bikes, guns and fried fish... what else can you ask for?

My mom and my brother are down in New Orleans doing some college visits so it is just my dad and I for the weekend. I woke up around 8:30 and went out to do my workout. I had a crazy hard workout today. 2 hours with three 5 minute race efforts and then a 15 min race effort. It freaking sucked. When I got home My dad was in the yard messing around with his father's day gift that just came in.

Believe it or not that is a pellet gun. My older brother got it for my dad. The thing has a scope and a silencer on it. It is freakin crazy. The thing even has a little kick in it when it shoots. I took a shot with it and i popped myself in the eye with the scope I wasn't ready for that.

After that we were off to the Skeet club. I was excited because I havn't gotten to shoot lately b/c of cycling and just being busy. I use to shoot a lot. I use to be a captain on CBC's skeet team but ended up stopping that and doing Ultimate Frisbee. I was also excited because I got to see hot my "shooting" specific lens worked for my radar's that i missed ordered. The lens worked out pretty well. I shot ok. We shot 3 rounds of skeet. I shot about a 20/25 which is ok considering I havn't been shooting much. And after that we went and shot sporting clays. Sporting clays is pretty cool because you get to shot at a lot of differenet and challenging shots. We shot another 4 boxes of shells(25 shells in a box.) I have a massive bruise on my shoulder. Im not use to shooting so much. It was fun. It was nice to get some quality time in with my dad.

After that we went over to my brother and sister in laws house. We fried up some fish it was fun. It was also nice to play with my niece and my new nephew. I'm off to go do some summer reading.

Peace

State TT and other stuff

Last weekend was the State TT.

It went pretty well. I got third with a time of 31:43. I was happy with my time. I was on Austin's bike which was nice. The only problem with that was that I had only ridden it the Saturday before the race. I think if I would had some more time on the bike I could have done better but, who knows. Martin was first with a time o f 29:23 and Keaton was 2nd with a time of 31:21. Yeah that is right we swept that.


The summer has been going pretty well. It is hard to believe that there is less than a month left of summer. I still have to do all of my summer reading which SUCKS. The race season has been going well. A few weekends ago was Proctor cycling classic. Keaton and I loaded up the Mini van headed up there. The hotel we stayed at was pretty nice. We were right in the middle of Peoria. I didn't realize how big Peoria was. The RR didn't go so well. I was in the Race for about 30 mins or so and then on one of the rollers I just slowly moved back and before I knew it I was chasing to try to get back on and I couldn't make it back. So, I just dropped out after a lap. The next day we (keaton, Martin, Logan and I) race the Jrs crit. We were all working to try to get Logan the state jersey. The pace started out FAST. I was kinda going off after a few laps and was acctualy off but with a couple other guys we were able to get back on. I was sitting on the back when I saw a visionquest making a move. So I jumped on that chasing it down and after he was back in, I was done. I got shelled right of the pack. I finished the race riding with like 3 other guys. Logan ended up gettin the Jersey so its all good.


I didn't get a chance to race the 4's race because my cleat broke like 10 mins before the start of the race.

Winghaven was two weeks before proctor. The weather was nasty. It was drizzling the whole morning. Which made it even worse than if it had just poured. The road was like ice. The 5's race started about and hour or so late. I went down in the first 30 seconds of the race in the first round about. Some idiot in front of me hit is breaks when he didn't need to and started fishtailing and went down. I couldn't get around him and went down. I didn't feel like racing anymore after crashing and I just dropped out.

The summer is going pretty good. I am looking forward to the State crit in two weeks and then the tour of KC in 3.

PEACE