road ride today

35 mile road tonight. dinged the rim on some RR tracks and flatted. to my dismay i only had enough CO2 to barely re-seat the tire(tubeless) so I had to winnie the poo myself back to the shop. 2 miles out flat again.So much for thinking thin? rode it in anyway. result.... new rear rim and tire needed, but Dang-it, i was going to finish my ride..

At least I have another bike to ride for the next few days, I still need a few more road rides before the mellow johnny race.

got little trail work and trail in

so, did another 3 hrs trail work saturday. the trails in much better shape and is just about ready to be down to nothing but mowing now. Dang I was wore out when I was done. got home, got cleaned up, took a little nap, then I got ready for a night out with a beautiful girl and had a great time. looking forward to repeat.
today, got in a good 3 hr ride on the northshore trail. had some great company and other than a slight altercation with an oncoming rider and the trail was uneventful but needed.
looking forward to the mellow johnnies classic the weekend, a little nervous because its a big national event, But looking at it as a paid "fun" ride with a bunch people I dont really know. I hope to do the Big Pig racing proud.

road miles today

Did my road route from the house. 36 miles, then hopped on the single speed for a few more miles of urban riding. ended up right at 50 miles total. felt pretty good. kinda shredded the legs a bit, but was a good ride.
The ride of silence is tomorrow, so no real mileage to be had. As long as the weathers decent, thursday will be another 36 mile road ride.

thats it.
Ahhh, the saturday plans are back on.

mondays suck

That is all.

the latest

So I joined a great new race team, not all about racing, but all about the riding. Right up my ally. My very first race as a Pig is going to be the Mellow Johnnies spring classic at Lance Armstrongs ranch. Racing the single speed class, looks to be around 35 or 40 guys. Should be fun since Ive never been there so I will be making a full weekend of it. looking forward to seeing the pro's racing. Especially a couple of the women. Willow Koerber is going to be there and she's a badass and easy on the eyes too.

wow. been a really long time

lets see whats gone on since sept of 09. not much really. won the local dorba fall series on the single speed. pretty much stopped riding serious after that. did some night rides between all the rain. it rained some more. got some snow. rode a little bit more. got 12 inches of snow in one day. thats a big deal in central Texas. did some trailwork. got back to riding, some road,but mostly dirt. got my ass handed to me at the last race.21st out of 22 in the single speed class. slight mechanical issue, but still sucked. losing some weight and riding more.
Its been so dang windy I just dont want to ride road, but need to. sorta seeing someone, but not sure where it will go,her divorce will have to final first.

thats it. next is the mellow johnny race in austin, then the smurfboy 6 hr.

buh by.

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,