damn that hurt. not as much then as it does now. felt like i left something on the table today... but about 15 min before we got to the course i had a side cramp/stitch that just wouldn't go away. Stayed with me the whole TT, hurt. It is gone now but i think it sucked a few seconds out of me.
19:13 today. huge improvement. We did have a tailwind, that made it faster a bit and the frankenbike worked well. Well it worked well other than the Reynolds free-hub sounding like i was grinding rocks or something. Disconcerting.
Went too hard in a few places before the right turn but it was good. Burke set pretty tough pace on the way home. At least it felt pretty brutal, I was at my limit until they peeled off across the bridge and I rolled on to the bike path.
doing that on one water bottle was stupid but i'd at least had enough water and salt leading up to it that i was okay.
20:42 - then 21:42 and today 19:13.
might be close to my fastest time ever on the course. going to work on getting some consistency with the TT going and focus on making the commutes either super super easy (like tomorrow morning will be) or really really intense, either intervals or steady state.
Maybe it will work.
falling asleep writing.
heddwch
G
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
electrolytes, laxatives?
Really?
Hmm.
interesting
http://www.bobsredmill.com/blog/2011/06/27/hydration-tips/
i don't buy it mostly because the one "electrolyte" used as a laxative is consumed on a 2-5 gram dosage and Na+ and K+ are very different than Mg^2+ (former are easily absorbed latter not so much).
nothing relieves cramping symptoms like a quart of (commercially sold) tomato juice (or V8 for that matter - still mostly tomato but with just as much sodium chloride).
Tempting to point it out in a FB comment but kind of figure just to say something somewhere else.
I never cramped as badly for as long as after chugging the whole camel back of water through one hot lap at Great Glen... cramps lasted until I started pounding PILLS (multiple) of those electrolytes (mostly just salt).
Granted most people get enough salt in their diet (because they eat out too much - or don't prepare their meals from scratch) so it doesn't matter really. But if you eat well, wisely and all that, water often won't cut the mustard in the summer.
Gotta get your salt somehow.
Gatorade powder with some plain old salt added makes it work well. I should dig up the amount needed to add to the cheap powder to bring the levels of sodium up to the endurance formula. teaspoon or two iirc.
It's getting to be summer. Cramping isn't just loss of water. It is fatigue but more often your electrical system getting fucked up because there aren't enough ions to allow the signals to flow properly.
Hmm.
interesting
http://www.bobsredmill.com/blog/2011/06/27/hydration-tips/
i don't buy it mostly because the one "electrolyte" used as a laxative is consumed on a 2-5 gram dosage and Na+ and K+ are very different than Mg^2+ (former are easily absorbed latter not so much).
nothing relieves cramping symptoms like a quart of (commercially sold) tomato juice (or V8 for that matter - still mostly tomato but with just as much sodium chloride).
Tempting to point it out in a FB comment but kind of figure just to say something somewhere else.
I never cramped as badly for as long as after chugging the whole camel back of water through one hot lap at Great Glen... cramps lasted until I started pounding PILLS (multiple) of those electrolytes (mostly just salt).
Granted most people get enough salt in their diet (because they eat out too much - or don't prepare their meals from scratch) so it doesn't matter really. But if you eat well, wisely and all that, water often won't cut the mustard in the summer.
Gotta get your salt somehow.
Gatorade powder with some plain old salt added makes it work well. I should dig up the amount needed to add to the cheap powder to bring the levels of sodium up to the endurance formula. teaspoon or two iirc.
It's getting to be summer. Cramping isn't just loss of water. It is fatigue but more often your electrical system getting fucked up because there aren't enough ions to allow the signals to flow properly.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
cooking for a crowd
Big pile of Potato salad, some of the Ecuadorean bean salad, hummus, and locally made sweet Italian sausages and yes, hot dogs (those un-cured cancer salt free ones, yes wicked processed still but hey - it is summer f'it).
gotta finish cooking up the sausages and dogs, slap some sunscreen on and get the canoe over there. two edge sword being this close to the water. takes as long to get it on the car and back off as it does to walk it over...
oops time to flip the sausages.
pop the hot dogs on.
get some sunscreen
okay - one last coffee (lost count but fortunately losing count of how many cups of coffee isn't as dangerous as losing count of how many beers)
time to haul a canoe!
the weather has cooperated, paddle time!
gotta finish cooking up the sausages and dogs, slap some sunscreen on and get the canoe over there. two edge sword being this close to the water. takes as long to get it on the car and back off as it does to walk it over...
oops time to flip the sausages.
pop the hot dogs on.
get some sunscreen
okay - one last coffee (lost count but fortunately losing count of how many cups of coffee isn't as dangerous as losing count of how many beers)
time to haul a canoe!
the weather has cooperated, paddle time!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
TT today
So I saw the forecast and I saw rain. Original plans were for me to hang out with the girls today and then head out to the Bikeworks TT, weather permitting.
Oddly the weather folks were bang on with their forecasting. They were saying it would rain, and it did. In the afternoon. Game changing was the trio of strep infected girls I picked up from the airport yesterday. My wife called in sick (or it was suggested by the director that maybe an extra day home to let the antibiotics work some more would be good). I wasn't scheduled to be in today so we had a great morning together.
Then well my brain hatched a rare decent plan. Finish the last bits of the frankenbike and hit the TT course on the way in and get a few much needed things done today instead of trying to cram them into the afternoon.
TT bike is finished. Standard 53/39 for a change (which wasn't standard when they were purchased, most everyone was still staunchly 53/42 in 1991) - a change from my either 40t or 50t that had been on the TT bike or the 46 on the CX bikes. The stubby cranks on the blue opened up the option to use the Mavic cranks again (also 177.5). I slapped the bar cons that had been used on the Croll into the ends of the bolt on aero ran some new cables and boom - 8sp 7402 rear der shifting between each of the 8 cogs wicked solidly.
With the potential of rain I declined to test the Reynolds carbon braking surface for the commute part of today's riding and put some Ultremo DDs on the Zipp 101s. The Dura-Ace 7400 calipers (yes, circa 1984 6sp D-A brakes that go with my 6sp D-A downtube shifters i have for the bike) have some rim friendly Scott-Mathauser pads on there and they worked great.
