HHH

The hotter'n hell turned out to not be all that hot. The low was 61 the night before with 41% humidity. the high was only 82 with about the same humidity. only had 14,209 people there and it pretty much overwhelmed the mobile phone services. the ride itself wasnt bad either. We did the 100k and it took 3 hrs 11 minutes. not too bad. could have been better had I actually been training on the road bike more than a couple times a month. Every oone did good, fast Tony did the 100 miler in less than 5 hours, nuts.
saw some bad get offs, lots of water bottles on the road, more newbies than I could keep track of and lots off people I knew from around home and people who recognized me from the bike and my tats on the calves.
overall it was once again a good time. the good thing about it is it got me back on the road bike so it will help me out on the dirt for the races, even though so far it doesnt look like im going to have much trouble placing well in the series.

thats all,

goings on?

not much really. lots of working, some riding and whatnot. so I get this letter in the mail. Its from the hotter'n hell people reminding me that I had pre-registered. SO... I guess im going after all. cleaned up the Tarmac, re-stanned the tubeless tires and did a shakedown ride. its ready. The Garmin is still on the blink so I threw on a computer to keep up with my pace and time when Im driving the line. luckily its just 100k this year or I'd be screwed.100k is doable without much road training when in a paceline. going up around noon friday, checkout the MTB race. root for some friends and get ready for saturday. bust out the 100k as quickly as possible, drink beer, check out the expo, drink more beer. then go eat a steak dinner. good nights sleep. drive home on sunday.

decent weekend plan. I should have signed up for the MTB race too, but the weather forcast is calling for some rain. screw that.

Later,

I raced.........................and

I won. my class at least. wasn't my best time on the coarse, but it was way hot and humid, So I cant complain too much. So there were supposed to be 12 in my flite, but only 4 showed up at the line. I was the only serious contender with a geared bike. SO,,,, on the start, I pointed to the guys to get on my wheel for the 3/4 mile paved start loop and draft me to the trail entrance, they did. then I held the lead until I went over the bars on a creek crossing, that ended up bending my derailleur hanger. I fought the shifting all the way to the timing line and into the second lap. then on a slight uphill I shifted and the chain jumped into the spokes and I had to stop and fix it. that's when I notices the hanger. I gently massaged it back into place,looked up and saw a 13 go by( my flite #) and awe shit, it was on. got back by him on a climb and never looked back, just kept trying to push myself to the end. caught up to a guy I couldn't get by so I sat on his wheel for the last mile and kept telling him to push it, he did. we ended up sprinting out to the finish even though I knew we weren't in the same class. everyone should sprint out the finish.
I guess I will be racing the single speed at the next one, depends on who shows up, might take both bikes just in case.

that all folks,

well, i rode

last night. got a couple of laps in. not an ass kickin pace, but a pretty good pace, missing so much saddle time is showing. Im ready for all these 100+ degree/90% humidity summer days to end. I have no interest in riding after being in it all day long.
First race is this weekend, guess I'll see how bad I really am this season. different age group and class this season, so should be a top of the pile finisher, but you never know until you line up. I Dont even have a clue how many are my class, but should be smaller than last year.

that is all.

Work,work, work.

pretty much all Ive been doing. I just noticed that I haven't said anything since June 28th. Thats because I haven't ridden but once since then. Its been so hot that all I have has time for is work.I need some ride time soon, or I might flip out.......


later.

aint done shiiii....

T. Last week was a hot, humid shitty week. worked late several days and came home tired and worn out on all of them. did not even touch a bike since the FNR the week before. "I am jacks lazy ass". did make it to Als to eat though.

Spend saturday with my dad and grandmother. still no riding.

got up and went to work on the jet ski today. got alot done and should be ready to hit the water again, as soon as the new steering cable gets in. had some lunch, then got a new cut and color for the summer. a red tipped, blonde mohawk. suweettttttt! still no riding though.

bu-by

Why and what?

