It was cold this morning, so I got a late start and it warmed up pretty nice - a little too much wind for my lame arse though.

I'm getting used to the carbon wheelset on Roxanne - they are definitely more dodgy in the cross winds. And the geometry of my bike makes carving those lines just a little different from all the road bikes I've had - something I'll get used to, but it's been instinctive for so long when you've been riding race bikes for 40 years... and now it's something I have to think about a little.

In medical news - I've been seeing a doctor for anemia. My hemoglobin was too low to donate blood last month, so I told my doc and she ordered some blood tests and didn't find anything horrible (leukemia, colon cancer etc.) but also didn't figure out why the value isn't higher - my red blood cell factory is just on strike or something.  I keep thinking about pro-cyclists and blood boosting and how they would enhance their hematocrit to the max allowable by the rules - which is about twice what mine is now.  Maybe I'll get a prescription for EPO or a blood packing procedure and then my old endurance will be back where it used to be.  More likely I'll have to take an iron supplement; which has zero performance benefit but might reward me with a constipation badge.

This guy passed me like hot shit - then he quit.

This guy was the real deal.