Chihuahua and La Revancha de Chihuahua

A week or so ago, me and the Mrs took a trip to Chihuahua for her cousin's wedding. Chihuahua? Is that a real place? Yeah, it's a real place. I reckon it is one of the largest cities in the Mexican State of Chihuahua:

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Chihuahua, the state, might be best known as the place where Pancho Villa was assasinated - they have a nice museum in the town of chihuahua that we have visited in the past that documents this event and the era in which he lived - pretty cool museum, if you are into that sort of thing, which I am!

Anyway, here are some pics we took of our adventure (we flew out of the Tijuana airport on a direct flight to Chihuahua - the last time we visited chihuahua, we took a more adventurous path - fly into El Paso, taxi to the bus station in Juarez, then a multi hour bus trip down to Chihuahua -> and to think, there weren't even any chickens or any of the stuff you see in the movies on this bus! :-) )

A nice snap near downtown (forgive my amateur photog skillz):

What would a trip to Mexico be without a sweet Carne Asada!

The Tios and more!

The church where the boda/wedding took place -> I've been to several weddings in Mexico (including my own!) and this was the first one I've seen that had a full mariachi band playing in the church - pretty darn neat if you ask me!!!

The Mrs. and the Novios -> it seriously took me like 30 minutes to put that dimple in that tie! LOL! I figured that was pretty good for a slacker bike racin' engineer! :-)

So that was chihuahua, and La Revancha de Chihuahua (Revenge of Chihuahua) was the bike racin' I did this past weekend here in San Diego. It seems that between the tacos de carne asada, mariscos, tamales, and one or two tecates/las victorias, I put on a kilo or two and had a bit of a rough go of it this weekend on two wheels.

Really small fields, and I was never really any threat to anyone... well, except for maybe the cow catcher mounted on the front of the broom wagon!

Seriously, though, I did experience a first in my bike racin' career this weekend-> riding in a group with deep section aero wheels with winds gusting 30-50 mph. yeah, there was some tuggin' happenin' on the front wheel, but it all worked out, and really nothing to worry too much about. I reckon the most interesting thing was pedaling around in the parking lot prior to the road race start... all the while calculating beta/crosswind angle -> "ooh, that was a big gust, yeah, probably an 80 degree beta!" :-)

No bike racin for the next couple of weeks that I'm real motivated to do - so it looks like I'll have to hurt myself riding in the backcountry of northern San Diego County on the weekends...

Can't wait!