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Today’s bike racing was just vicious. As we started the race for the Road Ride at 8 AM, (46+ miles) it was snowing, and windy and cold and miserable! The strong wind pushed us downhill at about 50 mph, then we turned around the rode right back up it. That’s where it got bad, STRONG winds, big hills. One thing I do love about cycling is how nice the guys are, at least in the C’s (honestly!) I really was dying on the way back, as was EVERYONE. The total time was over 2 hours and 40 minutes, ouch. I didn’t like the course with the last 20+ miles uphill, not mentioning the wind. The girls had a really bad crash about 21 miles in, I think one girl messed up here face and broke some teeth, another broke a collar bone, and two others went down but didn’t quite get messed up as much. Since the race lasted so long we had 2 hours before the team time trial started. This was my first time trial, but I was SO tired, I felt broken and torn apart. The time trial went alright, I was moving alright but no one on our team was going good, so we’ll see what the results look like.

*deep breath* Tomorrow’s Crit is at 7:10 AM! Argh, I’m going to veg for a bit then get some sleep. I’m still dead.

So right now, 11:16 at night it’s 55.9° F outside.

Tomorrow’s forcast according to wunderground.com

Tomorrow is forecast to be 27° Cooler than today.

Four days of class left till summer. There might also be four finals, 2 final projects, and 2 random projects due before then. Argh.

Today was an awesome Thursday. Bike ride, did some computer work, cycling club bbq. Tomorrow I am heading out to Wyoming to have one last race of the season, should be a blast.

How about some pictures from two weeks ago?

First off we have the CSM bike race. Both the Saturday hill climb, and the Sunday crit.

(as always, click on the pictures to see more, in this case 600 more.)

Next up of photo’s posted. Last Last Monday night we went downtown, so I took some pictures as we wondered after getting some coffee.