Wind, rain, cold, and wet, slippery: I felt almost sorry for the guys biking at 30 mph with this bad weather. However, it is kind of cool having the start of the tour of California in Davis. So we hang out a little, outside Wheelworks downtown to see the guys warming up and racing a couple of laps around the blocks. Well, those guys are dam fast with their top-notch bikes: impressive!

My bike, Bullitt, doesn’t like having wet tires…. too bad, I’m sure she would have love racing a little with those rookies, especially with Lance A.

Davis is definitively a quiet college town with no much going on but I like it very much and I will definitively miss it when I will have to leave. I love Davis for many things: the bike lanes everywhere, the feeling to live in a small village even though Davis is not that small. I like also running west Davis around the fields, the airport. It’s only a few blocks away from my house and it is just great for an easy run.

It was this last sunday (11/23/08), a nice afternoon for a sweet flight to the San-Francisco bay with Miriam and Frank. Masayo was there to take great shots of the take-off.

11/23/08 C-172 N711PG Take off runway 34

It was on March 15th ’08. Nice clouds over Davis.

Saturday (22Nov) I ran the 10K Turkey Trot in Davis along with friends Frank, Miriam and Milena. Masayo didn’t run but she was there to take photos and cheers us up. I was a fun 10Km run despite the very thick fog and the cold. The weather is always great in Davis…but this saturday morning, it was not too great..oh well ! I ran the all thing in 48m 39s  I’m happy with that, and we all did it under 1hour. To celebrate the run, we all went to Cattlemen’s for dinner. I had a gigantic steak (2lbs) called “The Sheriff”…yummy !

A nice and easy bike ride between Davis and Winters. It’s definitively one of my favorite local bike ride with zero difficulties, little traffic most of the time and a nice scenic view. With a grand total of only 42Km, the round trip Davis<->Winters can be done in 2H with a comfy coffee break at the Steady Eddy’s Coffee House in winters. I like to ride my bike “Bullitt” on those country side roads. Bullitt is fast as hell. She’ll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. I’ve made a lot of special modifications myself. Oh yeah !