MUCK!

As much as my rig loves being detailed for 20 minutes after each winter ride, i'm getting so tired of it. I'm looking forward for my almost certain clear weather ride tomorrow!

The Double

fail!

Never ever, EVER, ever again will I EVER ride a cross bike with only one spare tube. I could not have been enjoying our freakishly warm weather more, and I was having an all around excellent ride when out of nowhere-psssssssssss...flat tire! No biggie-I average about one per month on the cross rig, maybe one per year on the mtb, so I don't care too much when it happens. I was just glad it was such nice weather today, and the forced break was welcomed anyways.

I pulled off into a neighborhood, did the winter mechanical shuffle with a bunch of onlookers gawking (tossed all the warm gear from in my pack on, some hand/toe warmers, grabbed my shell), proceeded to change my flat with a smile on my face, had a gu, packed everything up, and began my trip home. I was pretty spent at this point, and still about an hour or so from home so I was looking forward to my nice relaxing journey when...Scrape! Clunk! Scrape! HUCK!!!

Double flat :( 

search and rescue!

Although it was unseasonably warm out today it was still way too cold for a patch to adhere so I eventually admitted defeat and called for some back up. Lucky for me Chels was back from her run and came right away to get me. You'd think that's the end of the story, but wait! there's more! The neighborhood I picked to pull off in must have been too new for our GPS, and the street was not even recognized by it, nor did I have any clue how to direct Chels to my location without her having to drive on canal and bike paths...so naturally she called me...and of course my phone didn't ring! Argh! In hindsight I should have used my Edge to get my coordinates for her...duh!

Yeah, it's as fun as it looks! Love the winter riding...

Hahahahah, anyways...sweet day for a ride, sweet day tomorrow and the next too...i'd say it's a good way to start the new year, and a typically frustrating but humorous way to end it. Happy new years everyone! If you're making a new years resolution I hate to break it to you but you'll probably not keep it! Otherwise you'd already be doing it anyways!!

I'm going to try to make it to midnight...we're so lame that we usually fall asleep before then. lol. I'm so stoked to get out and spin in the 48+ degree weather coming tomorrow that i'll probably hit the hay early and beat all the hungover crazies out onto the roads in the morning for a new years  day spin. It's gonna be an exciting year for sure!  :)

It's true!

Gamers rejoice! OK...I spent my childhood trying to convince my parents of this, now the wife doesn't believe me either. Lucky for me some one wrote it down and put it on the inter-web so now I have PROOF!

Video games are good for the brain! (NEWS ARTICLE)

I think it'd be neat to see this study done with non-gaming mountain bikers. I don't know about everyone else, but I use the exact same scan techniques picking lines on the rig as I do plying CStrike Source or Black Ops.. Haha, yeah, I still CStrike....a lot better then I ride! I think they'd find that non-gaming mountain bikers (of average riding confidence) would ace their tests right off the bat.

Plenty of fresh powder, nice and cold out, it must be winter!

Bring on the snow!

Bring on the snow!

The Brick

Went for a spin on the brick today. What's the brick you might ask? It's my 35lb, 6.5 inch travel beater rig I train on all winter.

It's got a rear wheel that doesn't spin unless I pedal, and unless I keep my cadence just right it makes noises so wretched people flag me down to try and help me. Hahahahah. It's not fast, but it will make you fast! Check out the sick custom Brick Crankskins though! Not having ridden it since April I forgot how hard it makes me work. Zero rest time. Even on the downhills it's got to be pedaled or it will drift to a stop. Stoked to be back on it, but really anxious to get my cross rig so I can start to work on my endurance and forget about power for a while.

Lol-a ride like that would be a joke on the Blue. On The Brick though-what a workout! 

Test Post

Again, another test. Gotta make this lengthy to see how the template scales. Gotta make a bunch of lebels, ect.



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maybe a photo from CTS 2010:

Gotta get this thing working!


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