at least the week....  So I was extremly fortunate to be offered this bike at an unbeatable price.



With it came a return trip to the lake house in Whitewater Wisconsin with Julie and Dan, and Dan's parents' who graciously let us stay there time and time again with Molly.  We left Chicago with grand plans of road and mountain biking riding.  When we got there significantly later than we had planned, the sun and water beckoned and we spent more time on the boat and in the water than on the bike in the saddle.  Dan and I did get a moderately paced road ride in.  9.5 miles with hills, it felt great.  The bike is nice.  Going from the SRAM to this old Campy stuff is like heaven and hell.  Regardless, it is a great bike.

Dan is in training, or so he is enjoying saying everytime he refuses a beer.  Which I applaud him for if that is what he wants to do; I personally have never been able to make training stick.  As it so happens, Dan live 8 blocks from me now and has a weight room in his building (mine will eventually too.)  We are going to help eachother*.  Tuesday and Thursday evenings we are going to do some weight training and the two of us are going to start doing some training rides together on our road bikes.  So, hopefully, I will be riding with the team Wed. nights, weights on the "T's" and riding with Dan and whoever else during the rest of the week. 

*In my lust for everything cyclocross i have started reading blog after blog after blog.  I am starting to happen upon the elite level international racers blogs and am realizing if I really want to be fast, I need to start putting a little added effort into my cycling fitness.  I was born predisposed to being able to pedal hard, but if I really want to upgrade this year to Cat2 and be competitive, I think I am going to need to try.