Le Tour

Sleepless nights followed by sleepless nights. Evans going well. A nice bloke Cadel. Fingers crossed. A certain Brit 200 meter specialist. probably the fastest bloke in the world over 200 meters, has answered a few questions about his ability in no uncertain terms. Two astonishingly fast wins in a row.

A fun time of the year. Cuts into the sleep but. Tomorrow night a few of us will be watching the race live at Blackburn CC Clubrooms. Freezing and eating nibbles.

One of the nice things about cycling is that you do get to meet your hero's. Tho I am not sure Cadel Evans is blogging about meeting Percrime. Never mind. Anyway its club level cycling that is the source of future champions. Our equivalent of the Tour. Last night was the first ever ABOC sprint series race at DISC. I don;t know if anyone who reads this blog came along (except for Kathy and Jenny who both came to watch. No idea if Penny reads it... tho she watched and then came home and ate with us (we can afford to feed Penny... eats less than the cat but is more fussy if that's possible)

I was working in at Monash and heh.. sprinted out to DISC from the city. The roads were seriously full of loons. You can pick Friday evening peak hour just because they usually release the inmates from the asylum for the weekends. Near head on in little Lonsdale st with a car going the wrong way down the one way street Watched a scooter rider nearly get clobbered in Wellington St when the Hiace she was passing decided that the traffic was too heavy and turning right was the go. Neither looking or indicating were possibilities, turning the wheel was the limit of his competence. Watched a bloke stop for a green light.. also on Wellington... wait 50 seconds and then take off just as the light turned red. Had a woman nearly drive into my leg through a stop sign on Station st at 1 kmh as she tried to force her way into the stopped traffic.

Ahhh yes... speed is the biggest killer on our roads according the telly. I would have thought it was not looking and/or inconsiderate stupidity And I remain firmly convinced that we need the death penalty reintroduced. For all the tools who stop at the lights.. wait for the light change and then put the indicator on.

Anyway the Sprint series was great. Only 13 riders.. Carl was disappointed but you know small starts and all. The racing was great. I was actually asked to race.. but I was there on a road bike.. don.t have a current full license and would have been slowest by a long long way. They were quick. I got to marshal instead. This is going to be a great series. That Emily is going to make the Olympics if she wants too. She is at the age where she may not manage the commitment... then again. But I hope to see her win gold. Looking forward to the next one. Will do a link to the video,s when they are up.

Edit. Here is heat 1

My chest from Moe got sorted out. I went and got it Friday morning. Left at about 6:00. Foggy drive. Going though Warragul (where I and a good few pretty good cyclists were born) the fog was down to about 200 meters. Ended up in this weird surreal paceline of cars. Everyone watching the taillights in front. The driver on the back would decide everyone was crawling.. pull out and blast past everyone at warp one.. and then suddenly reach the front and discover they could see nothing and it was not so easy without tailights to follow.. They would pull left and brake until they were going a little slower than the line had been going. You get exactly the same thing when riders discover that punching a hole in the wind is tougher than wheelsucking. And go to the front and slow it all down. Sigh. So this kept happening and we kept going slower. Some dumb people out there.

But the chest was as advertised and looks very nice in my office. Thanking you marnieb. Now I need bookshelves. Dark wood.. many shelves.

Oh I meant to say. Sundays track left me tasting blood. Unlike Wednesday's dentist. Which was scarey and horrible.. and will be the last for a while. Which is all about me cos it didn't hurt and I did not taste blood. But my profound gratitude to my dentist who is a fan and will read this. Been very lucky with dentists who will put up with me.. dealing with dentists is very far from my best thing.. and I want them to know that they are appreciated.

OK this weekends work. Try and get UPS monitoring software running remotely on one client site. Do a new Adwords campaign for our Virtual Assistant stuff. Go for a run. Not riding today.. Bit concerned the roof is going to blow off.

Have been looking at a couple of blogs running that are connected with business. Its the same problem.. hard to find the time to do it.. so they just do not get updated. Started with the best of intentions.. but its a problem. Perhaps I could offer updating blogs as a Perfectnotes service? Any comments.