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And a big hey there howdy to ya'll this beautiful first Monday morning of June. The clouds above Boise are light and fluffy with streaks of pink and orange lining their bottoms with fine detail. I look over the Boise State campus from the ninth floor of the Grove and wish that this sunny morning could have been yesterday. Because as good as the bike leg was from the Lucky Peak reservoir to Flying Hawk, the typically sporadic high desert rains clouded my camera the last ten miles back to town. Just when you think you got something hot in the bag.......rain. After looking at most of the video last night, I didn't have the heart to look at the rain footage, so I'll do that on the capture fly this afternoon while down loading. You might be able to hear me scream from wherever you are.

One good note was a comment from one our Multi-Rider coaches from Salt Lake City who suggested that the full course RCVs (Kona, CDA, Louisville and even Arizona) are TOO LONG for the vast majority of his clients, as in, they don't want to do a FIVE HOUR coached training ride, they want (and need) something shorter, like from 45 minutes to 90 minutes. Wow, a constructive comment about us giving them TOO MUCH product. Could be a first.

It also opens up the opportunity to use some of the course footage that is "the best of" several of the events that have an equal amount of less than perfect footage. and package them as shorter training rides, e.g. A thirty minute ride of Steelhead, 45 minutes of climbing in Lanzarote, 60 minutes in Switzerland and 75 in, TA DA: Boise, Idaho!!!!!!!! Just before the rains. The best part. Why not??

Hope springs eternal deep in the heart and soul of the Man from RCV. (cue theme music and fade to black).

Photos: Old Boise street mural. Head Referee Ed explaining drafting (again) at the pre race brief. A bridge column mosaic quote from Mr. O.