I guess I'm buying

Saturday night I was joking to my roommate about the nice sized purse offered to the winner of Sunday's Tour de 'Toona. She told me that if I won it I owed everyone ice cream. And I took her up on it, thinking that if I did win it would be well worth the celebration. To sum it all up, Monday night seven of us science and engineering nerds ended up at Mazzoli's Ice Cream, a homemade ice cream shop just down the road from the hospital. It's not often you get to make good on a promise like that and it was well worth it.

As for the race itself, my friend Lenore Pipes teamed up with me to keep the pack together to the finish. We were both well-positioned near the front of the pack as we rounded the final corner and Pipes dropped the hammer so hard no one could get around, giving me the perfect leadout. I came around her with a couple hundred meters to go and hit the gas with everything I had to hold out for the win. It was a great feeling but the best part was that Lenore had held out for third and in the process, she'd won the Category 4 race. We took home all kinds of cool schwag: yellow jerseys, 1st place mugs, commemorative hats, and some good sized checks should be in the mail soon.