"Why you smilin'?"

These past few days have been packed full of on the bike time. and it's been Good! Finished off the weekend with a bit of a change from the schedualed long ride with Wells Ave in the middle to its eqivelent around the towns. It was a late night and the opertunity to loose some more sleep and have a chance at a free pair of socks just wasnt apealing enough to get my but out of bed. Did a town loop insted, and, as has been the case latly, found a few new rodes worth throwing into the mix evry once in a while. Felt ok monday, and had just a quick easy spin to refresh the system. the majority of the day however, was spend on the golf course. ( my back yard ) i was out hitting balls ( pebbled, in a ziplock bag, wraped once in tin foil. then again in two layers of paper towel. then again in tin foil. the finished with a double layer of duck tape ) practicly all morning. then once i desinged the course and desegnated the hole ( manhole cover ) the games where on. i changed up the direction and starting spot evry now and then. the highlight was an eagle on a par 5 ( with a tow putt ) all wile playing lefty, hitting with the backside of my driver. ( gave the "ball" aditional loft ). im going to keep practicing over the next few days, maybe enter a few ternements or two ( whick i would have to create and run and attend. alone ) Tuesday was one of the best ride/s in a while. had a hard 2.5 on the mtb in the am that went very well. started off a bit sluggish from the earlyer than normal start time, but soon found my legs once i started hitting some of the more technical sections. got to ride with a few guys here and there, but overall, no one seemed willing to a) keep at that pace, b) run up sections of skyline, or c) were ofended by my constant smiling/laughfing. how do you expect me to do something so fun and not waer one ear to ear? ...Later that night, it was off to the Tues. night world championships. i felt really strong on the way there, but afried to jynix myself, talked myself out of it. " youve got a tail wind, thats all " The groupetto was massive! 50 guys at the start. this weather is bringing out all the pretenders who havn't been out since that " training camp" they did over the kids april school vacation. this were fast right from the start, and i was right there, top 10 wheels the whole time, all while avoiding taking more than a few short pulls. I was pumped to be able to ride seated, and still cover all the attacks on the first few hills. ive really put alot of focus this year on working on my pedal stroke and remaining seated as much as posible. once the bigger climbs started comming, and i did infact get out of the saddle, it was on ( yes. like donky kong ) me and another guy got away on the longest, but he wasnt willing to pull, and there was a group of about 20 only about a minute back, so we sat up and regpied the action. next was a moderate leagth decent folowed by a quick, steep, punchy climb with a long flat headwind section following.. unhappy with the size of the current group, i through down the attack up this climb and went away alone. i spent the next few k's crusing along by my self, hoping that eventualy a smaller group would bridge up. it never happened so once again, i drifted back to the pack. the move had shelled another couple guys so we were down to atleast 20 at this point. the rest of the way was just attck and cover. we came home with about 15 or so and took the sprint with a suprize move from 800m out. all in all, some good days. now its off to the BH for tonights hillpeats'. i just wish my knee would stop poping... later gater