[John Rogers]

At the time, I.E. 1983 through my retirement in 1985 I was riding 400 miles a week for training and racing nearly every weekend with my oldest daughter Lisa who was the CA State road and track champion for several years until we both got burned out. I was president of the LaJolla cycling club, same a Mark Gorski and George Mount who was racing in Europe at the time. A couple weeks before the 1984 Olympics Mark got a ticket for riding through a stop sign in La Jolla as the SD Police did NOT like cyclists at the time. We got the ticket thrown out as we got the judges family several tickets to the new velodrome where the track events were held (sort of a "fine")!

A funny note: The afternoon before the 1984 Olympic road race Lisa and I along with Mariane Bergland who was the world road race champion in 1983 with her "rainbow Jersey" road around the course to see what the hills were like and people were hollering "hi Lisa" as she had on her "Bear Jersey" and nobody seemed to know who the world champion was!

My daily ride was from Naval station San Diego, up 30th street to University Ave the draft behind a city bus or other large truck out to Lemon Grove then South-East out highway 94 to Jamul then West on Otay Lakes Road back home to Chula Vista. Lots of hills and down hills but all two lane roads so I learned to love my small rear view mirror.
Still have the painted marks on our back sidewalk so we could measure the "rollout" of Lisa's junior class bicycles.