Well, after a beautiful week of sunshine up in Squaw Valley, reality has set back in as the Bay Area weather has once again returned to it's shitty self. After a pretty lousy 45mi rain-and-cold encrusted bike ride, albeit shrouded in some great company of my friends Monique, Katie and Tori, the weekend has turned into a thoroughly uninspiring mess of laziness and couch-potatoe behaviour. I have managed to catch up on last weekends motorcycle racing, including the latest round of World Superbikes that returned to Kyalami, South Africa after a 7 year absence, which is great! It was really cool to watch some good 2-wheeled action as Nitro Nori continued to solidify his standing in the Championship.
Alas, I can only sit on the couch for so long before becoming bored and so once the motorcycle action ran out I have decided to embrace my feminine side and do some baking. Yes, you read correctly; it's time to make some first-class oatmeal raisin post-run recovery cookies and some chocolate brownies for the work-mates, who are always bringing sweets to the office. It's time to return that favor. I'll let you know how that one works out because it's been quite a while since I shocked the world with my snickerdoodle excellence at the Boulder Running Company. Damn that was a while ago.
Speaking of things happening a while ago; I picked up my fly-rod again while up in Squaw and realized that I haven't done so in almost 4 years. Ridiculous. I had the very pleasurable company of two of my friends from the East Coast, Helen and Alison, who are the first two girls that I've ever fished with and arguably a lot more talented and certainly good-looking than I. Helen was the first to show us up with the only decent fish of the morning. I was glad that she yelled at me from across the dam to take a picture because it was a realy beautiful rainbow, and while the action was fast and frantic, Helen and I only managed to play with the little guys. That changed on the second morning when I managed to figure out the correct pattern to keep the riff-raff off the hook, and landed 3 really solid fish. Taking pictures while trying to hand-land, remove the fly, and return exhausted roe-laden female trout to the water ASAP is a challenge at best and so the only shot I got is featured below. I was pretty stoked to get back on the water and can't wait to do so again at our next Sales Meeting in October. I'll hopefully be tapering for NYC Marathon and will welcome some more fishing into the schedule...
The cookies are almost done, the brownies are going into the oven, and after a brief feminine-moment I'm moving from one sticky mess to another because I need to change the fork oil on the racebike this weekend before I head back to the track. Cheers for now...
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