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Check out the silverman bike course for a good ride with some good hills. Starts south of town out at lake mead. Anywhere out there is good for a long ride. Red Rocks is good for a couple loops (I think each loop is 13 miles or so) during the week.
yes it sure did get HOT quick here in VA!! Have a safe trip…
you move big tv stars have to get tickets and stand in lines like regular people??!?! and carry backpacks?!
was it really 90 sunday? all i know is it was freakin’ HOT, and i wasn’t ready. waaaah…..
bon voyage!
Wow, only $50 on FedEx ground to ship your bike, not bad!
I was out there spectating yesterday too (it was HOT just standing around) while watching Rebecca and her friends run the race and I don’t think I’ve ever been at a race when I knew more people. It was fun to see someone every couple of minutes.
You can think about the heat this way – it will better prepare you for riding out in Vegas and/or whatever other undisclosed locations you are headed to.
Just don’t get sucked into paying $50 to go swimming again!
It was way to hot here in DC to anything this weekend! Safe travels :)
Way to get your workouts in despite the heat– DC heat is suffocating! Have fun riding your bike around vegas– I hear that the desert is really beautiful once you get outside the strip.
Yeah, there are several tough bike courses that are part of races out in the Vegas area that would probably make for good training. I can’t go anywhere w/o my bike these days either!
hi. it’s definitely reassuring to hear that i’m not weak for being slower in the heat and that’s it’s normal to be hot!!! i was feeling like it’s too early in the year to be so hot so i was definitely feeling like a wimp. but it’s NORMAL. exercising at 90+ degrees is NOT optimal :) good post!
it was great to see you on the race course yesterday. i think we’re the quietest people ever: -hi ray (quiet wave) / -hi audrey. nice job!
hehe. it was great to see a friendly face! thx for cheering!
Oooo, Johnny Tri lives in Vegas and he knows all the good routes. I will put him in contact with you.
Oh, and I got one of those signs too. I saw them in Boston and didn’t even think about Ebay…thanks for the tip
Yikes, that is hot. I find it’s always hard to adjust fluid intake when the weather is sporadic.
That’s a lot of traveling to cram into a short amount of time!
It’s cool you got one of the Boston signs.
Isn’t it nice to go from “Frozen” to “Cooked” in a month’s time span?
I went a ride on Sunday and the sun just drained my energy but, I did have lots of Chocolate Milk too.
Have a good trip! After you leave Vegas, I hope you go somewhere to beat the heat. The island chain sounds nice.
That is a lot of chocolate milk! Have a great trip out to Vegas and hopefully you’ll get some great training in out there!
And there goes our Rainmaker…has passport, bike box will travel! Another adventure to follow; very cool!
the Today show has “where in the world is matt Lauer”
we gotta get something for you..
“Run down the Rainmaker”
enjoy the globetrotting sir and remember…what happens in vegas……. is probably not legal
Ooo cool. I’ve never seen a celebrity out in public before. Once, I saw someone from the Real World who was on my flight to Boston. That’s about it.