Desert living

I'm pretty sure there's not much I can say about Tucson that hasn't been said already in a thousand bike racing blogs, but it's worth mentioning anyway. I guess everyone comes here for a reason- it really is a great place to train. Lately I've been heading out with a great crew every morning,including my TMK/Jittery Joe's teammate Adam Myerson, Thom Coupe from Bikereg, and teammate from last year Logan Loader. Sometimes we start the ride together and branch off to do specific intervals, but yesterday Adam, Thom and I did a pretty long ride that even had a great dirt road section (Battenkill?! This race was also mentioned in an exclamatory fashion by Adam after we finished a block of tempo...). I guess I can leave New England, but New England never leaves me.

Here's a pic from the ride:



At the mid ride lunch break we had some awesome carrot cake at a remote gas station- so many calories I didn't have to eat for the next two hours! Speaking of eating, I had been watching my diet pretty closely, and started to eat too many meals that looked like this:



Now I'm eating a lot more of this:



It's all about balance

Also, what they say about the "Shootout" is definitely true. Last Saturday's ride was by far the hardest I've ever gone in February. The ride in Naples were pretty quick, but the shootout is the same speed, uphill. Apparently last week wasn't even "that fast." Tomorrow will be fun.


Today was a rest day, but also a milestone. I've been putting it off for a while, but I finally had to transition from my school "Blitzmail" account to a real life email system (gmail). My new email is toby.marzot@gmail.com. Big changes, exciting stuff. Sadly, so many emails from Kevin will be lost forever.

Multimedia news:

- If you haven't seen the Office episode from Season 4 where Michael and Jan have everyone over for dinner, you should. Hilarious.

- Also been watching some Sharkweek episodes on Netflix

- Saw this on a forum (Velocipede Salon):



- The other day I was getting ready to do an interval and remarked to my ride partner that I was going to listen to some Zooey (She and Him). He gave me a funny look. Not sure why: