February | 2013 | Steve Tilford

Kind of behind schedule today already and the day hasn’t really started. Trudi invited a few people over last night, so I ended up not packing much, but sharing wine and stories with friends. Below is a interview/video that Keith did after the Master’s Worlds, plus a couple photos from last night. We’re just driving to Denver today, so it’s not even 8 hours. Then up to Vail on Tuesday, repair scheduled for Wednesday. Okay, I better get some stuff together for the next few weeks.

Conversation with Masters World Champ Steve Tilford from Gizmo Pictures on Vimeo.

Our ride today was pretty good. What a waste of form. I’d love to be going down to Texas for Walberg/Pace Bend/Lago Vista and such. We had a 20.1mph average for 53 miles and the wind was blowing between 30-40mph all day.

Trudi is packing like it’s a vacation. Two types of nordic skis, plus her downhill skis too.

Trudi made homemade cupcakes with some hand crafted bicycle racers.

Pretty creative jerseys.

Keith and Catherine gave me an alpaca sweater, plus a super nice alpaca blanket. Catherine sewed my initials into the blanket so nobody at the hospital will make off with it. I think she doesn’t quite understand the outpatient part of outpatient surgery.

It’s D-day if D stands for decision. We drove out to Colorado yesterday. We stopped at my friend Vincent’s house in Denver, to spend the night and now are driving up to Silverthorne, where I’m going to be staying for the next while. I guess it snowed a bunch up in the mountains yesterday, so it is going to be a little slow. My van sucks in the snow, so I’m going to have to take that into account. It has a plug/block heater, so I brought an extension cord along so I don’t have any issues starting it. The radio said it is supposed to be -10 up in the mountains tonight.

Vincent always has something new and fun going on. Last night he set up a new 3 dimensional printer. This is a machine that lays plastic in such an order to build 3D objects. It is kind of hard to explain how it works, but it is pretty cool. We only made one thing, a Simplex derailleur pulley. It did just an okay job, but I can see how this science is going to progress. It is pretty cool.

I have a doctor’s appointment in Vail at 3 pm today, so I’ll know a lot more about what is going to happen to me after that. Tomorrow is when I’m supposed to have the operation. I can’t see that changing, but you never know. I brought an erogometer out to ride, so I’m going to ride that tonight and then see how it goes after that.

Okay, I better get a move on. I’ll update this later when I have a chance.

This is never a good sign. But, when he came up and said he clocked me at 84 in a 75, I knew I was good. He just gave me a warning after perusing the van.