nice day in the neighborhood

Actually had a nice springtime day over here in france. The weather finally hit over 10 degrees and I was able to introduce my nice white legs to the sun again. This winter, I had about 5 weeks of total time down in California to train and in that time I built up a nice little tan. Well after a month over here in cold, wet northern Europe all of that hard work was for naught and I get to start all over again, oh well.

I have got a nice quick week this week. After finishing up my race on monday, I have 2 more 1 day races later this week, so for the most part it has been recovery this week.

On another note, I got to experience a first this week. At lunch on Sunday, day before race, I am doing my best to stay hydrated and because of this, feel the need to go to the restroom. So away from the table I go to find the toillete. Unfortunately, I only find one door and not two so I wait, assuming there is one toilet and when someone walks out, I go in. Well, I see multiple stalls and urinals which was great. As I am standing at a urinal a gal walks out of one of the stalls and begins to wash her hands in the sink right next to me. Before this moment I really had to use the restroom, but somehow miraculously I now have stage fright and stop immediately. There is something quite odd about shared restrooms like that. She was treating it like any other day, but I could not even go until she left. Lets just say that it will take some time to get used to sharing a restroom with a gal.

so there you go, one of the many odd moments out of a normal day for me here.