Monday, July 24, 2006


After a very easy week last week, i decided i needed to pick up some good miles this past weekend. Thursday i tried to go Mountainbiking and just was not feeling it. I ended the ride after about 20 minutes. I was having all kinds of trouble with my bike so i took it down to the shop to order a new bearing and bushing kit. After 3 years of hard riding and racing, i think my frame may be ready to give up the ghost. Unfortunately i can't break the thing in half and pick up a new one under warranty so it looks like i will have to just buy a new frame. I guess i can't complain too much though as it has won me plenty of races. Friday i tried out the rollers that Skinnyfast gave me, and what can i say, that was an experience. It was my first time on rollers and i didn't really think it could be that hard. I was after all and expert mountain biker and could hold a line on a road bike. I couldn't have been more wrong. Those things made me look like i was 6 year old getting off training wheels for the first time. I spent about 20 minutes combined total on them and called it a day. Saturday since my mountainbike was in the shop i decided to do a long road ride. I ended up going out with Skinnyfast and our newest teammate Clarrissa. Thats right, we now have a girl on our team. The craziest thing is though, she dropped me on a climb and she is 13 years old. Now i do have the excuse that i didn't want to shift out of my 53 and all i had on the back wa s a 23, but still, expect good things from her very soon. We rolled out the the August 1 roubaix course and did three laps of that and then just did a bike path loop. Total time was right at about 5 hours. Sunday i had to wake up at 4:30 and head out to Bernalillo for the KHSnm.com Junior/espoir time trial. We only had 30 riders, but we still managed to pay the bills. After that we played some basketball and headed back to J-moneys house for lunch. I got on the rollers Sunday night for about 20 minutes and actually got pretty good at it. I can now actually ride rollers one handed and jump off the side of them (although only about 10 percent of the time). Today i will have to do some long easy miles to get nice and warmed up for tommorrow's race. Last week i didn't have the legs, so i need to make sure i have them this week.

If anyone knows how i can get rid of unnecesary and irrelevant comments on my blog let me know. I really just don't want to know anything about urethra fun, or whatever those spam comments are about.

2 comments:

Matt said...

set the blog comments section to at least have the security word identification. That stopped a lot of my unwanted traffic.

Re bike: I wanna sell the Intense Spider XVP. I have no use for it any more. How about $850 for the frame, king headset, carbon seatpost, and Fox F100X. Darn low miles on the thing. Will replace with new 29er. :-)

Anonymous said...

Damnit, Matt. I was going to say the same thing. Mine's lighter, but I'm only selling the frame and an '04 Sid Race (back when they were 2.66# w/o the carbon steerer). You know how to get in touch if you're interested.