T-Minus 2 Days

Tomorrow is registration for Masters Track Nationals, then racing begins in Tuesday morning. I'll be racing the 500 meters on Tuesday, the 2K pursuit on Wednesday, the sprints on Saturday and the team sprint with Donna next Sunday. And volunteering a couple or three shifts along the way during the week. Since this is the first season of riding (and racing) on the track, it will be a learning experience and to have fun. There are some pretty fast gals coming in my age group and the 40-49 group has a lot more women than the 30-39 women. Nice to see!

Friday night my friend Betty flew up from Los Angeles and stayed with me. She and five of our friends are riding San Francisco to San Diego over the next week. We went out to dinner Friday night and drank a little wine, then yesterday we got up and drove down to the track since Betty had never seen a velodrome nor people riding on one. I had "warm-up then 3 efforts" on my schedule, plus, I wanted to try out the disk wheel that Mateo loaned me. We met Pete from South Carolina in the parking lot....67 or 68 years old and he'd driven out to race. There were already quite a few people there and I did about 20 minutes and a couple of efforts, then came off the track and put the aero bars on, then went out and did another 10 minutes and an effort in the aero bars. Legs felt good, aero bars worked well, disk worked well. Sunny and warm and a little breeze, but otherwise, a perfect morning.

The rest of the day was spent picking up Dave, Jo, Rap and Sharon's bike boxes at the airport and dropping them off, then picking up Betty's bike at Bespoke, lunch, home to shower, then off to sit in the coffee shop for awhile. Dinner at ZA Pizza and a couple of beers, then home.

Safe roads and tail winds to Betty, Dave, Jo, Sharon, Rap and Al.