Another boring day at work here, which hopefully continues to be the trend though the night. Not to put a jinx on it, but I’ve run only one single call after 10pm all month, which means I’ve been getting some damn good sleepy time it. I almost sleep better here at work then I do at home – but here I’m getting paid for it! Soon enough my luck will change and it will all even out, but for now it’s a pretty sweet gig.

Yesterday I rode with the team and we had a huge turnout, pretty much our whole race team showed up because the weather was so nice – almost 80 degrees the first of November?! It was because of that weather that had most other bicycle owning people in Boulder County to do the same thing, and depart from essentially the same place in town which made for some seriously sketch moments on the highway out of town. We passed a big group of triathletes, the weekend warrior types, then a smaller women’s team along the way. Not to be a hater, but triathletes don’t generally race bikes in a group, so their handling skills when others are around (like when being passed on a busy street) aren’t the best, and the women were clearly beginners because they would make these random gestures as if there was road hazards hen there weren’t any, and they would NOT ride faster then about 19mph even on the straight downhills, they’d just ride the brakes and refused to ride single file giving us enough room to pass. Throw in a 2x4 in the middle of the road that about 50 people behind us hit, a loose water bottle, and dumb ass hicks driving pick-ups who would rather pass you at 70 leaving 6 inches between you and certain death than move over an extra couple feet and you have a damn interesting morning. It was by far the closest I’ve come to crashing into someone in a long time.

I’ve been slowly ramping up the training the last weeks or so and it’s been great. We rode up in Vail because it was so warm everywhere this week. I ended up going a tad too hard that day but it was a solid 4 hours in the mountains. I did the same thing the next day but in the hills and canyons outside of Golden. Turns out I’ve been getting a little too excited with all the nice weather and I’ve been going TOO hard… Eric told me to “have fun but get some work in” while riding in the mountains and turns out my definition of “fun work” is really hard work. It’s too early in the season to go hard, at least not with any regularity. There will be plenty of time for that in a few more weeks but I should be saving my motivation for when it’s 15 and snowing and I have to either endure the cold, or suffer on the trainer inside.

Speaking of motivation, I have not at all been motivated for winter. A-Basin and Loveland have bother been open for a few weeks now, all manmade snow of course, and I’ve considered going, but when it comes down to it, I can’t make myself go. I have tuned up a couple of my skis so I guess I’m ready anytime, just have to get up and go…

Ah, thank god for that extra hour of sleep last night.

I’m turning into an old man, I’m ready for bed and it’s not even 8 yet… Super lame. Lindsay’s in Paris all this week, even more lame. I’ve never been, but will go when I win Le Tour in 2013. Yep.

I want to go camping.