So our friend Jim called us up and asked if we would pre-ride the Mt. Tam Hillclimb course with him, since he had never done it before and Devon and I are such awesome climbers. Ha. But we do know the course and that was the important thing. For those of you who know those roads: we started in Fairfax, rode Bolinas Fairfax Rd. to the dam and up to the ridge then down to the coast, turned along Highway 1 to Stinson, where the race actually starts, then turned around and did the course (back along 1, up Bolinas Fairfax, then right on Ridgecrest along the 7 sisters), then we turned around at the end and rode back ...
Devon, Hayden, Peter, and Glenn with their $7,500 check for a PRIME! More $ than the entire women's prizelist...After the Elk Grove weekend, Devon, Dave and I went into Chicago to be Tourists. Here we are at the Picasso sculpture downtown. Devon is admiring the sculpture, Dave is admiring something else...After the sculpture we had pizza and went shopping and then went to look at the city from the top of the Sears Tower which was mysteriously called the John Hancock Plaza at ...
I just got back from a 10-day trip to the Chicago area, for races in two of the seemingly 500 suburbs that are named [Something] Grove. Apparently there used to be a lot of trees in that part of Illinois, but now there are a lot of houses, roads, and shopping centers with my two favorite stores, Walgreens and Target!Overall the trip was fun - Devon and I stayed with some really fantastic people, we hung out in Chicago for the first time ever, and I had lunch with a good friend who I haven't seen in 5 years. I have some photos from the trip, I will post them separately. But the races were ...
I went to Starbucks just now to get out of the office while the keyboard tray guy was drilling into our desks. This big, sweet-looking car rolls up, a young guy steps out, and hands me the keys...Obviously that last bit is just a daydream. But seriously this car is sick, trust me I got a close-up view... it's a Bentley Continental GT and it costs like $200,000. Taitt this is my new if-money-were-no-object car, replacing the audi or mercedes or whatever conventional luxury car it was that I named before.
This is Taitt at the Albany Crit.