Bike racin' is back!

It is a tradition of mine to put in a big ride on Easter eve. Then I come home and enjoy a nice meal and some Easter candy with my wife, eating almost guilt free because of the effort.

41 miles today under mostly cloudy and very windy conditions. But the real news here is that the WCA was racing on one of my very own training courses, the Whitnall Park crit course.


Mostly cloudy
55
Windy, gusts 20 mph
41 miles



It's always fun to watch racing on a home course. Here are a few photos I snapped after stopping to hang there for a while on the way out on my ride today.

 There is always an exciting vibe at a local bike race, especially this early in the season. It was a nice touch to my annual Easter eve ride this year. But try as I might, I never did see a single one of these racers with THIS on their bike...

That's right, I was rockin' my Easter Bunny on the Madone today. I pull that little guy out once a year to strap on for this single ride. And although I had him on those bars just right I must admit that by just a few blocks into the ride it appeared that I had sentenced the Easter Bunny to die by hanging upside down!

Oh well, the intentions were good.

By the time I got down to the Milwaukee County Sports Complex I decided that the stiff wind was a little too much to keep going out. I turned around and headed back to Whitnall Park to catch more racing. At times the wind would try to toss the entire front end of the bike. And most times it sounded as if there was a tornado in my head.

At the race the second time around on the way home I bumped into an old riding friend that I had not seen in years. Erwin was one of the guys who traveled to Spain with us to train for a week back in 2003. He was out to catch some racing and wanted to get home to get on his bike too!

Then I saw a results sheet posted that showed Matthew Busche's dad Craig, whom I have ridden with before, placed 35th in a field of 52 in the Masters 4/5 Cat. Nice. I wish I would have known he was racing today.

By the end of the 41 miles today I was tired. But I was SICK and tired of that tornado sound in my ears.

Happy Easter! 
Season miles: 393