They Should Teach How to Use Public Transport in School

I made it to Pasadena in pretty good time and had no trouble getting a hold of a rental bike to ride for Tuesday and Wednesday, thanks to my excellent hosts. The family that took me in are the same people who have been hosting my long time friend Colin Jascqewitz. I really lucked out.

It was crazy, their house had an orange tree, a lemon tree, and a pecan tree growing in it. literally picked an orange right off the tree and ate it. Hows that for fresh!

The family that I was staying with was Irish, and it was St. Patrick's Day! Naturally the family had a traditional style party.

Sadly I had to opt out of the majority of the festivities (drinking lots of beer), but I was able to get a few sips of Guinness in me before passing out at 8:30 west coast time. Thursday would prove to me not nearly as awesome as the previous.

What a mother F of a "journey" that was! I had to get myself from South Pasadena to Ontario, probably not more than 40 miles, but somehow it took me 5 hours to make the trek. I divulge into the specifics that much but being relatively unfamiliar with public transit, seeing as I'm from New England, I made a lot of rookie mistakes that caused me to zigzag all over the place. I managed to make the 40 mile trip into more like an 80 mile trip. I was so cracked by the time I got to the city of Ontario that I resorted to sweet talking the front desk lady at a Holiday Inn to get get to use their hotels shuttle van to drive me the last 5 miles to the Hilton hotel where I am staying. I have her 3 dollars for her troubles...

I managed to get a photo from the train of the mountains just outside of town. Its kind of blurry, but nevertheless the mountains are amazing.

Today's stage is just a prologue. Its a less than 4 mile uphill time trial (in the same mountains seen in the previous photo... FML!) I will report on how things went as soon as I can. I now have new power meter, Thanks to Quarq, so I will be able to include a little more info rather than simply it was hard.