Racing!
Flat out!
“Facking hell!” Flatted out of the Granogue race today. The first tyre went flat on the first lap “prologue” loop. Or I should say, I flatted it on a rock. I did however, baby it to the pit, get the spare bike and proceed to flat that somewhere in the next lap. No more bikes […]
Three grand. Category three glory.
Oh, the prices we pay for the small victories. I cherished not getting lapped by Trebon, Tonkin and co. my first season as a CX crusade “A”. Now I cherish not getting lapped by Euros. Taking things in perspective gets weird as one progresses. Now a days I stare at a heart rate monitor. And […]
Sometimes you want to give it up.
I’ve had chronic knee pain for as long as I have been riding bikes. Not a lot to say about it, I hurt after a couple hours on the bike. Big gears, small gears, road, mountain, cross. Whatever. The knees ache and eventually I cannot pedal without feeling like I am screwing them up. Enough […]
Sick and sore. Sick of being sick and sore.
No miles. No miles in the legs. I started off with a bang, got a loaner powertap wheel, a solid 15 hour block of training and. crap. It all falls to pieces. The loaner powertap wheel goes kaput, I’ve been sick and injured and off the bike for 2 weeks. Not going to be able […]
ugh. first cold of the year!
I’m not even racing again yet and I’ve got a cold again! Frail, weak, sickly vegan. ha! Spoke with Bradley Saul and signed up with the Organic Athlete Elite road squad. That means I may potentially put, Mt. Hood, Cascade Classic, Elkhorn, Tour de Gila, Tour de Nez and Toona on my calendar! Yikes! But, […]
Snatched from another blog:
“Many female champions, such as Katie Compton have stated that to achieve her goals as a cyclist she raced with the men. This helped her become as strong as she is and achieve the level of success in a competitive environment. As noted in the most recent issue of Velonews: She finished an amazing eighth […]
Banned.
Ouch. Raced against Stephen at Alpenrose Velodrome before… Reprinted from cyclingnews: “Track cyclist Stephen Alfred of Capitola, Calif., has been given an eight-year suspension after testing positive for exogenous testosterone and for ‘pregnancy hormone’ human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). Alfred’s eight-year ban commenced January 30, 2007, the date he accepted the sanction.” Track sprinters. Dean, if […]
Why travel to Vegas?
Redundent yes but, I am copying these last 2 from my comments section. Joel and I chatted about it briefly in the Stumptown coffee shop the other morning. Portland (read: the entire west coast) is too far away to draw the larger, well funded cx teams right now. Fidea, Sunweb, Rabobank and co. are not […]
oh. my. god. hove.
Did you hear what happened today? Amazing. It was like a surreal painting playing over and over in my head all day. “Was that really Jon Page on the podium at worlds?” So, um… “Wait, was that really Katie Compton on the podium at worlds?” Yeah… “Wait, wait, wait. Was that Danny Summerhill on the […]
Sint Niklass – good bye Belgium. For now.
Stayed up late last night after the race in Sint Niklass. I figure if I deprive myself of sleep tonight I can doze on the plane and start resetting my biological clock. Yesterday’s race was really fun. The only big euro pros there were Sven Nys and Jonathan Page. There was a Palmans Collstrop guy […]
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