Bike and Wetsuit Porn!!!

Photos here.

First, a big shout out to my 2 favorite mechanics, Drew (my illegitimate Dutch son) and Anthony (the Italian Stallion), who are doing a 24-hour bike race today!

Yesterday I got Bitchie's Ergomo mount issue taken resolved, and picked up LGL all newly (well she was already pretty sexy) sexed up and got my new wetsuit.

I'm going to ride Bitch tomorrow on my last 100 mile ride before NothingMan. I'm "sort of" doing a race rehearsal ride, but since this will be the first time I get to observe my watts as recorded by the Ergomo, I could end up shooting somewhat in the dark, but I don't really care, as NothingMan is not a race and I'm not really training!

I get to use the new wetsuit next weekend up in Wisconsin. Originally, I was going to sleep in next Friday and lollygag my way up there in the afternoon, but now I'm looking forward to a few more open water swims, and will most likely leave real early Friday just so I can swim in Lake Monona on Friday and Saturday. Maybe. All plans are subject to change. All I know is I can't wait to get this wetsuit wet! It was super easy to get the thing on totally dry without any lube, and it came off in a flash. Turns out my Orca is kaput--the gash from IMLP is not repairable.

Now that LGL is sexed up to the max (neither I nor my LBSG can think of anything else I can "do" to her), I suppose I should ride her before the weather takes a turn for the worse here. I may take her up to Wisconsin next weekend instead of Bitch--I've never ridden the IMWI course on a road bike, but having done Horribly Hilly on her, I'm sure it would be fun.

Today I'm taking an easy day (:45 run and 1:00 swim) instead of running 1:30 like I thought I'd do. I'm sort of itching to get on a bike, but it's best I start winding down. What the hell--I guess I'm tapering or something. Well, I will be on Monday, for sure. It's interesting to be training for something that is not a real race, yet I am looking forward to really resting after it. And then I will fire up 1/2 Ironman training for a bit. Even though MiamiMan isn't an A race for me, I want to do better at it than I did last year, and in order for that to happen, it's going to be critical that I rest up after NothingMan.

Enough of this crap--I have other things to do today besides train!