road fun, and sponsors

This afternoon I decided to take the MADone out for a spin. I had to be back by 4 so I did 40 minutes by myself then met up with Sean, Brandon, and Andrew (a Carl). We took off towards Cannon City with the intent of going easy. It was working well until we hit the KOM before Cannon City. Brandon attacked and Andrew took his wheel. I was still going easy with Sean at this point so they got a good 40 or so yard gap. I said to Sean "Think I can catch them?" I don't know what he said, but I took off. The MADone was fast today and I closed that gap quite fast, I was really surprised I was able to get up there that quickly and get around them by the top. They did not appear to be going to easy either. I love climbing...After that Brandon kept going, I sat up and waited for Sean who soon flew by saying lets catch him. He had a good 20 seconds on us and the townline was all of a mile away. Sean pulled a bit and closed quite a bit, then I went off, but Brandon held me off by a few bike lenghts. Thats ok I felt fast today. So did the Madone.

A few weeks ago I sent the treasurer of the bike club to a funding meeting, hoping he could figure out what needed to be done. I talked to him right after the meeting, he said everything had gone well, the people were just undecided about how much they were gong to give us. I figured that was good and did'nt think about it until a few days ago. I got an e-mail saying that club funds were low and we should not expect much money. Since I thought our budget was already in I did not really mind the e-mail, but I asked anyways. It turns out we were supposed to resubmit a new smaller budget proposal to be considered for funding, I was never told this, thus never did so. So basically we are not going to get any money from the school now. That made me really really angry. The one task I give this kid he screws up. Starting to look like last year...
But, today at dinner the caf was having Thousand Hills Cattle beef, its free range stuff. The farmer who runs the company was standing next to the food, and I realized I could ask him about a sponsorship. Nothing to lose. I did so and he was really interested, so after dinner I got the jerysey designs that we drew up yesterday (just in time it seems), and talked to the farmer. The St. Olaf cycling team is now sponsored by
Thousand Hills Cattle Company-100% grass feed beef.

sweet.
And it just so happen to be that there was also a guest chef here tonight, and that he was sitting by the farmer when I brought up the jersey design. Apparently he was going to sponsor a team up in the cities last year that disolved, soooo, he is going to sponsor us as well. Talk about a good 10 minutes...
hopefully now the funds will work out.

If you want an olaf jersey, let me know.

Randomness:
I voted, people here are flipping out about election results. Its kinda funny.
Also there was an awful smell in the german house the last few days. No one knew what it was. Today someone found a dead mouse under a couch....
time to study. blah.