If you’re not a Packers fan, maybe you’d like to view some other sport other than football this afternoon. I saw this at BikeSnobNYC and thought it would be nice to post on Thanksgiving afternoon. It’s mainly just the first 3 guys in the 1997 Worlds, with Thomas Frischknecht riding straight bars on his cross bike against two Italians. It is so strange that Thomas was such a purest when he first came to the US in 1990. He wouldn’t even ride clipless MTB pedals the first year. I gave him some Shimano pedals and he didn’t use them until half the cross season was over the next fall. Later, he became the leader in innovation, with flat bars in cross, tubular tires in MTB marathon racing, etc. I think he realized that there is the best equipment for each and every condition and you might as well be riding it if you have the opportunity. That was until the UCI puts a stop to it. Okay, enough, enjoy.

1997 Cyclo-X Worlds

Friday is a little black for me today. Yesterday, my tooth thing went south and I had to start taking antibiotics. My dentist told me I needed to take antibiotics, but I told him I didn’t want to. Man, yesterday I really wanted to in a big way. I feel pretty crappy today and if you’ve read this much, you know I don’t get along too well with them/antibiotics. I don’t know if it is more physical or mental, but the effect is the same. I ride like shit and usually for a while. The next three days should be interesting. Lucky I can’t really do well anyway.

My race is at 7:30 pm tonight under the lights. There is a 30% chance of rain tonight, 70% tomorrow. That descent is treacherous and it always seems to be mud. What’s up with that? Maybe I can talk someone else into driving today and I’ll sleep. That would be nice for a change. There are 30+ guys entered now in the Elite race at Jingle Cross, so that seems like a reasonable number.

Changing the subject, did you see that Missy Giove avoided jail time for her roll of the delivery of 350 pounds of pot a couple years ago? I thought that she was already in jail. Considering that she could have received up to 40 years, seems like she should be pretty happy. Missy likes to go big in about everything she does.

Okay, I’d better get going. I like the drive up to Iowa. There is a Caribou Coffee stop in West Des Moines that breaks up the trip. It looks like it is going to be 30 mph tailwind most of the way, with the wind coming from the SSW, so that is always good. It seems like I have headwind driving way more than 50% of the time, which just seems wrong.

Pie selection from Thanksgiving.

Missy with her piranha.

Missy going big on her bike.