Now because I hadn't had lunch and was headed to tweak a few scopes and then hit the bike shop I had lunch and some dry socks and the tubes and what not in the backpack. And the TT is just out of the way enough that it is easier to ride there and do it than try and drop the bag off somewhere.
So now while I was on the newly put together TT bike (and amazingly getting this together meant I have 4 700c bikes to chose from) with faster tires and taller gears, the backpack took a bit of the aero advantage away.
Not to mention there was a decent wind blowing today, coming out of the NE to ENE, somewhat variable from 10-20mph. Pretty much a headwind on Tremont (the long leg of the course). Last week the wind was light but if it was blowing it was a few mph as a tailwind on Tremont.
Headwind, Backpack going against CX bike and durano plus tires. Wheels were the same, helmet same. Position different gearing different...
Result? I only managed to record a 21:40. There were two spots where I mentally lapsed (no one timing me who cares this hurts oh shit i'm slowing down damn it jackass fucking pedal), and i was pretty lazy with the starting the stopwatch and getting going. Over all though a minute slower into a solid headwind wearing a backpack, I'll take the workout. I pegged the HR, managing to average it right at 92% of max. Which is either the bottom of Zone 5 if you use a 5 zone tool or the very top of Zone 5 in a 6 zone setup. But really? who fucking cares. Well actually I do. I was missing that specific stuff last year. The time is slow, but I'm pretty happy to have managed to pound out a solid 20 min effort at that intensity two weeks in a row. Will it pay off? Too early to tell if life will get in the way, or the weather or what.
I did manage 2 hours on the bike just riding there and doing it and heading back. It felt so luxurious but also really pretty awesome. The ride out I worked hard, not insane but right at that 75% HR zone so I would be good and warmed up, and also because that's how I rode out to the last TT. Weather was cooler today. Heck it was almost cold riding in the rain.
Bike was great. Worked flawlessly. Even for really old shit. It looks like an abomination, I really should see about getting the crown replaced on the original fork, maybe Zanc or the guys at Circle A can work some magic to replace it, it would be nice to have that bike 'complete' again. Not sure if that crown lug/cast is around or if there is something similar enough to use. Anyway, that's what I was thinking about trying to pedal back into the office to eat lunch.
Putting it mildly there has been very little that has made my legs hurt like these TTs have. Granted I could probably get my ass kicked on the Tuesday Night smackdown, but there's a weird theory bouncing around the collective crap in my brain that is seeming to suggest that a 20 min effort at those HR levels sustained is going to do more, esp if I add in the 30-30-30 or some 20/20s or other max intensity intervals in the week. I've also come to the conclusion that my commute is good for recovery rides but way too short to be effective at kicking my own ass. At least with a 46x12 on the commuter/cx bikes. Some how that TT course kills me. In a good way.
If I can swing the timing I might actually try and get one in before the real timed one, but I said that already. However the way i've felt at the end, not sure i can put two decent times back to back yet. Maybe in a couple weeks.
Still haven't managed to get the passat running yet. It is driveable but based on the condition of the ribbed belt i've got between 5 and ? minutes of driving before it shredds itself and the water pump and alternator stop turning - which would not be good. I'm good with changing the headgasket on that car, I just would prefer not to do it again. A salvage yard in town has a pile of AC compressors listed for short money, just have to find the window to get the old one out and then grab one with a good pulley and clutch and get it in there. Managing as a 1 car family again for a bit.
Damnit. getting in the bad habit of being up too late. And it is officially too late.
damn words... leading me astray...
honestly i feel pretty crappy about not heading up to boston yesterday, should have tried to make it work somehow...
brain
turning
off
fingers
oops
there
finally
feel
finished
heddwch
g
Oddly the weather folks were bang on with their forecasting. They were saying it would rain, and it did. In the afternoon. Game changing was the trio of strep infected girls I picked up from the airport yesterday. My wife called in sick (or it was suggested by the director that maybe an extra day home to let the antibiotics work some more would be good). I wasn't scheduled to be in today so we had a great morning together.
Then well my brain hatched a rare decent plan. Finish the last bits of the frankenbike and hit the TT course on the way in and get a few much needed things done today instead of trying to cram them into the afternoon.
TT bike is finished. Standard 53/39 for a change (which wasn't standard when they were purchased, most everyone was still staunchly 53/42 in 1991) - a change from my either 40t or 50t that had been on the TT bike or the 46 on the CX bikes. The stubby cranks on the blue opened up the option to use the Mavic cranks again (also 177.5). I slapped the bar cons that had been used on the Croll into the ends of the bolt on aero ran some new cables and boom - 8sp 7402 rear der shifting between each of the 8 cogs wicked solidly.
With the potential of rain I declined to test the Reynolds carbon braking surface for the commute part of today's riding and put some Ultremo DDs on the Zipp 101s. The Dura-Ace 7400 calipers (yes, circa 1984 6sp D-A brakes that go with my 6sp D-A downtube shifters i have for the bike) have some rim friendly Scott-Mathauser pads on there and they worked great.
Now because I hadn't had lunch and was headed to tweak a few scopes and then hit the bike shop I had lunch and some dry socks and the tubes and what not in the backpack. And the TT is just out of the way enough that it is easier to ride there and do it than try and drop the bag off somewhere.
So now while I was on the newly put together TT bike (and amazingly getting this together meant I have 4 700c bikes to chose from) with faster tires and taller gears, the backpack took a bit of the aero advantage away.
Not to mention there was a decent wind blowing today, coming out of the NE to ENE, somewhat variable from 10-20mph. Pretty much a headwind on Tremont (the long leg of the course). Last week the wind was light but if it was blowing it was a few mph as a tailwind on Tremont.
Headwind, Backpack going against CX bike and durano plus tires. Wheels were the same, helmet same. Position different gearing different...
Result? I only managed to record a 21:40. There were two spots where I mentally lapsed (no one timing me who cares this hurts oh shit i'm slowing down damn it jackass fucking pedal), and i was pretty lazy with the starting the stopwatch and getting going. Over all though a minute slower into a solid headwind wearing a backpack, I'll take the workout. I pegged the HR, managing to average it right at 92% of max. Which is either the bottom of Zone 5 if you use a 5 zone tool or the very top of Zone 5 in a 6 zone setup. But really? who fucking cares. Well actually I do. I was missing that specific stuff last year. The time is slow, but I'm pretty happy to have managed to pound out a solid 20 min effort at that intensity two weeks in a row. Will it pay off? Too early to tell if life will get in the way, or the weather or what.
