Tonight, I headed out on the Cervelo for a couple intervals to keep the legs ticking over for Sunday's climb up Haleakala. After an easy cruise over to Tantalus, I rode the first section of the TT (hillclimb) course to the stop down. Having ridden the climb 1000's of times, I know my time splits at various points along the route. My first split normally takes about 1min 45sec but I got there in 1min 35sec which seemed to be pretty damn fast. I expected to crater a bit towards the end of the interval, but the watts kept coming and I got to the stop sign in 3min 28sec at 437w. After that climb I rolled down Papakolea, then rode a loop back around to do another intervals up Tantalus... and confirmed that I'm climbing damn good right now. I clocked 3min 21sec to the stop sign... I can't remember ever doing it under 3min 30sec, and when I did do it that fast I don't remember it feeling quite so easy.

I picked up the replacement fork for my Cervelo - A 3T Funda - Easily the sexiest fork currently on the market. Cut down the steerer, epoxied the insert in, waited 4hrs for the epoxy to cure, installed the fork. After that I threw on some new white bar tape. My R3SL now looks ready to rock for Sunday.

Tomorrow, Lelong and I fly over to Maui... It'll be nice to chill out for a couple days before Haleakala! It's a shame that L.A. isn't coming along for the trip.

One more week until Dick Evans, then my 2008 season is in the books. It looks like I'll be heading west for a vacation to Sydney, Australia with L.A. (without a bike). I can't wait!