as you can see by you can see by post on Christmas morning.. santa was up a little late : ) but it was all well worth it. just the look on little ella's face as she walked in the room was priceless.. she told us several times it was the greatest day of her life. 6o2 santa prefers a nice franciscan to the ordinary vitamin d after the gift opening madness, we headed over to my father-in-laws for a little dinner. i use the term "little" verrry loosely. he had everything.. including some homemade spicy tamales that where unbelievable.. i think i ate 18 of them.. seriously. that 9lbs i had lost is back : ( i didn't do any riding on Christmas day (i'm not a complete idiot).. but i did have big plans to ride with tbi the day after.. my alarm didn't go off so i missed it. instead i ran a few errands in the morning and waited the the wind to really pick up. i thought about bagging the ride after watching all the trashcans on midway blow down the street but, as i was dropping off a few packages at the ups terminal in the airport, i passed by gs tenzing's own david hassan and troy owens giving it hell on airport road.. that stoked the fire a bit so the ride was back on. i decided to make it a solo trek out to weatherford.. it's about a 65mi ride. i took off like gangbusters.. my average wattage for the first 1:10 was 319 - including all the stoplights. but after 1:45, i was starting to fade quick.. at one point i was riding up a hill into the headwind @ 527w and 7mph.. it was pure torture.. 33 - 40mph head/cross winda the ENTIRE way. as the saying goes.. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. i feel like sheit today. -out surFy