I did manage 2 hours on the bike just riding there and doing it and heading back. It felt so luxurious but also really pretty awesome. The ride out I worked hard, not insane but right at that 75% HR zone so I would be good and warmed up, and also because that's how I rode out to the last TT. Weather was cooler today. Heck it was almost cold riding in the rain.
Bike was great. Worked flawlessly. Even for really old shit. It looks like an abomination, I really should see about getting the crown replaced on the original fork, maybe Zanc or the guys at Circle A can work some magic to replace it, it would be nice to have that bike 'complete' again. Not sure if that crown lug/cast is around or if there is something similar enough to use. Anyway, that's what I was thinking about trying to pedal back into the office to eat lunch.
Putting it mildly there has been very little that has made my legs hurt like these TTs have. Granted I could probably get my ass kicked on the Tuesday Night smackdown, but there's a weird theory bouncing around the collective crap in my brain that is seeming to suggest that a 20 min effort at those HR levels sustained is going to do more, esp if I add in the 30-30-30 or some 20/20s or other max intensity intervals in the week. I've also come to the conclusion that my commute is good for recovery rides but way too short to be effective at kicking my own ass. At least with a 46x12 on the commuter/cx bikes. Some how that TT course kills me. In a good way.
If I can swing the timing I might actually try and get one in before the real timed one, but I said that already. However the way i've felt at the end, not sure i can put two decent times back to back yet. Maybe in a couple weeks.
Still haven't managed to get the passat running yet. It is driveable but based on the condition of the ribbed belt i've got between 5 and ? minutes of driving before it shredds itself and the water pump and alternator stop turning - which would not be good. I'm good with changing the headgasket on that car, I just would prefer not to do it again. A salvage yard in town has a pile of AC compressors listed for short money, just have to find the window to get the old one out and then grab one with a good pulley and clutch and get it in there. Managing as a 1 car family again for a bit.
Damnit. getting in the bad habit of being up too late. And it is officially too late.
damn words... leading me astray...
honestly i feel pretty crappy about not heading up to boston yesterday, should have tried to make it work somehow...
brain
turning
off
fingers
oops
there
finally
feel
finished
heddwch
g
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
this lytro stuff
so I've been seeing it pop up in a few places today.
The vector based sensor is curious, but I'm wondering what the array really is like. Light can only do so many things. collecting the vectors may just mean engineering a directional sensor and that's probably what they did, but how much focus choice do they have and how much is it really a through focus series and how much is processed?
They folks at Keyence have been doing something similar for a while. With data rates and camera speeds now you could actually do a true focus series and with software just move back and forth like we do with Z-stacks, or using their software put everything in focus.
I'm not impressed much more than mildly. (shocker)
At a cheap price point it would be interesting. I'm guessing the images are data hogs (no big deal when 2TB external drives are selling at $90 right now), but the quality of their samples images stinks. There is an aliasing/artifact/something doesn't look right quality to them. Neat? Yes.
But a solution to a problem that doesn't exist? Mostly. DOF on most point and shoot cameras (phones included) are very close to pinhole style and while sucky at lower light they don't suffer too much from what the Lytro is trying to 'fix.'
New and cool? Yes.
The vector based technology could actually be pretty cool for scientific imaging applications, potentially fitting in somewhere between a high end point scanning confocal and a widefield scope. But the vectors that determine in and out of focus on a microscope are probably indistinguishable on their current array. (just guessing).
If nothing else it will be interesting to see how this technology/application progresses to market and what the reviews will be like when they actually release it.
Okay.
Now that I wrote that, (just to show native a priori thinking) All Lytro is doing is making a consumer Plenoptic camera (i'm going to wager that page changes pretty soon).
Okay link run down:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/pubs/thesis_jcyang.pdf
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/lfcamera-150dpi.pdf
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
if you search for Plenoptic camera you'll get more varied info than light field...
Now put that shit in a GoPro? 3D video from Resultsboy would be pretty cool (case in point of pinhole style where everything is in focus but just imagine crashing into a tree in 3D).
There - something I didn't know about (and the raw process of a lug-head learning). And most definitely not really a solid application for microscopes.
The vector based sensor is curious, but I'm wondering what the array really is like. Light can only do so many things. collecting the vectors may just mean engineering a directional sensor and that's probably what they did, but how much focus choice do they have and how much is it really a through focus series and how much is processed?
They folks at Keyence have been doing something similar for a while. With data rates and camera speeds now you could actually do a true focus series and with software just move back and forth like we do with Z-stacks, or using their software put everything in focus.
I'm not impressed much more than mildly. (shocker)
At a cheap price point it would be interesting. I'm guessing the images are data hogs (no big deal when 2TB external drives are selling at $90 right now), but the quality of their samples images stinks. There is an aliasing/artifact/something doesn't look right quality to them. Neat? Yes.
But a solution to a problem that doesn't exist? Mostly. DOF on most point and shoot cameras (phones included) are very close to pinhole style and while sucky at lower light they don't suffer too much from what the Lytro is trying to 'fix.'
New and cool? Yes.
The vector based technology could actually be pretty cool for scientific imaging applications, potentially fitting in somewhere between a high end point scanning confocal and a widefield scope. But the vectors that determine in and out of focus on a microscope are probably indistinguishable on their current array. (just guessing).
If nothing else it will be interesting to see how this technology/application progresses to market and what the reviews will be like when they actually release it.
Okay.
Now that I wrote that, (just to show native a priori thinking) All Lytro is doing is making a consumer Plenoptic camera (i'm going to wager that page changes pretty soon).
Okay link run down:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/pubs/thesis_jcyang.pdf
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/lfcamera-150dpi.pdf
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
if you search for Plenoptic camera you'll get more varied info than light field...
Now put that shit in a GoPro? 3D video from Resultsboy would be pretty cool (case in point of pinhole style where everything is in focus but just imagine crashing into a tree in 3D).
There - something I didn't know about (and the raw process of a lug-head learning). And most definitely not really a solid application for microscopes.
Word[s]
coupled with the Moon strip today add in this column and that's some hope. yeah?
Of course if you want to be fair and balanced good news like that should be read with complete wack job stuff like this one (no - not bike related - yet).