Why would I facebook message a person I dated 20 years ago. And what IF she responds?
I dated this girl around graduation time, she was a soph and went to martin, really way too cute for me. But hey, there was something about me she seemed to like. technically she broke up with me out of the blue, but being a senior/grad I assumed that the grass was greener on the other side and pretty much blew her off in bad form. turns out the grass wasnt AS green and since I burned the bridge in such a big way, had no way to return.
a few years later( she had graduated) was looking up a friend that had the same last name and found her. out of curiousity I called and damn if she didnt answer. We ended up meeting up, and talked a bit and that was it.
UNTIL face book.
I looked her up for giggles and actually found her. still going by her maiden name, debated for a few days about sending her a message, then today I did. "I am a kick in Jacks balls". Now I just waite and see i guess.
What The F was I thinking?

Oh and I still havent ridden since the FNR. I really feel like riding, but after work, the heat and humidity, I just pretty much veg out. maybe tomorrow. for tomorrow is another day.

What have I been doing?

not much really. I only rode 1 day this week and it was a weak ride at that. Since it finally got hot (high 90's with 70% humidity or more) work has been buy as hell. lots of heat and long hours makes me lazy, sort of. I just really don't want to ride after work. on the plus side, Wednesday after work, Randy did the cover-up and lower part of the dragon koi short sleeve tattoo. so I had that going for me. Made the FN ride, hot and unbelievably humid. Got up at the dawn of crack saturday and hauled ass to the home depot for some stuff to mark the trail for the Judgement day guys/girls.saw some really big rat/water snakes and 1 really good sized copperhead. then got back to the trailhead and awaited the competators. had to leave arounf 11 or so for work and then did a call for the elusive Megan. fixed up some bad ductwork and called it a day.Until, the dinner message came in. a little mexican food and 'ritas on the rocks was sweeetttt. Hit the right spot for sure. followed up with some Ice cream.

Sunday... Fathers day.
slept in. met the parental units and the sis for some lunch. then head over to Dallas for an inpromptu "L" family reunion. really one of my cousins from afar was in town and wanted everyone to get together.Its a shame we're related. beautiful, dark hair, fair skin. dang related hot girls. We had a good time,got caught up about the past 6 years, and bs'd.
For some reason, chinese food sounds good right now..

C Ya

here we go, some results

Jordan Chaney	7	4:30:00
Mike Norman	7	5:22:47
Carl Hentschel	6	3:11:39
John Larson	6	4:33:32
Paul Larson	6	5:00:40
Lin Waters	6	5:09:25
Mike D'Aurelio	6	5:10:35
Arthur Larson	6	5:12:40
John R McCauley	5	4:59:21
Randy Hancock	4	3:40:46
Francois Lafontaine	4	3:41:43
Tony LaQuey	4	3:59:38
Tom Harris	4	4:16:40
Kirk Cooper	4	4:53:30
Brendan Cooper	4	5:36:02
Curtis Box	3	3:56:55
Drew Tucker	2	4:16:17

Ohh,,,,,,,,

I haven't had much happening, I did the smurfboy 6 hr race. it was about a bazillion degree's when it started and humid at shit. I did a recon lap since I had never been there, man. It started out with a start lap then right into some rocky climbing. I walked the first two steeps since this was going to go on for 6 hours. Oh did I mention that I ended up doing it solo? My "partner in climb" ended up bailing because his wife had a nasty get off on a road ride. She ended up in the hospital and he had to go be a the good husband, so solo it was for me.
So anyway,, hot as hell, a shitload of climbing, the veiw from the top of the ridge kinda made the climbing worth it, but really it was the downhills that followed that rocked. I coulda done some great stuff on 6 inches of travel or more, but I dialed em' in pretty good for a hardtail 29er. I felt like a snickers bar in the sun after the first lap, I thought about bailing then, but cooled down for a bit remounted and hit it again. walked the steepest part on the climb again and rocked the rest of the trail. checked in, again thought about bailing, clouds came in and was acompanied by a nice little breeze.So I downed some water, a PB and J some goo and hit it again. this time I rocked it all. including the climb. aquired some cramps in the right thigh about six miles into this lap, SUCK! pounded out the rest of the lap with some cramping. but still was feeling pretty good with the weather change. so out I went again, after some time in the pit stretching and hydrating, still had the cramps. this time in both legs, but were tollerable as long as I didnt mash too hard in the climbs and hills.
At this point, the weather turned a little nasty. thank god, I was wiped out. The lightning was pretty big and moving closer, So I showered( yes this place had showers) packed everything up and got ready to hit the road before the rain came in. turs out I left prematurely because it didnt get too bad.Oh well, it was nice to get home early and sleep in my own bed.
Not sure where I placed yet, The results arent up yet. will let you know when I know.
Oh, anyway, I did 4 laps total, still had about 1 and 1/2 hours left. not sure about the mileage since my garmin did the battery disconnect BS. the race got called early due to the weather, so there you have it.

