birds

a lot of road time this past weekend. it felt like summer out there, shorts and no gloves or arm wamers saturday and sunday. i saw a lot of dead birds on the road shoulder. different colored birds that didn't look like they had been hit by cars, just dead laying there. two good days of sunshine and you start noticing how green the front range can be with good rains. i heard that dead birds means west nile, maybe it's back already and the dead birds are the result of the mosquitos growing faster from the rain. regardless the roads near horsetooth were perfect, warm enough but the descents cooled you off after the climbs, cool winds right now not the hot winds of summer. i saw "off-road to athens" saturday night. what a cool production, they did a great job on the race footage without the normal crosscountry repetitive-ness that movies usually show. what a mess the federation is, they showed just how stupid the whole thing was, how bad the policy/criteria for olympic qualification was. it was cool to go out in boulder and see how much support the movie got from the local community. good show.