missed

so i haven't posted in a long time because i haven't ridden in a while. i did a couple cross races and got a sweet mona vie cross bike but i have been swamped by my 17 credit hours in school so i haven't trained much. hopefully February will let me ride and train. it's been snowing a little bit in boulder and it was like 0 degrees all day today. it sucked.

broke my frame.

Last weekend was the XC race in Wyoming. I was sick all week so I didn't get to ride that much so I was slow. It started off good and I was with the top 5 for about 10 minutes and then realized that I was going to die if I kept that up so I relaxed and dropped back to about 11th or something. I rode tempo for the first 2 laps and then on the third lap I kicked it up a couple gears. In the muddy slippery descent I was haulin balls and I guess I was haulin a little too much balls and hit a big rock, and the 2 foot tall rock sucked up all of my 100 mm of travel and sent me up into the air and down onto my head. I heard my bike land on a rock and my helmet crack in a half of a second. I got up and looked at my bike real quick but I didn't see anything major so I kept racing and passed the guy that passed me while I was on the ground and finished in 10th or something. After I finished, I looked over my bike more carefully and saw a crack on my chain stay on the non drive side. I almost broke down and cried over my beloved baby. So I called John Kempdawg and hopefully I will be getting a new rear triangle in the next few weeks. So I don't know what I'm gonna ride this coming weekend, so Mitch, you should bring either my blue bike or the Trance. That would be sick.

Home

I'm home for a couple days. And I did a lactate threshold test. It was better than the last test i took so that's good. And i raced in the snowbird hill climb and that was cool. I was tired from the lactate test. so i was 4th in the 3's. Mitch won and was close to beating the record that leipheimer set. and rob rode all the way up to the top of snowbird. and won.

We watched the tour of Utah come up the snowbird climb too. So i got to see hamilton and all of those guys. All of the ex-dopers are really slow when they're not doping. And I watched Kiel race up too. He was doing pretty good. Then we came down the canyon and now i'm tired. so here i come sleep.

Weekend

Last wednesday, short track happened again. And it was going pretty good. I was sitting right behind Walders the world champion, and then I had a bee fly into my jersey, and proceed to sting me 5 times in the chest. So i had to stop and pull the damn bee out of my jersey, and by that time walders had dropped me so I just spun a couple more laps and then stopped. But it was a fun race. There were some doubles and some cool little things in the race.

But last weekend, Abby and I went to Crested Butte and we went to Salida. We first went to Salida and rode the Monarch Crest trail to the Rainbow trail. And those 2 trails were really cool. There were some really cool views and you could see for miles. And when we were almost done, i did a stupid thing and let my front tire hit a rock really slow and it made me endo, and I jumped over my bars, but my bike fell on a rock and chipped my seatpost down to the weave, so that is dumb. After that ride, Abby and I drove to Crested Butte, and she kept me entertained the whole way. She kept me from falling asleep, which was great. When we got to Crested Butte, we found a bike shop and the guy told us to ride the 401 trail. So we went up the mountain and found a camp site. And there were a lot of mosquitos, which was lame, but it was the funnest camping i had ever done. We had to carry all of our camping stuff up the the camp site, and Abby carried everything so she looked like a sherpa. We woke up the next morning and set out to ride the 401 trail. We climbed up the road and we went past a really cool mountain lake that was really blue, or that's what Abby said what color it was, it just looked like water to me. When we got to the top, we climbed a little bit more on the 401 trail. And when we got to the top of the 401 trail, the views were awesome. You could see all of the surrounding mountains and there were wildflowers everywhere. It was the prettiest thing ever. We started riding down the trail and we had to stop about every minute and take pictures.

We finished the 401 trail and started heading back to Boulder. And we stopped in buena vista or Fairplay at the Coyote Cantina for some 'awesome' mexican food. It was not very good, and the burrito was a tortilla that was wrapped around chicken, not seasoned or anything. So it was pretty lame. And our stupid cooze of a waitress, Tina, was the worst waitress ever. She took forever for everything. I had my credit card on the table and when she finally came, she set the bill on top of my card and started to leave, and Abby was like 'No! you're not leaving, take the check and scan the card.' So after another 5 minutes of waiting for her to bring the card back, I left her a 10 % tip. And i shouldn't have even left a tip. So we finally left after about a hour in the worst mexican restaurant ever. It might even be worse than the mexican restaurant in Vermont, and that place is terrible.
And then on the way home we had to stop twice for car accidents, and one we had to wait for a hour and a half for life flight and everything. And I'm pretty sure that the people in the crash didn't make it and died.

So now i'm back in boulder and just hanging out. I moved into my house that my room mates and I are leasing, so that's pretty sweet.
CU's short track final is tomorrow, so i'll race that and let the world know about that later.

