1. If you haven't read BikeSnob's blog today, I suggest you do. It is way, way, WAY better than mine. I am really impressed with his ability, his style, and his consistency. I can't even average a post a week yet.
2. Working in education can be incredibly frustrating. I am constantly finding new sources of frustration, not the least of which is the inability to talk about what happens in our school publicly as it would lead to me getting fired. There are many jobs like this, the CIA, the FBI, various other branches of law enforcement and secrecy things, but I wonder why it has to be this way at a public school. Shouldn't the things happening in public schools be public? Shouldn't the public, who are paying for the school, get to know what is happening? Of course I am not talking about sharing private information about kids or things like that, just policies and guiding philosophies and general trends, that sort of thing. But I will stop, lest I end up with my foot in my mouth and a pink slip in my mailbox.
3. I won some money this past week riding my bike, which was fun. Picked up 30 bucks for a 10 mile time trial and then 50 bucks for the Philly Amateur TT on West River Drive. Of course I took a picture to commemorate the occasion:
I must still be a few thousand dollars in the hole, since I also paid to enter those races, but I am going to go ahead and call myself a professional. Not in the sense that I do it for the money, but that money sometimes comes my way because I do it.
The race was fun, there was a guy in front of me in a very nice USA kit for the Maccabiah Games in Israel. He asked me not to catch him, or said something like "you better not catch me." I said that I would be trying my hardest but that he ought to not let himself get caught. I made sure to catch him before the turnaround. But his kit was REALLY nice so I was still a little bit jealous.
4. We are starting to work on getting more sponsors for our club for next year. It is really fun to see that people are sometimes willing to help out and that we are also meeting a need for these folks. Of course it is probably more exciting to think about possible discounts or free gear of any kind because, let's face it, cycling gear is cool and getting it inexpensively or free is even cooler.
And I could throw my sweet new Easton super deep rims on there.
5. Speaking of the Eastons, it has been a lot of fun learning to glue tubulars. I am hoping I don't screw it up too badly, but I think I actually am getting a pretty good idea of how it should work, and they don't make it too hard. And you feel pretty cool with this very involved process instead of just throwing a new tube in your clinchers.
6. Get together at Main Line Cycles on Thursday night at 6pm. Pizza and hanging out with the Velo Aces, what could be better!?!
