Cool Weather

It's a great weekend! Weather-wise, that is. A front came through Friday night with some rain, it has stayed cloudy, and the temps are probably 10-15 degrees F below what it normally is. Nice preview of the coming Fall but it'll get hot again soon.

The weather made for some good riding. Jonnene got in 60 miles riding with a friend who's preparing for her first Ironman triathlon in two weeks up in Kentucky. We would have liked to go up there to watch but we'll be in Montana during the Labor Day weekend visiting friends J knew and worked with when she first came to the States back in '92. And I've always wanted to visit Montana. There's a connection we have to make in Denver both coming and going which will be my first visit to the Denver International Airport since 2001. Hard to believe that "new" airport is almost 8 years old now. I kinda miss the old Denver Stapleton airport...I was last there in 1999 before they closed it...it had some character and had its short-comings, but I liked it.

I did long intervals on my time trial bike Saturday but my legs were tired. Last week was my first "real" training sessions and six straight days on the bike really wore me out. I could barely stay in the 25 mph range in any of the six intervals I did although I did keep my cadence up to work on leg speed. Tim has adjusted my sessions for next week, replacing my kilo intervals on Wednesday with an easy ride and putting the kilos in place of the group training ride on Thursday. That should help keep my legs a little fresher.

I forgot to mention that Jonnene and I saw "The Dark Knight" last weekend and I was greatly impressed by the performance of the late Heath Ledger. He played the latest incarnation of The Joker in this Batman tale and it was dark, scary, and convincing. It is rumored that his performance will be a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination which would be unusual for a "super-hero-style" action movie (usually they get costume, special effects, music, and editing nominations). I think it's totally deserved. Heath was a native of Jonnene's hometown of Perth, Australia where this famous movie star was treated as a regular guy whenever he came home to visit family. The last time Ledger was in Perth, just two weeks before his death, he wrote a letter to his hometown thanking everyone for the good treatment he always got and for letting him be just a boy from Perth. I hope he gets the nomination and I hope he wins.

"Here's my card."