pedals and boobs

yesterday brian and i did a cambo to mtn run lake to s. merrimac loop about 27 miles and outside of sweat in my eyes the ride went well. came to a screeching halt for mardi gras beads and talked boobs for a while. helps pass the time...

Thursday:
I just got finished taking the DH comp thru the test ride after tensioning the rear wheel and putting the linkage back together.  It's very exciting to be racing again, even if it is on a 54 lbs. Tank!
Mike Hombus is going to go and take photos... (edit: he flaked out) He lives at 516 mimosa street.  By the hospital.
And by "very" exciting i mean that i get a feeling of elation just looking at the bike and anticipating making fun runs.  It rained like holy hell last night but is good today and all weekend so we should have good conditions for Sunday!   Hells yeah!
Friday I took a halfday off and got to practice around 2 pm. The conditions were great considering there was a lot of rain on the east coast on wednesday. I got five or six practice runs in before they closed the practice 35 mins Early. My legs were burning pretty bad after three runs so i took a break and talked to Stephan for a bit. I had a low speed crash, on the last run, after the s turn around the tree with rocks, but then again, most of my riding was low speed. I got a bit faster on my second run but I lost the chain 4 times and my rear brake lever kept coming loose, rendering it useless. For race day I put a zip tie around it to keep it from coming loose.
Sunday I got up at six and was there just after 8, just after they opened the lifts. I got in another four? Runs, maybe five before 11am. We had our runs early in the day and I was out by 2:30, there were a lot of delays at the beginning. My race run went quite well and A photog got a pretty good snap of me in the new jump after the second fire raod, i hope to post soon. It was a clean, fun, and no mechanical problems. I said goodbye to Stephan and sean and went home.

oops

this month has been a good month for cycling.
i have been riding prox 5 times a week for 20+ miles a day.
getting in shape with brian and friends. great spring weather cool evenings. good times.
did a good ride with justin, joe, and brian- doing a 2x2 cube less drafting but faster speeds. great workout and good to chat in too. T minus 40 day or so until its off to Maui. sold my MX bike yesterday... one more motorcycle to go.
exciting times...
but the BIG+ news is that Massanutten DH is this weekend.

i have sold the Session... but still have the giant comp so I am very excited to get a change to race this year...
look forward to seeing friends and having fun@!!

last week

Yesterday i did the sunday ride with bobby and the crew and we ended up doing 36 miles. supposed to be 31 any bobby owes us lunch.
brian and i rode on thursday as well. it was a cold misty ride on thursday but we were fortunate it didnt actually rain. did about 13 miles, and got to hear all about brian's love life, sweet!

Springing

This week has been good so far. Sunday was windy during the day, but brian and I went for a ride after he got off from work. I rode to the shop and then we rode chestnut fork and left to alanthus. Back to the house after the sun set. Monday I had to pick up my forks at the bike shop and my Pitamakin photo at the frame shop so I forgot my running shoes. I was running out of light so i went anyway and ran barefoot. It was slow going in the woods and hard on my arches at times but fun and with the 50 degree weather it was pretty good weather for barefoot. The ground was soft and hitting mud patches was cool. Today when I got home Sally has just pulled in before me and we went and did a loop on the bikes, about nine miles and got home just before dark. Almost 60 degrees today and great weather for a ride..

Goals

I have a lot reasons to get in shape for the spring, the first is a possible DH race in South Carolina on March 5th. Tuesday I ran stairs at my house for 25 mins and it really works my calves. Yesterday I did "rolling hills" on the ellipitical which was also pretty good but about as exciting as this post.

First Cold Ride of Spring

Yesterday was Superbowl Sunday, but more importantly, it was 50 degrees outside.
Bobby got a ride together out of Brandy (a mile from my house) so i rode over. I didn't time it well and went outside to get my bike and my road bike had no pedals and no front wheel. I had to go so (they will leave you behind if you are a second late)i jumped on my fixie (Raleigh) and took off. More people turned up than I expected but (given its relaxed pace) I was not only able to keep pace but set it at times. Ended up doing about 28 miles around Kelly's Ford.

very cool and a great ride (didnt even have to wear gloves)

X-er-cizin

Sat and sunday i ran the same 4 mile loop at the farm becuase running is much better in the really cold weather, and i do love running on singletrack.
Yesterday i Ran stairs for 30 mins at my house and it was a great (read: hard) workout.

It's cold outside

Brian and I went for a night ride tonight. It's in the low 20' and I'm really out of shape despite being on the elliptical. It was fun but really low air in my back tire cut the ride short. It's funny, but even with the less than 40 min ride, my toes were already getting numb. Still good to get out and pedal some.