Today

Only a few WildCards racing today, will report results. Good luck all.
Next week though, most of the team is headed to Kankakee for the Cobb park crit. I feel we'll get some podiums.

Broken

Thats me.

Rings

Bought some new chain rings for my TT and road bike. Q-rings, supposed to help eliminate the dead spot and provide a better power stroke. Photo is of the rings for the TT. I hope to have them on for the next Tues. nite Time Trail and see if they help.
I need as much help as I can get.

Weight

Having a hard time this year dropping pounds, I just can't seem to say no to certain foods. The will power has weakened. Maybe I'll have a beer and think about what to do.

Off

took today off, off the bike that is.
i rode 60 miles yesterday with a good size group. we went to Tuscola, then west a ways then back to Urbana. i had a 20.5 ave, Luke and a few others amped it up about 1/2 way back, i hung for awhile then fell off the back. something i'm used to, but i am hanging on longer each ride.
so today i felt like taking a break from the bike, been doing a lot of work in my back yard and on our house and i think i'm getting a little tired. i'd like to sell the house and get a condo maybe, anything to have less maintenance and yard work. more ridn and racn time that way. Anyone looking for a 3bd rm house? motivated seller..

Wed's Ride 6-3

Last night's ride was a lively one. 18 riders showed up and we headed out into the wind headed to Flatville. The pace was fast even though we had a 15 mph cross wind, my ave. was over 20 going out. After the turn around the pace picked up even more and the group started to fall apart after a few miles. I was able to hang on longer than usual, but hooked up with Paul and we worked together picking up John S. then the 3 of us stuck together all the way back.
When we got to the park I checked my ave for the 47 mile ride, 21.5 mph, not bad. I feel that maybe my form is finally starting to come around and as always the beer tasted great.

TT Bike

Built up a Time Trial bike over the winter, did some local TT races last fall and I did fairly well, so I wanted to start doing the Chicago TT Race series. Well, this year it doesn't look like there's going to be any Chicago races. So I'm looking all over for TT races, I've found some, but have to travel quite further than I wanted to get to them. Long drives for races that usually last less than 1/2 hr! So it looks like I'll be mainly doing the local race. Luke and I and maybe John B. are planning to go to one near Paw Paw Il. in a few weeks, its a 40k race and the local race is approx 18k, so I need to start training for distance.
May start riding the TT on our Wed. nite rides to get longer distances on it.