Saturday, March 28, 2009

Time to get older and buy a new bike.

I havn't been doing much in writting on this thing lately but, oh well. It's not even that I've been crazy busy or that nothing is going on, just havn't felt like comming on to play.


So I had a birthday a week or so ago and got another step closer to the big "3 oh" (that's when I'll have to start feeling old). Kayla was great and still made me a cake and got me a small present even though I had just recently blown a ton of our $$ on buying myself a new bike.


I'm too lazy to go into the other room and snap a photo of the actual thing right now, so here's the shot from Trek's web site instead. True it's not mirror polished from head to toe like my last bike but hey, we all have to make sacrifices these days right? I've had the bike for nearly a month I think and it has been awsome. Way lighter, way smoother and handles just as nice as the shinny brick I've ridden for the last few years.

Next week I'll get to take the new rig out and see how it likes racing when I venture back to Boise to race the Birds of Prey RR. With th weather so nasty here and no one to get out and ride with, my training has suffered for sure, so my race goals are pretty basic (like hang with the pack long enough to say hi to a few bike pals and then pound myself into submission chasing the tail end of the group).

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Hammer it out Baby!!

A while ago I remember mentioning on here that I miss the awsome music montages of the 80's. Well boy have I dug up a doosy! This is the opening credits from an educational cycling video my brother got when he bought a bunch of Greg Lemond Tour de France tapes on ebay and this one got thrown in with the mix. The full video features the 7Eleven team, some good advice, a little bit of really bad advice and of course an amazing soundtrack! Sit back and enjoy.



Here's a short sample of the lyrics (as much as I could type before realizing I'm too slow of a typer to keep up):

Round and round forever it seems
one among the field with a glorious dream, (ohooouuohohoh)
the heat is on gotta greak away,
Gonna jump!
Push it to the limit
finish line dead ahead
stretchin, stretchin out the gap, gap, gap!
Hammer it out
be a champion
Hammer it out!