So today is a big day G-ride actually turns 40. That crazy jackass is officially old. Well by some standards. At least by the measure of his doctor sticking a finger up his ass on a regular basis for the rest of his life, or until medicine finds a better way to check his prostate.
Happy mother fucking birthday Jerry.
The revival of urban cycling in this country follows a fairly predictable pattern: nervousness and ridicule, followed by the realization that the truth never matches the fear-mongering. The supposed choice between bikes and everyone else is a bogus choice. More bikes in a city doesn't merely benefit riders; it reduces congestion, saves money, improves quality of life, elevates the experience. No one returns from a city and says, "Oh, it was great—except for all the biking."
Of course if you want to be fair and balanced good news like that should be read with complete wack job stuff like this one (no - not bike related - yet).
So today is a big day G-ride actually turns 40. That crazy jackass is officially old. Well by some standards. At least by the measure of his doctor sticking a finger up his ass on a regular basis for the rest of his life, or until medicine finds a better way to check his prostate.
Happy mother fucking birthday Jerry.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
quiet night
on my feet all day and feel it.
sat down twice.
legs weren't so happy, but oh man, when I sat down it felt great.
the dog hasn't been thrilled with me for coming home, heating up some left overs and plunking my ass down on the couch and putting my feet up.
i think she was hoping i would be making a big mess. I did make a salad and she did get the core and the ends of a few carrots, so not all is lost but I think she was hoping for more. No way was I going running, heck too burnt out at the moment to take her for a walk. Maybe in the morning we'll head out.
I got looking over at photos collected somewhere and there's a ton of shots that reminded me of Bend and the ice, and the f'n cold. of course it is 75F here and the humidity has crept up to the point where i'm not finding it comfortable, and i'm thinking about cyclocross.
and i realized, yes, it is hard, but you know what? it is pretty f'n awesome, bring on the season. Lets see what we can do to make it start differently than last year.
I don't know what it is about the end of August and all of September but it is one big f'n drama year after year. The car, the bike, this thing that thing... takes until October for stuff to shake out.
2009 Bend Nats were pretty awesome. Being in the pits for Bold's win, the Clydesdale Champion of the Universe race (man I crashed hard a few times in that race)... hmm i'm not a clydesdale anymore. Shit. Well nothing three or four bags of chips and a two cases of beer can't fix.
I did start thinking about the Thursday night TT, thinking that Avg speed and time to the Reynolds right hand turn reflects more on how aero you are and from Reynolds to the finish might reflect more on how strong you are. And maybe (yeah maybe I'm overthinking it again) maybe using the two avg speed differences as a ratio might work. Avg Speed to Reynolds:Avg Speed overall. I'd wager Graham and Bold don't drop a whole hell of a lot of speed (or didn't) from the turn on. Relative to others on full aero kit bikes.
Still have to get the car fixed. Meaning I need to head to a junk yard that has a compressor in who cares condition with a pulley that spins nice and free... don't need AC during CX season anyway.
randomly writing now. for no reason. other than why i write many other times, a vain attempt to connect... and really to try and get this shit out of my head. time to stop wiping the sleep induced watery eyes with habanero laced hands (sort of a perpetual motion - wipe water, apply pepper, wipe water apply pepper) and just close up shop.
and see how much sleep my dog will let me get tonight.
heddwch
G
sat down twice.
legs weren't so happy, but oh man, when I sat down it felt great.
the dog hasn't been thrilled with me for coming home, heating up some left overs and plunking my ass down on the couch and putting my feet up.
i think she was hoping i would be making a big mess. I did make a salad and she did get the core and the ends of a few carrots, so not all is lost but I think she was hoping for more. No way was I going running, heck too burnt out at the moment to take her for a walk. Maybe in the morning we'll head out.
I got looking over at photos collected somewhere and there's a ton of shots that reminded me of Bend and the ice, and the f'n cold. of course it is 75F here and the humidity has crept up to the point where i'm not finding it comfortable, and i'm thinking about cyclocross.
and i realized, yes, it is hard, but you know what? it is pretty f'n awesome, bring on the season. Lets see what we can do to make it start differently than last year.
I don't know what it is about the end of August and all of September but it is one big f'n drama year after year. The car, the bike, this thing that thing... takes until October for stuff to shake out.
2009 Bend Nats were pretty awesome. Being in the pits for Bold's win, the Clydesdale Champion of the Universe race (man I crashed hard a few times in that race)... hmm i'm not a clydesdale anymore. Shit. Well nothing three or four bags of chips and a two cases of beer can't fix.
I did start thinking about the Thursday night TT, thinking that Avg speed and time to the Reynolds right hand turn reflects more on how aero you are and from Reynolds to the finish might reflect more on how strong you are. And maybe (yeah maybe I'm overthinking it again) maybe using the two avg speed differences as a ratio might work. Avg Speed to Reynolds:Avg Speed overall. I'd wager Graham and Bold don't drop a whole hell of a lot of speed (or didn't) from the turn on. Relative to others on full aero kit bikes.
Still have to get the car fixed. Meaning I need to head to a junk yard that has a compressor in who cares condition with a pulley that spins nice and free... don't need AC during CX season anyway.
randomly writing now. for no reason. other than why i write many other times, a vain attempt to connect... and really to try and get this shit out of my head. time to stop wiping the sleep induced watery eyes with habanero laced hands (sort of a perpetual motion - wipe water, apply pepper, wipe water apply pepper) and just close up shop.
and see how much sleep my dog will let me get tonight.
heddwch
G
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
ouch
that hurt tonight.
weather conditions were pretty favorable.
TT is 8 miles. First couple hundred yards are slightly up hill before the road tips down gently until the Chartley store, then there's some flat, and a couple very slight rollers before turning on to Reynolds which it slightly up hill and a chip and seal road.
IIRC when I hit my fastest ever time on there (25.4mph avg) my avg speed hitting the right turn on Reynolds was close to 28mph or so. There's a lot of loss in that last little stretch, hills and bad roads and just being cooked from over doing it early.
Today I paced it out, not too hard and I knew I wasn't going to match my best but I didn't want to leave anything out there.
I hit the turn with a 24.9 mph avg. Way slow. But then I was on the Blue, bars still way up in CX racing position, 46x11, durano plus tires. The Zipp 101s were the only concession to speed. But then they were also what were on the bike. And with the Shimano 105 10sp stuff with the shift housing under the tape there wasn't anything to hold on to in invisible aero bar mode.
