dj whitebread
Monday, February 19, 2007
Mmmm
My new favorite continental cycling team. Mmmm, Chipotle.
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Lots of riding
For starts, something very much non-cycling related. Thursday night Carrie and I went to the Container Store to purchase some elfa for our master closet during their big elfa sale. We got stuff for two of three walls for what we agreed was a really good price. We put up the side wall Friday night and tonight we finished the back wall. We've added a ton of shelf space in our closet. The previous design had a ton of hanging space that we didn't use, so it really was just wasted space. With the new setup we will have a lot more useable space.
Saturday morning I got up early to head to Bicycle Sports Shop on my bike for our "Sponsor's Ride." We had 30-40 people show up between the team and people from BSS. It was pretty cool. We did a 60 mile route to San Marcos and back. I was excited because I pretty much hang with the fast group through most of the ride. I made it through several accelerations and stuck in the pack through many miles of steady state kind of stuff. I did get dropped right before the part of the ride that I don't know well, so I got a little lost getting back to the shop, but not really. I mainly just had to stay on a major street instead of winding through the neighborhood. Luckily I had somebody else with me so I didn't feel totally stupid. But it was a really good ride all things considered.
Yesterday afternoon I met with Harrick, as he is in town. The funny thing is that I had that post-workout dumbness about me. After my Chipotle burrito, I felt much better. The meeting went really well and we got a lot accomplished, so that was awesome. I'm very excited about my work and I'm feeling much more energized about my progress.
Last night Carrie and I went to Austin Java because, well, it's just good. It's pretty close, it's tasty, it's casual, and they make good coffee.
This morning I woke up and went outside to see Carrie finish her run, and then headed back in to go to campus to meet some teammates to go pre-ride the course for the stage race next weekend. It was cold. We rode the road race course, and things seemed okay. There are several hills of note in the back corner of the course (it's a loop). Depending on the wind that day they could be pretty painful. But they aren't too long. They're not west Austin hills, but they aren't small enough to be ignored. There is a weird S-turn like thing right before the finishing strait... we just predicted there would be at least one person who goes down there, more if it's wet. It was full of gravel today, but that should be swept before the race.
After we rode the loop we went back to the car. Some of the people wanted to ride over to the time-trial and crit courses, so I got in my car (with other drivers for the other cars) and we drove over there to wait for the riders. So we got to the time-trial course (which was luckily in a very nice park on a lake by a dam) and waited. And waited. Let's just say it took them a while, as getting over there involved a) big hills and b) wind. Time for an interesting Central Texas note...
East of I-35 is "flat." While it is not flat by Louisiana standards, everybody here refers to it as such. Lots of little rollers, some of them not that little, but nothing where you really feel you are in a particularly hilly area. West of I-35, the "hill country" got that name for a reason. Especially when you get further South and West of Austin.
So, these guys riding over to the time-trial course crossed the interstate very early in their ride, and spent a good 20-30 miles riding through some substantial hills. To make a long story short, they finally got there, we drove to the crit course, did a lap, and then found a little restaurant out wherever we were. So, I got home at like 7pm. I had originally expected to get home at like 3. Oh well. I know about the course now. For whatever that is worth.
Need to finish moving the elfa shelves into the closet. I hope everybody has a good start to their weeks tomorrow!
Labels: chipotle, elfa, school, training, UTCC
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