(originally posted 2004-July-19)

As it stands I have 4 guys racing and training with me on the road wearing the Baen jersey. We are doing between 150 and 200 miles a week.

I raced in the local Thursday night Intermediate race 2 wks ago and took first definitively.

I moved up to Advanced last week for the first time and took 10th - out of 30. I also pulled my teammates up to finish in the top 5 in the final sprint.

On the mountain bike side I am still racing alone there. My next race will be sometime in Aug. There was one this Sunday but...there is also Libertycon.

I would like to find enough for a team to do the 24 Hours of Adrenaline race in Georgia in Oct. That is a 24 hr mountain bike race and I would need at least 3 others in good cycling shape.

(originally posted 2004-Aug-24)

A bunch of guys from a Category up "sandbagged down" to my Cat and pulled me ragged the first lap - on the ragged edge of my abilities.

Then it poured down rain.

Then it poured down rain. Then just as the rain let up on the second lap (about 15 miles into it) a guy went down hard in front of me and rider and bike slid for 20 meters or more across the road. I chose to swerve left, which was bad since he slid left across the pavement in front of me at about 22 mph. I had to run off the road to keep from running over him.

By the time I looked up and got straight the pack was 100 yards or more away and going up/over a hill. I looked at my heart rate monitor - 178 bpm. SHIT! I heard the guy behind me in the middle of the road screaming bloody murder, "My leg, my leg is broken! Oh God, I broke my leg!"