cold rain, a visit and a victory

CRAP weather today. It rained all day and never got out of the mid 50’s. I called Ryan about 10:30 this a.m. and called the ride off. Even if it quit raining, I wasn’t going to go outside due to the wetness and low temps. You know what that means though: trainer in April (end of April, at that). I rode two hours on the stinkin trainer. Whatever, I needed to ride, but wasn’t willing to get out, so that’s what I get.
My parents came to town last night. We went and ate at The Irish Lion downtown. It is a good place for sure. The first three pages of the menu are liquors and drinks, but the food was great. The place has more scotches, single malt scotches, whiskeys, Irish whiskeys, single barrel whiskeys…than you would have ever thought existed. They also have a section of appetitfe’s and digestife’s, which is something I’ve been wanting to get into for a while, but don’t know what’s what. Maybe the Irish Lion would be a place to go to start. I wanted to eat red meat, so I got the leg of lamb, which contrary to what it sounds like, is just slices of meat, au jous. It was good, but I don’t like real tender meat and it was super tender. I’m glad I got it to try it, but lamb isn’t on my list of "get agains." My pops gave me some money, so Linds and I went to the store today and go the hookup. Good stuff. My parents rule. They brought us some good-to-have items as well. Some soup and stuff to get us through the next week or so.
Madd props to Danny P for a) winning the cat 3 crit race in Anderson today (Sun.), b) for 5th in the Anderson road race yesterday, c) a good enough result in the Anderson time trial to earn 2nd overall for the stage race. That rules.
Josh P didn’t fare as well, but still finished after reeling in a couple attacks AND crashing in the crit today. Those guys are tougher than me for racing in the rain. I suck for riding trainer when there is a race going on that my team and homies are racing. But the three amigos (as I just dubbed Josh, Dan and me) are doing good. Josh has an OVR win from last year and now Danny P and I both have wins this year.
Lindsay’s MTB clinic was cancelled, but she didn’t find out until she got all the way to Indy. She ended up meeting up w/ a couple other Indy MTB girls and they all rode Town Run in the rain anyway. She said she rode pretty good and was able to pick up some pointers from the girls anyway (I think one of them was one of the instructors). Good for her, could have been a total bust, but she needs to learn to ride in the wet sooner or later. More good stuff.