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I haven’t written anything in a while since I have been pretty busy the last two week since coming back from Brookhaven. The timing has been good for that since I planned to take last week as a rest and recovery week. That meant that I still rode, but I cut the intensity way back and did some different rides for variety (like Tuesday’s Bike’s Plus ride and RB’s B-ride which both are 17mph group rides…).

This week, I tried another group ride for the first time: the GPAC Tuesday ride down in Germantown. Like RB’s, this ride is pretty easy to ride to / from being only 5 miles from my place. What was different is the speed… I had a couple teammates at the ride, but the amount of Marx/Bensdorf, Los Locos (local tri club) and Memphis Thunder (another local tri club) riders made it a pretty fast ride. Despite numerous stop lights, etc we managed to average 24-26 mph for several of the 5 mile segments (I have my computer setup to mark out 5 mile segments). So it was a good ride… maybe a bit tougher than I was looking for coming off a rest week, but it will be alright.

Yesterday, I rode my TT bike for maybe the 2nd or 3rd time outside a race situation. Tour of Arkansas in a few weeks features a 22 mile TT, so I need to get used to sitting on this bike for more than 10-12 minutes…

My dad is coming down this weekend from Michigan to visit.  We are going to go down to Sunny King to watch me (and the pros) race. This will also be Andrea’s first race with a lot of teammates, first NRC race, etc. I am set to race the 2-3 race myself. We both will have to step up for what promises to be a fast, fast criterium.