It has taken me most of the last two days to feel normal. Or start to feel normal. Or whatever. I’m not exactly “normal” yet, but I haven’t been normal in quite some time.
I didn’t race the damn thing, but I still had to drive all the way up there and back. Ugh. I am a fat, worthless fuck at the moment. Spooky how much you loose.
I rode around Turquoise Lake on Friday as I’ve done prior years as a “warm up”. This year it was more of a full on ride. I felt as though I needed a nap afterwards. It was that hard.
Anyway, I took a few photos that day. I’ll just post two, from opposite sides of the lake. They pretty much say it all: Pine trees, lake, sunny day, kick ass good times.
Rode it counter clockwise, starting on the north side.
And here is a shot on the way back around the south side of the lake.
Link dump:
[sucks to be you] theshortspan.blogspot.com
[big wheels] cbs4denver.com
[mush mouth bush] milkandcookies.com
[the human footprint] milkandcookies.com
[what the buck?] youtube.com
[blogness] forty15.com
[bikes are so 19th century] streetsblog.org
[gene doping] sciencedaily.com
Lets get into some email:
From: Doug
Subject: That’s what I’m talking about…
Doping for seniorsIn Italy a 55 year-old was caught for doping in an amateur race. The rider for Team Marlis won a race in the category for 55 to 59 year-olds, but CONI, the Italian Olympic committee, announced that the amateur racer was caught for using high blood pressure medicine, according to La Gazzetta dello sport. He is facing a suspension until he turns 57 as well as a revoking of his title.
cyclingnews.com
You gotta love those cut throat masters events. Any edge, eh? How do we even know he has high blood pressure? Huh?
From:
Subject: CO
Taylor Phinney (Davis’s son) just won the World Jr. TT Champs….One of the Slipstream Jr.s layin’ it down!!
Yep. Story here: velonews.com
From: Martin
Subject: CMWC 07 Dublin
We have a winner. I think..
There is much more Guinness in Dublin than I anticipated…
movingtargetzine.com
More here: movingtargetzine.com
August 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I have to say that tax break thing is cool might not get many people on their bikes but will help out those who already ride bikes. I did a project in college about the same thing, but promoting living healthy rather then saving energy
August 15th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Gorgeous shots of Turquoise lake. Brings back some awesome memories for me. I’ve not been there since doing the Jr National Tour stage race back in 1984. We did a stage from the Copper Mountain Resport, up over Fremont Pass, 3 laps around the lake and then into downtown Leadville.
I’m proud to say that I dusted Frankie (Andreu) in the KOM sprint at the top of Fremont. Unfortunately, I flatted on the descent down past Molybdenum and the wheel truck gave me wheel with a cog so seriously undergeared, I could not catch back onto the break again. As I neared downtown Leadville, I had to drag race towards a rail crossing to beat a long-ass freight train (I won).
I’d never ridden at such altitude before. On Fremont pass, I felt like I was gasping for air. I could not imagine doing that for over 8 hours. 4 was plenty.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Holy crap! That lake has water in it! Improvement over Rogers’ Lake :)
Nice pics.