STUDded tires

Are pretty damn awesome. Yes they are. Today was the first commute with them and yes, about 90% of the commute was clear and dry, 10% was solid ice, either lump or sheets. And it was nice having the traction.

No coasting with these suckers on there. Nope. You gotta pedal the whole time or you ain't going no where. But on the plus side: I've ridden the bike twice since the 16th of December. The most recent venture was the 45 jaunt on New Year's (I'm not counting the attempt to ride at Wrentham on the 30th) and well the most recent was with the studded tires, so I didn't really feel the dramatic difference (weight/speed wise).

It was a bit more work getting there and back. And no these aren't tickets to ignoring the ice, esp the frozen ruts, but they are a huge measure of not sliding around. Pretty damn cool.

I like the fact that sunrise is staying constant this week but sunset is getting 1 minute later each day.

I don't like the fact that snow is forecast for Friday/Saturday. Damn it! Although I'm actually thinking it will be a good thing for the CX race at Wrentham. With snow you can make a racing line w/o flags and stakes and tape. SO....

Mark the time as busy - come out 11am. I'll be there early to work in a racing line. Two races. First race is a seeder for second race. You only do second? You start in the back. Will be most awesome. Trust me. Esp since G-ride won't be there with his incessant bitching and whining and complaining.

It will likely be cold and muddy, kind of how a cyclocross race is supposed to be. I hope to see ALL YOU YOU there. Because really, who reads this except my CX friends.

So as it is I've managed to pretty much completely book solid this week and the first two days of next week at work today. Starting the new year off with ultimate productivity. Oof. Good to be wanted/needed eh?

Oh and (yeah i'm taggin this with food for this reason only) IF you make that turkey soup i posted the other day, well... unless you want pasta with turkey and flavor (and no broth) cut the amount of (non egg) noodles down to less than 8oz. Putting that whole package in there worked great for last night but i have a couple partial quarts of the stuff that's just noodles now. Still tastes wicked good. Oh wow was it wicked good. Add some parsley on top (flat leave Italian stuff because is there anything bad that comes out of Italy? best bike race, amazing women, great food) and some Melinda's XXXtra HOT SAUCE on top and boom! so good.

Simple night tonight food wise.

My brother brought over some organic Vanilla beans and i added the guts of 1/2 of one to the single batch i make in the cuisinart ice cream maker (2 cups milk, 1 cup organic valley heavy cream, 2 teaspoons organic vanilla extract, 3/4 cup organic sugar, and 1/2 of a vanilla bean's guts). BOOM. Should be good. It is in the freezer setting up now.

Yes this was posted with my Cr-48, which i am solidly in love with. Google is awesome. Join the borg. So tempted to try putting the OS on a stick and running the other lappy on this OS. Lappy, I've so fallen out of sorts watching Strongbad and company. So a Michigan thing for me (even if Strongbad wasn't from michigan).

And on the subject of Michigan, what the hell is up with MSU and bowl games? Seriously! I didn't see the game but looking at the score, who f'n showed up to play? Come ON! Oh well. Just a damn game. I was far happier watching Page kill it on Sunday.

Oh this week is going to be insane and last night I was already dreaming promoter nightmares even though Saturday is just a get together and race each other, not a real "race" but doesn't change the fact that in my dream the whole NEBC women's elite squad showed up early and I was looking at a flat featureless field of grass, no course, no place to register, no one else to do anything. Not sure why it was the Red and White, but the only face I recognized was Wellons for some reason. Weird. Damn dreams. Okay - So tell me you'll be there and I'll stop stressing about Saturday. Seriously. Show up. We might even get the mighty Myerson to show up and race. Rooter is talking about going to NC the following weekend so shit he'd better show and get some cross racing redemption. Esp after his epic eating shit on that course after going for the first lap prime! Hard to forget that day.

Good Times.
Oof it is only monday. Media tuesday. Be prepared for the onslaught. Just hope that fucking snow is mellow and not like the last batch we got!!!!

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