well- first off, i am SUPER excited that we had another rider sign to
our team. katie lambden raced for lipton for the last couple years
and she is now going to kick some serious ass for us! yaya! she is
a good climber, and that is something that we need. we also signed
marissa asplund, but that was a while back. the fun thing about
katie is that she went to ucsc and i actually TAed her my first year
as a grad student! i, of course, did not know that- but she came up
to me at bermuda and announced that she remembered where she knew me
from... that i was her TA! i said, "why the hell didn't you race for
the slugs?!"... she replied, "i didn't know that bike racing
existed!"... funny thing was that neither did i... that was back in
2000. a lot has changed since then for both of us!
anyway, so she emailed me today and told me that she officially
signed. yayay! i am really excited. we now had 5 riders signed on
and are in the works with two or three others. i talked to one today
who i really want to race for us, and i think that she will. she is
talking with another team, but thinks that our team is a better fit.
it is exciting to be on a team that is drawing riders.
i rode today with the northwestern cycling team- about 8 guys showed
up and one woman. typical... i had said that i wanted to do 2-2.5
hours of basemiles and go easy... my basemile pace is 130-180W. i
look down at my powermeter and it is reading 180W... WHILE drafting
and the guys up front had a nasty nasty head-wind. they were
hammering and i kept having my heart rate get up and i would watch as
my power kept rising. one thing nice about a powermeter... it use to
be that when i rode with boys who were pushing the pace, i just felt
like it was ME. like i was being a wus or that i was slow. not that
they were going too hard. with the powermeter, i can SEE that they
are going too hard and i don't think that it is just in my head.
i ended up getting annoyed and attacking on them... i said to chris
who chased me down, "if we are going to hammer, we should just keep
attacking each other. that is more fun." i know that i was not
being the nicest thing on earth, but i was NOT having fun on my own
ride. they are nice guys and i can understand that it is hard to go
slow, but it is the off-season. it was 45*F out... there is no need
to go hard. whatever. anyway, so that was a bit of a bummer, but
they turned back at the 2 hour mark and i kept riding with a guy ace,
who i rode with last winter too. really nice guy and fine with
riding slow. so, ended up having a good ride. the wind was really
blowing today though.
it is supposed to be warming up next week. tomorrow, i am going
camping and rock climbing up in wisconsin. so, i will be gone and
not blogging. hope you don't miss my boring blog too much!
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