Mike is Bronze in Manchester

Whoo Hooo! One of our club riders, Mike Lew, got 3rd in the Points Race at the World Masters Track Championships in Manchester, England. Now, knowing Mike, I figure he's probably a little disappointed (he really wants one of those jerseys), but for mere mortals like me, it's pretty impressive. Mike has been training all year for this and a lot of club members, including the club itself, chipped in to help him cover the cost of making the race. Mike is an intensive care nurse, so training and racing takes a pretty big chunk out of the checkbook for him. Back on the home front, things have pretty much returned to normal around here, although not too many businesses were open today. I went out around the middle of the day today, after taking down the window protection at home, moving all the plants and outside stuff back outside at The Mom's place, etc., and did 25 miles or so fairly easy on the levee. Most of the other roads around here are still littered with small broken branches and stuff, so it's a little sketchy. Rode with The Wife, who, BTW, badly needs new road shoes, and ran into Courtney E. and Linda along the way. Linda apparently did 45 mi. hard yesterday and her quads were pretty much toast, so she was trying to get in some easy spinning to recover. She's been reading Joe Friel's "The Cyclist's Training Bible" on my recommendation, since she is pretty new to racing (she teaches Spinning or Aerobics or something like that with Courtney at Elmwood Fitness Center). This one has a lot of natural talent and if she gets into a half-way decent training program over the winter she could be winning races next summer. I think tomorrow will be my first really decent training day all week. The weather is looking pretty nice, and besides we're still on "Hurrication."