The title pretty much says it the adventures of me, my bike and my mini...van.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Fine I'll update my blog.

Ok Its been a long time Since I have updated and a lot as gone on since then. I'll start from the beginning

The month of February was good. I was able to get a lot of training in and stayed pretty much on my plan which was good for me. The only bad part was that I got the flu about a week before Froze Toes was suppose to happen. The flu sucked. I am sure that for now on I am going to get a flu shot because everyone else in my family got one and I didn't and I was the only one to get the flu.

Froze Toes got canceled for its original date was the 25th of Feb. but got moved because of weather that didn't come. So It got moved to the 4th of March. I had to do the jrs race because they had two Cat 5 races but one was 19+ and the other 40+ so I couldn't do them so I did the Jrs race. It was fine. We all stayed together till the women's race caught up to us and then we hammered to pull through the women and get back ahead. I was fine for awhile but I pulled to hard and I slowly drifted back. I tried to get Matt back on the group but we would get close and I would pull off and Matt just couldn't make it back on. I stayed with him and another kid for most of the race until about 3 miles out when going up a hill they fell off and I finished on my own. I ended up 5th.

Next was a Tuesday night Crit. They started early this year because of the new daylight savings time change thing. I always enjoy doing these races. I was happy to get a little bit of crit fix taken care off. I won't be able to race a real crit till the Tour of STL. I dropped out because I was tiered from Ultimate Frisbee practice but it was still fun.

Next is that we went to Paris. No not Paris, Texas


Paris, France

My Mom found a really good deal at the last minute so we were off to Paris for Spring Break. It was a fun surprise not so good for the training but fun. The only bad part about Paris was that it rained everyday except the day that we left and it also sleeted twice. It was fun though. We did a lot of the regular tourist site places it was cool. The neatest thing we did was on the last day we had Dinner in the Eiffel Tower. It was really cool. I missed my bike I had to run over it which stunk. It was a fun spring break.

And last Hillsboro-roubaix. I was a little worried about this race with only having 3 days of riding under my belt after getting back from Paris. I felt fine warming up and everything and then there was the Parade Lap. I started doing the parade lap with Mikey B, New Mike, Keaton and Martin. We were fine just sitting there and talking and then we went into this turn after the hill on the course and as im going down i slide out and hit hard. I cut up my arm and my knee and some rash on my hip. My knee is really swelling up now from the fall which sucks. The worst part about this is that as I'm sitting there on the ground there is some lady asking me if I have seen her powertap and the answer is no. So I pull my self up and clean up my cuts a little bit and roll out to the starting line. I wasn't feeling bad yet but as soon as we start rolling my whole body started to ache. I lasted about 10 minutes with the race and those were some really sketchy 10 mins and I just sat up and let them go. I only did one lap but I passed up like 5 or so people that dropped from the group. The course is so sketchy at this race. All of the corners were pretty much dirt and gravel and the roads are not all that good anywhere on the course. I don't see why it is the Number 1 road race in the area. Its at the bottom of my list.

Ok so now everyone can stop telling me to update my blog.

Peace