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Christmas Came Early.

Last night was the first Team Rio Grande meeting and look what I came home with. This goes well with me Rio Grande free burrito card. Boo Ya!

Wish it wasn’t snowing so I could take it around the block. Don’t worry, I’ll put a new seat on as soon as I can.

Last night I was riding home from the Rio Christmas Party, after drinking a little, talking on my phone, riding down the middle of the bike path.  Some dude jumps out of nowhere, knocks me off my bike, and starts coming at me.  I jumped up and yelled a few expletives, he stops, picks up my phone and spikes it like a football.  I told him to get away from me, and he just strolled away.  I was a little stunned at first, but soon realized that Jami probably heard part if not all of our encounter, up until the point he slammed my phone.  I hopped on my bike and rode off to find some way to get a hold of her.  I found some guys who let me borrow a phone, so I called and all is now well, except, my phone got shattered.  I borrowed my buddy Eric’s old phone, which is working out great for now.  Please call or text with your name and number if you have my number in your phone book because it probably means I need to get yours from you.  Hope you all had better Sunday nights than I did.  The Rio party was a blast though.

Thanks for checking in.

Chain Letters.

I don’t ever respond or forward chain letters, never have, probably never will.  I remember around middle school or so when EVERYONE was getting their very own email address, there was almost an epidemic of chain letters sweeping the internet.  I was probably “cursed” a thousand times for breaking the chain.

Today I was “tagged.”  At first I didn’t know how to feel, actually at first at first I didn’t know what it meant.  Now that I know what’s going on, and I’m getting used to the fact that I was “tagged,” I decided I could do something about it.  My little buddy Allen tagged me which means I have to tell you all 5 things you don’t know about me, then tag 5 more people.

In keeping with my tradition of not forwarding chain letters. I probably won’t “tag” any others, but I will give you all the five tid-bits about me…

and here they are.

#1 I just finished watching How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days…   Alone.

#2  It’s 3:49pm and I’m in my pajamas.

#3  I decorated my 1.5ft tall Christmas tree yesterday with little pieces of chain and 11t, 12t, and 13t cogs.

#4  This is my first post on a wordpress blog and I’m not sure that I love it yet, although I totally dig the banner at the top, I’ve already changed it 5 times.  Expect it to change again.

#5  (Kinda borrowed inspiration from Scott here) Tonight is the Rio Grande Christmas party, and since I work there, as well as ride for their cycling team, I’m thinking about making an appearance.  600 people, free food, free booze, kind of sounds like trouble to me though.

Whew, that was liberating.  I used to always write “What I learned this week/month” maybe I should do that again.

Alright, instead of tagging 5 people, I’m gonna tag Colin Don 5 times.  He’ll just have to give us 25 facts about himself, I’m sure each one will be good though.

That’s all for now, hope you like the new place, thanks for checking in.

Thanksgiving.

Quick update.

I haven’t been writing on here much, mostly because I haven’t been racing much. The Boulder UCI races were fun, I felt great, but that was good enough for placing in the 40′s and getting lapped EARLY. Oh well, what can you do when Trebon is lapping into the top 20?

My big news is that next year I will be riding with the Rio Grande – Jose Cuervo team. It should be a great fit as I know most of the guys, work for the sponsor and have the same goals as the rest of the team. More to come on this later.

I’ve never felt personally touched by a blog…

But for some reason, Brad Huff struck a nerve.

On a separate note, I sucked this weekend.

Rest Weeks.

I guess I took a couple weeks off from updating here. There just wasn’t that much excitement happening around here to write about though.

My parents were here a couple weeks ago and saw me race at Interlocken in Boulder and in Evergreen the next day. I didn’t have great races either day, and Sunday was snowing and freezing cold.

Last weekend I did a ride with my DU kids on Saturday morning, then rode in their homecoming parade in the afternoon. Sunday was the race at the Boulder Reservoir which is always one of my favorites. It went alright, with me finishing 12th and making 45 bucks hopping barriers. Barrier hopping has become quite lucrative for me lately, hopefully there is an opportunity at the UCI races this weekend.

