Lake Harriet
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Not much going on at the lake tonight.
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Archive for July 6th, 2007
Tour de France pool update
Friday, July 6th, 2007Entries received:
Tuffy
Super Rookie
Brian McCarthy
Aflexy Sidewall
Sean Burns
PComeau
Jay S. Readey
The Funkster
Jim R
Dave Peterson
Pete Ryan
Heather George
(dis) spencer
Skidsy
Matthew Smith
davidh
Zack Sober
jkruse
JimmerC
Danny Arana
Deisel Jetta
E Fresh L
Seth Meyer
Timmer
DS
Taylor George
Jared Roy
Charlie Anderson
Luke Seemann
Rebecca
Jon Friedell
Joel Wiens
Taylor Olson
Chad Macy
Don’t see your name there? Get those picks in!
I can find no sign of anyone getting their ass thrown off the race within the next 24 hours…but anything can happen!
Track Night Wrap Up
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Not having ridden for over two weeks, and not having raced in three weeks, I was not sure what to expect last night. I did not expect to get the worst case of race jitters in recent memory. Maybe it was due to the time off, maybe I had been thinking too much about the crashing last week, don’t know. I was fine once the racing was underway but in between each event I was a jumble of nerves. Not really that enjoyable.
Before the racing even began Skidsy broke off the valve extender on his hoopty rear wheel. Being the generous and gracious type guy that I am I immediately offered him the use of my spare rear track wheel. I told him that if he crashed he was going to have to pay me full retail plus 50% as punishment.
First race of the night was the 15 lap scratch race. So how did I feel after all that time off? Sluggish. It really took a lot to get my legs turning. Various fast dudes went off the front and other various fast dudes chased them down. I was in neither group. I noticed that The Man in Black was sort of hanging back, riding in the group and watching. So I decided to take a calculated risk and track TMIB for the rest of the race. Sure enough, the race all came together with 3 laps to go and TMIB started to move to the front. On the final lap TMIB began his sprint and I jumped right when he jumped and the two of us fought it out to the line. TMIB was able to hold me off by a few centimeters for the win, I was left with second place and a bag of peanut shells.
My heart rate hit 206 during that sprint. I know when my fitness is off the boil when my heart rate hits that high a mark. It then took me 10 minutes to recover from the effort.
Next up with the King of the Shit (KOS). Bob Williams refers to it as King of the Sprint but we all know what it really is. Standing start, three laps, first three advance to the finals. I finished third in my heat and fifth in the final. I wish I had more to say about the KOS but I felt like crap and don’t ever want to talk about it again.
Final race was the 60 lap Madison race. I teamed up with Der Kruser as neither of us had a partner on hand. I warned him that I was not feeling too good and he told me not to worry about it. Turns out we ended up doing just fine. All our exchanges were smooth, we stayed up front the whole race, and despite some cramping the I experienced towards the back end of the race we ended up second in the Madison.
Ben Dubay and Tom Haggerty won the Madison and rode really well. Ben and I were both riding relief and every time Tom threw Ben into the race I wanted to cry because Ben kept the pace so high. When Ben/Tom and Kruser/myself were off the front I think I recall Ben telling me to keep the steam on to assure that we would stay off. I stayed at the front as much as possible as I found it much easier to set the pace rather than try and follow Ben’s wheel.
The Donimator was back in action after being away for 6 weeks or so. He has had some knee issues that have kept him off the bike so it was good to see him back riding.
Skidsy ended up crashing in the Madison race. He was fine and more importantly my rear wheel was fine so he did not have to crack open the check book.
I can’t remember much else from last night. I did not eat any pizza. TMIB had an incident in the Madison so someone bought him some ice cream to make him feel better. He said that was nice but not necessary so I offered to eat his ice cream for him and he said no. Ice cream would have made me feel better.
Marked for termination
Friday, July 6th, 2007
It’s sad to see our neighborhood losing all these elm trees. They are cutting them down because apparently they attract bugs that kill them.
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Final Hours!
Friday, July 6th, 2007
All entries due tonight by 11:59pm Central Time.
The Tour starts tomorrow.
