Another Sunday out and back team training session.  It’s a ritual I have grown accustomed to.  A small group assembled for the challenges of our fast 50 miler today.  I met them in my neighborhood but there was already a split due to a flat,  Because Cascades was closed for construction the group came down Dunn.  We intercepted the second group by the dog park there and turned for the course.  After a brief stop at my house to gas up a soft tire, we made for Old 37.

Professional basketball player turned statesman, Bill Bradley wrote a book long ago.  I read it as a kid.  It was called “A Sense of Where you are.”  I haven’t thought about it in a long time.  But I did last night.  We were fanatic about basketball in my neighborhood in Connecticut.  Eerily similar to Bloomington. 

I missed yesterday’s session because I was able to race at Mass Ave in Indianapolis.  The team had a good showing in the events that we participated in.  Nick Torrance won the Category 5 event (State Champion!) and Mark Powell was 3rd.  Lanie Deppe was top ten in the Women’s 4 and Gary Palmer and I had a field showing (with some flashes at the front!) in the Masters group.  Other local riders had good results as well in our 27 mph Master’s category, Chris Kroll, Bob Brooks and Tom Cox were either in the breaks or pulling us to them.  The pro 1/2 event was at 7:30 that night but Scholars Inn didn’t have any riders pre-registered for this state championship race.