Cyclists' Night Out

I'm a bit behind on updating my blog, so I'll try to catch up...

Last Monday, the researchers took us hard working test subjects out to dinner in Les Rousses. It was great to get out of the center and have some real food! The restaurant was a small out of the way place with a wood fired oven and great handmade pizza. For my initial pizza, I had a tasty concoction called La Juriassen or something of that nature... it had a few local cheeses and some ham. Very good! It was gone in a few minutes and it felt like there was a good amount of room left in my stomach. So, Logan and I split a second pizza known as the Quatre Saisons (Four Seasons if you don't speak French). This was possibly even better than the first pizza, with peppers, bacon, and some other veggies which I can't remember. My stomach and taste buds were now very happy. Looking around the room, everyone was having a great time, and some getting a bit animated with the beer and wine flowing freely. Spirits and morale had been getting a little low with the current situation back at the training center. 16 hours in the room, monotonous food, hard training, and no time to unwind had started to raise tensions in a lot of us. So the night out was a great way to relieve some stress and cheer everyone up.

Happy and full

I don't think I've mentioned the mustache competition yet...  The researchers are putting up 120 euros for the best mustache by the end of the study, you can see some of the top contenders:

Jesse incorporates the sideburns nicely

Travis working on a nice horseshoe 'stache

Darren's looking nice and creepy...

Andrew rockin' the scuzzball look

Shaun's classic mustache and goatee...

I'm not sure what style AJ is rocking.

After the fabulous night out, some of the crew decided to continue the fun times.  Starting off with some mountain bike trials in my room, which ended when Shaun nailed his head on the ceiling trying to bunny hop onto my bed.

Then we watched the ever classic Anchorman, one of my favorites.  The laptop speakers weren't loud enough, so I turned on the captioning and read the dialogue (in character of course) so that everyone could hear better.  I think this really improved the movie, especially the fight scene between Burgundy and Corningstone.  If you haven't seen this cinematic masterpiece, you should.  Stay Classy!