One of the things I learned from my trip is that the food in Shanghai is amazing. You can find so many varieties and flavors. The only problem is trying not too eat too much. I must have been on the 5000 calorie track for a bit before I scaled back. Oh but well worth it. Mmmmmm.

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Hairy dog gopher watching at Point Isabel. And it's really funny when he drools onto the gopher's head. :')

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A view from Ralston Peak down towards Ralston Lake.

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HelmetCam video of the Pilarcitos Super Prestige Series Category B men's cyclocross race.

Found footage so a bit late in posting :')

Jump to the Videos->Cyclocross Videos page to watch.

Posted on July 15, 2008 01:57 AM  | Read Comments (0) »

HelmetCam video of the Pilarcitos Super Prestige Series Category B men's cyclocross race.

Found footage so a bit late in posting :')

Jump to the Videos->Cyclocross Videos page to watch.

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A chart based on very scientific observations in and around the urban San Francisco bay area biking mecca.

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Went up to Boggs Mountain for the NorCal High School MTB League Finals. Lots of fun single-track riding on Saturday. Then helping out the Berkeley High team on Sunday race day.

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The photo above is the 2008 course in 3D. Not a flat course! :')

This was my first time racing the Shasta Lemurian. Yes, yes, yes I know... you are thinking WTF??? The first time??? I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to actually attend the event. But I'm hooked.

You would think though, after I was eaten up by the course, that I wouldn't want to race it again. Here's a course that made both my quads cramp up solid. So much that I had to stop, yes stop, on the hike a bike steeper than heck section and massage out my legs. Then I battled cramping the remainder of the course. And I had half the course left. Ouch.

Somehow I managed to finish in 12th place with a time of 02:52:45. So I should be happy that I didn't just roll over and wait for the cleanup crew to find me. Which, after the zillionth false summit, I thought seriously about doing. It would have been so easy to make a nice nest in the soft shiny green leaves of those bushes... of Poison Oak! Did I mention the PO? That evil plant is exploding all over the place. I swear I spotted leaves of PO bigger than my hand. And those leaves were high fiving me the entire course. Argh, where's my Tecnu? I'm still itching.

Next time I must remember to:

• fuel better
• tecnu more
• oh, and train a wee bit more

Cheers!

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Nice setting sun lighting up my bike while waiting for the next train.

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Spring means new growth and that includes the garden spiders. A new crop of baby spiders showed up the other day.

Very cute!

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