I thought I'd saved a little something, planning on hitting reynolds hard and not losing too much time, but boom, it is like turning a corner and suddenly riding in a sand pit.
"WHERE IS MY SPEED?" Fuck it hurt.
I dug and pedaled.
Brier started 2 min behind me on his Cervelo with the Zipp 909 front and the disc wheel in the back, LG fancy aero helmet and skinsuit. And he's going pretty good lately. He caught me with less than a mile to go. Carbon disc rumbling past.
Leaving it all out there I wound up with an okay time for a cannibal run at 20:24. Good for a 'reported' average of 23.8 mph. I was 5th IIRC (Brier was 1st), two cannibal riders in front of me, Kirk S and Paul S (no relation). Paul killed it, but then he's also racing and racing pretty well. Kirk's been riding the Tuesday night smack down and training too. Me? Yeah, I haven't been training. At all. Not really much since before Mystic Velo.
I was slow, no question. But it hurt. A lot. In a good way. I suffered. And can't wait until i get back. Oddly debating heading early next time (if I can) and doing a "warm up" full gas interval/TT before the real one just to put two 20 min efforts back to back in the same training block. Why? Mostly because I hear it is supposed to make you better. I also know it really really really hurts to try and do two. And suffering is good. Assuming you rest enough to allow that shit to work.
It is a good TT, you should try and make it out if you are in the area.
time for bed
heddwch
G
weather conditions were pretty favorable.
TT is 8 miles. First couple hundred yards are slightly up hill before the road tips down gently until the Chartley store, then there's some flat, and a couple very slight rollers before turning on to Reynolds which it slightly up hill and a chip and seal road.
IIRC when I hit my fastest ever time on there (25.4mph avg) my avg speed hitting the right turn on Reynolds was close to 28mph or so. There's a lot of loss in that last little stretch, hills and bad roads and just being cooked from over doing it early.
Today I paced it out, not too hard and I knew I wasn't going to match my best but I didn't want to leave anything out there.
I hit the turn with a 24.9 mph avg. Way slow. But then I was on the Blue, bars still way up in CX racing position, 46x11, durano plus tires. The Zipp 101s were the only concession to speed. But then they were also what were on the bike. And with the Shimano 105 10sp stuff with the shift housing under the tape there wasn't anything to hold on to in invisible aero bar mode.
I thought I'd saved a little something, planning on hitting reynolds hard and not losing too much time, but boom, it is like turning a corner and suddenly riding in a sand pit.
"WHERE IS MY SPEED?" Fuck it hurt.
I dug and pedaled.
Brier started 2 min behind me on his Cervelo with the Zipp 909 front and the disc wheel in the back, LG fancy aero helmet and skinsuit. And he's going pretty good lately. He caught me with less than a mile to go. Carbon disc rumbling past.
Leaving it all out there I wound up with an okay time for a cannibal run at 20:24. Good for a 'reported' average of 23.8 mph. I was 5th IIRC (Brier was 1st), two cannibal riders in front of me, Kirk S and Paul S (no relation). Paul killed it, but then he's also racing and racing pretty well. Kirk's been riding the Tuesday night smack down and training too. Me? Yeah, I haven't been training. At all. Not really much since before Mystic Velo.
I was slow, no question. But it hurt. A lot. In a good way. I suffered. And can't wait until i get back. Oddly debating heading early next time (if I can) and doing a "warm up" full gas interval/TT before the real one just to put two 20 min efforts back to back in the same training block. Why? Mostly because I hear it is supposed to make you better. I also know it really really really hurts to try and do two. And suffering is good. Assuming you rest enough to allow that shit to work.
It is a good TT, you should try and make it out if you are in the area.
time for bed
heddwch
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TIME TRIAL
tonight.
Bikeworks time Trial Series
When
Thu, June 16, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Where
Rehoboth Mass
Description
Bikeworks Time Trial Series
6.00 entree fee
Flat to rolling hills
8 Miles
Where exactly?
Here.
If you are driving, park over at the Chartley Store (Fairview Ave and Tremont st) mid-way down the course and ride to the start or park at/near the finishline in the dirt lot at the corner of Tremont and Anawan St.
It is a good course. Deceptive at the start and you'll get burned after you turn onto Reynolds if you go to hard. Essentially rolling down hill to Reynolds (with a rise or two) then a slight incline on chip and seal with a couple hills and rollers that loop you back over onto Anawan/118 for the finish. Save something for Reynolds.
it is pretty easy to hold a high 20s mph average going into Reynolds only to see your avg drop to mid or low 20s by the finish. Bold probably averages 35 by the turn onto Reynolds fwiw.
20 min times are good, sub 18 are pretty solid and 15s are inhuman.
No time to put the P-mount together in TT mode so I'm riding the short cranked plastic bike cannibal style. Focusing on the effort and intensity not on results, because it is well documented and Solobreak keeps reminding me: I just flat out suck because I'm slow and don't suffer enough or race enough or train enough or ride the bike well enough to expect to beat anyone.
so
new positive shit = fuck the results, who cares. Time to just pedal hard and have fun.
See you out there (or not)
heddwch
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Bikeworks time Trial Series
When
Thu, June 16, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Where
Rehoboth Mass
Description
Bikeworks Time Trial Series
6.00 entree fee
Flat to rolling hills
8 Miles
Where exactly?
Here.
If you are driving, park over at the Chartley Store (Fairview Ave and Tremont st) mid-way down the course and ride to the start or park at/near the finishline in the dirt lot at the corner of Tremont and Anawan St.
It is a good course. Deceptive at the start and you'll get burned after you turn onto Reynolds if you go to hard. Essentially rolling down hill to Reynolds (with a rise or two) then a slight incline on chip and seal with a couple hills and rollers that loop you back over onto Anawan/118 for the finish. Save something for Reynolds.
it is pretty easy to hold a high 20s mph average going into Reynolds only to see your avg drop to mid or low 20s by the finish. Bold probably averages 35 by the turn onto Reynolds fwiw.
20 min times are good, sub 18 are pretty solid and 15s are inhuman.
No time to put the P-mount together in TT mode so I'm riding the short cranked plastic bike cannibal style. Focusing on the effort and intensity not on results, because it is well documented and Solobreak keeps reminding me: I just flat out suck because I'm slow and don't suffer enough or race enough or train enough or ride the bike well enough to expect to beat anyone.
so
new positive shit = fuck the results, who cares. Time to just pedal hard and have fun.
