A Tuesday in February

If you can make any sense of the pics and captions in my previous post, good for you.  This Blogger interface and I aren't getting along to well right now, with respect to the old graphics and text. 

In a few minutes I'll be spinning on the bike watching the T of C, nice and easy.  I'm still feeling the load from the last week in my lower body, so this rest week is most welcome.  Sunday night I got in a solid eight, something I haven't done in a long time.  Sound sleep is never overrated.

Every once in a while I run into my friend Chris C. in Bethesda, who rides for Silver Cycles, though doesn't race much anymore.  I think his brother still races, though I don't know him.  Chris and Ben L. helped me out when I first started this cyclocross thing a few years ago--they showed me a few skills and I picked it up pretty quick.   I'll always remember that and now I pass along that knowledge gained whenever the chance presents itself.  Despite road riding and racing, we concurred that 'cross is where it's at, especially because of the TIME factor, which is a vicious reality as it is already near the end of February (remember seeing Levi go down in last year's Santa Rosa stage at the T of C within 3K of the finish?  Seems like yesterday.  Time do fly).

Anyway I saw him this morning and we shot the breeze for a while, then headed off to work.    It's always a good thing to run into those that we meet on the road in our everyday lives, since, while cycling is what links most of us, over time it becomes less important as we discover the different facets of our personalities.

So it's been a quiet week at work so far, and work on Monday felt like a Saturday due to the holiday.  Today was relatively quiet too.  Let's see if the rest of the week follows suit.

Ta ta for now.