Holy Ground and a Rant…

I had a weekend.  It consisted of both a Saturday and a Sunday.  They were both nice in their own way, and now that they have passed I am beginning a new week, which like most weeks is beginning with a Monday. 

Saturday I bailed on the state TT to do some house projects.  I would consider myself about 48% successful in this endeavor, which is to say I did not complete the task assigned myself, but was still left with a better end product than was started with.  Got out with Sleevie in the pm to finally get to the top of Alpine Loop.  He does this ride pretty much everyday, but it’s a little bigger deal for me.  He was chatting the entire way up the climb, and I was only able to respond with primitive grunts.  Anyway, we topped it off with Squaw Peak, which I guess is not PC, so I will go back to the alternative name Mt. Honor Code Violation.  Sleevie dropped me on both descents despite a max speed of 50 mph.  It was pretty much the best ride ever.  3:30 and 60 miles, which sounds pretty not awesome, but it’s at least half uphill.  Maybe more.  Oh yeah, and sense I just nerded off with some numbers there, I also pushed some watts, and burned some calories.  Also, gained some elevation.  My heart also beat several times during the ride.

Side note, Sleevie did the State TT in the morning.  The results were horribly off and he left before they “determined” the official results.  As I have recently been accused of being a “nice guy”, I am going to go on a little rant here…

At what point do we call the timing chips a failure?  It’s June and we are still hearing “as soon as we iron out the bugs, it’ll be great”.  Yeah, I remember hearing that at RMR.  In March.  Also, I have heard from at least one out-of-stater, that timing chips have been the final nail in their coffin not to attend a UCA event.  You see not being a part of the UCA series, they have to rent a chip for an extra $10 to race any race in the Utah series.  So $30 entry fee, $10 late fee (seriously, $10?) and $10 chip fee= $50 to do a local race with little pay-out.  $50 makes sense if there’s a $10k+ pay-out, but not when it’s $300!  The rest of us are lucky enough to buy the chip for $45, which I really wouldn’t balk at if it ensured timely and accurate results, but this has proven not to be the case.  Alright, rant over.  I realize the chips the were brought in because people were always whining about the results being off, so I guess this just proves you can’t please any of the people any of the time.

Back to my world, Sunday was less inspiring as I pretty much did not do anything  in the morning.   Actually I did pretty much accurately predict Philly- call me Nostradumass.  Finally, in the until afternoon, Kelly got me going, and we  took the girls and the dogs out for a hike.  Opposite side of timp from the day before, but just as rad.  That hill is something special.  I am positive of it’s healing properties.

Kelly made me birtday cake after dinner.  Yes, my birthday was long gone by that point, but you know, any excuse for cake, right?  It also wound up being my breakfast.  Draw you own conclusion there.