Boulder

So, I'm back in Boulder and enjoying it. Short track is tonight and last week I was 8th or somethin. Brady kappius won. And it was funny, on the last lap, I passed some soulcraft guy on a cross bike and at the finish, mr. cross bike decided he wanted to take me in the sprint. I saw him trying the sprint and trying to come around me, and I was thinking to myself, what is this guy doing? Who does he think he is, trying to beat me on a cross bike? So I didn't have any problem beating him in the sprint, I just thought it was kind of funny that this guy thought he could beat me.
So anyways, I'll race again tonight and see what happens.
I also got a new car, which is sweet. It's a 2004 Audi A4. 1.8T and a 6 speed. So it's pretty baller. I have to take it to a shop to get some tuning for it. Brady told me about a shop called 3zero3 motor sports, so I'll give that place a try and see how it goes. Maybe get a intake first. and then chip it and get a new exhaust.
Well anyways, haven't written in my blog in a while, so just updating it.

home for 2 days

So I got back from Hawaii a couple days and I wish I had gone to boulder for the 2 days before i go to Italy.
But I'm leaving for Italy tomorrow morning and I'll be there until the 24th...I think. I'm going to watch Mitch, my bro, race in Worlds. And another kid from my neighborhood, Rob Squire is going to and racing as a junior. Come to think of it, our neighboorhood has produced 4 really fast kids. Mitch, Rob, Ryan Harrison, and ME. But I'm not fast right now. Ryan was the fastest kid in the nation and won the overall in junior x last year and he didn't get to go to Scotland, which is really really dumb. The people at USA Cycling all need to figure out that they can take 3 more kids in every category than they already do and it wouldn't cost them a thing. But they don't realize that so they end up discouraging fast people like ryan, who is now not fast and doesnt ride anymore.
anyways, i should be able to post stuff from italy. and inform on how worlds is.

past week

So theres a race tomorrow. The Revolution race, and Revoultion is the best shop ever. Should be hard. I haven't really ridden a lot. So we'll see how it goes.

And then I'm going to Hawaii on the 31st so that'll be fun. And then after a couple weeks there, I'm goin to Italy to watch Mitch race in worlds. So that'll be fun too.

Not much to say, I go back to boulder on the first of july. can't wait.

Heat Wave

Yesterday was the short track and 2 days ago was the xc race in california. After living in boulder and then salt lake and not experiencing temperatures above 80, the deathly heat of Santa Ynez was the worst feeling ever. It was about 95 with wind and 105 with no breeze. So goin up climbs was hotter than magma. So after about a hour or so, I started getting chills which is the first signs of heat stroke, so i finished the lap i was on and called it quits. So that was the XC. Sid won, k-bomb second, Wick nasty third. Sick
Next day, short track. It was a lot better than the xc and was my highest placed pro race yet. I placed 27th and i felt pretty good about it so it was good.
2 people crashed right in front of me at the same place so the second time someone crashed, i got mad. and so i dropped the group i was with on the last lap.
overall pretty good weekend for me,
Now i'm back in boulder.

Santa Ynez

So this weekend is the Santa Ynez Norba National. And if you're here, you know how shitty this course is. But if you're not, here's a little synopsis of the course. Dry, short climbs, bumpy. That's seriously the course. It's pretty similar to the course at Sonoma 2 years ago if you went to that race. So this course starts off and does a gay little loop and then starts up the first climb. It starts off shallow and then climbs up some steep single track. After about 5 minutes of climbing the first descent, and it's dry and bumpy and it's not real fun. The course seems like it used to be wet, but then this place had a drought and now the course is super dry. It's cracked and there are little ravines everywhere on the course to grab your tire and whip you on to your face. I guess thats what happens when frosty designs a course. Because he designed Sonoma too. I guess this course kinda works for me with short power climbs. But I've been in school studying so I've had about 5 days of riding for training for this race. So we'll see how it goes. The race is later today and 2 pm California time, so as I race there's gonna be sweat flowin like Niagra down my ass crack and balls. That's another problem here, is that theres sort of a heat wave comin through this weekend, so it's like 105 degrees with no wind and like 95-100 with a little breeze. So I've been drinking about 10 bottles of water a day. It's a bit ridiculous, coming from SLC, where it's been like 50 degrees and occasionally snowing, to have to now suffer in this brutal heat.
So XC is today, STXC is tomorrow and then I go back home for a day or somethin, and then I go to boulder to hang out with people that I miss, especially one in particular, you know who you are if you're readin this.
out.

Utah

So I'm back in the SLC. And riding now. I rode today with Mitch and Rob. I have some endurance, just I have no top end so I can't go fast up hill. I can go fast downhill though. Which is sweet, and fun.
Um, not really a lot to talk about, I'm just riding my bike tomorrow and the next days, and goin to santa Ynez this weekend for the NORBA. So That should be sweet. And I'm thinkin about racing sport downhill. Giant gave me a Trance this year, so mitch built it up free ride style. it's really fun.
done.

STUDY

Today is the first day of studying for me for my finals. I'm studying right now because I have a final tomorrow. And then I have sunday off where I should be tweaked out on adderall and studying for a good solid 12 straight hours. Give or take a couple of hours. Adderall works wonders on the studying.
I think I'm gonna take this week off the bike so I can do well on my finals and then once I'm done with finals, it's gonna be ride-mayhem. I should be able to ride everyday and start getting fast again. Collegiate Road Nationals are in 2 weeks so hopefully I'll be fast for those. If not, then I still have lots of time to get ready for mountain bike nationals in North Carolina Again.
So Got to get to studying.

