Go Banana Christmas

Well the Go Banana team, that means Go Orange too, is winding down its BC Bike race pre-training stage. It was a tough couple of months of eating breakfasts and drinking full fat fancy coffees, all while pretending to plan for the race, and the team is certainly fat and lazy now ... and if not then Christmas snacks will surely finish the job.

In January, as the reality of the race starts to kick in, so will the real training phase. Brian's put his wicked spreadsheeting skills to work and no doubt we'll have a weekly schedule filled with hours on the bike trainer, time in the snow cross country skiing, the intermittent long winter run and a whole sequence of activities involving bending over and lifting stuff, usually heavy, up.

Can't wait =;-) ... but Brian keeps telling me that I'll appreciate it in June when Team Go Banana dominates the field ... or at least ranks ahead of Team Go Orange =;-)

In the mean time, it seems we aren't the only ones appreciating banana holiday cheer!

http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/710-christmas_banana

Thomas

Go Orange Retreat

Go Orange (a.k.a. Go Banana II) is now back from it's winter retreat and strategy session in Banff and is now ready to test the water on training for the BC Bike Race. Snowboarding in Banff allowed Go Orange to practice going down the Rocky Mountains at out of control speeds, just like we plan to do during the race.

The trip rocked and the good news is Man Down did manage to find his snow panties.