Friday

Good-day from C-town's Midway Airport!

This is just a little morsel to feed any of the peanut gallery out there looking for a little news from 4kdays.  We drove in this AM without any problems and should be boarding in 30 minutes or so for our direct flight to RNO.

The local news back in the QCA yesterday centered on the PGA golf tournament, The John Deere Classic.  The first round leader, a journeyman by the name of Paul Goydos, fired a 59, only the fourth time that a player has broken 60 in an official PGA event.  That was the good news for Goydos.  The bad news was that the guy in second place shot a 60, and that guy is already another 5 under par today!

I'm wondering if this 59 should have an asterisk as the rules on the course yesterday were "lift, clean and place" for balls in the fairways.  (This is a common rule in official events when a course has been beset by heavy rains, which Deere Run definitely was over the last several days.)  While lift, clean and place may be an accepted rule, real golfers often call it plain ol' cheatin'.

My final training ride for Tahoe was in downtown Davenport last night.  The picture doesn't do Fillmore Street hill justice as the grade is about 20% here at the top.  It's not that long of a climb, but I'm in my granniest of gears at the very bottom and am totally breathless by the time I reach the top.  I did three repeats just to make sure I got my full money's worth for the trip downtown.

At the horizon in the pic is the Mississippi River.  Downtown Davenport is located right on the river, and the streets heading away from downtown all have pretty strong hills to get off the bottom land.  Fillmore is in an old neighborhood on the West end and they didn't do much grade-cutting when they put in the street.  I had made a promise to myself to get these repeats done before Tahoe, so it was last night or bust.  Small victories.

So we'll be boarding soon.  The next entry should be from Incline Village.  Suite!

BCOT