Trip to Augusta National, Masters practice round

Total miles to date: 147 (an estimate)
Miles this week: 3 (Week starts Sunday.)

My brother, who is training for EdT and has a blog going too, has been telling me that he was going to Masters practice round today. On a Lear Jet. One-day trip even though we live hundreds of miles away.

I'm a big golf fan, bigger than he is. I asked him to give me a call from out on the course. I kept my cell phone with me all day long. I even called him - paged him once, left message once.

No call from my brother. What? Did the Lear Jet crash? Who knows?

Tonight, about 10:30 pm, I call him at home. He's there. Along with telling me he's real tired and has to go to bed and can't talk, he does report that he went to Augusta and that cell phones weren't allowed. There are pay phones on the course, but when he called nobody answered. I did not get any voice mails today. He also has a few stories about the owner of the Lear Jet and a few interesting bits of information about this golfer or that. None of it would I ever be able to verify under normal circumstances. I always called home - and probably always called him high on my call list - when I was at the event, usually calling from around #6/#16.

Well, enough of that. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and do believe he went today. Just an oversight I did not get a call I guess.

Okay, I have now put the fixed gear on my Quickbeam. I pedaled on it a little tonight to tighten the cog onto the hub. After a couple of goofed attempts when I stopped my legs, which stopped the pedals, which unscrewed the cog from the hub as the Locktite is not dry. So, in a day or two, I hope to ride it as a normal fixed gear.

Otherwise, I rode about 15-20 minutes after work on my road bicycle.