Good luck Francois. I hope you kick some arse.

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Bike is here intact (or so it appears)...

oh yeah right, that's until you ride it for the first time and it starts to fell apart, take your GOOD helmet with you not the Rotor one ;)

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oh you mean the rotor toucan backwards?:-)
got a rudy project TT helmet for the race...courtesy of team timex...

I hate you...

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Very happy for you Francois. Recover from your trip get your sleep. I will take care of everything back here in the states. Do you need me to cover some of your higher level mathematics classes?

Anything with with vector addition/subtraction, scalar multiplication, modular pair relations, orthocomplements--I can really go to town. Your students will weep when I leave.

Francois, good luck and kick some ass. I like Olaf's quote, but unfortunately, I think I lose. I just intalled a 48 tooth chainring on my Guru Trilite (700 wheels). Now I can at least be a big chainring stud like the rest of you animals, except, my gearing will be 10% smaller :-)

Tear up the course. Sub 9, or you are a poser :-)

obrigado monk...it´s taken care of... ;-)

Good luck Francois, good luck for Olaf!
Glad to know the bike got in safely!

Time to practice some of the "good" Portuguese you learned. Ask Olaf if he still remembers what to say in case someone gets on his wheel! ;-)

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Technique sets the upper limit to where your fitness will take you...

Good luck Francois. I heard though that they changed the bike course to 4 laps! Just kidding. I'll be pulling for you on Sunday.

Wow!--What is the size of your small chainring?

That is his small chain ring......



but in the true spirit of the compact crank, his large is a 50. You wouldn't believe how smooth the shifting is up front!

No guys, 48 is the big ring. The small ring is 34, mainly for training in the hills at slow speed at high RPM. For racing a 48 tooth allows me to ride at 60 kph in a 12 tooth at 112 RPM or 20 kph in the 25 tooth at 80 RPM. This gives me a wide range in one chainring. It still makes me a loser in big ring arms race though.

Francois, what is the predicted weather for race day ?

Say Hello to Ken Glah and Joanna Zieger for me! Tell Joanna "Good Luck" from Z and Chuck at the NTC. Z

Good Luck Francois, race well.

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Boa sorte! Eat some pao de queijo. Those things are good. And drink some Guarana. I love that stuff.

pao de queijo...is it bread with cheese?

if you are coming to brasil and haven't left yet...bring warm clothes...a bit chilly here...at least compared to the 102F of 3 days ago...

weather for sunday - 76/63, sunny

water is WARM...could be no wetsuit

Good luck Francois! And to Olaf too.

clm

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Nashville, TN
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thanks cathy.
full of californians here...we ate with jaylew, brandon, matt, maureen, yesterday...

I got here hoping to bike today ... but it´s not gonna be possible...

I ran a little bit of running course today and I swan after... the water is great... for us brazilians it´s not warm, but it´s perfect... right temp to do a very good swim...

I´m very motivated for this time...

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Hey Francois, any way you can send us some photos? Who else have you seen down there? Keep the reports cominng and have a great race. I'm envious.....

Good luck! Bon Champs!

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Good luck to you guys,

I hear the locals take a shot of cachaça before racing, you may want to try it, heheheheheehehe

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I have horrible back problems but I have zero problems staying in an aero position for 180k. Why? Because I ride steep and because I train regularly in that position. Simple as that.....Gerard

I will feel very sorry for the Elite women if no wetsuit swim...(well, except for Joanna Zeiger!)

BTW,thats something you could say in the race briefing, I would but I wont be there by that time

Vinnie
ps: oh yeah, I rather swim in my suit :)

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I think pros will have a head start of a few minutes, so the ladies would be fine if that was to be a non-wetsuit swim...even for someone who hates cold water/weather, it´s pretty warm in there.

Tom: sorry didn´t take the digital camera...

but reports can come. weather is still crap but supposed to clear up tomorrow.
water was a tad rough today when the wind picked up a little bit.

saw Oscar Galindez (pretty friendly even with limited english), bonney was around, said hi to JZ from Tom Z.