I Hate Snow

Well I went from Phoenix where it was 90 degrees outside and i could barley pedal my bike thanks to my inability to race in the heat,to snow in durango. That's right mid april and it snowed and rained for the better part of today. I can't wait for the this winter to be over all ready. I'm sure it will snow during the iron horse in mid may in the passes so i'll say june will be the official end of winter for d-town.

Besides from that i hit up the bmx track with chopper yesterday. I've never felt so out of place on my bmx bike. You forget how hard it is to pedal around the track on a 30 lbs jumping bike it takes it out of you. Here is a pic of jungle on his ride home from the xc since he double flatted he had to get his time in one way or another.

We hit up senor taco for dinner sunday a must have in foutain hills. They had a 6 yr old working the drive thur so you know it is good. Not to mention he didn't have a head set so you would hear every order being placed. But the food was delightful and also didn't fit into the normally phoenix price structure. I felt like i was back in mexico at a taco stand.

NOVA

Fontana went well with 18th in the xc an 7th in stxc. It felt good to crack a top ten in the stxc. Snyder, Perry, and I hit up the go karts after the xc satuday.

It was cool to see and catch up with perry. He just living it up in socal.


Snyder Chad and I headed down to NOVA friday morning. We had to do the TT in the afternoon. The car ride made the TT hurt alittle more than normal. They started us today in the STXC off the TT. I was third row and the course basically went from 8 wide down to two wide within the first 20 meters and also had an run up in it. I got as high as 10th an ended up 13th. Tomorrow is going to be the hottest xc of the year. I think it is suppose to be over 90 and we race at 2. Right in the heat of the day. I'm staying with trafton again this year. It is so nice to hang out in a house all day instead of in a hotel room.

I'm calling a top 5 for jungle jay henry tomorrow. That is about all i got. Only one day left in the sunshine before it is back to d-town.

Fontucky

Well it is less than a day away from the 1st Norba of the year. The course in Fontucky is for the most part the same as last year with about 3 to 5 min section taken out. I traveled out with 3D snoodle and chad. We are staying at the american best inn and suites which is much better than we were counting on when we pulled up.

Here is the race rig for tomorrow.

The road bike is also built and ready to race a couple stage races in the beginning of may.

A Big Night Out In D-town

Last Wednesday night we hit the town hard with this cocky guy.He ended up like this after a couple of drinks

I thought germans could drink i guess not. Or at least this german can't.

Snyder has a sweet mustache coming in for the first NORBA!

Durango Group Ride in Moab ( Snyder, Cale, T. Brown)Cale showing us all how to freeride

Besides from that back in d-town getting ready for fontucky. Weather is looking to be moving in the right direction hitting the 50's finally. This weekend is the squawker road race in d-town. They aren't having the classic 10 lap race around campus instead it is in bayfield (not so nice) but i think hagen is going to be able to do the crit downtown again which will be fun to watch. Hagen talked me into being a course marshall for the crit so i should get some good photos. That is about it.

MOAB

Well we made it to the race in saint George. The race went okay i ended up flatting when i was off with bart G and ended up coming in with snyder for 3rd and 4th. Snyder couldn't get his race pace going. If it wasn't for bart g it would had been an all d-town podium with cale getting second and t brown coming in 5th.

We hit ruby river steakhouse with the d-town crew for dinner .
Are ghetto gps radar detector setup we are running .
Here are some pics of my new hair cut we will see how long i can run it for hopefully until after NOVA!!

Now we are in MOAB. Planing on staying tonight and tomorrow and riding tuesday and then heading back to d-town. Cale and T brown are going to come in to town tomorrow so we having a sweet durango group ride tuesday.

Cracked like Shriver

Well base cracked me this year. I had to take my break a couple day early and i've got 15 hrs left to finish up starting back up tomorrow. I've still been hitting the gym which is starting to not work me over as much. But last week snyder and I had to help TT push his chevy blazer 4 blocks up a false flat which put me into the hurt locker more than the weight room or riding i think ever has. I also got a hair cut went back to my euro hawk from cross season of 06 but it is big this time. My shins started bothering me which i haven't had since i quit running 5 yrs ago. Besides from that snyder and i are heading to saint George for spring break he will be racing and i'll just be finishing up my last 15 hrs of base so it looks like i will be in the feed zone.