420

Today is April 20th (420), and I woke up today coughing up green snot. So I decided to not race the road race. It was at the Air Force Academy and was windy as tits out. So I guess it wasn't a big deal that I didn't race. But the one thing that chapped my ass was that the road race course has a 4 or 5 mile climb on the back side, and I most likely would have finished with the pack, and maybe top 5 in the field sprint up the climb to the finish. I guess next year I'll race it.
On the 19th, we had the crit race. The crit was right at Colorado College campus with a cool little descent and little power climb. The little climb was sweet except that I would go from the back of the group to the front on the climb and so that made my crit end faster. I made it Short Track time before I blew and rode with BK Krusher off the back like a 12 year old girl until the front of the group caught us again and we got pulled. It was still a fun race.
Virginia Slim upgraded to A's and dominated in his first A race. He hung in like a champ
in the road race and despite cracking on the last lap, pulled it together and finished it out.

Another note: I have not seen as many people on campus at Boulder as I did today. 420 inspires people to get out I guess. The whole Norlin Quad was full of people. Concert status. Smoke everywhere. It was pretty crazy.

Ride-A-Kick My Ass-A-Thon

So today was the ride-a-thon. And after socializing at Virginia Slims house last night, the 12th, waking up at 8 in the morning was no stroll in the park. It suprises me how I can wake up in the morning to go ride my bike, but on some days I can't wake up to make it to my 9 o'clock class for the life of me.
So after listening and watching Bama headbang and rock out to some metal we started out on our ride. There was about 20 of us or so as we headed out. It was kinda cold but sunny so it wasn't bad. After about 15 minutes or so, Virginia Slim and I decided to pull a massive attack from the back of the pack. We time trialed away from stevie fresh and the rest of the pack, but after about 20 seconds we thought we were gonna die so we let up and Kiel and some other kids passed us. Our attack led to another couple of cat 5 attacks from the group. Quite entertaining for me and V-Slim. We rode north from Boulder, hit Lyons and headed east. And after heading east for a ways we turned north again and headed towards Carter Lake. We rode on a pretty flat long road with a couple of little rollers, which I called sprint points and KOM points and attacked into them. Kiel beat me on the ones that he tried on, but I got the other ones. There was a little 3 switchback climb up to the reservoir and with Kiel not racing up it against me, I took the the KOM climb and got the polkadot jersey, which only existed in my mind. We stopped at the ramp to the reservoir and ate some food and filled our bottles. And the 100 milers kept goin and us 60 ish milers turned around. I really didn't feel like doing 100 miles on no breakfast and 5 hours of sleep. And neither did V-Slim who had a bit of a headache from last night. During our ride, Abby followed us in her "kick ass jeep liberty SPORT" as she calls it, and every once in a while I would go back and hang on the the car and talk to her. It felt like I was in the tour or something hanging back with the team car, but I was in last place in the tour because I was hanging on to the car. When we got back to Boulder, V-Slim, Kiel, Colin, Abby, and I went to Half Fast Subs. It was the best 14 inches I have ever taken. After subs, I ran into Alan Obye and we chatted, then I went back home and showered and then slept. I slept a good 3 hours and I'm still tired as shit!
I went to safeway to get food and I picked up the best food items, Gushers, tortillas, salsa, cheese, oreos, white grape peach juice, kiwis, not ripe pears(because I wasn't paying attention and kinda sleep walking around the store), and some crackers. Food of champions. Came back, ate, and that brings me to this point in time where I stop writing.

more snow

It snowed a lot today, so no ride. But, Saturday will bring the Ride-a-thon. So 100 miles then. Should be sweet.

Rollers

The rollers weren't as bad as they could have been. After warming up and spinning for about 15 minutes listening to Destroy the Runner, I wanted to see how fast I could get going. One of the main reasons for my desire to go fast is that this year I am no longer restricted to junior gearing. My bike used to have a 47 tooth big ring. And I ran a 12-25 or something on the back so I would spin out at about 40. It was awesome!! Not. Anyways, I now have a 53 on the front and an 12-25 on the back so I can push 50 mph on a slight downhill with a tailwind. But before I start rambling, back to the rollers. I wanted to see how fast I could get going and with my roommates watching me I hit 50 mph. I felt fast. So after that I began wondering how far I could go with the rest of my hour. So, I switched to the awesome sounds of the 80's. And I turned on Europe and rocked the Super Hits CD. So with the inspiration of Europe I was able to do 30.11 miles in an hour with a average speed of 30.1 mph. I know it's nothing like being on the road because there's no wind resistance on the rollers but I still felt fast.

Why the hell does it snow in april?

So today I was going to go ride my bike outside and enjoy a nice sunny April day on the road. Although, when I woke up, I found myself staring out the window and a flurrying snow storm was staring straight back at me. So I decided today was going to be a roller day. And as much as I love riding rollers, I felt like not riding today.
I don't have a digital camera to take sweet pics of myself riding bicycles, but hopefully I'll be able to get one soon. Until then, use your imagination.