26

Dave says: Sunny and 50 degrees made for a great birthday weekend. Alisha made me french toast this morning, my favorite curry dish for dinner, and even a chocolate cake. Plus, the final stage of the Tour of California was on and I got to watch some of the world's finest tackle one of California's toughest climbs. Yesterday's intervals on the trainer plus a group ride with Alisha's team and the FFKR guys made for a 100 mile day. We stopped at a Subway about 5 hours in and had a $5 footlong. No lie, it was the best sandwich ever.

The Cold Room

Alisha says: Saturday we woke up to snow so we were doomed to spend four hours on the trainers in our "cold room". We call it the cold room because we don't heat that room and so you have to dress in several layers when getting ready for a workout. I usually start with three layers of tops, gloves, and a headband. It doesn't take that long until I am at just the right temperature for a nice ride. We recently invested in a TV for the cold room, so that has made trainer rides more tolerable. I can't wait until we can leave the cold room behind for long summer days.

Dave says: Today was Presidents Day and Alisha didn't have to work so we headed outside for some skate skiing at Mountain Dell. We made it home just in time to watch the end of the second stage of the Tour of California and see Levi break away to take the yellow jersey. Tonight we headed over to Richard and Britney's to celebrate his birthday and have some tasty enchiladas. Well, I'm off to go catch up on some reading. School has also been especially busy as I am now simultaneously working on three papers and a presentation.

Our New Arrivals

Not quite the little bundles of joy you were expecting? Or for those of you who read our weekly cyling rants maybe it was!

Alisha says: My sweet new ride showed up this week.

Date of Arrival: Thursday, February 5th 2009. 2:20 p.m.

Official Name: 2009 Specialized Ruby Pro w/Dura Ace

Nickname: ?? (I'm still thinking about it)

Weight: 16.2 pounds (even less with race wheels)

I am super excited for my new bike. The weather was nice on Saturday so I took the new bike out for its first ride. I think that we are going to get along rather well. It is light and fast.

Dave says: My 09 Scott Spark showed up a couple weeks ago but here's the pic fully built at 22 lbs. Less than a month until race season and we renewed our licenses today. Now all we need is some warm weather.

Super Bowl Sunday

Dave says: We headed over to Price this weekend to attend Devin and Amber’s epic Super Bowl party and we weren’t disappointed. Wayne and Debbie came to visit on Friday night and on Saturday we packed five people and a bird in Richard and Britney’s Prius and somehow still made the two hour trek at 50 miles per gallon.

It would be hard to pick a winner between the game and the food since both were excellent. I hadn’t watched a pro football game all season but was into it as a cheering Cardinals fan and it was sad to see them lose in the final seconds. All my years growing up in Arizona the Cardinals never amounted to anything so it was nice to see them finally play like a top team.

The halftime show was more monumental than a Justin Timberlake special as Devin and Amber revealed the gender of their baby-to-be using blue and pink frosted cupcakes. I guessed wrong and discovered my pink cupcake tasted like salt.

I wanted to get this post up earlier but it has been a crazy week preparing for a presentation on organizational justice. I took over 1,000 pages of research and somehow turned it into a five page handout and fourteen PowerPoint slides. However, the topic is quite interesting to me (especially procedural justice – determining whether a process, as opposed to an outcome, is fair) and the presentation went well despite being to a group of much smarter individuals.