Another semi windy day at the point

The training day at Hanes Pt. went well. Did some hard efforts especially when chasing down Nima (Team Evolution) and Chuck (Team Battley Harley Davidson). Steve my colavita south teammate and I managed to bridge up to Nima and Chuck with the peleton about 25 seconds back. I had a hunch that once we caught them, Nima would recover for a few seconds then launch another attack. Sure enough he did. After pulling them back initially I just didn't have it in the legs to respond. Chuck managed to bridge up to Nima and Steve and I just looked at each other and said, screw it no more. The field managed to catch us eventually then Steve and I sat up and called it a day. All in all it was a good days work.

At least it wasn't as windy as yesterday. Yesterday the group shattered after two laps. I stayed up at the front to avoid all the gaps opening up.

I have included a picture of Hanes Pt. so some of my readers can see what a great training place we have. The pic isn't great but inside that little tree covered area is a loop that is just over 3 miles long. I think it is closer to 3 and 1/4 miles. The straight aways are over a mile long on each side. It's awesome. Ride speeds can get up to about 27-33mph on the straight aways. Traffic wise it is ok but during the touristy season you have to be really heads up. There is always close calls. PLUS you have to watch out for all the Freds that think they can keep up when all they're really doing is getting in the way and making it dangerous for everybody. These guys usually tend to show up when the weather turns nice but come the heart of winter and heat of the summer they disappear. Hooray for that.

I think the hard efforts in the last two days has made me vulnerable to my sons cold. I feel like I'm coming down with it now. I'll try and train through if it doesn't hit me to hard. I'll have to Harden the fuck up as Mr. Stuart O'Grady says and ride through it.

On a last note, my boy turned 18 months yesterday. He is growing like a weed. Pretty soon he'll be asking me for the car keys. I love that little guy more than anything. Just when you think you're having a bad day, you come home to that little face and all the stressful feelings just go away.

Hasta otro dia mis amigos.

Hard time keeping up

I guess it's time for an update. I'm pretty lousy about updating. No baby yet. We're still waiting. Should be any day now. On the cycling side, I got in a good ride on Sunday. I did my normal 8:30am ride out of Old Towne Alexandria to Gunston. In all it is about a 60 mile loop. It usually consist of myself and about 6-7 others. I tend to make it a leg pounding ride. I try to keep the intensity up through the whole ride, sometimes to the disliking of others. That was my only ride of the weekend. I took Friday and Saturday off as well as Monday (rained all day).

I haven't raced since walkersville. I signed up for a few others but failed to show up due to the heavy rains we have been getting. I just decided not to race in the rain this year. With the baby coming, I definitely can't afford to be gimping around. I have to be of some use to my wife. My next race will be Bike Jam. I'm doubling up that day doing the CAT 2,3 combined and the masters 30+. I'm looking forward to that.

Other than that, nothing exciting. I'm trying to keep this blog funny and humorous, but I'm not feeling it. Maybe after the baby. I'm on edge right now.

Headed out to the Pt for some training. See you next time.

MABRA's toughest at Pete's Italian Shop Hill Ride

Today was the who's who of MABRA at Pete's Hill Ride. Some of MABRA's toughest: Ken Johnson, Ken Young, Simon Walker, Art Brown, Josh Frick, and Mark Sommers decided to join us. They made the ride an excellent leg burner. It's nice having guys like that show up. You pretty much have to decide there and then that you're going to have to raise your game. I'm glad I made it.

On another note, we are 4 weeks closer to the new arrival of our baby girl. I'm always on edge waiting for that phone call from my wife saying it's time or waking up in the middle of the night realizing we are having a baby. This will be our second baby so no biggie right? My boy is 17 months now. Sleep isn't really a factor anyway since we don't get much now. We are going to have our hands full. Nothing a nice cold TECATE can't cure. See you next time.

Pete's non-conversational thursday Hill Ride

Yesterday turned out to be another good training day. Did an hour of tempo at the pt then headed to Pete's thursday conversational hill ride. I ended up mostly conversing with myself cause folks just weren't into socializing. The pace just got to high and I didn't follow. After a hard tuesday and wednesday, I told myself I would take it easy. The highlight of the ride was running into Il Nessie. Flippin Scotsman just doesn't know how to ride easy. We'll see who gives you your spanish lessons now pinchi puto.
Today will just be an easy ride with ABRT's Art Brown down to Great Falls and back. No racing for me this weekend. Saturday will be family day and training will resume Sunday.

ABRT's Guy Perotti joined us as well. I'm sure Art was happy, having two big gorillas pulling him around from G-town to Great Falls. Between Guy and myself, that's easily 400lbs combined. Maybe 395lbs, I actually managed to get under 200lbs coming into the spring.

Drinking it up with the jennings

We just got back from drinking it up with the Jennings. My boy's Godparents. It consisted of mostly making fun of Wade aka Mongo. I had an awesome training day. Did 3.5 hours on the bike today so no better way to celebrate than by downing a few mexican style. There is nothing better than good company and good beer.

Jumping on the Blog Bandwagon...

Out of curiosity I've started this thing people call a blog. Hell, I read plenty of them from the gamjams.net blog links. Some are funny, some are interesting and some I just skip. So without further delay, I'm jumping the wagon. I guess it will consist of everyday happenings from cycling to family.

I won't bring up anything about this past weekends racing. Everyone blogged that to death. I mean how many race reports can a guy read. But I will leave you with a pic from the Walkersville Road Race. I'm in the Colavita Kit for those of you who don't Habla.

If you're wondering why they call me El Carne aka The Meat, well its because one day Jason Meidoff, back from the NCVC days called me that and it stuck. Till this day I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult.