fun in the rain

Played in the rain some on tuesday.  It was really hard to get going but once we did, it was fun.  Too bad more people didn't come out, but I understand. 

Photos from Cat6.

 Good Job

Mean Dawg graduated. Good Job.

Grandstay is racing in NVGP.  Good Job.

I turned 30. Good Job.

Rode my bike 145 miles into a headwind.  Good Job.

100% all around!

 The Blog has been hurting.

 Haven't updated for a long time.  Since my last update I have raced my bike 10 times.  I pedaled it really good sometimes and other times not quite as good.  It is fun pedaling the bike around with my friends.  I am going to do it again tomorrow.  Maybe I have a better update then.  

I was watching the tour de Giro on the you tube. and thought this was pretty fun.  Yeti found!

After the bike race on tuesday we are going to have a little party for the mean dawg.  He done really good at got him one of them degrees. 100%!

 Ken Woods.

 Another fun day of racing bikes.   It has been alot of fun racing this year because our team seems to be riding pretty well together.  It makes it alot of fun.  A couple attacks but our team kept everything in check and didn't let anything get out of hand. Even together we tried to keep the pace somewhat reasonable to prevent attacks.  It seemed to work pretty good.  I got popped off on the top of the hill on the third lap.  Actually I almost crashed a nature valley rider david, and it got me flustered and I lost a wheel.  I slowly got myself back in the game thanks to Jimmer and then mean dawg, and we got back in a couple miles.  In the end our team had Doug and Casper off with Woell, so I estimated our chances at about 90%.  Our team patroled the front and tried to get 4th in the end.  I think we Ended up 1st,3rd, 6th,10th,11th,12th,13th,14th.  I was 14th.   It would have been cooler to have that bunch of 10th-14th 4th-8th but that is aok.  

Right now, I am trying to watch LBL live on some EURO feeds, it is good for a couple minutes then it bonks out.  I am starting to get frustrated with it!

durand.

I had a really fun time at durand.  The most fun I have had at a bike race in a long time!  I was really happy with all my teammates, everyone seemed to be in a good mood and rode well.  I felt really bad for mean dawg.  He flatted like 15 seconds into the race.  At least he got to hop in and ride around with the group for the last 4 laps.  He stayed at the back and out of the way of the racing.   The race it self was kinda uneventful.  No real breakaways that had any really threat.  I don't think anyone ever got more then a minute or out of sight.  Our team spent a good chunk of time on the front riding pace.  

A couple good moves at the end on the last hill, but it wasn't quite hard enough to stay away or whittle down the big group.  It was a crazy finish, and someone Doug and Ian latched up and made an awesome move.  Jens and I were on the other side, but didn't want to try to put that move in jeopardy.  I tried to follow wheels and roll in top 10 still, but got into someone, and broke my front wheel, and had to clip out, but at least avoided crashing.  Doug emerged from that group someone and held everyone off.  I couldn't believe it.  

High fives all around to the team.  It was too bad Micah and Matt couldn't have been there as well, next time guys!   Good job guys, it is going to be a fun year!

 3 points.

1.  Nice nice night out for bike racing.  Really fun to see everyone again. 

2.  Felt pretty slow, but managed a couple points.  Yup, Yup.  

3.  Doug got 19, so that was cool.

 Update

Alot has happened since the last update.  I'll try to be better once season starts up in a week. 

I have been riding some.  Not as much as I would like, but hopefully enough that I don't get dropped.  

We pedaled around real good for awhile this last weekend.  Legs are starting to feel better, yet right now they feel worse then they have in a long time.  

Doug missed out.  I guess some things are more important then bike riding.  Hard to believe.  

Great bunch of teammates I have.  Glad to get a couple new ones as well this year.  Should be fun, and hopefully we win some races!  

 First Day on the Nice Bike.

I am Dan Swanson, and I am SPECIALIZED!

Season is getting closer.  I rode the nice bike today.  The first ride on any new bike is unique.  It took a good ten minutes to get the seat height just right.  It was close from the beginning, but that mm is touchy thing.  The older I get, the more I notice as well.  After that the bike pretty much pedaled it self around.  I didn't have rocket speed out there, but it was fun.  The SRAM is going to take some getting used to.  I am not sure about the hoods either yet.  It is a different feel that is for sure.  It is smooth though, and never missed a shift, but that that double tap is going to take some brain reprogramming. 

 twitter

 I started to sign up for twitter but twitter.com/danswanson was taken.  WTF is that?  

 Where is Mike Jones?

 I was trying to find teams of a couple rides,  Mike Jones and Johnny D.  

Are they still racing?  

Mike Jones used to have a funny webpage and talk about diet soda. 

Johnny D used to love Jeff Goldblum.