Oui, Oui (sounds like we we, means yes, yes) we are here in France where Alison had a smokin’ fast short TT where she is in 3rd place and the climbing jersey. We rounded corners and flew through round-a-bouts and 3.9km later we were through the finish line.

Here are a few pictures from yesterday… they are tiny, but if you click on them you can make them bigger. I will figure out how to make them bigger, but for now you may need your magnifier glasses to see what is what, who is who…

 This is Alison on the podium in the climbing jersey…

 Amber Rais, Alison, Brooke, and Kat after the time trial…

 And the podium where….

Katie is in the leader in yellow after a really smokin’ fast short TT…

Alright, day two which has a gigantic climb followed by a shorter climb and a big desent is about to began so I am off to pack my bag and eat some lunch…

Also Leah won the Hood TT at Mount Hood Stage Race… Time Trials of all sorts were going on all over the place, Geeze! Yesterday must have been a good day for time trialing cause there were a lot of them or at least two.

Congrads. to Leah! They also have a big climbing day as you may or may not know…   

Until next time, Have a good time

:)Chrissy

So here we are in the southern part of France about to leave to practice for out TTT in a couple of days… But before any of this we (being Kat, Brooke, Alison, John, and I) traveled from Italy yesterday where we passed our truck with our bikes…

 This saves room in the truck for our waterbottles, bike boxes, and gels…

So yep, after a slow start where Brooke was checking to see if we could jump the curb and get around the mess of cars we were off, off and away…

 the traffic at a stand still…

 Brooke checking to see if we can get down this street to the right, but lucky for us a hole opened and we were able to squeeze through…

So, it is time to get ready for our TTT practice… hopefully we will have internet at the next place…

:)Chrissy

ps… If you would like to see the courses we are doing so you can add them onto your computrainer here is a link http://www.tour-aude-cycliste-feminin.com/page1.html

cheers to training on a trainer… just kidding

That is how most of us live… on our way, Now I am not just talking about on our way to a bike race… really you could be on your way to almost anything: riding, eating, singing, dancing, getting a drink, heck even on your way to being tired or awake for that matter. I am on my way to Europe in a few minutes, being more like hours, but I am hanging out at the airport right now…

I have my usual computer bag and my brown paper bag full of food for the trip, which I hope makes it a bit further then the last time… the brown paper bag, not the food. In fact, the faster the food goes the lighter my bag will be and the less likely it will break in 10 minutes. This happened last time I was flying and I had to wonder around to find a store that would give me another one…

Anyways, I am off to Italy for one day where I will get to see Phil for one day… and then we (being Katharine, Alison, Brooke, Amber Rias, and Amber Neban) will either travel together or meet up in France to race the Tour D’Lude a 10 day race with a lot, and I mean a lot of hills. And most of those hill are probably mountains…

But before any of this I was in Bend, enjoying a week of not to much where I hung out a lot with Mattie and Braxton… This of course is at the airport because my camera is MIA so I was unable to take pictures all week cause this camera needed bateries and what would a trip be without waiting until the last minute to get bateries…

So we have… 

 Mattie looking at Braxton, not at me and this is the best I could do after a 100 trys…

 Then Mattie trying to get off her chain so she can go chase an airplane down the runway…

  Braxton wondering and hoping we leave her (being Mattie) there… no, he likes her (sometimes) Usually when she is sleeping, not jumping all over him

  And finally Mattie’s new favorite thing… to hang her head out the window.

Alright, it looks like it is time for me to head through security, I just heard an announcement to enter the boarding area or you (being possibly me) will be left behind…

Time to be on my way, I hope you have fun on your way to something fun

:)Chrissy

Today was day two of the Gila Monster Race here in Silver City where the winds were blowing 800+ mph and the tumble weeds were not tumbling because it was to windy for them. They, if there were any, were probably flying at these great speeds.

And in these great wind speeds Anne (Cheerwine), Alison (Aarons), and Amber (Tibco) attacked the field after the gigantic climb up to thin thin air and stayed away until the finish line. At this point we all joined them about two or so minutes later… we being everyone else and a tuckered me as in I… So before this happened Amber took the win, Alison was 2nd, and Anne was 3rd.

But even cooler news, I mean that was cool news don’t get me wrong, was the Leah is in the leader jersey. Not a yellow leader jersey, but a pink jersey. It is one nice jersey for sure.

Tomorrow is the time trial where we will be traveling at mock speeds, some at faster speeds then others… Obviously, I agree

So it looks like I will have pictures tomorrow from Brian our great mechanice!!! or you can look at Emily’s blog and she will probably have some up tonight…

Alright time for me to go find my sweet skinsuit I love wearing so much…

:)Chrissy

ps… just kidding about the skinsuit. In my opinion suits are for swimming and maybe now airports