See you out there (or not)
heddwch
G
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
hmmm
maybe my crappy climbing has nothing to do with the fact that i don't train and everything to do with the fact i'm on cranks waaaaaay to short proportionally for my leg length?
Put G-ride on some 150s and see how well he can make it up his driveway.
it is like he wants all us tall folks to buy his product... is he making one with a BB30 spindle yet?
No but he does have something rather cool.
One thing in the article I don't buy:
I can pretty easily hit 150rpm and push over it with 180mm cranks.
I still would like to find a BB30 180mm crank... why the heck doesn't SRAM make one at least in the Red. Oh well. Pretty clear that equipment isn't my limiter.
Put G-ride on some 150s and see how well he can make it up his driveway.
From my own decades of experience and testing with different crank lengths, if you venture a lot shorter with the crank than 21-22 percent of your (measured) inseam length, you won’t climb as fast.
it is like he wants all us tall folks to buy his product... is he making one with a BB30 spindle yet?
No but he does have something rather cool.
One thing in the article I don't buy:
Tall sprinters cannot get a high enough gear to work with a long crank, as 80kph on a 53 X 11 gear is 135RPM, a cadence that is unrealistic when the crank circle gets much bigger than 180mm in radius
I can pretty easily hit 150rpm and push over it with 180mm cranks.
I still would like to find a BB30 180mm crank... why the heck doesn't SRAM make one at least in the Red. Oh well. Pretty clear that equipment isn't my limiter.
How slow can you go?
Challenge this morning.
How slow? I Made the inaugural ride in with the HRM to signify the start of time to get serious again an easy one. Okay so this wasn't the inaugural ride in, well it was with the croll.
HR was at 65 walking the bike out to the road along the side of the house, and leaving with a bit of a time cushion it was a goal to see how low of a HR i could average. What's the point? I don't know, mostly some crazy notion of avoiding the middle zones. Full gas either in a sustained effort or short bursts or as chill as I can go.
As chill as I could go, including the two short pitches wound up being an avg hr of 76 with a max at 103. Only took 45 min to get in.
No smack down for me tonight. Going to build a few bikes and then head home and make a 17 year anniversary dinner.
TT starts thursday... lets see if i can make it out there...
How slow? I Made the inaugural ride in with the HRM to signify the start of time to get serious again an easy one. Okay so this wasn't the inaugural ride in, well it was with the croll.
HR was at 65 walking the bike out to the road along the side of the house, and leaving with a bit of a time cushion it was a goal to see how low of a HR i could average. What's the point? I don't know, mostly some crazy notion of avoiding the middle zones. Full gas either in a sustained effort or short bursts or as chill as I can go.
As chill as I could go, including the two short pitches wound up being an avg hr of 76 with a max at 103. Only took 45 min to get in.
No smack down for me tonight. Going to build a few bikes and then head home and make a 17 year anniversary dinner.
TT starts thursday... lets see if i can make it out there...
Sunday, June 12, 2011
every once in a while...
You come across something new. Brian Chapman featured in ESPN. Sure just a web feature, but still that's pretty cool.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
no parallel
but it does tend to offer doubt to those who say you must race your way into shape.
"what you talking about?"
Doucheblog's thing here
Tilford mentioned something along those lines before, a while ago, haven't found his post yet. Maybe implying that the only reason to take a big block of time off before a bit race is to enhance your training in a situation where you're less likely to be tested every day.
It is curious to see the pros take a month off then come kill it in the tour. Sure, they are pros they know how to train hard enough. But what about those who claim you can't train hard enough to simulate racing?
Conflicting information, enough to make even the experts look questionable. Such is life with most everything.
Oh hey look. It is raining.
Yes. I know the difference between some over thinking master and a pro is a huge heap of talent.
just a quiet morning contemplation, while oddly everyone else sleeps late. Must be the eating dinner late or something. Seems i'm the only person here not getting much sleep. Even the dog has gone back to sleep after waking me up very emphatically to feed her.
Birds singing out side the open windows, rain falling on the leaves and street, cup of coffee, my own odd meaningless pondering...
heddwch
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"what you talking about?"
Doucheblog's thing here
Tilford mentioned something along those lines before, a while ago, haven't found his post yet. Maybe implying that the only reason to take a big block of time off before a bit race is to enhance your training in a situation where you're less likely to be tested every day.
It is curious to see the pros take a month off then come kill it in the tour. Sure, they are pros they know how to train hard enough. But what about those who claim you can't train hard enough to simulate racing?
Conflicting information, enough to make even the experts look questionable. Such is life with most everything.
Oh hey look. It is raining.
Yes. I know the difference between some over thinking master and a pro is a huge heap of talent.
just a quiet morning contemplation, while oddly everyone else sleeps late. Must be the eating dinner late or something. Seems i'm the only person here not getting much sleep. Even the dog has gone back to sleep after waking me up very emphatically to feed her.
Birds singing out side the open windows, rain falling on the leaves and street, cup of coffee, my own odd meaningless pondering...
heddwch
G
Friday, June 10, 2011
Birthday Dinner for my oldest
This is what she wanted, and wow it was good. Timing was perfect on everything, almost like I know what the hell I'm doing in a kitchen. HAH. It was really actually pretty amazing if I do say so myself. And very very special. It takes quite a bit to get me to swallow the price tag on those loin chops, but they are really quite the treat and were cooked absolutely perfectly, so tender, so flavorful, so good.
Here it is (text copied from the FB note)
Lamb Chops, Beet Salad with Cous Cous and corn, Potato Salad and grilled Red peppers.
Here is the break down:
Lamb:
Lamb is an American Loin Chop marinated pre-grilling in a Rosemary pesto.
in the pesto:
Garlic (lots)
Fresh Rosemary
Parsley
Coarse Sea Salt
Dried Thyme (didn't have any fresh)
Olive Oil
(first 5 were pulsed to a fine consistency in a food processor - then oil drizzled until I hit the desired consistency)
I covered both sides of the loin chop with the pesto and let it rest at Room Temp for 20 min while I made everything else.
Then they went on the grill, 4 min on one side (lid off - very hot fire), 6 min on second side, rested covered with foil for another 2-3 min and then served.
