2 punctures by 7AM :(
What a start to the day. Planned on being a roadie with a quick lap of Morgul Bismarck before starting work. Quick being a relative term here in Boulder, I got overtaken by a pensioner doing Flagstaff a few days ago. Morgul Bismarck, which passes very close to Sun's Broomfield campus, was made famous by the old Coors cycle series and also features as Day 1 of "The Hell of The West" race in American Flyers. Not exactly Kevin Costner's greatest movie but "Day 2" in the movie is about as good as cycling movies get.
So I ended up getting 3 km of warm up in before a puncture and then replacing it with the tube I was carrying - which was actually my last punctured tube! So that was the end of that it despite a MTB racer trying to help me, she had a decent pump. Unlike my slinky and minute carbon fiber pump which is so tiny it looks more like a discrete up-market sex aid. Typical of Boulder, a MTB biker out training off-road on a 1 gear bike - Marshall Mesa may not be steep but I like another 27 gears if I head out there.
So out with the iPhone, a quick call, a few emails looking over the Flatirons, played some Solitaire and then my girls, Maja, Freya, and Vika came to pick me up for coffee. I'm not getting any fitter at this rate but its very mellow.
So I ended up getting 3 km of warm up in before a puncture and then replacing it with the tube I was carrying - which was actually my last punctured tube! So that was the end of that it despite a MTB racer trying to help me, she had a decent pump. Unlike my slinky and minute carbon fiber pump which is so tiny it looks more like a discrete up-market sex aid. Typical of Boulder, a MTB biker out training off-road on a 1 gear bike - Marshall Mesa may not be steep but I like another 27 gears if I head out there.
So out with the iPhone, a quick call, a few emails looking over the Flatirons, played some Solitaire and then my girls, Maja, Freya, and Vika came to pick me up for coffee. I'm not getting any fitter at this rate but its very mellow.
