Gear Gear Gear
My new wheel has been built. A Stans Arch sporting a SON dynamo hub. I've not set it up yet but am super excited. The hub will power a sweet KLite and a Sinewave USB charger to keep my ipod and phone going. I've read I'll need a cache battery to prevent the phone from re-booting at slow speeds but I'll test it first.
No picture but I replaced the Fargo SRAM 28-42 crankset with a NextSL 24-38. Wow. My 54 year old legs have never been happier! Not to mention the 1/2lb of weight loss on the bike. Current dry weight is 23.5 but the light system will erase all that.
And sometimes a girl wants a good brewed cup of coffee. I already have a GSI Ti mug and tiny portable stove but drinking coffee and needing to boil water for dinner sent me and SheilaT back to the internet. This set is not for racing but will be fun on camping overnights.
It is a nested set of GSI bowls and a collapsing coffee cone. The Thermarest was my addition so the cone would have something to sit on.
Training to Race. Racing to Train
February was packed. Iceman gravel near Waco (might have been January actually), social rides in Mason and Castell, Holy Roller and 1/2 in Smithville and of course Desert Fest out in Big Bend that included the IMBA Epic trail in Big Bend Ranch State Park
Just 5 weeks till the Castell Grind. So excited my brother who is new to cycling will be coming in from Boston to ride.
http://www.castellgrind.com/
And OY - only 7 weeks to the CHI St Joseph Health Gran Fondo. This bad boy is 500 miles meeting up with a 100 mile community ride to raise funds for College Station area cancer treatment. I'll be training out there next weekend and hope to get some good pics.
http://stjofo.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1040&pg=entry
And....14 weeks to the big dance.
I put my name on the list last week. The 117th entry (if Rob is a real person). 117 added together is 9. 9 is 1/2 18 or חי. It's a numbers thing. Miles of the Tour Divide are 2745 which is 18. See. I have a theme. To Life!
