Angry Chicken

Today was gonna be a good day on paper. I had planned to ride in, ride out, and do the Chicken. I have been looking to get a long day in and figured this would do the trick.
Great start with a nice tailwind push heading into the city. I turned the corner onto Randolph to go up the hill and BLAM - shifter totally took a dump leaving me in the 12.
i cleaned up at the cycle center and rode my new 2 speed to work.
Put a call in to Bos and he told me to bring it in.
I scooted to HQ on lunch and the Ace Mechanic Pete was on the case.
He hooked me up with a fresh rebuild and some tweaks to keep the rig rolling.
I was unable to make the group for the ride out, so i enjoyed the trip out to the Chicken Coop in the SRAM Volvo with Pete. He had to pick me up, and the city crew needed a ride home, so Pete drove to his place and handed me the Volvo to scoot over to the Coop for the ride. Id have to say, its pretty pimp rolling the SRAM-copter. AND i did get to dodge the nasty headwind on the way out.
The ride was full of HorsePower, and we were in the big ring into a stout headwind on the way out to the theaters. I could just about hear Tawse complaining about something we were or were not doing on the way out - i hope he is enjoying Hawaii.
We flipped it around on the way back in, and the tailwind had us cooking. A small group of 3 were up the road and not looking eager on coming back to us, so the pace lifted. To over 30. MPH. I was sitting 3rd wheel of the bridging group when Ritzler swung off, and the guy behind him has about 2 good pedal strokes. Crap. I dug in and posted 500w for as long as i could look at it cross eyed, and got to about 30-40m from the back and imploded.
I rolled in with the groupetto, but it was all good as Andy was in from Germany and i had not seen him in a while.

All in all, not too shabby. I'm pretty trashed right now, it was a pretty angry ride. Definitely not all roses and chit chat. And I'm pretty sure the view was not as good as it could have been.

From the editor - i managed to reset a bunch of max's for the year last night....
5 sec - 760
10 sec - 740
30 sec - 537
1 min - 449
3 min - 347
5 min - 299