MISERY LOVES COMPANY

Had a tough start at the Mountains of Misery.Me Jeff and Todd stayed together trading pulls till the last 4 miles .Then it was every man for himself! That last pull up to mountain lake is a B!*ch!We had a good time just riding and b'sn the first 100 miles.I finished in 8.29.My left knee is jacked otherwise I'm alright. Glad its over now I can get back to mountain biking!

DISCO #4

1st place nice.Felt horrible going into it.Hit legs in the gym Monday. Rode to hard at the Tuesday beer ride.I mean it hurt to walk much less pedal a bike!So I said screw it and a hour before I fueled up at McDonald's on a double quarter pounder a fry and washed it down with a hot fudge sundae and a large icedcoffee! And I still put a few minutes between me and the second place finisher! I also had help from my teamate Paula Schimizzi after passing her I tryed to drop anchor but she stayed on me and pushed me on up the last climb. So i droped the hammer on the last crawler to the finish done the lance lookback but all clear no chasers!It was a awesome final race Skip done a awesome job putting it on.

Last hard one

Good hard ride to smack the legs in shape at the Tuesday night beer ride.Meant to go easy but when me David and Jeff get together the rides gonna be a slugfest.legs feel good for the last disco race on mill mountain tommorow night.Then recover in time for Mountains of Misery Sunday my first road century.104 miles.

SUPERTORTURECLIMBFEST PART DEUCE

73 miles.5 hours.To the peaks from roanoke mountain and back.Cramped hard on the last climb.Last long ride till mountains of misery.First time I've ever " trained"for a race.Well see if it helped.I've put in around 180 miles this week.No ride tommorow maybe a short mountain bike ride Sunday.

SUPERTORTURECLIMBFEST PART DEUCE

So Fly

Waiting on a tune up circa 1975?

SUPERTOURTURECLIMBFEST

Me and Crenshaw rode to the peaks this morning we met at the top of roanoke mountain overlook.Wow that last climb after riding 70miles was torture(*)5 and a half hours total ride time.Good ride.Longest ride of the year for me so far.

Day Creek

Rode dody ridge today.its a cool ride with a sweet fire road climb nice big ring ride on the parkway downhill on a fireroad to a gravel road to a rocky climb to the ridge.I ripped a sidewall on the best part the rocky descent back to the start.My tube had a hole in it.And my co2 inflater didn't work.nice 3 mile walk back to the truck.Oh well it was a great day to be outside;

SLIPPIN

I'm on the fast track to becoming a weekend warrior.Little time to ride lately.So I've got to saver every little ride I get.Better times are ahead.

Outta my way Crenshaw!

Fun but rough night at the disco race tonight.Chris was the the first to go down hard clipped a tree and hitvthe trail head first.Me and Crenshaw made sure he was OK before taking off. We lost some time but you can't leave a fellow teammate or anyone hanging.I hammered hard to get back up front.Couldn't catch the lead Guy.So I just kept my lead to fend off my good buddy Jeff Crenshaw. Man we had some good races when we were both racing the Clydesdale class.Last lap I had to make a hard right and swoooshh slid out crashed and scrapped my arm and knee up a little fumble d around to get my chain back on for a min or 2 and took off looked back on the last climb and seen Jeff so I locked out my fox prepping for the sprint to the finish but luckily he was to far back to catch me.So I got second with Chris crashing and me crashing so I'm cool with that.Skip s done a great job putting on this series.Its the most fun u can have for10 bucks with your clothes on.Which Chris had a early yard sale trying to get rude of his clothes!

Tuesday PainTrain

Only about 10 of us braved the dreary conditions this Tuesday no pain train this time me and good buddy Jeff Crenshaw just took it easy to save ourselves for the Wednesday night disco race.It was cool to just sit up and spin be able to breath and talk about manly things like pedicures, salons getting our backs waxed and things like that.

FRIDAY MOUSTACHE RIDE

Took off from work around noon to get a road ride in.No hurry stayed outta the drops and just rode.was gonna go up bent mtn but turned around because of road work going on.so I turned around and headed to the deer crossing about 23 miles and a hour and a half ride time.

More Fun Than You Can Shake A Stick At

Met up with Chris and Warren at the cove to get a early ride in we went out the road to lower comet up girlscout up up the drop up up 1000 foot then down hideho to parking lot.Around an hours ride time.It was nice.Next up climbing clownhead.

Do othat

It was "hot" at this years Middle Mountain Momma.Started out climbing and sweating like a whore in church. I done a hammer gel every 30 minutes, ate good before and still felt like as" .The heat was unbearable. On the first climb peeps were dropping like flys. I started hard getting in the woods first.Got passed midway on the first climb.Then just survived for an hour and a half.I finished in 2 hours and 55 minutes beating my previous time of 3.20.Finished 2nd in my age group.Good times.The 27/40 worked out great.

2 Banger

Got my new fsa 27/40 put on last night. Rode it today at montvale with my 8 year old Justin. It was a short slow ride.But Im loving the 40 brah!perfect for rolling trails and the27 is perfect for climbing. Tommorow will be the ultimate test at the middle mountain momma its gonna be the tits for sure.