All hail the Sun and it's triumph over the darkness!  At 12:04UT on December 21, 2008 the sun began the long march back to summer.  I can tell there's a little more light every day - I know I can.

To celebrate I drank a bottle of wine, braised a lamb shank and banged on a pot in the moonlight in the backyard.  No virgin sacrifice this year - none could be found.  Oh, yeah, there were some Judeo-Christian festivals in there too.

My training has been sketchy.  CTL still plummets after slight stagnation/upticks.  Camp is going to be brutal for me...oh well.

Mark Tokar, the newest Privateer, has sent some pictures from his new rider training day at the Encino Velodrome.




I hear he may now be going to ADT for their new rider training...evidence of the addictive nature of track racing. 

During the holidays we went to the store for groceries for the famn damily during their stay.  Biggest load on the Xtracycle yet.  I'm thinking this was somewhere in the range of 500lbs considering load+bike+meat pie for a pilot.





We even rode up on three guys out for a group ride and the comment was - "Now that's how you go to the store." 
Right on.  Power to the Xtracycle!!

Now to go find my motivation to go train....where DID I put that?

J.