Happy Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!! While this holiday may receive minor press in Mexico, it is much bigger in the U.S probably due to commercial interests of beer, tequila and people looking for any excuse to drink. Not to be confused with lesser known holidays such as "no pants day" and "talk like a pirate day", Cinco de Mayo is an excuse to drink Mexican beer, tequila and develop your bilingual abilities. This leads to hearing many calls throughout the day of "Donde esta mi cerveza" and "Uno mas cerveza, por favor".

Of course I started off the day with a group training session in Riverbank park. My ankle is feeling much better from the initial sprain, although I am holding off on running on it for at least another week or two. Today's ride started off with a basic bike skills handling clinic including important stuff like changing gears, stopping and starting. So the use of trees, cars and small children are not recommended for stopping. Very useful information. Due to the park being completely closed for the Revlon Run/Walk, we finished our biking workout riding along the Hudson river.

After the GTS (for those of you not, playing along, group training session), we had a team picnic afterwards for some food and team bonding. While no calls for cerveza could be heard (hey, its not even 10am yet) there were bagels, OJ and other goodies to be had. Much better for you after a run anyway.

In other training news we will be now starting our Saturday sessions at 7:30 am. That's right, not a typo. So for those of you who have donated, I'm working hard for your money. And apparently, the Hudson river is deeper than the pool at Riverbank where we normally do our swim practices. So, no running or walking during the swim on race day is possible. As a result we are moving our swim training sessions to a deeper water pool. Things are getting serious now.

Tomorrow, the five boro bike tour.