Here are some pictures of the Merced crit courtesy of:

www.ronaldmariano.com
Mr. Mariano has been taking photographs at most of the early local California races and they are posted at his website. I was not able to find any of Karl winning the road race on Saturday but there were a ton from the Sunday crit.
It is raining here again today. Karl and Alberto got all kitted up to ride and it started to piss rain so now they are both de-kitted and on their computers. It was pretty funny! We are under a tornado warning at the moment so I think I will be riding the trainer for the second day in a row…..yeah!
On an unrelated not I was doing some reading yesterday and I came across an article about “belly fat.” The article stated that no matter how much a person exercises and counts calories they will have belly fat unless their stress level is low. Stress causes the body to release cortisol and the cortisol then makes your stomach flabby.
Since yesterday evening I have eliminated all stress in my life. If stress comes around I just say no and go to my happy place. I think it is working becuase I thought I saw an ab in the mirror this morning…….or maybe that was just a shadow?
Tomorrow morning I am leaving for Taiwan and will be there until March 13th. It is nice that we are getting there a few days early to relax and recover from the jet lag. The race that we are doing is the Tour of Taiwan and it starts on March 5th and ends on the 12th. I am excited for the trip and am hoping I have good legs and can also find a nice Tag Heuer look-alike watch !
I am not sure how often I will be able to update the next few weeks but when I do I am sure I will have some pretty good pictures. If anyone is in the Merced/Fresno area the next few weekends they should go and check out the non-Taiwan Health Net crew tear up the first NRC races of the season.
later,
g.