nothing like seeing the EKHO logo on our favorite pro mountain bike rider. loud and proud baby.

i would like to say i threw out my back on wednesday putting in the floor to my new office, which looks fantastic. i couldn't even walk on wednesday, after three visits to the chiropractor - boom i'm walking, pooping and biking.

regarding the flat pedal factor, you must keep in mind we did 100+ miles, lots of those zuboz wearing Merida bike pedeling people where doing the 30 miler. I base this solely on what i call the salt factor. If by the time you reached Northfield and didn't resemble a salt-lick chances are you didn't ride the 60 or 100 mile ride.

what people need to know is that I am not a friend to small talk on the bike, so when your riding along side me and i don't know you, don't ask me things like:

ride a lot?
you like that bike?
what is that logo on your jersey mean?
you like speedplay pedals, cause your wearing them so i figure you like them, i hate them.
what gear are you riding in?
why do you only have two front chain rings?
Is that seat comfortable?

I say this to you Mr AC/DC jersey guy....SHUT THE F(*^)^)&(*^ UP!!!!!!

and i say this to all of you, yes it's true i couldn't hold her wheel, but it's also true i beat her at the end of the day. there it is.

get out and ride u'r bikes. yall

145 miles in 24 hours

Road a bit this weekend.

Saturday did my fist road race. 42 miles. I was doing fine up near the front until we turned into the wind. I had trouble breathing at that point and was dropped. No it was not the 4 hours of sleep, the beer, the Jamison, the tequila or the smoking that caused my mild loss of breath, I blame the work travel on this one!!!

Any way worse Road Race of my racing career. Legs were fine and the second lap was my strongest so the base training seems to be paying off, just need more racing to get my speed work up.

Sunday D-train and I did the MN Iron Man Bike ride. This is a fun event that see 5000+ bike people out on the roads in Lakeville. We chose to do the 100 mile route. D-train started out at 25 miles an hour and I had trouble keeping up. After that the flat peddle factor drastically increased.

The flat peddle factor is the amount of bikers that pass us using flat peddles...There were a few of them out there. This ride did not give me a warm fuzzy. It was difficult for me to accept that we are only 3 mos away from one of the worlds most difficult races but are still getting passed by Tennis shoe wearing peeps riding Wal-mart bikes on the climbs. Made me think up with the Death or Glory index

1 is certain destruction and 10 is chicks fighting to get a hold of D-trains discarded undies. We now sit at best a 3. Death is not assured but the only thing keeping death at bay is D-Trains undies.

I drank 2 gal's of water after the ride Sunday...Did not pee til this morning.

-Booms

Oh and seeing that D and I were out riding we missed our teams photo shoot...So D fixed that, and did a damn good job, can't tell at all!!!

Training

Here is the latest Training info

Training up-date

4-18 77.66 miles

4-21 55 miles

4-22 3 laps around T-wirth

4-25 4 laps around t-Wirth

Now off to have a few beers

-Booms

Oh its on now!!

OK just want to put you all on notice now…Here I bleepin come!!!

Officially I have closed the chapter in my life that involves school. The last paper of my undergraduate career was turned in yesterday morning. 7 years with the last 2+ going year around full time, 3 schools and three majors later I am now officially dun…Bleep you Mr. High school guidance councilor.

Although that has nothing to do with racing it will enable me to train more so watch the hell out, cause like I said here I bleepin come. Oh, party at my place in NE Sat May 5.

Ok Now to Sea Otter.

Flew into San Fran and met up with D-train. Not much was open so it was an uneventful evening although he did book a room with only one bed.

THURSDAY

Arrived at the race site ready to rock and roll. The first thing we did was check out the campsite that I had reserved. Took a while but we got it all figured out.

We then went to check in for the races. We pre-registered for all of our events, something that I do not do often. So when we arrived the race staff had lost ALL of our registration.

The long story short is none of my MTB races were scored. I was listed as an unknown bib 9045. Now this does keep me off the grid but it would have been nice to get the points for the effort.

