Louisville-bound

We're en route to Louisville, KY at the moment, for potentially my last road racing of the year - the Tandem and Masters National Championships.


(what did I tell you, I never did write my Cowbell Challenge report)


Tomorrow is the Tandem Time Trial. My teammate Christy never did find a bike to use so there will be no Team Inferno/BMW-Bianchi showdown. My shoulder is still royally whacked but I think I'll be okay. Andy tells me I have good legs, my teammate Laura who I rode with yesterday tells me I have good legs, I'll just believe them and leave any self-evaluation out of it.


Things that have happened between now and my last post:


Andy & I rode the tandem every day except Wednesday. He tells me I have good legs because we terrorized the group ride with 35 mile an hour lead-outs on Tuesday night. (man o' man that is fun!)


Friday night we participated in the Town Mountain Hill Climb on the tandem. We just narrowly escaped being girled by Andy's former athlete Lauren Franges, who is now on the US National Team. There wasn't a tandem category so we signed up for the men's A. There were four sorry fools in that category who were tandem'ed. Andy also did an individual effort and took third. It was one of the most fun nights I've had in a long time, because we saw so many people we haven't seen in soooo long. I've taken some photos but can't figure out the bluetooth on my new phone at the current moment, so hopefully i'll figger it out sooner rather than later.

Yesterday Laura and I rode for an easy ride, and it was my first venture on my individual bike since I was knocked off my bike two weeks ago. We spent a good 1 hour forty minutes out there, and though my shoulder was tender and sore, and potholes/rough pavement made me whimper, I was able to shift and brake. Standing up is a no go though. Still, the fact that 1. my bike is fixed (thank you Andykins!) and 2. I was able to ride it, is a big deal. I spent so much time on the back of the tandem the last week with my right arm cradled against my chest it was hard to imagine being able to put weight on it.

So, should be good to go for tomorrow. Now we're within an hour of Louisville and will be pre-riding both the TT and RR course today. Time trial tomorrow, my road race on Tuesday (if I do it - I hear it's pretty twisty turny). Then, a break of sorts till the main even, the Tandem Road Race, on Thursday. Hopefully somewhere in there we'll be able to snag some sort of hardware again.

I think I'll have a decent amount of time to post this week, so maybe I'll get past the <1x a week doldrums I've been stuck in.