That’s about all. I opted out of the Wednesday Worlds ride in Boulder this morning and stayed warm in my bed. That drive is starting to get to me. I’m off for a run right now to make up for missing a good workout. I wish there was a good ride like that in Denver. Oh well, thanks for checking in, enjoy your days.

Oh yeah, if anyone has pictures from this past weekend at the Res, I would love to see them. There were a few photographers around the course, but I have no idea who they were.

A big congratulations!

Goes out to The Good, The Bad, and The Nerdy for bringing home the gold at the Red Bull Soap Box Derby in Providence, RI this weekend. I was hoping to be able to make the trips with the nerds, but was unable to, and it looks like I was the one who really missed out. All the hard work, lack of dates, and overabundance of pimples has finally paid off.

On a side note, I went 5th and 4th on Saturday and Sunday respectively in Gunnison this weekend. Awesome courses, great weather (for my races) and small fields led to some good racing for me. Hopefully I’ll be finishing this high up next weekend on the Front Range.

That’s all for now, thanks for checking in.

Karma.

It’s a bitch.

So I used to pull this mean prank on UNC group rides. Whenever I was on the front and saw any roadkill (which was plentiful in Weld County) I would slow up, allowing the person behind me to get real close, head straight for the squirrel or whatever was dead on the road, and hop over the dead animal at the last second. This would cause whoever was behind me, usually Brian, to run right through the dead creature. This was always funny, I’d laugh, we’d carry on with our ride.

So. As I mentioned earlier, the barrier hopping paid off on Saturday, but Sunday was a different story. I started strong, too strong. I won the holeshot, lead for a little bit, settled in back a few spots and then continued to drop back as the race went on. The legs that were there the day before decided not to show up, and I kept losing spots as the race went on. With 3 to go, I was told I would get a 2 second bonus for ever successful bunny hop, so I decided to try my luck at the 4 pack of logs next to the pits. On that lap I made it over, just barely, got cocky and hit it with more speed the next lap.

This time, instead of making it through the barrier section, I hopped the first one, plowed into the second, flipped straight over my bars, and landed face and shoulder first on top of the third. It rang my chimes pretty good, but I got up and finished without losing any places, although I did run the barrier section on the final lap, then quickly left with my tail between my legs.

Back to the Karma. Sometimes the bunny hop pays off, literally and figuratively, but other times it bites you in the ass. Hopefully I was simply paying off my debt to anyone who has had a run in with roadkill, and it will be smooth sailing from here on out. We’ll see how this weekend plays out.

I’m off to Gunnison for another pair of BCR Cross races so wish me luck.

Thanks for checking in.

Yesterday.

DU group ride at 9:00. I only went an hour so I could get up to Frisco for the first of two cross races up there this weekend. The course was good, nice mix of road and dirt with a little grass. I could have used a little more grass, but what can ya do, this is Colorado and I guess we don’t really race on grass anymore.

There were a few barrier sections, two of which utilized logs from the front of parking spots, they were sitting on top of other short logs that supported each end, like Lincoln Logs I guess. Anyway, the first barrier was a real wooden one, on an uphill in woodchips. I hopped it in warm-ups, but after climbing up to it in the race I had visions of crashing like I did in Littleton, so I opted to get off and run. Then we climbed more on pavement, pavement descent (wierd) and then some loose twisty stuff, down to a tight LOOSE turn around some bleachers (which I almost ate a few times), then 4 log barriers really close together. I couldn’t get my timing right through these until the last few laps, then a little more tight twisty stuff, a little grass, then a 90 degree left hander into a log barrier at the bottom of a small rise. This is where the excitement of my race happened.

I started top ten, moved up over the first couple laps, into 3rd by the end of lap 2. I was hopping that single log barrier, and it was right in front of Dave and there was a little crowd gathered around it. The crowd started getting into me hopping the log, so I think I got bigger cheers than the leaders. The crowd started handing out money, so I started grabbing it. In the end I walked away 6th or 7th after fading on the climbs, but 55 dollars richer. Boo Ya.

I’m off for round two. Thanks for the pics Greg.