Saturday, August 29th 2009

Woke at 4:15 (woke several times in the night to pee)
breakfast: strong coffee and special K and infinitnutrition Ride drink
Bike: (schedule to do my 2nd 100 mile ride so I was excited for the 5 hour ride)
My ride started very poorly because my polar stopped working again (i took the bike to neway bike store in Nice and they had fixed the Polar and I saw it working in the store; but it stopped working again) I wasted 10 minutes trying to get it to work and finally gave up. I was just 45 minutes into the ride, near the Italian/French border when a car full of drunk Italians pulled up next to me honking and screaming at me. I was very angry because of the Polar not working so I told the Italian guy to go fuck himself and I took great pleasure giving my middle finger to the car. They drove along side me, honking and screaming, nearly hitting me … and became very agressive because I kept telling them to fuck off, but finally they drove off.
The ride from Menton, France towards Latte, Italy goes through two long tunnels, and as I normally ride my bike before 6, it was 5:30 am there are never cars. After the tunnel is a long winding road with no street lights, its a long ride in complete darkness. As I drove up towards the tunnel, I saw the car parked on the side of the entrance, seemingly waiting for my arrival so I decided to turn around and not go through the tunnel. I was concerned they would steal my bike and stupidly, i was wearing my daytona rolex which they probably saw each time I gave them my middle finger.
So I turned in the road back towards France … my intention was to ride 50 miles into Italy and turn around and ride 50 miles back…. however, my polar did not work so I figured I would ride 2.5 hrs and then turn around and ride back, thus do 5 hours, a quick pace, but would be around 100 miles. My polar didnt work; I had a car full of drunk Italians bothering me and my ridiculously expensive bike doesnt ride like I expected …. so mentally, I was being a pussy. After 2 hours, I decided to call it a ride and go home …. figuring I would try again tomorrow. So what should have been a great ride, ended up just lasting about 2.5 hours at a slow pace.

Lunch: 3 tomatos, cesar salad and small portion of Sophie’s white fish (we went to lunch again to Petite Mason in Nice. I ordered Tuna steak, but they forgot my order so I ended up just eating tomatos, which worked out nicely because it saved me 30 euros not getting the tuna)
Dinner: spinach omlette and green salad

Comments: shit ride this morning. I wasted a lot of time trying to fix the polar. The drunk Italians distracted me and mentally I was not strong. I regret I didnt ride 5 hours. Mario told me not to ride again tomorrow, but instead do a 90 minute run and then a 90 minute swim. I will sleep in tomorrow, take sophie and the girls to the airport and then do my run and swim in the late afternoon.