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The 2007 herd is ready. Are the legs and lungs?

January 6th in Connecticut. A ride in shorts and jersey! A warm ride in January is typically about 45. Any rider would sign-up for 40. If you're lucky it might hit 50. I've done a couple of New Year's Day rides that were in the low 50s. One was 1995 the other was a couple of years ago. Today it was 68. So off I went with my skinny white arms reflecting brightly. Weird.

Our new team frames from Cannondale came in. Of course Alren was the first to pick-up, build and ride his. All in the span of about 45 minutes! I think he shoved the UPS guy aside to get to his frame which was still up in the truck.

Cannondale did a great job. We kept it pretty simple keeping the matte black we've had the past 2 years but adding the custom decals. With our uniforms being pretty orange we didn't want the bike to be too obnoxious.

Wade

Sunrise on the last day of the season. On the ClifBar Run-up. Laura, Nathaniel and Wade.
Wade, Matt and Paul after Sunday's race. Wade over the barriers.

I heard through the grapevine that people wanted to see more shots of Nathaniel... These are from about two months ago. Thanks for the new diaper Dad. How much longer do we have to do this apple picking thing? And getting ready for my first solid foods.

But I race like crap! I pick Nationals to throw out my worst performance in a cross race in sometime. Oh well. I won't offer up all the same old lame excuses. Wait! I'm a bike racer we ALWAYS offer the excuse or two when things go wrong. I'd guess my cross form peaked back in mid-November and has been slipping since then. The Flu didn't help. That greased the skids of my downward slide. Ted said it best when we were out at dinner a few nights back. When your teetering on form and only training the minimum amount, missing 2 or 3 workouts is all it takes. I did get a mention on the PA as I had a very good start and the mention " Wade Summers is up there too!" came over the wires. I was sitting in the top 15 when the field made the right hand turn onto the grass. But that was it. It went downhill from there as I had NO power and a steady stream of riders went by me for the next 2 laps. The bleeding slowed after that and I cruised home to 71st! I had to put in an effort in the last lap to catch a rider who has no business finishing in front of me at a cross race. It was the only mission I accomplished.

The new clothes look great. Same design basically but with orange, taking the look back to the old Team Horst.