Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Woke up to my name in print:

Just Out did an article about queers and bikes. If you are local, take a read. I certainly got a little mis-quoted but, I have come to expect that with all the recent publicity. If I really am working 10+ hours a day and training 4+ hours a day, I'll go with it. heh heh...




Y'know, I forgot to give a shout out to my kick ass teammates in thier race down in Eugene. Mike Hildebrant (fresh off his 2 stage wins and overall at the Bend omnium) hit the pavement in the crit and I picked him up and got him rolling back in. He did not think he was going to start the road race but did and felt better for it. Jess rode a killer timetrial, Joel Koester and Mike Bene were right there riding for Jess and Mike. I've rarely have teammates around in my races to help me out and it was cool to see them working together and being really supportive. Beth Chase has been really great support for Mike and the whole team, she comes out to every freakin race and if she is not racing she is there handing up bottles and taking care of business. Stuff like that needs to get acknowledged. We did not have ANY of our ladies racing down in Eugene but Beth is ALWAYS at the races. And, she had the guts to say something to the dudely racer making a "chick movie" comment when all I did was roll my eyes and huff off to bed.




Note the pre-race espresso.

Monday, September 19, 2005

What happens in Eugene stays in Eugene, bro.

Rode the time trial of my life, catching my 30 second and 1 minute rider in the first few miles before getting off course and adding 10 minutes to my time... Ugh. Long story short, I really hurt myself in the TT and easily did a top 5 ride. The officials adjusted my time but, not (in my opinion) fairly. I got put behind the riders I caught on the results and then went into the crit that evening pretty frustrated. Had a mediocre crit, getting caught on the inside in the last corner. Local riders having an advantage as the road and crit courses are weekly training race routes. I abandoned the road race after 50 miles. It was kinda pouty of me. Lesson learned.

It IS my fault for taking a wrong turn but, I wish the course was a little better marked. It just kills your stage race to fuck up the TT so bad right off the mark and go from a potential top 10 to 5 minutes down and in 30th. Bad for the motivation.

Whatever, it is all training for cross at this point anyways. 40 minute TT, 60 minute crit, 2 hours of driving breaks in the road race.

Really excited to hear that Erik Tonkin got 10th at the mountain bike nationals XC. Amazing. I'll get to put the hurt on him this Thursday. Ha!

This weekend felt like a big waste of money. I really just wanted to be home working on wheels at the shop. I will not have a single weekend off starting next weekend until mid-December after Nationals.

Oh, I did it! I bought a new freaking Ipod. Now my Ibook and Ipod and I can go on coffee dates all the time and scowl at my friends when they try to talk to me. "I'm working and listening to music! Piss off!"

I can't wait.

More later, I gots to work.