Perfect

The weather that is. So perfect. mid to upper 40s as the sun is rising... warming up to just barely 50 on the ride in. Ah luxurious weather. Cool enough to dissuade lazy riding. Warm enough that ya don't need any extra layers on.

Ah Brilliant stuff. Nothing like Fall in New England (or New Belgium if you are a huP U fan). There really isn't.

The complete and total lack of rain is slowly killing our resevoirs (stuff that has been submerged longer than anyone has been alive is appearing as the water line receeds). The forsythia is looking really sad and droopy. The Grapes around here are simply LOVING the weather. Bunches of grapes are more prolific and abundant than before. Too bad most of the wild scraggly ones are Concord, not good for wine.

JB has a bunch of photos up. I like the contrast between these two: Clean Dirty.

There are 471 images in this picasa account but... NONE of yours truly. Damn. I'd suggest that if your goal is to photograph a race... stick in ONE spot for an ENTIRE lap. Capture all the guys. One you can get the Wooly Mamoth antics (vague allusion to the guy mentioned other places) and ya can make all those racing happy. Shoot one lap in one spot - pimp out and find another spot... repeat. Even the C-race should give you opportunity to shoot the run up and the barriers or an off camber section for the complete field.

Just a thought.

So Josh did the HR graph...

here's mine:

So well...

looks like the HR was much better for race #2... power was higher for race #1 tho... Time to do the same number of laps was eerily similar.

Gonna get this up...
A Big German Microscope is cranky and needs some TLC
peace
G