i guess it had to happen at some point. with the way the days are warm and the night are cold the roads get so glazed that black ice is everywhere shaded. almost in to work today and i saw it coming, slight touch of the brakes and slight turn of the bars and bang! i hit the deck. not too hard, no broken collarbone or chipped elbow just a sore shoulder and ankle. it happens. i got two hours in yesterday, i feel that that is probably my minimum time i should put in outside of mondays which will be 90 minutes. the base needs to be there for the road events. mtb stuff is too far out to really worry. the firecracker is 4 months out, for that i'll do the denver ride a few times at fast pace. maybe i'll finally do the loveland ride. that's a pretty long one. one day, about 180 miles. north to kremmling and then east to granby, north to grand lake and the entrance to rocky mountain national park and then down into loveland through estes. like i said a few miles, probably 10 hours or so. pretty good work. a la flahute...