400s

Did some 400s yesterday and they felt good.  I'm finally getting some turnover, and they were about 2 sec faster than usual.  The barrier is often coordination/lack of turnover, but since starting to work on the speed and starting to do some of Derek's drills that has changed somewhat.  The barrier yesterday was muscle fatigue.  That is good. 

Check out this video about biking in Manhattan:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

I wonder if biking in big cities is completely a lost cause.  I think it is, at least, I think patching dangerous bike lanes onto busy streets is a half-assed non-solution to the problem of cars in the city.  It's amazing how 100 years ago cities were built with cars in mind as if the energy supply were infinite, and it's amazing how difficult it is to restructure something as overbuilt as a city.  It's also amazing how hostile people are to trains in the US.  I think about O'Hare in Chicago and how the only way to get from the airport to downtown without a car is on the slow-ass blue line.  The airport was built under the presumption of automotive dominance, with easy access to the Kennedy highway that builders thought would be the quickest way into downtown.  Now everyone either suffers in Kennedy traffic, or shakes along on the slow plodding El train into downtown.  They need a high speed train from O'Hare directly into the loop that could get people from point to point in less than twenty minutes.  Or else they could make people bike!