DNS

I just woke up. Technically I should be about 6 miles into the Chicago Distance Classic, but hey, when time gets short you gotta do what really matters. For me, that's having one morning a week where I wake up next to Ben (ideally after the sun's up) and enjoy some laying-in-bed time and a home cooked breakfast. That would be today. Except it's earlier than planned, no thanks to the 7am registration time for the Planet Bike UCI race.

Let me also mention the things I HATE about running races that bike races don't do... including forcing you to walk through an "expo" of people selling crap in order to pick up your registration packet, and not allowing you to pick up your packet the day of the race, and including t-shirts in registration that are all two sizes to big (NO MORE T-SHIRTS!) and plastic bags filled with worthless pieces of paper from all 7u93827598 sponsors for every runner (that's 30,000 plastic bags that this city could have lived without). What's wrong with the bike process- register, get a bib #, mail riders their bib or have them available for pick-up the morning of the race, and that's it?

Worked the Prairie Crossing crit with two other super ladies and had a good time of it. Grayslake wins the award for creative safety measures: they attached two bags of foam peanuts to each mailbox on the course with a giant ziptie. No big crashes or silly drama, short of what happens when there's no good finish line camera. It still blows my mind how bad riders are at judging what position they're in at the finish line. It's like, you know the few riders you crossed the line with, but you're likely to misjudge any close calls, and you probably don't know how many folks were really in front of you total unless you're in the lead group. Today, I'm headed to Glencoe to join the team at the race, but not until after we grill up some tasty eggs.

Less than two weeks to the wedding. Lots of love.