GAME ON!

The weatherman told the story.
Only .11 of an inch in the Norfork area.
This confirms it.

LET's RACE!

Last offical weigh in

work scale: 176.4 "offical"
home scale: 174.4

So I didn't reach my goal of 170. What i do know is that my body is the most happy at 175.

My birthday (cake), my daughter's birthday (cake) and Easter all didn't help on my qwest. I'm not making excuses though.

What I'm happy about is that none of my pants fit anymore! 175 is where I plan to stay for awhile! Another side goal of mine was to not be OBESE in the governments eyes. I can say that I've offically done that!

prep

I spent some time on the trainer last night. I would have loved to get outside, but the family came first. It was 9 p.m. when I finally had time to ride.

50 minutes of Coach Troy - NO MERCY satisfied my pain need.

As for tonight... I plan to clean and tighten and lube my bike.
Checklist:
cooler
lawn chairs
repair stand
spare tube
chain lube
gear (helmet/gloves/shorts/glasses/hrm/socks/shoes)
water bottles
clothes for after

Dmars, you mentioned that your wife may want/need to leave early. In that instance you would need a ride back to Omaha with me. What is the likelyhood of this occurring? By default my rack is for 2 bikes. If I need to carry more, I have to add the 2 bike attachment. If you don't need a ride, I don't have to put this on. (If I win the 29er I'll put it in the back of the Tahoe! But, I won't win it, so it doesn't matter!)

Race preperation

I am looking forward to this race, I have been reading Friel's training bible, and I am going to try doing my preparaton and warm up differently. I usually dont do much of a warm up, I was afraid of burning out my legs early. This race I am going to do a longer warm up, with a couple high intensity spins thrown in (on the preride). I plan getting there around 9am, registering, and riding about 30 mins to warm up, then have about 15 mins to rest, and hydrate. See you guys there, and good luck. Im riding tuesday and wednsday nights so maybe ill see you guys out there.