The Ashtabula Crank!

This past weekend I learned an interesting fact about my home town that I never knew, thanks to my great friend Dean Sabetta. As Dean looked over my time trial bike, he informed me that certain cranks made for bicycles were once made right here in Ashtabula! At the old True Temper plant, where my father worked when I was a little girl!!!! CRAZY! Called the Ashtabula Crank, they are still manufactured, all be it in China, but are still called the Ashtabula Crank! They are found on BMX and kid's bikes...

What a little piece of trivia! Go ahead, google it!!

On a training note, I ran the 5k this morning, without too much trouble from my calf....i actually felt good. I ran the race as a pacer for a friend of mine who is legally blind, so it was at much slower pace than I'm used to, but it was good for me! and her too, she medaled in her age division!!! Way to go Kathy!