I haven’t gotten dropped on the Thursday Nighter in a long time. It was about half way up Welders – it felt familar, but not any better. I crusied real slow for a while, then went back to medium tempo and joined up with another rider that was tired and hasn’t been training. We went over Briggs, which is always great. Just a little before we turned off Briggs, the T-nighter crew flew by. My comrade caught them, I did not. Nick S. won. Good for him. I rolled back in and chatted with Nick some. Then the best thing ever happened:
I BEAT NICK TO THE STOP AHEAD SIGN coming back into Eugene. YESSSSS.
We weren’t really racing, and in fact I just jumped him with 10m to go, but still. Me. Woo…
My PowerTap is really, really, really broken for real. I’m probably going to take up Saris up on their upgrade plan for broken PowerTaps. The rep said I can get a new wired hub for $325 if I send in my old one- wow! I just have to unlace and relace the hub, which is fine.
Even better than that, though, is the totally screamin’ deal I got on some Ritchey 58mm carbon tubulars. They’ll be here… sometime. Apparently wheelbuilds are “like herding cats.” Quote from the sales rep at Ritchey. Anyway. They’ll be rollin’ at Celebration, which I think I’m doing, even though I’ll probably be pretty freakin’ slow. But the Colnago’ll look pretty nice, which maybe counts for a bit.
