Cycling in Winnesota.

Though the weather in this part of Wisconsin has been less than ideal I've been riding everyday. I've ridden no less than 3 times whilst it was raining and less than 60 degrees fahrenheit. Thus explaining why I was just getting over sickness at chequamegon, no excuse intended, just about everyone was sick for fat tire. I've been doing sprint workouts perscribed by TJ where I start from about 5 mph in the biggest gear i can and try to hit 90 revs. in the least amount of time possible while seated. In combination with these I've also been doing good ol' minute on 2 minute off intervals. OTher than that what can I say..,. oh, completely random, the other day I was out on a night cruise w/ my dual beam night rider mounted to the downtube of my LeMond and I ended up losing the battery into spokes sending me crashing over the top of the bars. I knocked my front wheel way out of true and my shoulder hurts a bit but other than that I survived ok. THat would be my first road crash this season, and with the looks of the riding ahead more than likely not the last, unless I strap that light on better. Anyway hope late season is going well for everyone else. watch out for me next year suckas I'll be flyin', well hopefully anyway.

at 10:00 am sharp this morning I was off for another Chequamegon. The road leadout went decent, I didn't lose too much ground. When we hit Rosie's field who did I see other than Frank Lundeen. I tried to follow his wheel for about 1/2 a mile and went down hard on a slick downhill on the birkie trail. The bike came out from under me without warning and i hit the ground chest first. I smashed my right knee into a rock hard and whilst I was sliding caught a glimpse of my bike sliding alongside of me and getting run over by another rider who ended up endoing. I got up as fast as I could and brought my bike off to the side of the trail. My knees and chest hurt so bad i couldn't stand it. As I sat on the ground clutching my knee i pondered whether I would continue. The pain simply wouldn't go away and I didn't think I could walk let alone ride anywhere. I sat on the ground for atleast five minutes, watching my dad pass by and ride into the distance. After losing several hundred places I decided to finish the race. I got back on my bike and rode harder than I have in a long time until i hit double OO. It was at this point that i had worked back up to more experienced riders and was able to draft. I continued to attack and rode from group to group, stopping once on a downhill to unjam my chain from my gears, my hanger is bent from being run over. I caught John five miles from the end and we rode together trading pulls and flying along on the wide open stuff, thanks the help John sorry bout your race. on one of the last uphills in the race I attacked, seeing Ron ahead in the distance, and managed to get a gap on the group I was with. I finished in 2:35:09, so considering the crash I'm not too dissappointed. Congratulations to TJ for 6th and Chad for 10th, oh and to Jesrin for winning the short and fat. to everyone else hope you had a better race than I.

I haven't updated for a while so I figured I'd show some love. I raced the Shell Lake Wisport race today and finished 12th and second in my age group, thats the third road race this season in which I had that same result! 12 is totally my new lucky number. Anyway other than that I'm getting ready to go back to school. I built a winter/late for class bike, its a carbon trek 2120 from the mid 90s, and am bringing that and my lemond to my dorm with me. I haven't ridden very much lately but hopefully when I get back to RF I'll start training again. So... Yeah... For all of my blog readers out there, cause I know I have so many, have an awesome first semester of school, or lack thereof, and good luck training for next season. I'll probably continue to update my blog, maybe even more often, to gloat/complain about riding in RF.