Admit I don't like to

Admit I don't like to blog when its not all good news. Just hanging in Santa Cruz forgetting about races for a couple days

AVC Ready!

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Euro 2008

And Holland scores again! Would be amazing to see both Italy and
France be out of the Group of Death. The winner of their game
together will most likely squeeze thru.
Holland has always been a favorite as long as they aren't playing
England. We'll see how they fare against Spain and Portugal in later
rounds.
Love it. Here's to a rebuilt 2010 England team....

Time to port

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Nice weekend (even with cancelled Fremont Crit)

Yesterday was a good day to just ride the hills in the great weather. I need a crit to be cancelled to give me the break. It's hard for me to just skip one.

Ran into some friendly faces out there: a Team Oakland ride, Copeland with his girlfriend. I like to ride South Redwood Road out of Castro Valley to prepare for Pescadero. Pretty similar duration and grade.

Wrote reports for the races today at Sierra Pacific website. Was a good day out there for sure. With Brian winning the 35+ District TT Championship, we had two team wins on the day!

All that on top of having one too many margaritas at Tom and Karen's house (thanks guys!) I notice that Keiran, Sean, Brian didn't make it to the races. Guess they can't handle their liquor.

Julian Wilk

Went to the hospital Saturday to see the J Wilks. Baby looked active and healthy. Juliette is leaving the hospital today and Julian will be camping out for a month or so.

We took John to Cato's for a pitcher (or two). Hope they didn't give him a hard time getting back in the hospital.

Juliette pointed out that the baby shower, planned for two weeks from now, will become John's first Father's Day.

Painful week

How not to plan a training week (or at least if you want to have a good TT time):

Monday - two Memorial day crits
Tuesday - ride the Port hard (four man break)
Wednesday - First try ever at motor pacing with Tim G and Stephen L
Thursday - ride TT bike to work to make sure it's ready for Dunlap
Friday - Go to track, try out 94 inches for the first time this year
Saturday - Two Dash for Cash crits: ride off the front for 59 min in the 35+
Sunday - Dunlap TT

Legs were in enough pain at the track Friday that I bagged the Miss n Out, which is usually my favorite. I was so bad in the p1/2 Snowball and Scratch that it wasn't worth it (and that keg of Flat Tire was looking really good too).

Luckily wasn't too bad on Saturday in Pleasanton. Strange races each in their own way. I'll right a proper report a little later.

High point of yesterday wasn't the race, but getting asked about getting on an Olympic Sprint team for Master's Track Nationals! Sounds like a blast and I'll start practicing my standing starts. The event is where three guys TT a kilo together, one guy peeling off every lap.