Let's give it one more try!

Signed up to ride up MT Washington again...so far I've invested $600 in fees and can't tell you how much in bike parts...and time...and effort...and sacrifice(my golf game sucks!)...my technical skills are slacking(hopefully my clients don't figure it out!)...

...but...I'm looking forward to putting on my car that famous bumper sticker "This bike climbed MT Washington"...

January (Global Warming!)

I’m doing my part and riding my bike. Was able to get out and ride with my buddy Marty on Saturday afternoon who’s longest ride since August 2007 was 8 miles and that was 3 days ago. Regardless, I was able to convince him to ride for 2 hours and do a bit of climbing(not much). Regardless of the time of year, I always run across one or two jack asses each ride. This ride was no exception; climbed up Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury (3 miles @ 6%ish) and get to the top and was taking a right on Brentwood Dr. when a jack ass tries to beat me to the turn and just about takes me out….He floors it and flips me off. All I could do was gesture with my lobster claw gloves (probably thought I was a Star Trek fan).

On Saturday went out for about 2 ½ hours off endurance with Jeff (should have been more like 4 hours). We headed through South Windsor into Ellington to see the cows…weren’t any cows…but, once again ran across a couple of jack asses. “hey nice spandex”…wow I haven’t heard that in awhile. Not sure what it is, people seem to be pretty brave when it comes to doing or saying stupid things while driving…Regardless, we ended up hooking up with another cyclist that rides with the CVC guys. Good guy, he gave a much better route to get back to where we needed to be…

…Good weekend of riding…especially since it was January in New England!

LSD

Long Slow Distance, today we went for a nice long endurance ride to Monson Mass for some coffee and then back again..60 miles in 4.5 hours...we definitely didn't break any records today, but we did have about 10 town line sprints to contest. One in particular was very sweet (actually the Massachusetts State line), Jeff lead me out for the victory! (Not that he was planning on leading me out) Thanks Buddy!

...great day for a ride...40+ degrees and sun! can't beat that in January!

Skating with the kids...sort'a

<= Skating in Orleans, MA...the pictures don't show it but there had to be over 300 people on the rink!

Winter rides

Cape cod rail trail...no body but me out there today...nice and flat and no snow!

Cookies! I love cookies...

For the past number of years I've been extremely dedicated to getting myself in the type of condition that I needed to be in, in order to compete against some of the best conditioned cyclists in the Northeast! But, over the past few days...I could not resists a shit load of cookies and a bunch of beer!...Maybe it's a Christmas Present to me? or I just need a few days of over indulgence? I must have gained about five pounds, there goes my power to weight ratio....

...I did sneak an hour in today...!

...it's been a while...

I haven't posted any training results in a while but, I have been working on my base. Bunch of moderate efforts and some long endurance rides...not to exciting! I have decided to join a new team this season to expand my racing and possibly do some sick racing this year(2008). The team was basically put together to develop an Under 23 squad...but in doing so they acquired about 14 masters riders including myself...Looking forward to racing on the team!

www.teamccns.com