Sister already suggested that:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=346028

Me too. Probably getting pulled apart as I type.

2.5 hours; half z2 half z3.

Hit a turn and saw a golden eagle descending right towards my head about 15 feet: (pic taken from net)

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...-eagle-102.jpg

He took off right after he saw my cheap Rudy Project helmet, it was one of those moments things just register a few moments after it happened. Those things are friggin massive!

Saw a coyote too, but they usually just scamper off. The time you have to worry about coyotes is when you see large ACME boxes on the road.

you took that picture?

No, I took that off the net. (Edited original post) That was pretty much the view I got from the thing. It followed me for about 5 miles then took off when I tried to snap a photo.

8K views, photo taken in 2007 (EXIF). Nope.

I wonder if the eagle has learned that rodents sometimes scamper away from bicycles on the roadside, allowing a targeting system lock. The grackles in our neighborhood know that lawn mowers freak out all the insects in the grass.

I tineyed after, but too lazy to delete

If I were to guess he thought the red streaks on my helmet were something else; just before it happened its view was obstructed by bushes.

Maybe FF is a smaller rider, and the eagle was trying to decide whether he'd make a good lunch. Sheep ranchers out west used to shoot eagles on sight, since the eagles had developed a taste for mutton; an eagle would grab a sheep in its talons, fly up a few hundred feet and drop it to kill it, then chow down.

I should have stayed fat. Well I still am fat, just not Retired Lemond fat. More of an offseason Ullrich.

Did 5 pull ups at the playground after Junior was done running around. This will probably be a new thing for me. I know I could do 10 when I was lighter, 2 when I was heavy.

My gf's grandma was from Norway, and had this story about a bird (eagle?) stealing a baby. A baby!

I mean I guess it's possible but I always wondered if this was actually true.

Did 10 wind sprints while running tonight. My legs are sore.

there's videos of eagles stealing small goats and dropping them off cliff sides. I'm sure somewhere in the annals of human history a small crawling child has been attacked by a predatory bird.

Imagine a baby crawling around in a backyard. Thinking as an eagle, I'm getting hungry already.

5xWRI™s today. First time in six months. Luckily it was raining really hard, so my wired PT stopped showing power before I started the set. Sensations were fine, but I'm sure power was crap.

w/out any data, I ended up timing them at 1' by counting pedal strokes. "200" and done. Talk about motivation to keep the cadence high!

Didnt have my bike so I did a workout at the gym after coaching.
20 relaxed-muscle jumps w weights (from sitting)
15 dynamic box jumps w weights
a ton of one leg panel mat jumps
stomach routine (flutter kicks, sideways flutter, sideways crunches, vups)
repeat all
straight arm shoulders raises 3 directions
some pike holds, dips and tuck planges on the p bars.
A few circles on pommel horse

Short, but I hadn't eaten in 5 hours so I couldn't do much. still felt good

I could barely walk into my office from my car this morning. I think I pulled something. Advil .

2h, mostly z2 with a bit of z3.

(maintaining z2 is hard on hills when my low gear is a 39x26 :|)

Two hours this morning, trying to keep it in z2.

5X5' hill repeats. Ouch.

Substitute hills for long, flat sections of Great Highway and that will be my morning tomorrow. Probably more like 8 of 'em though.

1 hour 646 kj and 24 tss. Nice to relax after a huge weekend of riding.

There's not really any flat in town, but I do enjoy some of the more gently rolling stuff for 5' intervals at times, instead of hills. I don't think I could make use of 8 though -- sounds harsh.

Yeah we'll see how I feel around #6 . That stretch of road was repaved a month or so ago; it's wonderfully smooth and pretty much car-free at 6AM. Perfect of interval work.

Last somewhat hard ride last night before the trip. Did close to 2hrs of endurance with 4 trips up the various mountain (hehehe) accesses...

Might do a quick recovery ride tonight, but I still need to pack the wife's bike.

One of your company's folks just reached out to me again. One of the most frustrating things in my career has been location -- just don't wanna move. Other than that, I'm pretty well aligned :-/