once into town we did a little dance to get to the hotel that wasn't being remodeled..crashed quick.
sat AM: get up early get our shit together and head to the TTT course.. go into reg and the officials are discussing canceling as it is snowing, HARD.......a few minutes of deliberation and TTT is off....shit, but it would have sucked racing in those conditions, and it was a point to point, not a loop....so we would have froze anything that was left off on the way back to the start. made the best of it, went back to the hotel and zonked back out...
sat PM: break in the weather, just long enough for me to get my ass handed to me in the crit. i really enjoy the FLC crit course as it travels through an old neighborhood of durango.. however the short little power hill lost the race for me, well that and me being a giant wussypuff... how it shook out: good start was riding smart and near the front to get as much of a pull up the hill as possible.. first lap stayed in. 2nd lap: made my way to the middle of the pack, 10' off the back after the hill, sprinted hard on the flats to catch back on. 3rd lap: near the back of the pack, 20' off after the hill, repeat sprint back on. 4th lap: 30' off the back at the top of the hill, sprint hard and barely catch on before the hill. 5th lap: top of the hill 40'+ feet off the back...sprinted hard to try to catch back on, didn't happen... 6th, 7th & 8th lap, ouch....by myself. 9th lap, weird noise/creak/oddity thought it was my cranks stopped and loosened and tightened them, got back on (didn't care about the free lap at this point), 10th lap still making odd noises, keep riding....ouch.............11th lap: top of the hill took a PBR hand-off from a spectator, think it's the only reason i finished the race.
sat PM: evening.. meet up with some of the FLC team and do dinner, was fantastic to spend time chatting...and dinner was tasty! nothing like home cooked food while on the road. forgot to mention the beer that went hand in hand with dinner..after dinner and an episode of weeds(don't really know what that is, but whatever), off to crash a host house for desert...cc was staying with some FLC kids, so the party got bigger: brownies and ice cream...tasty.. ten card games: you dirty bastard and egyptian rat-fuck (screw in utah), next hacky-sac, that turned a little violent, not that kind but there was some contact (see photo below) ouch, yes that's my toe, but my toes were that ugly before thanks skiing and frostbite and flip-flops....
sunday AM: get our shit together to go hit the RR. as i'm putting my bike on the car i notice a little problem (guess i figured out what that noise was in the crit):
shit.....not again.....guess i'm gonna play support biatch for the race today... took some photos of the crew, mostly candids with tounges out, big goofy smiles and one of the ground as i was avoiding getting junk punched... did some cheerleading.....got bitchy and wanted to come home early......sunday PM: driving home, or riding that is, slept a good amount, studied less than i would have liked, got out of car with headache due to thump, thump, thump repeat, repeat, repeat......
sunday PM: evening, got home, got tarmac went on ride, rode hard....1hr ish ducked into sugarhouse park, mistake, the retards were out, i'll leave it at that.
monday AM: rode to clinic was a good ride, was supposed to rest but after yesterday's BS, decided to go against orders....glad i did, the ride home was gorgeous!! rode up capital hill, and around city creek...was so nice....passed a rock racing guy (going the other way) in city creek....lots of folks out enjoying the sunshine as it's expected to go away tomorrow.....shit...
ok, done... will post some photos of trip/interview to WA later tonight or tomorrow morning. till then if you missed the sun today, have fun riding the trainer, suckers......
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