Back in NYC

Back in America. It is good to be back.


Unfortunately, that was one of the more painful trans-pacific flights I have endured. I don't know if it was dodgy food, or just flu season in Sydney. But I was feeling crook the whole way from Sydney to L.A. 14 hours with an upset stomach is not very condusive to sleeping. I am terrible airplane sleeper to begin with, but business class, being exhausted in conjucntion with boredom, usually enable 5-6 hours sleep on the Sydney to LA leg. However, this time the crummy tummy kept me from enjoying any sleep. The rolls of pepto chewables and tums, with advil lead to a more comfortable flight to NYC, and I was able to catch like 2 hours sleep. The little sleep led to a fair amount of jet-lag, unfortunately.

On Saturday morning I went into a deli near my corporate apartment, which is right accross from Trinity church on the cornor of Rector and broadway, for some food. I had my heart set on a Western Omlette with home fries. Which I cannot get in Australia, they do have good omlettes there, but you have to order a "western" by each ingredient, and they end up being very hard to come by, and I've never seen home fries in oz. I walked by the drinks cooler and I saw Vitamin Water, and instantly it made me miss it, because that is definitely not available in oz, and it was one of my staple beverages here in NYC.

I'm also looking forward NYC bagels, which as everyone knows are the best in the world.

It is a little odd being back in the city, it definitely feels crowded. Vertical. The view from our office here on Wall Street overlooks NY harbour, I can see lady liberty standing in the sunset, so it may not be the opera house, but it is beautiful in its own right. The shipping boats are nowhere near as cool as Sydney ferries however.

Subway Fare is up to $2!!!!!! shocking, darn near criminal!! Or maybe I am getting old because I rememeber when it was 1.50. (actually 2 bucks is still a great bargain!)

Well, enough random babble for today.

now I am off to NY

In the span of about 3 hours, I went from getting ready for a 2 week trip to Bangalore India, to spending 1 month (5 weeks) in NYC. Gotta love corporate America and concern they give their employee's for planning ahead and scheduling trips that might have an impact on a persons life.

aahhh, well, at least it will give me a chance to buy cheap things in america (as compared to australia)...things like bikes, computers, etc....

My passport is still at the Indian Consulate here in Sydney getting my business visa applied...hope it gets back in time.

WWS Race 2, Results are in

Race 2 (team TRuDGe)

http://www.workingweekseries.com/results_race_2.htm

I'll update a link on the series points when available

Working Week Series Race 2, Southern Highlands,

The southern highlands track was nice mostly single track course about 9km per lap.

Here are the quick results as I recorded on my heart rate monitor. I'll send links to the official results when I get them.

A place was doing photographs of the event. So if you click here you can photos of me and my teammates. Our race numbers are

Tyler 595
Grant 549
Dave 551
Rohan 550

Here are our rough timings.

Team total Time 8:27

14 laps

38:26 (Rohan)
34:26 (Dave)
34:38 (Tyler)
36:07 (Grant)
34:42 (Rohan)
36:08 (Dave)
35:26 (Tyler)
37:09 (Grant)
34:37 (Rohan)
36:57 (Dave)
35:27 (Tyler)
37:08 (Grant)
40:41 (Rohan)
36:00 (Dave)

I had a massive stack on teh first lap, thought I dislocated my shoulder. I'm not quite sure why I try to do things during the race that I have not practiced. Here's what happened, I was caning (slang for going fast) down this single track, and there was a log accross the trail. During our practice lap, I rolled over the log, and hit my cranks on the log, so it was of substantial size. We named the log "Crank eater" because all 4 of us hit our cranks on this log during the practice lap. So back to the race, I was cruising down the trail, approaching the "crank eater", and I decided to bunny hop it...so I bunny hop, think I;m doing ok, and hit my wheel while my front wheel is still off the ground, and my tail end continues to rise in elevation. Pretty quickly I realize the inevitable, I'm going over the bars. Sure enough, I did. It was very hard impact with mother earth (she is pretty solid in case you weren't sure) part head, mostly shoulder. First thought was that I dislocated my shoulder, but my insanity kicked in, and I jumped up on my bike to finishe the lap. Trying to do and assessment of my injuries while riding. It was definietle sore!! I finished the lap, when to the first aid tent, go cleaned up. They basically said, there is no easy way to find out if there is any serious damage, and if it is not painful, I can continue to ride.

I took this to mean, if it is not too painful, so I popped 2 ibuprofen, and waited for my next lap. About 10 minutes before I headed out on my next lap, I popped 2 more. The next lap was not really comfortable, I was aware of my sholder the whole time. Just achey pain. I made it around with no more dramas, other than aches. Decided tI needed 2 more ibuprofen. Not surpsinginly, my third lap was more comfortable the then second. But by no means, pain free.

My shoulder was very sore, sunday night and most of monday. I went to gym ands swam, teh swim was pretty goot. It was mostly painnfree in the swimming motion, so I decided this means there was no serious damage, and I just knocked teh crap out of myself and soreness and discomfort are natural reactions to this. If it was painful in the pool I was going to go to the doctor, but it felt much better after teh swim. Just muscle aches. I'll give it another day or two rest and then, I'll try to get on teh bike again annd see how it feels.

However teh Southern Highlands are very pretty. Sort of remind me of parts montanta, hilly, grassy plains, forests. Most of the weekend was taken up with race related stuff, so I did not get to explore. Would like to back and explore, a lot of sleepy villages, etc. Seems like a very mellow place to hang out.

The race was fun, and I hope Team TRuDGe made it into the middle 50%, (we were 3rd from last in our category in the first race...)