Zero day...

Or better yet a day of zero.

Wifey had to head back out to armPitts-burgh (as she so loving calls it) lastnight for work again. So that left me and the three fuzzy four legged amigos with the house to ourselves. So I (we) did what any man would do with his wife out of town for a couple nights.

Yep, you guessed it....I slept in late, and then laid around in my underwear (which I have none) all day.

After talking myself out of reenacting the underwear dance seen from Risky Business I got the day rolling. The weather here in the Philly area was....well, the weather here in the Philly area in January. Cold, wet, gray and all around crappy.

But with having booked ninety miles over the weekend on the fix gear I wanted a day out of the saddle anyway. So with the body still a little spent, and the weather looking like a horror movie I gave the meat pistons the day off.

And so the day pretty much looked like a lot of this.....

This was just before the snoring started, I kind of worn the poor boy out this morning.

For some strange reason a buddy of mine sent me this in an email lastnight. Which after seeing I have the need to go take a shower....for some reason I just feel dirty now.

The weather looks good for a ride tomorrow, hoping to put in a good 40-50 miles before the wife gets home in the late afternoon. Now for at shower...

Twin-Six

It looks like I'll be doing a little gear pimping here soon. I heard from the guys over at Twin-Six that they want me to be a rider for the T6 team. I want to throw a huge thanks out to both Ryan and Brent for putting their trust in me, I won't let you guys down.

Still waiting on the local MASS series race dates to come out, but it looks like my schedule is shaping up pretty fast. A nice little break right now to dial in a couple of things, but it starts to heat up mid March. Weekly training crits up in Lehigh and then the first road event will be the Philly Phlyer.

Today was a nice long ride on the fixies. Gary was short on time and had to go out early so he and I rolled out for two hours before I headed over to Kirks to meet up for the "real" ride at ten. Four of us headed out of D-town down to the river, turned north thru Frenchtown and up to The Baker in Milford for a muffin.

After the kids knocked back their 500 calorie softball sized mounds of joy we headed back toward home. I rolled back to the car with right over 70 miles in for the day, I'd say that earns me a couple tasty alcoholic beverages night. Therefore I've got things to do...or drink.

later.

Normal day...

Or the return to normal day....I hope.

The wife is driving home as I type from a work trip in Pittsburgh, or as she calls it "the armpit of the country." So with any luck tonight things will return to normal after ten days of her/I and us being gone. Will be nice, just the two of us again....... insert 70's porn music here.

Got out with Gary and Bud yesterday for a spin on the fixies. We only put in 20 miles but that was just what my body needed after this weekend. Found a good shot of Gary pinning one of the jumps earlier in the race.

No ride today even thou the body could handle a little spinning again. With the wind 25-30 mph and gusts over 40 I think I'm better off saving myself for a good ride tomorrow.

Till then I'm off for a massage and some good stretching out to prep myself for the wife coming home....once again insert 70's porn music here.

Oleta weekend recap

After the 1200 mile drive from PA to Miami Gary and I meet up with the wife and Girlwonder (both flew down) Friday afternoon for a little pre ride of the race course. I'd rode Oleta dozens of times having lived in the area for a couple years, but it was the first time for both Gary and GW. Was more of a good way for Gary and I to stretch our backs and legs then anything, but it was good.

Heading out of the hotel on race morning things were not looking good on the weather front.

But things cleared up just in time to set up the pit area and get the racer meeting in before start time.

Gary and I planned on riding together and the pace was nice and steady. Our laps times were in the hour range, but it's the pitting that slowed us down. This being his first endurance race he/we were wasting to much time in the pits. After the first 3-4 laps things were worked out and we cut our pit times in half, just now our laps times were slowing. Some of this was the course turning nasty from all the mud and some was just us slowing down, but that's how endurance races go.

Gary was rocking Hammer Nutrition products and loving them. But all I can say is that the Endurolytes he kept pumping into me every lap are now going to be a MUST for me on race day. I was taking two caps per lap until one minor cramp on lap seven (about eight hours in) then we bumped that up to four caps. Never had a problem again......HN Endurolytes here I come.

