so, what's been happn'in

I know, i know, i said i'd do thid ages ago, but here you are, finally (happy Tom?)
As i mentioned last time i have a few new toys, and some more since.
My Cervelo S2: Still loving it. A truly brilliant bike, does everything you ask of it easily. It can cope with guys like Hushovd riding it, so it doesn't struggle with my pathetic power/weight. Done a fair few miles on it now and it still gives the magic 'new bike feeling'
In addition to the other stuff i mentioned last time, i have rotor rings on road and tt bikes, do i know they are on there? No, do i notice it when i go to round rings? Yes. going back to round rings feels like going back to gears after a period only riding fixed.
As well as bike stuff, we have a van now. The Vitara was drinking fuel like Ozzy went through vodka in the 80's, so we went to old club sponsors, Owen Bros Commercials http://www.owenbros.com/ in Hereford and picked up a Transit (white). Reasonable condition for the money, and they put a sliding door (blue) with a window in, on for us. So thanks to Steve and Randy for helping us complete part one of our camper plan.
To compare fuel consumption, we used just over half as much to get back as we did to get to Hereford!
Good couple of days riding down there, looked around the http://www.blacksheepsports.co.uk/public/race.aspx?id=662 Woody bike course for Sarah on saturday and rode down from Ross-on-Wye to Hay-on-Wye and up through Hereford along the Wye on Sunday - so little traffic in those areas compared to here in the South-East - blissful.
Saw Simo, Terry and Phyl in Ross, which was great (thanks for the bed).
2 new cds: Queensryche - American Soldier, which is a bunch of tracks about the effects of war, through those who were there, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. I love the themed tracks, almost like reading a book, the way they all link together. The other is Dream Theaters 'Black clouds and silver linings'. Boy can those guys play! (shame about James LaBrie's singing though). The tracks on the album are typical Dream Theater prog rock, disc 2 is (mental) covers, and disc 3 is the album tracks.....just instrumental. Some truly insane moments of technical genius on here - if only we could get Geoff Tate from Queensryche to sing on DT's albums!
Oh, and i did some races. Weymouth 1/2 Ironman, 4 minute pb, off the back of my absolute worst swim (3rd swim this year) ever, A 100 mile TT where I had issues, including a bee sting on my head, and missed a pb by a few seconds (over 100 miles!!!!!!!!) and a 50mile TT, which went pretty well.
Stay classy