This is LA...

Probably sunburned the crap out of my face today... didn't realize it until AWfoSho mentioned that I look a little pink. Guess that is the price that one pays for standing around watching first the threes, then the twos, then the pro/one guys pedal their bikes all fast and furious like up a 3.7 mile long hill... oh, did I mention that I got to watch the p/1/2 women also. Oh, the price we pay.

for a bunch of flatlanders, the kidlets did well. Tk slotted in at 16th in the 2's. AWfoSho was mid-pack but happy because he bested Rock's Iggy and Finneran. In the 3's, Staz edged El Gigante by a few seconds, but both kidlets ended up far enough down in the pack to be footloose and fancy free over the next two days... don't have to worry about who is going up the road, etc... just pedal their bikes in search of fleeting glory and upgrade points.

TK has his sights set on a few bonus seconds tomorrow, AWfoSho may make a play for the sprinters jersey... we'll see how it shakes out... problem is that they also need to defend Paul Mach's lead. See, PM simply rode the wheels off the rest of the 2's. He was 47 seconds better than the first loser and posted the 8th best time of the day in the p/1 race. Even put some time into Rock's Tyler Hamilton...

Me, I'm headed to bed as soon as I kick the kidlets out of the room. Right now they are watching a dvd beamed up onto a bed sheet hung on the wall... Maybe I can send one of them to the snack bar for some popcorn...