Tour of CA is heating up!

I got 50 miles in yesterday on the road bike in just under 4 hours. Not a very fast ride but I could feel it in my legs. The Garmin battery died exactly half way out.

I spent a lot of time today reading Matt Cazalas' blog about the six months he spent bike touring around the States. There is something about the notion of riding around the U.S. self supported, staying the nights in tents and cheap motels, stopping at laundry mats and supermarkets that has a certain romance to it, however masochistic it may be. I think I'll put that on the bucket list. Maybe I'll do a Tour of Virginia next summer.

I headed over to The Bike Lane today to pick up some tubes and some on-the-bike snacks for training. Our employee party was postponed till the Thursday following this one, the 26th. For those of you I didn't tell in my excitement, we're going to Shenandoah Brewing, to brew our own beer, and sample a few of the craft beers on draft while doing it. Psyched!

I've been DVRing the Tour of California. Saw the prologue on Saturday night and the first stage yesterday. Francisco Mancebo held an impressive breakaway for most of the race. He was caught by two other riders but out-sprinted them at the end which was pretty cool. It was raining and miserable, and every time the camera cut to his face you could see that he was in the pain cave. He earned it.

BS