Excuses, excuses

I've been really busy with the house construction lately. My wife and I are contracting it ourselves, and taking on additional responsibilities here and there. An ongoing job we've had has been cleaning up after all the contractors, and leveling the lot with dirt - see my 2 best friends below, Thomas and Percy.

I don't know what we were thinking, but we also took on the job of laying all of our tile ourselves. Wow, what a job. Even with knee pads, I still have calluses on my knees.

I think we might have a little drainage problem on our courtyard. The girls were going to help us by bailing out - it didn't take long for the fight to break out. Thank God no one got plague or cholera.

We had a great holiday weekend. Our oldest daughter turns 16 this week - she had a party Saturday with one of her friends whose birthday is also this week.

So I have not done much training since Gulf Coast tri. Excuses, excuses. But I did have my final fitting for my new BMC/Zipp/SRAM/CycleOps bike. I had it done at Precision Bikes with Mark Miller in Lafayette, LA - he was awesome. It's now fitted perfectly for me, and it's absolutely freaking incredible! I still cannot believe that it's mine, and I'm looking so forward to getting to know it a lot better.