The Sea Otter event was the most unorganized event that I have participated in. It took us a bit more than an hour to figure out where the racecourse was. We never really got any information on start times and location through out the weekend.

Pre-Rode the course and it was a bitch. 20 miles with 6800 feet of elevation gain. We did this all on Singles. The climbing was not too bad at first but the long climbs were difficult with only one gear.

FRIDAY

Adventure race: OK so this was once again a pretty loosely organized event. The start was at the beach and the finish was at the raceway. This meant that our stuff after the kayaking would have to be put back in the truck. We did not know this in the beginning.

Anyway this is getting quite boring so…

Race was

1) Sea kayaking. Crappy inflatable things. D-Train and I did not finish last so job well done. In his words “We didn’t tip over, didn’t go sidewise, didn’t crash into anyone so good job”

2) The bike portion started out with D-train taking all his stuff to his truck and taking his time changing. It was an interesting feeling being in the middle of a race and watching D-Train jell up his hair and make himself up. Started out on the bike and for all of you out there that knows…Single speeds are not the most efficient form of travel on pavement. There was 7 miles of roads we needed to travel on. Got pasted by two chicks with flat pedals. That was fun. When we got to the dirt we picked up the pace and kick some ass…for about 9 seconds. Although we did manage to pass flat peddles, they stayed pretty close behind us for the rest of the 11 miles. The one crapy thing was that the organizers had us race in the opposite direction of the MTB course. So as we are bombing down hill people pre-riding the MTB course were climbing up. Very dangerous.

3) Run Part: Yeah well we walked it. The orienteering was a joke. Once we found the trial all we had to do was stay on it and bam both check points.

In the end we took 30 some thing out of 70 some teams. Not bad.

That night as we had a couple of drinks after dinner we noticed that the local theater in town was jumping with something. We checked it out and found that it was the premier of the 24 solo movie. We got ticket and watched. D-Train and I were at one of the races that was in the movie. The 24hours of 9-mile. And the mother of all storms hit during that race. It was cool to hear the buzz about a race that we had participated in.

SATURDAY

7:30 am was the SS race. We started and finish. It was a tough race but fun. It started to rain just as D-Train finished so we quickly changed and headed into town. After a quick bit of Chinese and as we watched the rain fall we decided to screw the camping thing and get a hotel room. I’ll tell ya after 2 races and 3 laps around the course and having not showered in a couple of days the amenities in the room felt great. We might be old and slow but damn it, it is nice to have a bit of cash that younger racers would not have.

SUNDAY

7:30 again and out to the race…Of course the start time had changed to 8:30. OK then start at 8:30. Raced and had fun. One thing that I had learned is that racing on a single speed with people that have gears kinda sucks. They would head into a climb shift to their granny gear and spin away. This was to slow fer a fella with only one gear option so I walked a bit more than I wanted to.

After the race I decided to ride back in the 4 runner with D. Yeah, that was a long trip back. D figured it would take 27 hours, he figured wrong, it was 36 hours. Nothing like 36 hours in a vehicle with damp bikes and gear. We resorted to hangin fresh trees all over the truck.

Hear ends the coverage of the Sea Otter.

-Booms

TransRockies

This is for the google search...

Sea Otter (Up-date soon)

A detailed up-date on the sea otter will be soon
Some highlights

• 70 + miles and 24,000 feet of climbing all on a full ridged Single speed.
• No Blood
• Watched the 24 solo movie premiere
• Rain
• Cold
• 36 hours in D-Train's 4 runner with a bunch of damp smelly gear
• UnOrganization
  
• But they had beer
  
• 

-Booms

Easter

Last week was...Lets say interesting.
My truck was broken into and things were taken (ipod and stuff)
D-train's office was broken into and much was taken (His company so all out of his pocket)
With that said

D-train is in Frutia ridin, then off to Moab for 3 days of bliss, then off to San Fran to pick up my arse for Sea Otter Wed.

Rode 30 on Sun. Cold, but I put a damn jacket on and did it anyway.

-Booms

Hey Al Gore

It is April 7 th and it is 20 outside...Jack Hole