Playing the Waiting Game

I feel the need to post something since in theory I’ve had tons of free time, but there’s nothing much to report. Resting between bike races is so boring – you feel listless and trapped, and anything you might want to do is a no no because it costs energy that you need to be saving for your next race.

I did put my skimpy swim suit on today and mosey on down to the beautifully inviting and empty pool… just as I was shrugging my shirt off a family with two young children came screaming in ahead of me… so I spent about two minutes in the water getting splashed at before I went into the lukewarm hot tub and floated a bit… still felt quite good. I got back into the pool right before I left, and tolerated the kids’ shenanigans for a minute or two more before crawling out. And of course, as I left, they left too. GRRR!!!!

We went to the road course in the afternoon and watched the last race of the day finish, then did a few laps of the course to practice screaming through the corners on the tandem. We hit a rock on one of them, skipping the rear wheel out, and it sketched me out a little (a lot?). Gunnar and Betsy just “happened” to be on the course at the same time (yeah, like we don’t know when we’re being stalked!) so we chased them down and heckled them (oh, wait, I guess that would make us the stalkers?). It was fun riding tandems in tandem with the coolest bike racin’ couple out of West Virginia… but it’ll be GAME ON tomorrow! Just like the Dread Pirate Roberts, THERE WILL BE NO SURVIVORS! Muah hah hah.

Well, Harry Potter is over on HBO so I guess it’s time for bed. Hopefully the next post will be all about how we took everyone to skool in the tandem road race at 3:35 tomorrow!