The Wife was scheduled to be hiking with friends on Saturday morning, but when it got moved to Sunday she agreed to ride with me from home to Hellyer to watch part of the State track championships. Eighteen miles of suburban/urban ugliness of riding it turns out; more intersections, strip malls, bus stops, and freeway crossings than I care to encounter in a week much less one way of riding. And we knew that we had to do the same going home, or much of the same plus some hills if we looped out far to the west. Oh well, we got to spend a little time socializing with the track set, met Fred who has mentored quad monster Beth, officially introduced ourselves to Twinkie, and chatted around while watching folks go do solo trips around the track. Yep, all we got to watch were the TT races as The Wife had to get home to play school girl for the afternoon and evening as she writes up here final thesis project. Bummer! Looks like she will be stuck at the old keyboard for much of the weekends for a while.
Most of the ooh and ahhs were for Ben Jacques-Maynes as he ripped up the 4K at a minute and ten per km. Awesome. But there was lots to cheer about, and it was equal opportunity cheering. The efforts of all were acknowledged, each rider in turn was motivated by their competition as well as the general audience. Great show of sportsmanship.
I regret missing the Keirins, especially seeing Beth battle it out with the like of Shelley Olds and Julie Granshaw. But we will see that another day. I regret, also, not getting the 60+cm club together for a photo op; Mary M., Sabine, Beth, and Ms. Chatterbox were all there. We could have done a group measuring session. And last but not least I regret not eating some of Twinkies chocolate cake; I do hope that Beth consumed it for me to feed those quads for the Sunday battles.
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Thesis…ugh! I am glad those days are over for me…years ago. But, that feeling after everything is done, finitto, over with – is just wonderful. Time flies and that day will come. A little sacrifice goes a long way.
You are a great partner to Sarah…cute couple. I can see you take really good care of Sarah.
Oh by the way, you have a cute bag on your bike…the one on the rack, classy. I forgot to mention.
Sorry about shutting down the blog. I have will have no interest in touching a keyboard once I am on my vacation. Works been crazy the last month and I have computer burnt out. If I have it up, I will just get tempted to check….oy!
take care! I need to get away now! ha ha! my fingers are at it again…double oy!
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Flandria – I have no problem with you shutting down the blog to avoid the temptation of doing something too close to work. Enjoy some down time with your hunny, that is the most important thing.
The little bag is a Carradice Barley. That is their smallest, and great for carrying a few things for around town. Yesterday it had a couple of food items and locks in case we stopped somewhere on our little venture. I have the biggest Carradice, too, the Camper longflap. Used that for our honeymoon tour of southwestern France/northwestern Spain.
Enjoy Spain and the Vuelta!!!!!
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very nice to meet you two finally.
your piece went to another trackie…or peter. neither of them had any hesitation of savoring it. actually, fred had 2 pieces (man, he eats a lot!!).
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Twinkie – I am sure I could eat Fred under the table … a trait I learned young growing up in a large family: eat plenty and fast or go hungry. But I am doing the deficit spending for a few weeks
so probably a good thing Fred stepped up.
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