Group Ride = Circus

Geez, what a ride. The only thing lacking was the freak bears riding the tiny bicyces. If it could happen tonight...it did. I did not show on the mnt bike since my cassettes did not arrive, so I had to use the old stand by...the road sled. I got off work at 2 PM. Headed home and took a one hour power nap. After that it was a little bit of design work. Finally around 4 I suited up in the Cateye kit and went out to the park and spun the legs out till 6. I also did a few hill repeats to get the legs warm. My legs felt a bit sluggish from Mondays 5 hour TT, but nothing too bad. Since the weather was like 93 degrees with a heat index of 105 degrees, the ELETE and Hammer Products were flowing like a fine wine.

We meet up for the 6 bells group ride. There was like 6 of us. Kisch was there on his mnt bike support'n a huge 1 gallon size Hydropack. I just shook my head and smiled. Other riders included Fry, Reed, JY, Engstrom, Klaren, and that one guy who I can never remember his name. We headed out of town...less than one mile out of town Kisch is pulling the group down the road at 27 mph with full knobbies on the mnt bike. Klaren is shelled out the back. The rest of us are strung out. Now I can feel that my legs are not recovered. JY goes to the front and settles things down, cause he is tapering for the Tour of Kansas City this weekend. After his pull the rest of the group does their turn at the front. Then comes Kisch again. Once again we are near 30 mph! I am about cooked. The legs are no longer happy or snappy. There are gaps starting to form between the riders. Then it happened. SNAP! Ching, ching, cha, ching. Kisch's easton seat post spontaneous combusts and his WTB saddle bounces off the road. THANK GOD! Something need to slow his ass down. I bet it was the 1 gallon hydropack that pushed the seat post to the limit.

That was that. He went home. The rest of us pace lined to Dike where myself and JY turned back, cause he was tapering and I was not recovered and didn't want any more miles today. You could tell peoples legs tonight were not that great. Most of the group was still cooked from State Road Race on Sunday. I think Kisch is the only acception. Tomorrow will be an easy ride.

I wonder how Kisch's 8 mile ride home standing up was?

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