well that sucked

Got about 5 miles out of town and the skies opened up. I got poured on the whole way back. Just went and changed and signed on this stupid pc and the sun is shinning again.

hot

Yep hot again so it was 35 hot miles and a stop to fix a flat.

home again

Just a few observations of two cities near the same size Sakt Lake City and Milwaukee. SLC has a lot of active people, MKE not even close. I was off the plane 5 minutes and seen 2 milwaukeeans so fat they needed scooters to get around. SLC shitty beer. MKE tons of good beer, maybe that leads to a scooter. SLC lots of restaurant but pretty much all the same family style eating. MKE all kinds of good eats from different cultures. SLC more hummers and other foreign cars than you can shake a stick at from California on the weekends. MKE more BMW and Lexus than you can shake a stick at from Illinois heading to the dells. SLC home of the moron church, yet I did not see anyone prowling in neighborhoods pushing a religion. MKE, just had someone from the church down the street stop over tonight. SLC, 6 miles into the ride and you are still climb. MKE not so much as a long hill. Work sponsored trip are always kind of fun.

one more day

I will be home this time tomorrow. I didn't crank on a ton of miles but there was a lot of climbing involved this weekend to make it worth the air freight on the bike. I am feeling like a poser sort of considering I was 30 miles from a Norba National and I didn't go at all. I would have went to see Mike in the Semi but the race was Friday at noon. As I took apart the road bike tonight I was thinking about the dirty muddy fuel at home still a mess from Mudsau marathon. Time for a big parts run to Ben's again on Thursday after work. Well after driving the escape hybrid for a week I have to admit it was not as bad as I thought. I would never buy a 2 wheel drive SUV but if you fall for the global warming this may help.

Nascar = Retard

NASCAR filed a countersuit against AT&T in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, claiming the sanctioning body has been financially damaged by Cingular's placement of the AT&T logos on the No. 31 in an amount "not less than $100 million."

So changing a logo cost you 100 million. I know were Al Gore is working now.

from high to new low

So yesterday I hopped on a gondola ride for 20 minutes and then rode a 40 pond bike with 6" of travel down super sweet trails for 4 plus hours, 90 percent of it downhill of coarse. It was a truly outstanding riding up in the mountains just rolling down hill and riding over everything in the way. I only fell twice on the park city loop, softly. I was amazed by all the locals riding up the roads on their bikes instead of paying. They said next week when the lifts open daily they will buy a lift ticket for the season.

That was the high for the week.

The low was today when I got passed on the group ride by guys on hybrids . I was just crushed, I sat up and waited for the next group to latch onto. I was breathing like a trail and they just went by in the little ring. There is a lot of Dura ace triples out here.

If the rain holds off till 4:00 I am heading over to take a Kona for a ride http://www.thecanyons.com/mtn_biking.html?summer=yes. Deer Valley is about 5 miles further but closed for rental this week for the Norba event this weekend.

So this is the build we are training in this week. This a working model of what new technology is bringing to the doorstep of every home soon. This building has five floors below ground were many cables come into the frames. Last year it took 82 workers 24x7 to keep up the the orders for a small part of southeast corner of salt lake city downtown area ( 300,000 lines). Today the switches have been swapped out to soft(VOIP) switches and have reduced the headcount to 12 technicians and only two floors. Yes those are still microwaves on the roof. It the olny way to pass some info over the mountains

dang its hot

Well I am heading over towards Park City to dang hot to ride
1pm
87°F
Sunny
3pm
92°F
Sunny
5pm
96°F
Sunny
7pm
93°F
Sunny
9pm
87°F
Clear
11pm
77°F
Clear

found a connection

Salt Lake City, found a High Speed Internet connection in my room now. So I will drive my ford escape hybrid down to the UPS location and pick the bike up. I would ride after I put the bike together but its 100 degrees outside right now. Weather forecast high 90's all week. I think I might spend more time at the pool then in the saddle.

Well I dove around a 3 hours after dinner and I think I will be doing more sight seeing during the week and ride more this weekend. I found a bike shop about 5 miles from the hotel so I will stop tomorrow over lunch.

last trip

Well I am leaving to make one last sweep of the trail and pick up everything we missed. I really want to thank everyone who helped out to make the event the huge success that is was. We raised a lot of funds that will go to some great organizations that do good work in the community around the muir trails. Also I would like to thank the riders from Hayes for making the raffle great. The fund from the raffle will go a long way to help spread the word about Alpha 1 disease. Props to all the wors regulars that came out and put on a ton of miles. With the winning solo 12 hour riders putting more than 130 in 11:36 and the team doing 148 miles in 12 hours. We had a big turn out for the 6 and 3 hour as well, We had a large team MARS showing with MG taking home top honors in the 6 hour. Well time to go clean the trails, come home clean the house and leave for a couple days to decompress.

pack pack pack

Man it is getting a little hectic, packing up race stuff, papers stakes fliers arrows monkeys and every other thing you can think of. It amazing how muck stuff you need to make sure you are ready for 12 hours of whatever comes up. I can't even imagine what it must be like for Kevin with planning 24/9 with it 3 hours from his house. So tonight I packed up the road bike in a bike box along with my clothing and work stuff for SaltLakeCity.The bike hit ups tomorrow and I fly out Sunday night at 9:45 and return the next Wednesday at 6:15 only 10 days later. Hopefully I can get some real miles in on real hills and long roads. That why I hope to give Russell a real run for it at Eau Claire.

Not all my fault

Well after yesterdays 4 lap big ring only race I am suffering yet today. So I just finished cleaning up the bike and found out it was not all my fault for the poor shifting. I thought the bb swap caused the shift issue but it was more than the chain line being off a little. I managed to find a marking flag wire and get it wrapped around the small ring a few times and up into the middle ring. I guess that explained why the chain dropped right off when I attempted shift down. With all the trouble I was ok into lap three. I was told Russell was less than 5 minutes ahead. Shortly after on the big muddy hill climb the legs had enough of pushing the big ring in the mud and started to fight back. I think I stopped a dozen times the last lap to walk off the cramps. I did like the whole set up of the marathon event hopefully next race we can get a dry race.

fire it up and get the torches

For anyone who thinks that walmart should unionize so cashiers and stockers can make a living wage are absolute f 'ing retards. Truly, why the f^&k should someone sweeping a box across a laser make 16 bucks an hour. This is just as f 'ed up as your employer giving you health care and a pension. So now they guy or gal busting their humps working going to school as apprentice should only make a few dollars more than a cashier at walmart. How long are the asshole at UAW going to keep paying jag offs to go on talk show telling the world these workers deserve a living wage. Its now wonder that the big three are dying. As long as all the union reps for UAW still keep their wages. Any want to guess if any officers have taken a cut in pay or benies now that there membership has dropped over 100,000 in the last 3 years with all the down sizing. No they didn't. Now they need cashier to start forking over $40 a month to support the great cause. Next the will be asking to get Subways unionized so sandwich makers can make a living wage. I know your retarded argument, "but walmart makes a lot of money". Well BP has made 5 times the profits of walmart in the last 48 months. Anyone think the cashier at your local gas station makes a living wage.