Where I've been...

It's been a long, busy Summer. P-B-P didn't happen for me in part because I bit off way more than I could chew. In the past year I've:
1) Become a dad
2) Worked on restoring a badly neglected 80+ year old house
3) Started a new job

All major life events and all demand a lot of my scarce weekend time. This meant I didn't train nearly enough and was completely unprepared for P-B-P. Despite receiving tons of great advice from vets like Kent Peterson, Jan Heine, and Peter Beeson I failed to follow that simplest piece of training advice offered up by Eddy Merckx: "Ride lots"

All was not a total loss as the trip to France for P-B-P instead became the first overseas vacation for my wife and I. Actually it was a our first real (no relatives) vacation in a couple of years. It was great spending 10 days in Paris with my wife and baby and fortunately for us the French adore babies.

I have had some bike related happenings to report and I'll get to that in the coming days. Lots to catch up on.