tittysprinkles

the weather...........

has sucked ass since Wednesday. rained buckets.70 mph winds,1700 lightning strikes in a couple of hours, and more rain. This evening was prep time for the 6 hour smurfboy. I guess we'll see how it goes.




more later

hot damn

Ive ridden every day since Sunday afternoon. all dirt laps in prep for the 6 hr race. replaced the tires with the newer racing ralphs . man they roll nice. quite even. super grip on the front with the 2.44 width. just need the damn things to seal up all the pinholes in the side walls. I guess two more oz's of stans will be needed.
pretty boring couple of days really.
so Olivia Wilde is Maxims new #1. google her pics,, mmmm, I was taken by her long before Maxim, I think she may be the cause of my new found attraction to raven haired women. dont get me wrong, still got a thing for reds but I'm over blond's for sure now.
later..

so

I rode today. did four 6 mile laps in the 26 min range for some tempo riding. wasnt too bad, wasnt to great. better than a kick in the nuts I guess. I think the rest of the week will be all road 'cause my base miles are really lacking and I will be doing every other lap for 6 hours. I think mon, tues, wed, and taper off thursday, and lite pedal friday night. then its ON for saturday.
Then one day the week after, get the koi finished up since I dont want to risk eating shite with fresh ink and scabbing.

that all I got right now, maby the fuckits are gone. i hope so..

well hell............................the flu

True desire seems to have left me high and dry. For the last month or so I really haven't had much drive or desire to accomplish much. I dont know why, it's just the way things are for some reason.Ive got an endurance bike race in a week and really the last thing I want to do is go out and ride. I really need to be training and eating right but I don't want to. I call it the fuckit flu. I seem to have a scorching case. At some point I will get over this, kinda like being reborn. I think...
I guess we'll see. I really would like to sail through summer,I'm not really a summer fan, more of a spring and fall kinda guy, then the big 40 is right around the corner, hopefully I can move out, and save up the money for the Alaska trip at the same time, serious velvet powder up there for snow boarding, so I got that to look forward to, help me get out of this flu funk..

cee ya

one step closer....................

to having some more art work added to the dragon Koi. I also got to ride today, but more art work Woo Hoo!

rather blah

so here it is sunday night, I didnt ride today. I really should have, but just didnt. Had a pretty full saturday and didnt get to ride. I spent the first half of the day doing some electrical work for Krystin and Leeann (sisters) so the TV can be mounted on the fireplace. then went home, showered and got ready for the get together at casa Bres, surprisingly light crowd. I did drink a couple of frosty barley pops which is rare for me.
Friday night I hit the dirt for the FNR and set 2 personal best's on 2 laps. I didnt feel that fast,but the gps doesnt lie. and lap two was confirmed by Tony's gps too. dint have a third lap in me as I was pretty shot and I just didnt fell like a third lap.
Hmmmm, I didnt do jack shit on thursday as far as riding, I got off work and went over to Courtney's house to hang her ceiling fan and the one in my future room. mine took about 45 minutes,hers,,,,,,, shit. took nearly two hours, and a couple of trips to Arlington hardware and a few choice words about shitty former home owners that should have hire professionals to hang the orginal fan. It turned out nice, she didnt even notice until the next day she had a new fan over her bed. funny.

thats all I got for now

holy crap!

I got to ride 2 days in a row. It was a good tempo ride too. wore my heart rate monitor for the first time this year. wasnt too surprised, I was about where I thought I would be.
other than that, I got nothing, but the weather sure was good for riding.
damn facebook, people coming out of the woodwork.



later

woo hoo.

so I made it through the weekend and got some good riding in. The FNR. the jet ski's on saturday. that was a workout. then got up and rode with steve at big cedar, than hauled over to cedar hill and met up with glenn for a lap on sunday. didnt do shit on monday. then busted out a great ride tonight with the bicycle inc TNR, and beat the rain too. it turned out to be a pretty cool weekend and tuesday.

cee ya.

