Long Weekends and Feeling Good!

The McWessons were happy about having a long weekend. Gustav was looming so plans were non-existent except a planned day trip to pre-ride the Oxford race course on Sunday. We elected to finally watch Juno - a movie Lolly had seen and enjoyed - Friday night. Lolly had bought the DVD late in her pregnancy but, alas, life has been intervening. Summing up the movie is easy enough: GREAT! I was very pleasantly suprised by this very well written, exceptionally witty, and even cute little movie. KR even cooperated and allowed us to get through the whole thing. PERFECT!

Saturday was a much anticipated event in this country - the 1st full day of collegiate football. Vandy - a family favorite - had gotten things properly started with a win on Thursday night. Lolly and McWesson's alma maters fared less well however, both losing heartbreakers - MSU to unheralded LA Tech and UT to UCLA in an OT thriller on Monday night. No biggie - the McWessons are not 'superfans.'

KR was very happy to have her Grandparents get back after a 2.5 week long absence to visit the fjords and glaciers of Alaska. She entertained with side rolls, head hold ups, and belly laughs - some of her new 'tricks.' We also got to have a nice get-together Monday night complete with all 'the fixins' - burgers, chicken, sweet taters, salad, and fellowship. Good times fosha!

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I'll have to ride this twice next weekend...in 90 degrees, high humidity, oxygen depletion, lactic acid overload mode.

I can't wait!

We had 12 people at our pre-ride on Sunday. All but two I knew were faster than me the last time we all rode together. We had 8 'experts', 1 'sport', and 2 'beginners' - and one moron who chooses to only ride with one gear - completely disavowing those 26 other pesky gears. WHO NEEDS 'EM!

Bottom line: I felt great and rode a nice steady pace - not race pace mind ya - and bested 2 of the expert level racers on what they claimed was a 'bad day' and/or 'bad form.' No disrepect to those guys at all - they're still very fast - but I felt great. I put a cap on it after one lap and elected to just cruise through half of a second lap for kicks.

Keeping the legs fresh is priority numero uno this week...

Well, KR is always numero uno...and then Lolly...so maybe 'priority numero tres' is more apt...

Peace suckas!