Grow Some Corones Already!

You gotta love the comments Enrico Gasparotto made to CyclingNews.com
about The Giro's Stage 16 mountain time trial...

"It is too hard. It is not a normal day. It is impossible.
This stage is not cycling, if it was on a mountain bike then OK.
This is a ski pass, not a road for cycling."
-Enrico Gasparotto

Nice Enrico. Could you sound like more of a puss? I mean really! 145 other riders did the 12.9KM time trial to Plan de Corones and a guy who finished 86th and is 81st on GC is crying about 12.9KM? If the dude was in the top 10 and dropped like a rock because of the TT I could give him at least being upset. But in my opinion the dude just sounded like a big pud. I'm sure it was hard. The whole damn race is hard. If it was easy EVERYONE would do it, and what fun would that be Enrico??

With grades up to 24% it was ONE hell of a climb!

After I read that today I made my mind up that during tonight's ride I would make myself tackle one of the harder climbs available to me. Not the longest, but one of the steepest. I've avoided it all year, because doing it cuts 2 miles and some time off my loop. But tonight I made myself do it for the fist time this year. It's a hell of a nut dropper. The compact crank did take a lot, but not all of the edge off said nut dropping. I'm always amazed at the upper body and core strength it takes to get up a climb like that. Doing the climb is always a test of my fitness. I passed no prob, and as a bonus the other climbs during the next 29 miles seemed pretty tame!

Speaking of core strength my back as at about 97% today. It was a week today I jacked it up. I'm hoping that today was a sign of it getting full on 100% soon.

I finally got my adapter sitch taken care of and the Dos will be getting the Fox put on this week. Seems like I've had the fork for freaking ever and I haven't logged one inch on it! Hope to have it going for some Big Bear recon this weekend.

Time to get ready for bed and wait for the backlash from Enrico Gasparotto supporters!

Later.