Dunnigan

Here's what I know: wohlberg won the p1/2 from break w Jesse Moore. I
won the 35+. Ex teammate Toby won the 3's. Flavia won the womens. My
bro was 6th in the 45 race.

Anyone have update on Jonathon E? got swallowed up by the biggest hole
ever. Last seen sitting up but very bloodied.

san ardo

effing flat 2 miles in. glad I didn't any of my teammates time.
sounds like negative race from there. rector won it. hansen won the
p12. vinnie ninth. I want to hear about martin/reaney fued. sounds
like it escalated further today.

Wed night track

I haven't done a Wed night session in how long? Turns out this was the first one of the year, and it's the second to last session.  Better late than never.

 

The A's wasn't a huge group, but we had Hutch, and the lurking Keiran, so it was fun enough.  Could have done without the Chariot race, which Keiran won.

 

I was able to leverage Hutch's attacks in the Win n Out to launch my own attack for the win.  In the Tempo, they just let me go for a while.

 

The Miss n out, Hutch and I just kept the pace honest on the front but were outgrimaced by Keiran for the win there. 

 

In the end, the Omnium was tied by Keiran and me.  And I thought there was going to be a pound of Peete's....

I kid you not.

This is me on bee venom. One mile before the finish of Winter's 35+ race one landed on my lip and stung. It was a race to the finish before the inevitable face swell-up. Maybe that sped my sprint for the win, cause I knew I needed some Benedryl quick!

We established a five man break early on in the race, a couple miles in. It was Chis Carscadden, Chris Wire, Dan Bryant, and a Chico Rider. Chris C couldn't get up the second climb with us, so four finished in the break. The Chico rider was kind enough to lead it out from 500 yrds or so. I came around him just before the finish, with Dan right on my wheel.

NBC Server disapointment

Got all excited about the idea of watching live Olympics online and their servers SUCK! Would rather watch Nadal play than listen to 25 minutes of commentary out of 30 min of coverage on NBC, but I've been stymied.

The live feed works is buffering about 50% of the time, at least at prime time. It was fine early in the morning, and late at night, but....

If I were to find a silver lining its that everyone else share my feelings on the terrible NBC coverage. Everyone else clearly is trying to watch online just like me! Perhaps they could take the message and actually show sport instead of yap all the time.

Olympics

Olympic Medal winners at NBC Olympics.com!

China finally opens up...

...I'm talking about the Olympics sports coverage, not human rights! What were you thinking?

So NBCOlympics.com is going to show a huge amount of coverage of all the sports you'll never see in primtime, without all the 'human interest' crap. Actually, without commentators too, seems to be just the World Feed.

The schedule is quite detailed too, so you can actually tune in for your event, whereas prime time you have to watch the whole crappy three hours to see the five minutes you were looking for. Here's an example of some Cycling Track coverage.

On the political front: I don't think we, in this country, have nothing to feel defensive about. If we had the Olympics this year, visitors could reasonably protest the Iraq War (just like people want to protest Darfur and Tibet in China). So what's the difference? The protesters wouldn't be harrassed like they will be there. Was going to say that at least we wouldn't deny them a visa, but on second thought...

Timpani

Tim said earlier in the week that a break would never stick here, and doesn't usually. Today the wind and the field was such that both races had breaks at the end.

In 35+, I went early and Nate(ICCC) and Dennis(LGBRC) came with me. We got a big gap early, but Nate was spent and we weren't holding enough speed to stay away. I started to conserve for the next group. Ended up being very big 12 man break, but we had all three of our guys in it, so Tim and I went very hard to make it stick and that was that. Brian was able to sit in. Tim and I led out the last two laps and Brian was able to outsprint McCook in the final straight by around 2 bike lengths. Very satisfying. McCook was doing only his 2nd ever Masters race, after winning Lafayette. Man, he was in a bad mood. Didn't like one of my attacks and did some voodoo track shit on me, trying to frighten me or something.

The p1/2 race was FAST. Multiple valiant attempts to get away failed. I went to the back to rest up for the finsh, but with 8 to go, a big 10 man break got away. Vince was in it, as was JD from BPG, so there was a lot of blocking going on. Unfortunately for us, Vince was the only one caught with 100 yrds to go. Brian was 2nd in pack sprint. Sounds like KMiller won it.

Kudos to Karla for doing the whole race! A bunch of those LGBRC women entered, but she alone endured.

Districts

Reaney solos it again, for 2nd week in row. No Jesse this time. I
want to see the 3peat next w/e Steve.