Makeup and a Flooded Warehouse

The team photo shoot is now in the bag.  We pounded out all of the photos yesterday at an old Subaru warehouse in Denver.  It was nice to get it out of the way nice and early instead of trying to squeeze it in during a race weekend.

They used a bunch of crazy lighting techniques in a dark corner of the warehouse for the individual shots and once we got that taken care of they turned to flooding the warehouse floor for the team shot.  It was kind of weird standing in a giant puddle but they had quite the setup and seemed to really know what they were doing.  I think it turned out pretty well.  They even had a makeup artist.  That was a first for me.

Today I got up nice and early and headed to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs with Jeremy and Heather to get our UCI medical monitoring tests done.  After 5 tries and a lot of digging they finally managed to pierce a vein and get the blood draw done.  After that it was EKG time and as usual the machine said I was suffering from an 'acute myocardial infarction' (aka heart attack), not always the most reassuring news but I guess it's pretty common for endurance athletes to have a weirdly mutated heart.  I passed the physical portion of the exam, nailed the mid-stream urinary stick, and I was done.  I made it  the Denver airport way early and got changed over to an earlier flight.  I still have a couple hours to kill but luckily I managed to sneak my way into the Red Carpet Club so I've been drinking way too many americanos and eating a bunch of cheese and crackers.

I'll leave you with a shot of my sweet lunch the other day at Ted's Montana Grill.  I didn't quite expect a burger to be sitting on top of my 'Ted's signature salad' but the American flag toothpick made it feel right.