Ernesto Dampens Final, Labor Day, Training Weekend
September 3rd, 2006Tropical storm Ernesto arrived just in time to dampen the Labor Day weekend in New England. It’s probably the best thing for this type A rider as it has forced me to scale back the training for the final 1 week approach to the big ride! Instead I used Saturday and today (Sunday) to run inside at the gym. I’ve done my wet riding training earlier in the summer and don’t want to chance getting cold and run-down at this point, especially with a very hectic week just completed getting Iris ready for her radiation treatment. My friend, Jon Lowenstein, bike mechanic whiz, helped me build up the Colnago about a month ago and yesterday we did some final checking of the bike- chain wear, check wheel true, adjust gears now that new cables have stretched, etc. Seems as all systems are go and the bike and gear bag will be shipped to San Diego on Tuesday.
Here’s the ‘machine’ ready to go and description of the components!
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