Im not really a lazy ass

but I tell you, some times I feel like it. So I packed up everything last night to do the ride in burleson this morning, but forgot to set the alarm. Then Glenn called me this morning to figure out where in the crowd I was, Where I was , I was in bed. Glenn was the alarm this morning. Oh well. Back to sleep. then Keenan called and wanted to unwinterize the jet skis, so off to the lake I went. We shredded some water then headed back to the shop since we both had stuff to do. my stuff was some bike maintenance, since I found a broken spoke on the rear wheel. Rosario Dawson ( the actress) has great boobs. anyway......,,,,,, The gang did all meet up to eat some great sushi and stuff tonight.. mmmmmmmm. Now I just got to get myself up in the morning to to go ride with Steve. At least I already set the alarm.

lets see.........

typical work day.nuff said. Tony and I set some scorchin times and speeds today on the FNR. I nearly blew chunks on the second lap. good times. Had the awsomest shake at ALs tonight too. chocolate with a shot(big) of kalua .mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.



that is all

H to the E to the double L yeah

I got some good hill work in on monday, work on tuesday sucked and kept me out of the TNR bicycles inc ride, but I got in a solid 35 miles tonight. I think around 8 were for the ride of silence. Which by the way were some of the hardest miles of done in a while. whewn your used to 18 to mph going 10 is really hard. I know it sounds stupid. but you train yourself to sit on a bike thats setup to go around 20 mph, so sitting there doing 10 is more difficult than you would expect.
other than that, I got nothing else on my mind.

So later.....

well........hmmmmm.

So, I didnt really like the look of the current version of my mohawk, so I went the other way,I now have 40 grit hair. almost bald shaved. Which works for me.I do love the way fresh shaved arms and legs feel on really good sheets.
mondays are becoming the shithole of days lately.Everything I did today was warranty replacement for stuff recently installed. nothing was due to my work, but still, it sucks and blows at the same time.
I did get a little bit of saddle time in today though.16 miles of mostly hill work with Glen and Tony (crashrider) and that was good to work out some frustrations from the work day.

good thing is "tomorrow is,,,,,,,, another day."

sAWeet!!!

2 days of riding in the same week. Did the FNR as I said before and squeezed in a little 20 mile quickie today with some hills included. And the big news is I finally got harangued into joining facebook. Yep, after stating forever that I never would I did. so far its not too bad. Its not like I'm being stalked on it so far. looking forward to the indy 500, Danica is looking like a contender again this year.

all I got right now.
later

alrighty then

so friday was the only day I got any saddle time in and it was the FNR. Igot in 3 decent laps,I think all 3 were 28 minutes or less for right at the 6 mile long lap. not too bad. we had a pretty good turn out and 35 people at Als. give or take a kid or so. I got a call at 7:30 am for a a/c problem,suckage. went to Ft worth and got it taken care of and headed back home just in time to have Megan call about her a/c problem again. went over there spent about an hour and a half and got it fixed for good just in time for her to move out cause she sold her house.Ive come to the conclusion that its not possible for her to look bad. even packing and moving stuff with the a/c off,,, total smokin' hotness.but alas, here I sit drinkin a cold frosted barley pop without an offer from her for dinner or anything for my hard work. I did refuse cash payment,hoping for some other offering but no. Oh well. This rain is starting to get to me, hard to build up any inspiration with all the rain screwing up my riding. I gotta come up with a team name for the smurfboy too. so much to do and think about this weekend. :)

later..

a case of the lazy ass

thats what I got today. got sleeted on while in north rockwall this morning. yep sleet. it was windy and a cold rain mixed with slushy sleet. then worked my way west.ended up sweating my ass off covered in nasty dirt and dust from my last call. by the time I got home I smelled like a bums ballsack so I just took a long shower and veg'd. Thats nearly a week without a single mile in the saddle. I'm a lazy ass.


