I know, I know… I’ve been scarce lately. In lieu of several fun and entertaining posts to catch you up, I figure I’ll just do it in some nice, boring bullet points.

-Last Saturday, the Trinity ride was pretty insane. I hit a season best 20 min power average while off the front of the group with one of the Memphis Velo guys. We were eventually caught, and I dropped through the group like a hot coal through a paper towel.

-Sunday, Ryan and I went to the Outdoors Inc water demo day. We tried out the stand-up paddleboards (BTW- those are a sweet cross-training  balance to pedaling singlespeed) first, then I hopped into the Epic skate-ski V10- which is essentially a narrow, round bottom racing kayak.  After a few near-tips, I started to get the hang of it and was motoring around Patriot Lake. I followed it up with 4 hours on the road bike.

-Monday and tuesday were pretty laid back. I rode the SS powertap Tuesday morning. It was pretty boss, though the cadence is kinda squirrely when I’m JRA.

Yesterday, I headed to Mountain View, where I took to forest roads for a little leg-wake-up. This morning, I met up with Amanda & Nate Carey and Eddie & Namrita O’Dea. We rode a bit of the blue and orange trails. Amanda rode the A9C  for a few minutes and she totally hated it. She nearly knocked me down to get back on her awesome Felt.

Also, today is opposite day.

Afterward, I dropped my bike off at the cabin, picked up Turbo, and went to the creek near the cabin for an ice bath.

I have a bunch of cool photos on my fancy new “ruggedized” smart phone (Casio “Commando”), but I haven’t figured out how to get them out of there yet…