Amgen, who's going and where?

[Trek420]

I know I saw Metromint, and I think that they are an amateur team from California. They probably all paid their own tickets to be there.

Yes, but while the other riders rode the course for a half hour or so before the race to stay warm and find the spots they'd fall (downtown Santa Rosa has cobblestones on some corners not the most fun thing in the world on a critt in the rain I think) Metromint and Team Highroad I think spun out onto the course late.

So I think they at least had somewhere warm and dry to warm up?

[Eden]

Yes, but while the other riders rode the course for a half hour or so before the race to stay warm and find the spots they'd fall (downtown Santa Rosa has cobblestones on some corners not the most fun thing in the world on a critt in the rain I think) Metromint and Team Highroad I think spun out onto the course late.

So I think they at least had somewhere warm and dry to warm up?

When we drive to races we usually try to stake out a building with an awning and set our trainers up there.... My teammate flew down and probably could not pack a trainer....

Got to see J's war wounds... VS didn't get the whole story - they said there were not any crashes... apparently there were several. The wet conditions and the multitude of road turtles made it quite treacherous.

[Trek420]

Got to see J's war wounds... VS didn't get the whole story - they said there were not any crashes... apparently there were several. The wet conditions and the multitude of road turtles made it quite treacherous.

Spazzdog got shots of the crash on the first lap, 4th corner. She says about 4 riders went down. She got some incredible closeups of blurring wheels and legs on the turns in the rain too.

You might want to ask her about copies for your club. They are incredible shots.

Yesterday as the men went across the GG bridge VS called the Exploratorium the Legion of Honor/Palace of Fine Arts and they said that both the GG bridge and the misidentified Exploratorium were built in the recovery effort after the 06 quake. uh, that would be no

The Exploratorium is one of or maybe the last remaining original building from the world fair that followed and was to celebrate building the Panama canal. Both were built after the 06 quake but one could say that everything built since then was a part of the recovery effort .... or prep for the next one