New White Shoes

Pat Boone would be proud. My new white Sidi shoes from Competitive Cycling are now broken in. I did a 58 mile ride on them. A lot of hills. Some flat sections to. The shoes fit perfect! Well, they are Italian. They feel so comfortable on my feet. No hot spots or pressure points. Just pure comfort. It was hard not to look at the shoes while I was riding. I have never had a pair of white shoes, ever. Not even in the time when they were popular. Ya, I'm that old. I kind of like them. I hate to admit that for some silly reason. The shoes look good. They are the left overs from team CSC. A European pro team of the highest level. The shoes are from Sidi the best cycling shoe made. Not many will fight that point. Team CSC was the first team to ever get Sidi as a sponsor. Sidi made a lot of shoes for the team. The one's I bought are the surplus that Competitive Cyclist bought from Sidi or Team CSC. I saw them when I was in Little Rock in April for Mary Anne's book premier. Great price, but it still took me 2 months to buy them. Glad I did.
On the ride today on the last climb of note coming home I got passed in the last 50' of the hill by an all carbon fiber frame very expensive wheel bike. The rider was in the big chainring,53, and weighed about 165 pounds. I was climbing in a 34 tooth chainring and weigh 218 pounds. The other rider barely caught me. I did not even know he was behind me. I almost never look behind any more. I was doing a very special bit of training today. 2 gears. 50X19 and 34X19. That's it. 2 gears for everything. The rider that passed me was in a 53X28 I would say. I never changed gears to catch him. I did spin the 34X19 to it's max to catch up to him. I was a little worried that the long down hill just ahead would be the end for me. I was not going to go in a bigger gear to keep up with the rider that I was now right behind. When the down hill section came, it was obvious that I could out descend this guy easily free wheeling. He was pushing a 53X13. I went past him like he was going the other way. Still in my 50X19! At the bottom we talked a bit till the next little hill. He wanted to drop me in the biggest way. He had the gear to do it. I had the spin to keep up in a 50X19. We parted, he went left, I went strait. I hate being passed. I mean, I really hate being passed!