CCCCCC YAAAA.

whats new?

Mothers day went off without a hitch. Cooked a butt load of porkchops,chicken, and hebrew nationals for the kids, and of coarse the kick ass corn. got to drink a few beers along the way. Hey, its cooking outside, you got to drink a few beers. Didnt ride like I'd hoped but oh well.
I havent ridden yet as a matter of fact, and its wednesday. suck! Crap weather folowed by freakin gale force winds just suck the fun out of any riding. maybe tomorrow.
I did shave the mohawk back on the noggin for a little inspiration to get more saddle time, but its only been about 24 hours so the mojo isnt in effect yet.I guess we'll see how long i can take having any hair longer than a 1/4 of an inch.
So my Sis bought this old school mini bike. you know the kind with a briggs edger engine and a tire friction rear brake. its kinda cool. did a little work on it today and went over it with her for some modding and a new paint scheme. Its screaming for a west coast chopper style exhaust pipe.
Its almost summer girl shopping time. I what I can get, with a mohawk and a kilt?

thats about all the random crap I got right now.

later

This is all I got

Friday didnt totally suck. Work went better than I expected. It was pretty hot and humid, but other than that it wasnt too bad. my legs were a little dead because Ron got me out on the bike thursday afternoon and we busted out about 25 or so miles with lots of hills. highly needed miles.Turns out I didnt get Megan fixxed up and have to go back, kinda sucks. I shoulda have known better and done it right the first time ,but I really wanted to ride.
For mothersday Me and the father are doing a lot of cooking. I think theres about 25 or so folks going to be there. So I did some prep work today,I beer soaked about 30 ears of corn and did some other stuff too. Im going to try and ride tomorrow before I have to start cooking.

So get this. I think I might be an asshole

I got screwed out of my group ride today because of work. I guess I could ride anyway, but seriously the day I had today kinda blew anyway. My nearly new i phone died today. So I hauled ass to AT&T only to find out that the warranty is through the apple store only, in ft worth. which is fine except I was in coppell. Thats when my brain melted down. I drove to apple(by TCU) and find out that I needed to schedule an appointment ahead of time(2hrs 30 min wait) to get warranty service. I told the dude "If I was able to make an appointment using my phone, I wouldnt need the warranty service to begin with". It reaallllyyyy went downhill from there. It ended up with me telling him to schedule an appointment to turn the power back on cause I was going to F their business over by turning off their power like they were Fing my business over with the appointment crap. 20 minutes later I had a new phone. I really am an asshole arent I.
I do get to service Megan again tomorrow, so I got that going for me. Not in the way that would really be good, but hey a friend in need....................................................................................................

major suckage

SO the weather has been less than ridable weather since ...... middle of last week. the job that I spent so much time on last thursday went south on sunday and is in the crapper again and to top it off I thought I was going to ride today but the damn rain came back in as I was leaving work so I didnt get to ride today. I knew today was going to be crappy when I went by my sisters house to meet the roofers and they were stripping the roof off her neighbors house instead. that was kinda funny since she was out of town. she gets back on thursday and she will have a new FREE roof.
Hardly anyone showed up for the friday night ride. we rode the pavement anyway,then hit Als as usual, saturday and sunday were a bust as riding is concerned but the racing on tv was good.
thats all I got.

Later.

woo hoo!

so I met up with Ron today at the park to hit the road. I got there a little early to look at the trail, and to my amazement noone had ridden the trail and the chain at the bike trail head was still there. the one over at the Y for the hikers entrance was down though.So I stretched out the chain a bit and relocked it. Ron showed up and we hit the road. wind blew pretty hard. rode out to interlochen and did some hills.Ron kicked my ass, we did 20.10 miles, with the hills in 1 hr 16 min. top speed was 42.7 mph on the downhill. that was fun.
MMMMM hotdogs.

I must say

We needed some rain but, this kinda sucks and blows at the same time. I know there was zero chance of riding this evening, but it pretty much shot the Friday night ride all to hell as far as trail riding goes. It will be interesting to see how the chain across the trail has worked out as opposed to the caution tape.I guess we get to ride the river path.So my friend Krystin locked her keys in her truck and just borrowed my Element to meet her sister with her spare keys. Its the first time someone else has driven my car since I bought it. looked weird driving off.
Im digging the vitamin string quartet right now, incredible covers of rock music with strings.

random..................... and later.

