It’s 450 miles from Chicago to Cable. There is a ton of after Christmas traffic. Lots of trailers full of snow mobiles. There is a ton of snow in Wisconsin, so everyone wants to get out in it.

I got out for an hour and a half ride yesterday. My hands are still jacked from Cross Nationsls, or before. The roads were clear, but wet. I can’t believe how much salt they dump on the roads in Chicago. My nostrils and lips were swollen when I got home. Weird.

The Bears game is on the radio. The Chiefs are playing too. I watched the World Cup Cross race live this morning. Lars Boom killed it, especially taking his starting position into consideration. Pretty great win for him. Man, did that course look treacherous. Super hard. The time gaps reflected that. Jonathan Paige was 19th. Seems good.

We might stop in a couple hours and meet Tom Schuler to ski by the Wisconsin Dells. Or maybe just keep going and ski under the lights at OO.
Or maybe not ski at all. Tomorrow might be near 100km. Probably don’t want to be too tired for that.

The double Birkie is in a little more than an hour. I hate this early morning stuff.

We rolled into Cable yesterday around 5pm. Bromont started going crazy with his nose against the air vent about an hour out. He starts shaking like nuts about 15 minutes to go. He ran around wild for a couple hours. I got on a trainer. Really. I did. I think the last time I clamped my bicycle into a trainer was maybe 5 years ago. Once. And probably that long until the time before.

I hate riding trainers. I hate sweating all over, even though I had the room temperature down to 50. I had my headphones on, so I could stomach it for a little over an hour. Showered and went down to the Sawmill to meet up with most of the other cyclists that are skiing today.

There is way too much chocolate, cookies and alcohol here at Dennis’ right now. I’m going to have to exercise more than the 9 hours I’m doing today, to keep the weight off.

Better get a couple more pancakes down before we take off. I’ll let you know how it goes.

It is nice riding a trainer in a building you built.

All the puss and infection seems to be gone out of my knee. Good thing because I finished the antibiotics yesterday. Good riddance!

Dennis making pancakes for the gang.