Is the intoxicated Vermont local pictured below with the American flag:
A) Spraying us with a fire hose B) Emptying his bladder C) Showering us with champagne to celebrate the Garneau-Sonic boys leading the race
If you haven’t heard, white is the new black for ‘cross.
Thursdays at Jonez world always produces fun times. #1 has the day off and my training schedule is light so we have plenty of time to hang out and relax before I ship off for the weekend. Yesterday, however, was an exception… An hour spin on the cross bike in the morning yielded a rear flat tubular. No problem, right? Usually a quick call to cass for a wheel and I’d be on my way, but not yesterday. For some reason her phone decided to die so I rode an hour home with a flat. We then headed to the local hardware store to pick up a couple of nuts and bolts for my annual bike case rebuild. While in the process of proclaiming, “Wow, check out the size of this bolt!” #1 dropped said huge bolt on my big toe. ¡*#£¥€@$!!! I then limped/ crawled back to the car and we headed home for a much needed nap. Before napping I had to fullfill one of my domestic duties and rotate the laundry. As I reached up and pulled the laundry soap down, the iron decided to attempt a suicidal jump only to have its plung to a certain death interupted by my face. Yes, just like a looney tunes episode the iron landed smack on my face…
The upside of these episode was Cass felt so bad for me that she took me to Mexican food for dinner. I couldn’t walk or open my mouth to eat but it looked like she enjoyed the food.
I’m off to Vermont for the Catamont race weekend… the season of hour long chaos is about to begin. Warm up the cowbells because cyclocross season is here my friends.
Finished up with USPro. At this rate in seven years I’ll win the thing…man I’ll be old!
My teammate I-mac is heading to the Havizzel with me for a few days. I will have to introduce him to the LCC goodness at Claire’s and the speed of the SG ride. Too bad #1 has that whole job thing and will miss out on all of the fun.
The days following a stage race are usually made up of traveling home and a couple days of recovery rides. After hitting the trails yesterday I decided I needed a nice little spin for this morning’s session and headed out on the big bike. While cruising around the new hood I was reminded of how friendly motorcyclist are. Almost every person I saw gave me The Wave during my originally planned short spin turned house cleaning procrastination session. As a cat 5 biker the wave always catches me off guard and puts my minimal skills to the test. There are so many questions on how to wave and look cool, do I wave in turns, at every motorcycle, how low do I extend my hand below the bars? #1 laughs at me every time we encounter the wave because as she puts it, I “wave like a dork.” The only I see to overcome my wave ‘dorkiness’ is to ride the big bike more…
Tour of Utah has been going fairly well for TT1. Chaddy is 3rd overall heading into the last stage tomorrow. I feel like I have been breathing through one of those red stir stick straws all week. For some reason the altitude is killing me. I am looking forward to heading back to sea level on Monday. Two more weeks to get in shape for USPro.
Jonez world news headlines:
-#1 joins the working world on Monday.
-Jenny Hullinger turned 27 yesterday.
Seriously, where have I been? As you might have guessed the 7 days to go in New Haven has come and gone, as have about 23.63 other days. I know that you are dying to know how #1 and I spent them so I put together a little picture diary so I don’t have to type too much.
Our vacation in Cabo consisted almost entirely of this:
A trip to Lovers Beach, where the local saying is, “Two go in and three come out.” I still don’t get it…
This couple is on their way to Divorce Beach. I’m sure you can do the math here.
And of course, sampling the local flavor:
One of my favorite TV shows, Laguna Beach (I loved the first and second seasons but the new ones are really lame. I am now a dedicated Hills fans), shot an episode in Cabo during spring break. The episode was titled, “What Happens in Cabo Stays in Cabo.” Unfortunately for us it didn’t and we brought our old friend Sal…monella back with us.
After a month off of racing I will be heading to Tour of Utah next week. I am not used to having so much time off during the season, it was almost like a mini off season with out the cyclocross. Speaking of cross… is that a cow bell I hear? Yes the season for mud and cowbells is near!
I’ll try to convince the author of Cass’ Quarterly Corner to update sometime soon.
