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Friday, August 19, 2005

Wow. So the storm arrived last night at 6:50 pm. Huge amounts of rain, strong winds and, most of all, amazing amounts of lightning. We lost power within minutes of the main storm hitting as lightning hit a tree three houses down, blew it apart, knocked out the power and crushed a neighbor's truck. We did GCF in the dark with candles for most of the evening. The power crews got power back to our house at 10:15 pm or so which was good since the humidity inside the house was reaching nearly unbearable levels. Fortunately dinner was cooked by the time the power went out so we were able to eat. Also, fortunately, the pecan tree had already fallen and had been removed in our yard or it might have been the one hit.

Training took a major step forward this week as the average speeds for my rides jumped about 0.5 mph. I'm not back to pre-crash levels yet but I may be before too long. The big thing I need to do is continue to work on my climbing. I'm able to hold speed on the shallow 3-4% climbs right now but anything steeper than that saps my legs pretty quickly. I'll be missing the Augusta Georgia Cup race this weekend. I did well in the Omnium last year and so I'll pretty bummed about not being able to compete there this year. I'm not sure if I'll make it back to racing before the season ends but we'll see.

Anyways, I hope you have a great weekend. Thanks for Reading.

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