Another Passing

Bicycle rituals are personal and wide ranging. There are the standard ones like shaving legs, pumping tires, warm ups, peeing every 13 mins, favorite water bottles etc. There are odd ball ones like new tires every race, 109.5 psi in tires, a garter under your kit etc.

Of course pre-race meals are standard but what one eats might be odd ball. For me coffee and water is key, some gel 30 mins before, and the meal consists of an Egg McMuffin. I figure its got fat/protein/carbs and to be honest its not sooo bad for you...and during a race its thru the system pretty quick.

From the McDonalds site:


So to this news is sad...like the loss of Sheldon Brown....

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A Southern California McDonald's restaurants official says Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson has died in Santa Barbara at age 89. Monte Fraker, vice president of operations for McDonald's restaurants in Santa Barbara, said Peterson died peacefully at his home Tuesday.

Peterson came up with idea for the signature McDonald's breakfast item in 1972. He began his career with McDonald's as vice president of the company's advertising firm, D'Arcy Advertising, in Chicago. He wrote McDonald's first national advertising slogan, "Where Quality Starts Fresh Every Day," and eventually became a franchisee.


Egg McMuffin creator Herb Peterson with his breakfast idea in 1997.