Beet Salad:
Started with our new favorite salad we created:
2 raw peeled beets
4-6 med size peeled carrots
1/2 of a med vidalia onion
all that gets grated in a food processor, you don't want to handle beets more than you need to. Trick to peeling them is to do it under cold water. No staining.
Then I picked up two ears of the first crop of florida corn and put the cob (husk removed) directly on the grill. Got it nice and carmelized and cooked.
Took the kernels off and added them to the mix.
Dressed it with Balsalmic Vinegar, Shoyu soy sauce, 1 tsp of the pesto I just made, olive oil, lots of fresh black pepper, dried dill. Mixed that up and let it sit until the cous-cous was finished.
I cooked two cups of dried cous-cous in two cups of lightly salted water, added about 2/3 of that to the beet salad about 10 min before serving/plating.
Potato Salad:
3 pounds of yukon gold potatoes cut into 1cm cubes, boiled till tender. Drained and cooled with cold tap water.
4-6 ribs of diced celery
2 large scallions
1/3 of a bunch of curley leaf parsely (more texture than flat leaf and holds up better to potatos) finely chopped.
Mixed that all up with a dressing of:
Dijon Mustard
Balsalmic Vinegar
Orange Juice
Colman's Mustard Powder
Olive Oil
Tossed well to coat and then added some paprika, black pepper and some salt (to taste).
Peppers:
red bell peppers seeded, halved, grilled/blackened then roughly chopped and served hot.
The potato salad was cold, beet salad not cold about room temp, peppers warm and lamb hot.
Here it is (text copied from the FB note)
Lamb Chops, Beet Salad with Cous Cous and corn, Potato Salad and grilled Red peppers.
Here is the break down:
Lamb:
Lamb is an American Loin Chop marinated pre-grilling in a Rosemary pesto.
in the pesto:
Garlic (lots)
Fresh Rosemary
Parsley
Coarse Sea Salt
Dried Thyme (didn't have any fresh)
Olive Oil
(first 5 were pulsed to a fine consistency in a food processor - then oil drizzled until I hit the desired consistency)
I covered both sides of the loin chop with the pesto and let it rest at Room Temp for 20 min while I made everything else.
Then they went on the grill, 4 min on one side (lid off - very hot fire), 6 min on second side, rested covered with foil for another 2-3 min and then served.
Beet Salad:
Started with our new favorite salad we created:
2 raw peeled beets
4-6 med size peeled carrots
1/2 of a med vidalia onion
all that gets grated in a food processor, you don't want to handle beets more than you need to. Trick to peeling them is to do it under cold water. No staining.
Then I picked up two ears of the first crop of florida corn and put the cob (husk removed) directly on the grill. Got it nice and carmelized and cooked.
Took the kernels off and added them to the mix.
Dressed it with Balsalmic Vinegar, Shoyu soy sauce, 1 tsp of the pesto I just made, olive oil, lots of fresh black pepper, dried dill. Mixed that up and let it sit until the cous-cous was finished.
I cooked two cups of dried cous-cous in two cups of lightly salted water, added about 2/3 of that to the beet salad about 10 min before serving/plating.
Potato Salad:
3 pounds of yukon gold potatoes cut into 1cm cubes, boiled till tender. Drained and cooled with cold tap water.
4-6 ribs of diced celery
2 large scallions
1/3 of a bunch of curley leaf parsely (more texture than flat leaf and holds up better to potatos) finely chopped.
Mixed that all up with a dressing of:
Dijon Mustard
Balsalmic Vinegar
Orange Juice
Colman's Mustard Powder
Olive Oil
Tossed well to coat and then added some paprika, black pepper and some salt (to taste).
Peppers:
red bell peppers seeded, halved, grilled/blackened then roughly chopped and served hot.
The potato salad was cold, beet salad not cold about room temp, peppers warm and lamb hot.
Big Week
Double 'graduations', in-laws in town, dance school performances this weekend, rehearsals all week, huge storm, a ride w/o a back pack, a birthday...
The graduation thing I understand but only sort of, in a way I feel it diminished the real ones HS and College. Should be only two, amiright? Sort of like if cross was year round it wouldn't be as special or cool and rather than coming together intensely for three short months people would cherry pick the season like they do on the road and then events would disappear (like on the road). Yes, stretching the analogy. Oh well. Stretching is what Stretch does best. amiright?
Okay. Gotta stop with that.
That said recognition for their achievement, as incremental as it might be, is still valid and good. I'd prefer we call it something other than graduation though.
Oddly in a great mood today. Maybe it isn't so odd. I've been mentally in a better state than I have in a while. Could be the coffee. Or the artwork. I put a piece in the staff development day and with zero promotion or lobbying for votes I wound up being recognized (voted into 5th place). One of these days the twelve prints will be on display in the gallery, and when they do I will let everyone know so they can come down and check it out.
Sarcasm is good? YES! I'm a winner! Wait.
There was a good bit of manorexic weinermeasuring this morning on twitter. Entertaining at least. When you read every book you can get your hands on from age 5 until 20 hard core outside school work, and then add being a good student to the mix and then pile 20 years of reading everything on the internet, you make an expert on experts and everything. Mostly. No, not really. That's more sarcasm. Maybe.
I have been cogitating way too much about how to approach CX season this year. Unknowns are really out of control at this point, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm in a serious quandary about how to approach the training. Esp since the reality is I will not be able to race my way into shape in July and August. Will have to be the hard way.
To add running or not? Not is an intriguing option this year. It makes sense on a whole self bit, bone density, core stability (esp lower back) but it does take potential time away from cycling specific stuff. But if you look at what Katie Compton's coach has her do there is running involved (thank you for that article in Issue #11 of Cyclocross Magazine), and then you have Jeremy Powers mentioning in his interview in Issue #12 of Cyclocross Magazine that he runs 30 min twice a week all year. I'm leaning towards if I do any running it will be along the lines of the 30-30-30s that KfnC does (or did).
Another part of me is just inclined to say fuck it, go into the season how ever I make it, set the bar really low and just have fun and if I find some fitness by November so be it... But that isn't like me so much.
The Thursday night time trial starts on the 16th. Would be nice to try and make that. Not sure how in the cards that is. Would be a good thing to do though.
