... Been riding my steel bike a lot lately. She rides as smooth as the day is long and handles like a dream. Nevermind her outdated parts, they wont slow her down. She is like a fine wine. Like a girl you wont let go of. She can do all things well. You see the sexy carbon bikes go by, but your steel love, she will never let you down. She is true blue.
...Not much worth writing about lately. Just riding in the heat. Been getting the CX bike squared away for the season at hand. Despite the desire to do more in the way of training I am sticking to the plan and waiting til it counts. We will be providing some free CX Clinics through the summer and early fall through The Shop. Check the shop site for upcoming dates and come practice jumping off perfectly good bikes with us.
... with no serious battles to be had until september i've been loading up the miles. building the base on bike and on foot for the cross season ahead. the goal of limiting the matches burned before cross season is going well. i'm excited to have the coaching services of Momenta behind me for the season ahead. just a few more months to go...
The Birthday was yesterday. 27th to be exact. Rachel makes my birthday better every year. I used to not care about the ole' birthday at all. It was just another day; until Rachel came along. The key ingredient to a good birthday (for me) is a fantastic birthday breakfast. This year was a nice Australian coffee, assorted fresh fruits & berries with a main course of whole grain oatmeal pancakes with blueberries in them. Man that was good stuff. Breakfast was followed up with a great day at work, working as little as possible and eating as many cookies (by Rachel) as possible. My generous employers saw fit to give me gift cards to three of our favorite local establishments. Baja's, Bread Haus and Bongiorno's. Now i have fine coffee to put in my new french press Rachel gave me. After work we were off to Baja's for some mexican and margaritas with the Mad Duck Crew. We closed out the night with a late night run to Wendy's for a frosty. Good times...
I have been riding my Kelly a bit lately and was shocked to find she was hiding some rust under a couple bubbles in the paint. After about 10 hours of sanding shes got a new look, no rusty spots and rides like the dream she is.
I haven't had much worthy of writing about lately. This past weekend we made it up to Tulsa for the Keystone race promoted by Raymond Hall. Props to Raymond for putting in the hours to get this race going. He drummed up a huge cash purse for the men's race. The course was super rough and challenging. Warming up i felt pretty good. After the first lap and a half I had already suffered two flats. Game over.... Clarence and I made our way back to Texas, but not before checking out Tulsa's bike share system. It was a pretty cool set up. Would have been even cooler if we could have got the stations to work. We also made a stop at the "Action Figure Museum" in some small Ok town. For all the bill boards they had posted it was a bit of a let down... Sunday was the TX Crit Championship races. I made my way out for what would be an uneventful day in the cat 3 race. Sat in most of the race and felt pretty flat. Oh well, it was still pretty fun. After a good lunch with the family at Joe T's i was not feeling like i had accomplished anything on the bike for the weekend, so i headed out to log a few more hours. Finally contentment... And on a sad note, my commuter pack died this week. She was a work horse hauling load after load for many moons. After being around for a few years she broke a strap that was neatly sewn back together and she kept on truckin'. But her last ride proved to be the final straw. Under the stress of a modest haul her strap once again gave way rendering her unrepairable. She will be replaced, but not forgotten.
Sat: Work, Sun: Keystone MTB Race, Mon: State Crit.
$2000 US Dollar purse for the Keystone race. $1000 US Dollars on the line for who ever takes the "W". Should draw some fast legs out of the woodwork.
finally nailed down a quality recovery week. legs are back on track. bike is dialed.
I got throttled yesterday and there was nothing i could do about it. i'm confused.
recovery? power? i can't find mine anywhere.
Those Okies know how to put on a good dirt race. Good venue, good trail and free beer... Double Lake this weekend. It's gonna be a fast one.
