fine 9

We celebrated our 9th anniversary on Wed with pizza and brownies. Maybe we'll have a bigger celebration when Jill can leave the house. One of these days I will scan the photos (those paper things with images) so that we can show a year zero vs. year current. I think the comparison will be positive as marriage has been very good to us.

Of course, the year ahead should be quite different than the first 9.

Another event this week was the Tour de Champaign bike race. On Saturday we raced in a Noahanic rainstorm. The wet and oil-soaked road made for some very sketchy cornering. My rear wheel slid a couple inches on at least 1 of every four turns, but I stayed upright. Our team took 3, 4, and 5 (me).


Our team helped patrol the course for the later races. Tom and I watched the Pro-1-2 race together and were duly impressed.


A good number of friends hung around downtown Champaign to watch the race. The photo below was taken by Nina.


Today we raced day 2 of the Tour in pleasantly dry conditions and teammate Mark won! Our first win of the season, hurray! The highlight of the race was watching Alexei take a turn very wide then bunny hop the outside curb onto the grass. I asked him after the race what happened. Turns out he just wasn't paying attention. He took 2nd place.