I am cautiously optimistic that I can figure it out. I certainly have been given enough good advice from people who are way faster (or just way older) about what to do, probably should sit down and shake the brain a bit and see if I can pull some sense out of the information. The UCI overlord who isn't the most popular person in New England's book probably isn't where i'll go to this year. I will likely pull some elements out of that, but also stick a bit more with tweaking the commutes, maybe adding in a loop on the BLVD or something else. That is when I'm not driving curtis's tandem again with a kid on the back this summer. But really as big of an issue as it may seem, it isn't something I'm worried about or thinking too much about right now.
Put together a quick amazing dinner last night. My oldest REALLY liked it. She had a small serving even though she'd already had dinner, and went back for more because it was so good. It was good. It means a lot to me that my kids like good food. And yes, I just qualified the food I make as good food. Truth.
there was something else rattling around that i wanted to get out of this head - but it hasn't shaken loose yet... maybe later.
heddwch
G
The graduation thing I understand but only sort of, in a way I feel it diminished the real ones HS and College. Should be only two, amiright? Sort of like if cross was year round it wouldn't be as special or cool and rather than coming together intensely for three short months people would cherry pick the season like they do on the road and then events would disappear (like on the road). Yes, stretching the analogy. Oh well. Stretching is what Stretch does best. amiright?
Okay. Gotta stop with that.
That said recognition for their achievement, as incremental as it might be, is still valid and good. I'd prefer we call it something other than graduation though.
Oddly in a great mood today. Maybe it isn't so odd. I've been mentally in a better state than I have in a while. Could be the coffee. Or the artwork. I put a piece in the staff development day and with zero promotion or lobbying for votes I wound up being recognized (voted into 5th place). One of these days the twelve prints will be on display in the gallery, and when they do I will let everyone know so they can come down and check it out.
Sarcasm is good? YES! I'm a winner! Wait.
There was a good bit of manorexic weinermeasuring this morning on twitter. Entertaining at least. When you read every book you can get your hands on from age 5 until 20 hard core outside school work, and then add being a good student to the mix and then pile 20 years of reading everything on the internet, you make an expert on experts and everything. Mostly. No, not really. That's more sarcasm. Maybe.
I have been cogitating way too much about how to approach CX season this year. Unknowns are really out of control at this point, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm in a serious quandary about how to approach the training. Esp since the reality is I will not be able to race my way into shape in July and August. Will have to be the hard way.
To add running or not? Not is an intriguing option this year. It makes sense on a whole self bit, bone density, core stability (esp lower back) but it does take potential time away from cycling specific stuff. But if you look at what Katie Compton's coach has her do there is running involved (thank you for that article in Issue #11 of Cyclocross Magazine), and then you have Jeremy Powers mentioning in his interview in Issue #12 of Cyclocross Magazine that he runs 30 min twice a week all year. I'm leaning towards if I do any running it will be along the lines of the 30-30-30s that KfnC does (or did).
Another part of me is just inclined to say fuck it, go into the season how ever I make it, set the bar really low and just have fun and if I find some fitness by November so be it... But that isn't like me so much.
The Thursday night time trial starts on the 16th. Would be nice to try and make that. Not sure how in the cards that is. Would be a good thing to do though.
I am cautiously optimistic that I can figure it out. I certainly have been given enough good advice from people who are way faster (or just way older) about what to do, probably should sit down and shake the brain a bit and see if I can pull some sense out of the information. The UCI overlord who isn't the most popular person in New England's book probably isn't where i'll go to this year. I will likely pull some elements out of that, but also stick a bit more with tweaking the commutes, maybe adding in a loop on the BLVD or something else. That is when I'm not driving curtis's tandem again with a kid on the back this summer. But really as big of an issue as it may seem, it isn't something I'm worried about or thinking too much about right now.
Put together a quick amazing dinner last night. My oldest REALLY liked it. She had a small serving even though she'd already had dinner, and went back for more because it was so good. It was good. It means a lot to me that my kids like good food. And yes, I just qualified the food I make as good food. Truth.
there was something else rattling around that i wanted to get out of this head - but it hasn't shaken loose yet... maybe later.
heddwch
G
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Woa
Mosher is writing now?
What's next, Kevin Hines will start a blog? solobreak will come out of retirement? Chabot will get as fast as he would like to be?
insanity!
Thanks for the heads up Master Baiter
- i had a great post, a story line even, crafted in my head ready to get down on the ones and zeros, then the power went out and we all just shrugged and headed to bed.
Saw my first lightning bugs of the season on the ride home last night. Last night was also the first time on the bike w/o a backpack since the Mystic Velo crit. Seriously. It was nice, except it felt like I was riding in a hail storm. So many bugs. And big ones too. had to ride the last 1/2 with my mouth closed and my head tilted forward to keep em out of my nose.
Some other stuff was rattling around, thoughts about how our nose evolved and why we have a nose like we do (think infants). But I'll leave it at that. Oh and those indestructible stylus tough 6000s ain't so tough after all. Esp when the strap fails in a gym while it is on in movie recording mode. Dead camera. Oh well. Such is life.
Interesting video
3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.
Intersections are definitely the most dangerous for everyone. A bit of defensive riding in the middle of one and your head on a swivel and you're generally going to make it through. And reduction in your senses can cause a problem...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
From last week to this week
what a change. or maybe it was two weeks ago. I don't remember. They are all running into eachother right now. One into the next.
Cool cold and misty in the morning and overcast during the day? Sounds good to me. The outside thermometer here at the house is a degree shy of 90F.
TRANSITION please.
Or is that too much to ask. Maybe too much.
Today was the 5th grade graduation. Hard to believe that we headed back to New England 6 years ago. Six years seems like such a short time, but at the same time a very long time.
We took them into school and then parked it in the auditorium and got some prime seats. And I had a chance to read the JPow interview in Issue #12 of Cyclocross Magazine in one sitting.
Wow. Josh, killer job! J-POW certainly cemented his place as the #1 Cyclocross personality.
I read most of the interviews with the Natz winners too, the move to Jan Natz question was interesting and you don't have to be Resultsboy or ExcelDork to see the trend. Pick up the magazine and check for yourself.
Okay - off to the orthodontist! Yeah! (there i made sure to include some sarcasm today).
heddwch
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Monday, June 06, 2011
morning snap shot
a quick snap shot for this morning.No racing, not much in the way of riding this weekend. I did manage to dig out and get the Trail-a-Bike together and the little one and I headed into the city. That was pretty awesome.
Friday, June 03, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
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