Hmmmmmmm........

Im thinking................ I dont really have anything to say. Normal work day, at least it didnt rain. Rain pretty much ruined the day yesterday. So even though the weather looked really crappy this afternoon, I went ahead and loaded up for the group ride. stayed cloudy and windy but no rain. we averaged something like 17 and some change, not too bad. Steph( rons wife) nearly blew chunks, Megan got crossed wheeled and fell at a red light. wasnt her fault, she was the unlucky one though. Overall it was an interesting ride.
Maybe tomorrow will be intersting too. I do get to service Megan tomorrow. A/C problem that is.

this vid is sweet. >http://gizmodo.com/5231112/best-video-ive-seen-today-will-make-you-smile

Ok

so im watching the history channel's show earth after man. Kinda trippy to know that if man suddenly disappeared from earth, 100 years later, there would be talking going on. parrots. millions of parrots kept as pets would still repeat our sounds to the millions of offspring. Anyway,spent the day today watching racing, sunday ritual you know, nascar was pretty exciting, talladega usaully is. Danica finshed top 5 in kansas, still looked hot after the race. Thats really all I got to see today. I'll have to catch up on moto GP. no riding today.

Saturday, I went and did some trailwork at cedar hill on the 12 mile loop with Steve,Brad,Dennis, another Steve and the trail stewards. We did some major work on the downhill that should make upkeep much easier. No riding day, to frakin' tired after the trailwork. but did take a couple of bottles of wine over the the "circle of deaths" house for a dinner get togther. got a little buzzed and found out I really like disorano on the rocks. At least I wasnt the one that ended up praising the porcelaine princess. I did find something interesting to mount last night :)

I wonder if Glenns ever going to update his blog?

Thank god its friday

Had a busy day at work today,but the honda guy called and said the Element was ready so I busted out the day without lunch so I could get over there in time to pick it up before friday afternoon traffic went to crap. It was fixed right, no more noises or anything. While I was standing with the warranty guy, the big sign above the service bay blew out and on to this mini van there to get the oil changed. scratched it up a little but that was it. better him than me. Got the FNR in. three more laps tonight. went to Als to eat and heard a great story about the DICK DOCTOR convention that Lee's wife was at. dick doctor. thats freakin funny.

Thats all I got. man its nice to have my own car again.

finally

I got to ride today. did 3 laps at RLP . all of it.all laps less than 28 minutes. not too bad. ran into casey cole on his new yeti 575, man what a sweet ride. the formerly fun jump at the entrance to ekg is now so fast that two people shot onto the uphill and crashed. Man did I laugh . then asked them if they were ok.
I didnt have anything to say yesterday, so thats that.

sooooo

I didnt have crap to do today at work. so I took the time to remove all the low hanging limbs in the trees in the field next to the house. Some d bag has been tying boxing gloves to some of them to train his pit bull to do running lunges at. he hangs them at head height, so he's training it to attack. so no more limbs to hang them from.
then I got cleaned up and went over to my aunt mary's house for dinner and to hang out with family from out of town. I missed the tuesday group ride but did go hang out and drink a few frosty barley pops at my sisters house after dinner.

thats all I got.

developing an attitude

I think I am . I think I am. definitely am. so saturday was a lazy day. sunday is race day,F1,indy, most 2 wheel racing. Started out the day doing a little trail work at RLP. armoured the low water crossing on the north loop and papa bear in fun town. then went and looked at the suckfest that is now the formerly fun jump going into EKG . Since three whole people crashed and walked out from riding over their heads, we cut 18 inches or so off of it making it a worthless pile of dirt with zero fun factor. even though 3000 or so other people had no problem controling themselve and riding within the bounds of their own skill, we will cater to the lowest common denomenators.
well that was sunday.

