Beast of Burden

So much to write about today; where to start? Two races over the weekend, Turtle Pond road race on Saturday and the Wrentham duathlon Sunday, but since official results aren't just went up for either, I'll wait for those. The executive summary is that both went pretty well. Then we have the theft/disappearance of CTodd's super-duper video camera at the Tour de Georgia. That totally sucks. Thieves suck. Remember that next time you're buying something that's a "great deal" off of Ebay. Would someone really buy a $4000 bike just to sell it for $2500 a month later? Beware, and don't support thieves. I've got tons of raw footage, so maybe CTodd will wrestle KL for the job of Nodcast producer/editor. There's plenty of humor there to go around.

Then we have, in case you didn't notice, the awesome turnabout in the New England weather. Saturday at TP we raced in shorts and short sleeves even though there were still five foot snowbanks around the parking lot. Also news from this weekend, multisport man about town Bolder made his bike racing debut at the Haystack TT out in CO. Can his first crit be far off?

All this news pales in comparison to today's big story though, holy-Gewilliesque, I rode my bike to work! I'm not a big fan of riding with a messenger bag stuffed full of crap, but with the weather being beyond nice, I couldn't pass up the chance to ride. I went easy, mostly 41x19 in low zone one, and took the "long way," avoiding Rt 138 as long as possible. The first half of the ride is great, then it starts to get industrial disease as I near the cube farm. Reebok and Dunkin Donuts have recently built new world headquarters across the way on Royal Street, so there are about 3000 cars turning left off the interchange at 8:30 am. The state totally reconstructed the thing to facilitate this, making it three and four lanes where there used to be two, which of course meant eliminating the shoulder. Not too worry, it is now gridlocked back onto the highway anyhow, so I just roll through and squeeze by, avoiding as much of the melee as possible. Now I get to ride home too, and Wompatuck should have great weather tommorow. Summertime and the livin's easy... Thanks for reading.