Riding in Austin...YA!

Had to go to A-Town for a meeting last weekend and as usual I won't go without my bike. Woke Sunday to Sunny and 40 degrees. After a stolen bowl of oatmeal at the house I was staying I headed out to one of my favorite training grounds. Its off of Bee Caves rd and its called River Road I think. Its about 2 miles down to the bottom of the ???Valley, Canyon??? Hills?? what ever Austin has. Either way you go down hard and then come back up hard. Great climbing all the way back up. Did a few repeats there and then headed back into town over into Westlake where the hills are steep as hell and fun to mess around on. Overall I prolly didn't ride more than 35-40 miles, but I went up to Jupiter with all the climbing. F'ing FANTASTIC riding. Why do I live here? Anyways, got my first race on Feb 7th. Stage race down in South Tejas. I'm not ready but I need to race myself into shape so here it goes. Still waiting on my kit so I might not be racing at all if my team dosen't hurry up and get me a kit.

All for now.

j

Late Night Hill Repeats

Neal and I headed out in the 38 degree dark last night looking for something that will pay big. We decided on 10 laps of hill repeats, sitting down, into gail force winds, and frostbitten toes. It was cold. No one else was around. We passed homes full of familys settling down to a nice warm meal. Maybe they had soup or something to ease the day. I don't know. All I do know is we suffered.....and it Freaking ROCKED!

Best,

j

It's that time again...RACE SEASON

I've been doing what most of us do all winter. Riding long boring miles and enjoying the scenery. I gave up on coming home after every ride and being trashed from suffering all day. I'm on a new plan and I hope it works. I don't mind trashing myself, but everytime you ride can't be good for you. There is a place for that I know, but recovery has to take place. Now I'm riding and enjoying myself. Coming home feeling pretty good and not fucked. Once a week I give it a big effort and drool on the couch at night, but lately just riding at about 75% seems to be paying off. We'll see at my first few races. On a new team this year, www.dallasracing.org and I couldn't be more excited. Major sponsor is Park Place so we roll Benz style. Well, when I'm sleeping at night thats how I get dropped off at races. Now just waiting for the kits to arrive, the calender to fill up with races and me to be tired...again. Gonna be a fun year for racing. I got my work cut out for me to get my 3. It'll happen. For the VERY few who read this, I will update allot more often. Congrats to Fawley who just won his state stripes last weekend at the State Cross Championships. He won again for like the 100th year in a row. Bad MF! Hope I can learn a few things from him this year since we are on the same team. But on those training rides I will most likely get dropped at mile 5.

Till next time,

j