Golden is golden

mmm mix1

Riptide is now sponsored by mix1 which I'm very pumped about. I've liked them since they hit the scene and started appearing in King Soopers and City Market (where I always end up going while skiing). It's a protein juice drink but best of all it doesn't have to be refrigerated. So you can pop it in the bag when you go to work in the morning and have it on the way home from the evening workout. Very convenient. No need to worry about the entire bottle exploding when it goes bad. Most flavors have 15 grams of protein to keep you going strong and best of all they have a lime flavor. Props to them for the great drink.
Yesterday was incrdibly warm, high 60's so I got out on the bike at 8am as soon as it was temperate out. I thought I'd mix it up and try out Golden Gate Canyon which I've never been up. It only took 10 minutes to get to the start and then I was climbing up into the canyon and it felt like Golden was hundreds of miles away. I hadn't heard people talk about this climb so figured it wasn't very good but it's a gem.

Golden Gate is an easy grade so it's a nice change from Lookout which always turns out to be an intense ride. You can ride it hard or just spin it in an easy gear. Now I've got it in my head that I want to ride way up Golden Gate, meet up with Coal Creek Canyon and ride that back down to Rt. 93. Next time, next time.
And the random quote of the day, this one from today's Wall Street Journal. "Today, the college is facing a $5.5 million loss in the alleged Madoff fraud...a Stony Brook University spokeswoman says the collapse of Mr. Madoff's firm in an alledged Ponzi scheme will have only a 'slight' impact on scholarships, research, and academic support."
So does this mean that the university tells potential $5.5 million donors that their donation will have a "slight" impact on scholarships, research, and academic support?