Things were going sweet till the 8th lap. About 15 minutes in I have no idea what happens but I just could not go. I still felt the same, I just keep falling back from Gary and my heart rate was about 5-8 beats lower. Gary keep rolling thru with me and we finished the lap 15 minutes slower then normal. Wanting some sugar fast I hit the Sweetarts......two small bags of these things and I was ready to rock.

Heading out for our ninth lap we knew we were gonna be cutting it close on the cut off time for a tenth lap. Know this we pushed a little harder in the first parts of the course, this was not a good thing for Gary. Halfway thru the lap he hit the same wall I did not the lap earlier. He nursed me thru my lap so I was happy to do the same for him. We did finish the lap but missed the cut off by about ten minutes, no big thing. We finished 6th and 7th out of 35 men and this being a low priority event for myself I was happy with that.

Girlwonder rocked out and placed 3rd in the women's solo 12. She's done two 12 hour events (the Tree Shaker 12 Hour Challenge being the other) and has a 2nd and 3rd place.....not to bad at all.

Looks like the "color change" will be complete in a couple of days, I'm still looking and doing paperwork. I'll get into all that once things are finished up.

Off to find my saddle now.....wonder how the legs are gonna like this?

There's no place like home..

That says it all.

Finished off a LOOOONG weekend this afternoon, now the clean up and recap begin. All things said I was pretty happy with how things came out at the race. Finish 7th out of 35 men, could have finished a little better...but I'll go into that in the morning when I know who and where I am.

A race recap, nutritional find and a color change details tomorrow. Right now I have a couch with my name on it.

Just checked the front door.....and lookie at what the wife order me up.

Well I got one and she got herself two. She saw me checking out the TwinSix site last week and took it upon herself to give me the hook up. Now that's a good women.

Now where's that couch ....

Ready, set.......DRIVE!

Today was a great day for not going outside at all here in southeast PA, in one word the weather SUCKED! I never heard the word blustery used as a weather term before moving here from the sunshine state a couple years back....now I know why. In Florida we call this HELL. The high temperature today was 30F with winds of 25-30 mph....like I said hell for a FL boy.

So with that said I finished off the packing and loading for the trip down to the race. Just need to take the kids (the four legged fuzzy, furballs) to their weekend getaway and head over to pick up Gary at nine.

I'm pumped to see Tinker Juarez is coming back down for the race again. He's not only one of the best mountainbikers ever, but one hell of a nice guy. Hope he has a great race.

Now it's time to go give some love to the doggies and put myself to bed for a loooong weekend. Wish me luck....I'm gonna need it.

Happy New Year....and now home alone.

One more year has come and gone, and I'm still not ruling the world. I really need to move that up on my things to do list......maybe this year.

Wifey and I had a quiet night at home lastnight (I think New Years Eve is like amateur night.) So after dinner we headed home before the crazies came out. I keep feeding her beer like it was candy, and she keep drinking them like they were water. Which they pretty much are/were. You see the wife is one of those that think this is beer.....

I know, I know.....I've tried to bring her into the light, but she's stuck in her ways.

But the night was good, watched I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and played some pool. The movie was not bad (anything with jessica biel I'll sit thru) and as always the wife lost in pool.

Once the head stopped spinning this morning I started packing things up for the race this weekend in Miami. Normal stuff, extra everything....pedals, shoes, stem, handlebar, seatpost, seat, tools...bla, bla, bla. So now it's just a matter throwing all the stuff in the short bus and hitting the road Thrusday morning.

After a little goodbye lunch wifey headed to the airport and I headed to Gary's for a spin on the fixed gears. A 32 mile roll down to the river, up thru New Hope and back up to D-town. Just enough to knock the cobwebs off the legs.....and not to start off the new year with a big goose egg on day one.

Now I need to get ready for my big night home alone...well with the dogs that is. A beer in one hand and the remote in to other.........God I hate watchinbg TV.