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got back from cali tonight. a pretty awsome trip, as to be expected. im pretty tired from a day of doing nothing but sitting, but heres a brief sumery of how things went down. photos are on the way soon. wed: flew into san fran. biult the bikes. went and did a ride down along some of the paths by the marina, rode across the Golden Gate Bridge, rode some cool trails in the park on the otherside, then rode back. took it as easy as posible. avg. 110 or so for the 2 hr. ride. went out to asque for dinner...and i have the feeling i alredy wrote about this last post... moving on. Thur: after a charming night on the airmatress at the sisters pad, it was a short 2.5 hour drive down to Monterey. Had some luch at this not-so-classy mexican joint, then headed strait up to the venue to get out for a lap on the course. it was long. a 19 mile loop. it was rolling fire road, to steep fire road decent, to singe track desent, to single track climb to mixed rolling to muddy flat/climbing singletrack, to fire road climb, to steep singe track climb, to steep pavement climb, to steep single tracl climb them finaly the last 5 mile strech of moderate to steep fire road climb. trying to keep it as easy as posible ( nothing above 160, and below 145 for an avg. ) the course took about 2:10. the mud wasnt too bad yet, but i knew with 10 thousand racers to come before me, it;d get a bit chewed up. Fri: slept in again. had a rather eventfull, night long dream where Judy and I were, for lack of a better desription, rulers of the universe. desided to stay at the hotel today to avaoid being on me feet at the venue. i knew if i went up there id ride too hard, stand too long, and eat/drink too little. insted, i did a melow 1 hr spin up thru this middle-of-know-where bilianare lane, with some sweet trees, and a golf course at the top. ( i never made it down to pebble beach. next time i guess. ) i did only 2 quick 2 min at's, desiding that the STXC would be more about bike handaling then fittness, and id rather do the proper rest day 2 days before the xc. ( should have been called a marathon ) went to dinner at the same place as the nigt before, and had some regular pre race stuff. watched Off Road To Athens too. Sat:woke up, did the pre race breakfest thing, did the stomach feeling tied up with nurves thing, did the pre race cleaning, started the warm up, and then... my race was over before i even showed up. turns out they screwed up big time, and had all the wrong times posted on the wed site, and never thought to post the new schedual. i did an easy spin back to the hotel, then a 10 min AT up that road climb i rode thur. talk about a bummer, but i stall had the XC and now i was just going to be more rested for that. murfy strikes again. Sun:... im going to bed, ill get to the race description tomorow, when i have time to do it proper do. or ado. i dont quite know. sounds like a job for the PRSS Squad. later gators