I'm Back, sort of.
Well faithful blog readers, I am back.
It's been a crazy month and I don't have energy to talk about it all on here
right now, but I did want to get a brief recap of what has been going on. I am
married. It was a great wedding, I really enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks to
everyone for their support and love, we have been overwhelmed. Leading up the
our big day we were doing wedding stuff all the time. There was a different
party every night for a week. Then we went on our honeymoon to Vancouver, B.C.
It was a great place, with perfect weather, and we took full advantage of it by
hiking and site seeing and a little BC mountain biking just to top it off. The
mountain biking out there is for real. I wish we had trails like that here.
I hope to start updating more
frequently as I have time. Things are slowly getting back to normal. I've
already done two races since I got back last week, Ore to Shore and a TNT time
trial last night. Ore to Shore didn't quite go as planned, as in, I didn't win,
or make any money. I guess I didn't expect too much since my training has pretty
much been non-existant, but I always go for the win no matter how I feel. I got
the holeshot and set myself up at the start, but this Simonson dude just dropped
us all like a bad habit. I was the only guy to hang with him on the first climb,
but then he rode me off his wheel. I kind of sat up because I didn't really have
him marked but he proved to be very worthy of the win. I got into the chase
group, recovered and then rode hard on the front on and off for an hour or so.
No one else really wanted to chase too hard. So I maybe over did a little, but I
wanted to win, not settle for second. Unfortunately, I forgot to eat a drink
enough, I didn't have enough water with me, and I didn't take enough out on the
course. Coupled with my hard efforts, I bonked bad and rode in on my low gears.
We had a fun ride back in the VW camper with Scotty and Sara KJ. Sara won the
race of course, since she is the best in the midwest at those kind of races.
Tuesday night I hit up the
local TT series. It's right by my house so I couldn't resist the chance to hit
it up once before the end. I didn't feel great, but I guess I felt good enough
to win and set the course record. The times are all screwed up though. I don't
know how hard it is to take TT times, but I guess it must be harder than you
think because no one ever seems to be able to do it. It was fun anyway since I
really like rocking the TT bike. It's still my coolest bike... Well, I need to
hit it for tonight. I'm racing Spirit on Sunday, see all you MTB dudes up there.
Posted: Wed - August 16, 2006 at 06:21 PM
