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In better bike-gear related news I stopped by my LBS earlier in the week to show them the issue that I was having with my new-to-me shoes. They agreed to talk with Specialized about it and see if they could get me a warranty replacement strap to see if that helped. i was psyched they agreed to even try given that I didn't buy the shoes from them, didn't have a receipt, etc. So they got S to agree to send a strap but before that could happen their head mechanic (Billy) asked if I'd bring the shoes back in to see if the fault was with the shoe. It's on my way home so I did that yesterday. He took one look at the right shoe and said, "A strap will never fix that and offered to talk with S again about getting me a replacement set of shoes. Sweet! He went one better today and called to let me know that if I could wait a month he'd get me a replacement from the 2014 model which does away with the ratchet mechanism entirely in favor of the much better BOA closure. SUPER SWEET! I of course agreed to wait two or three weeks for the new shoes so hopefully by mid October I'll be rocking the Titanium/Black version.

I ended up going back to the shop and having the Vectors installed on the Calfee. I figure I can use it there while I await the revised pods for the Cervelo. The 800 is already making calibration a bit more difficult as the instructions only speak to 810 and I do not have some of the menu items they are listing. Chris, done calibrating and everything works as expected, including balance percentages.

Justin is getting Mad Fibers. Great ride, though I was in poor form. I did manage to beat John Fox on the climb so I feel like a superstar even if he was not aware when he did the climb that he would eventually be racing me. Justin killed it on the new bike and blew me away on the first big climb that kicked my ass. I had nothing. My legs felt like rocks for most of the first half of the ride.