on to today, work was a breeze, got the call from honda about the tranny. should be ready wednesday afternoon. crossing fingers. Met up with lori,kz, vanessa, glen and tony(crashrider) for a liitle road ride. out and back at RLP, then out to interlochen wher Tony preceded to crash on a great left hand downhill. didnt hurt the bike or him really. tore up a good set of bib shorts.
we ended up doing 23 miles or so at 17 and change. hit 41 on the crowly road downhill.
thats about it.
Oh,, F1 was pretty good, racing in blinding rain at 180 mph. sweeettttt. And in indy news. Danica Patrick finished 4th, would have been a win or 3rd, but got screwed pitting around a yellow flag. damn she looked yummy after the race.

later

gown day

So on the few days that I just dont want to do anything,I stay inside.eat,watch tv and get caught up on shows I want to watch but dont. Shower, shave,eat. In general be a complete lazy ass. My mom calls them gown days.
well anyways. today was that day for me. I dont think I even went outside.

TTFN

friday night

Ride got rained out.bummer, but new it was coming in. An easy day at work today. got the call about the Elements tranny. drive gear had cracks and missing teeth that caused some damage elsewhere so they ordered the parts and should have it going back together by tuesday.Its all under warranty, so I got that going for me. So for a bit longer I get to drive the work truck. They are firing off the fireworks at the ballpark right now.I can see and hear them from the yard. Not too bad for free. Top guns on right now, so I guess I'll go watch that and sleep-in in the morning.

well hell

so honda called me today at noon to tell me that they were going to drop the engine and tranny to find the problem. So far no word probably tomorrow at noon again. Got 4 laps in at RLP today, all included the now open north loop. That gives us 6 miles of sweet single track trail.legs are pretty dead now.single speed does thast to you i guess. It going to rain all tomorrow they say. major suckage. no Friday night ride. but we will get to eat drink and be scary at Al's. Im sitting here typing this crap watching kill bill vol2 and staring at my roomates new rebuilt right foot. IT got 4 pins sticking out the ends of all ,but the big toe. Edward scissor foot. :) ha ha. 75 miles this week so far 24 on dirt. not very impressive, but better than nothing.

later...

humpday

Wednesday for you folks in rio linda.slow boring day at work. got a little excited about the wed TBI crits, hopped in the ride to head home and whooooo. Major knocking from the front of the Element. Clutch related knocking. SO loud the beastie boys couldnt drown it out. CRAAAPPPP! Haul ass home. Clean out the car. Haul ass to Huggins honda to drop it off. Reassuring news from the mech that did the drive. A knocking he's never heard before in a honda. yippee. Got the Pops to pick me up and take me back to work so I can drive the work truck for a couple of days.Major suckage. a couple of hot dogs followed by some gummi centipedes for dessert made it all better... we'll see tomorrow.............. oh no riding today afterall.


Later

tuesdays are much better

today was mucho rad outside. Did the Bicycles inc group ride,32.25 miles in 1 hr 45 min. not bad my legs felt pretty dead when we were done. could have been from the 32 mph sprint at the end.Still going to ride tomorrow too. I'll be totally fried then.Will be dead at work tomorrow, so I may try to make over to the huggins honda so they can look at the weird clutch knocking I developed Saturday.Fringe was frickin good tonight. It s a shame Fox lets American Idol run long.
Big ups to Randy for busting out the entrance and exit for the north loop at RLP. after months of waiting, it was time. thats all I got.......later

mondays...............

Suck. The weather is keeping business slow, but it gives me time to get some stuff done earlier in the day.Naturally it was a beautiful day all day long until I got off work then the wind pickes up for my road ride.nice.pulled off 24 miles in 1 hr 2 min with the wind. the park was fairly busy and I got a late start talking to Gordon about the north loop trail and various other things so 24 miles is all I wanted to do. Besides I still have the tuesday group ride tomorrow.Man sushi sounds good right now.........

The first

The first blog post...hhhmmmmm.
Well it rained like hell last night and this morning.should be good for the trail though. we have put alot of time in the south loop lately, so hopefully it withstood the rain like we hoped it would. the good thing about rain is it cleans the air up. should be great for a little road riding tomorrow.Im actually looking forward to hot weather, It will help me lose the holiday weight Im still carrying around and Im tired of wearing pants. pants suck. I need to break out the kilt this week too.
Freaking mondays.......