least that is the feeling today. It was head down and hammer time... and i had ticked over the display to show cadence, but clicked once too many and was looking at average cadence... and so i worked on getting that to go up... not really thinking anything of it till i slowed down for the crossing...
Oh...
i was spinning like a washin' machine! Felt great... Definitely blew a few cobwebs out and made myself work for some sections there. Ticking along at 40+ kph was kinda fun, esp with as little effort as it took on this bike... Sooooo coool.
It has been a grooveradio.com morning - needed to clear some annoying song and get the final unpacking done in the office -
so i'm grooving today... sub thumping under the desk.. things are good...
looking at the accuweather.com's radar right now for Salem, things look like they could be way worse! Maybe the course won't be completely hosed after all!
Still gonna be epic... Traveling up there tomorrow... Gonna be so damn cool. Now here's to hoping flights from sunny Cali land no problem at Logan!
respect
G
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Are you driving the course Friday night or racing it blind? Where are you staying?
Plan on snaggin Geo mid-day friday and heading over... Staying in Mass...
Driving the course as much as possible friday, gonna try and pick up numbers fri night, gonna try and get another peak at the course on the way to the start of the race...
with enough light and decent conditions maybe we'll even take the bikes off the roof for a climb or two on friday...
I've been memorizing the elevation profile half heartedly planning to spend some time looking at a map so i can visualize the course a bit (seems to help me more than actually riding it in some cases)
dats the plan...
You have to see the section leading to Juniper Swamp road (big paved climb, short descent, Cross Street (actually a 90 degree turn onto a goat path in the middle of the descent), then the wall on Juniper.
After that it is uneventful for several miles, until the whole stretch from Meeting House to the ski area, which is the other highlight of the race. Big descent after that then uneventful again.
Good luck crazy man. I can't wait to read the report on this one. Keep the rubber side down.
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