nice early road ride

Yesterday afternoon as I was pouring my brain though the keyboard of one of the mac G5's at school Andy Hodge texted me the plan for an early morning ride. Naturally I accepted. I then invited Coach along seeing as he has been one of the most consistant riding buddies that I have had in the last three years. If Matt ever leaves The Lou I will have to start memorizing roads and routes because, he normally navigates as well. The sheer magnitude of different roads and connecters that combine for routes that he has stored in his head is in fact mind blowing. The one flaw he has is this lust for 13 year ol...Anyway the Three of us set off at 630am and spun around west county. St.Paul to ridge to old state to strecker to 109 to reiger to wildhorse creek to hart to ossenfort to melrose to woods to pierside back to old state and ridge to saint paul and back to the start. 42 miles 16.6mph average 2 and half hours with 3174feet of climbing. I must say it was a nice way to start my day off.

A big congrats to Chris Ploch and his big weekend! Good thing I learned how to ride from this guy but bad that it doesn't show.

The Long Awaited Easter Bike

Due to how poorly constructed my last post was I though it best to update as soon as possible. Feel free to exhale now (as long as Coach is not within 50 feet) because here are the promised photos of the Bi G Unit, Easter Bike, Pussy Wagon, f*cking gay bike, or whatever it is you like to call my 2009 Kona Big Unit. I had it originally set up with 32/18 but switched to a 17 tooth cog for the first short track race last Thursday. That was an unmarked improvement to say the least. The Truvative Noir Carbon riser bar is a new addition as are the Pink Velocity VXC rims laced to my old DT 240's. Enjoy and I hope to see you all at the next short track race or merely tooling around one of the many fine trails that we have here in Missouri. Don't be shy say hi or flip me the bird either way I'll still be riding my bike and you can't take that away from me. Pe@ce

In all her Glory

The Bling

The 18 tooth drive wheel

When this kid saw my bike he couldn't help but punch his sister

"It looks like a barn with no doors"

That was the statement made about the covered bridge on the infamous covered bridge ride. I have been felling pretty strong while riding and have had time on my hands so i have actually been getting some miles in.

I started with with 3 mild tours of castlewood in 3 consecutive days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Tuesday was with Dr and Steve AKA Jonathan Cold. Wednesday was solo and Thursday was with and Old friend from Illinois, Andy and his friend Eric. Pretty Mild. After riding on Thursdor it was back to TC MAN to switch to a harder gear for the start of the Short Track Series.

Sort Track is by far the most fun I have had racing period. I say this keeping in mind that I have yet to race Cyclocross. I was stoke and ready to go sitting atop a 32/17. This, I found out pretty much when the whistle blew, was way to easy of a gear for these races. I spun long and hard and came in pretty close to last. I did manage to get one last sprint near the end to edge out a ICCC rider I had been trading places with all race. All in all a good race, good people, and good food. A huge thanks to Pfoodman for once again putting it on.

Have a Happy 4th everyone and blow as much crap up as possible.

Holly Hell its Hot

For all of you who decided to not show up at MWFTS race yesterday you all missed out on some amazing trails. Mark did a fantastic job preping this coarse and the Re routes were just as sick as the traditional face melting single track that is St.Joes.

The Heat was a killer and as soon as I stepped out of I was sweating. A sign of what was to come over the next 3 and a half hours. I lined up Near Seagal Soldier Jack Tagart (Jiim Valentine) and got set for the marathon start. I had no idea how awesome the trails would be. The pinicle of single track: fast, flowy, grinding climbs, long decents, hard corners to drift the rear wheel around nothing short of perfect.

As we wet into the woods I hoped in behind Eric Schuck, Pfood, and Tagart. I yo-yoed behind Schuck as we snaked though the woods. I finally reeled him in just before he passed Pfood We both caught Tagart who let us around. Pfood and I trade places though the first lap and into the second before I was able to pull away but at a severe price. I had drained my camble back and now only had about 3 bottles left as i cam in from lap two I ditched the pack, Grabbed a fresh bottle, and stuffed a power bar into my face which had melted all over my jersey. The third lap found me churning along I caught two other riders one of which ended up getting away from me on lap four. As I neared the end of the lap I was out of water and getting goose bumps. I grabbed another bottle this one with rocket fuel in it and headed out for lap four at the 2:52 mark of the race. More of the same followed as I was being to lose focus and was getting pretty sloppy. Dwayne passed lapped me close to the finish line still looking fresh. I kept my head down though and made it across the line at 3:39:30 earning a 6th place finish out of 14 starters. I am pretty happy with that and look forward to getting back out on the Bi G Unit. Pe@ce

keep on keepin' on

My miles are slowly but surely racking up. I now have about as many and everyone had at the end of the first week in January. I seem to have broken that rev limitor that has keep the legs from crushing hills and flowing at a even cadence. The power is returning. I have a little over a 100 miles in the last week. So write home and tell your family that the Robortion is coming.

PS- as of right now i don't have access to a digital camera so no Pics of the easter bike will take a little time to put up.