Holy Gluten-Free Granola Batman

Deb is making her awesome "4-c (cashew, cranberry, currant, coconut) crunch" granola. Anti-inflammatory and my favorite post ride snack. Mmmm

The great indoors

The TV coverage of the Giro d'Italia on Universal Sports has save my sanity while riding the indoor trainer. It beats, in order of least to most preferred, 1) staring at the wall 2) riding on the porch either (it reminds me too much that I'm sitting still) 3) watching old cycling dvd's 4) watching tv shows or movies. The last few days were pretty intense viewing. Christian's crash was terrible to see and a blow to the team morale, myself included. I'm not trying to keep up doing it every day though. Stage 6 is a rest day for me. Hopefully by the end, I'll have done my time indoors and can graduate to open roads. We'll see what the doctors say though. Sunny, warm weather in Boulder has brought out the massive population of cyclists and cycling enthusiasts living in town. It amazes me every time to see the bike lanes north of town almost overrun with bikes. I can't wait to get out there too.

The rehab is continuing to progress nicely. I'm moving off the crutch that I use more like a cane and trying to walk without limping. Also I'm just starting some workouts in the gym aside from physical therapy.

Last night Velonews had a little taste-testing of some cycling related coffees for an upcoming article. Too bad the samples were only identified by numbers. I might have boosted my scores of my teammate's coffee brands. On that note, try out both Tom Danielson's and Timmy Duggan's coffee! I'll be going for Tom's decaf roast as I'm on a caffeinated coffee hiatus for the time being. It's been hard.