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4.25.05 This is what Thursday has been like for me since racing started. I'll work, ride, practice and go home. On this particular Thursday I cracked during my ride and made a life saving stop at Peets, rode straight to practice and froze on my ride home. word.
4.25.05 Worth the wait though, for real! Watch at Ninigret as, during the last lap, I get dropped and then lapped. Adelphia saw me acting a little like my old self, attacking or responding to every attack. And I'm wondering why I'm finishing a consistent rear quarter of the field? No I'm not wondering.
4.20.05 Big ups to all who helped get me vlogged. All your feed back and pro bono tech support is gold. I heart you all!
4.20.05 Splinternet has been down at mine for a while.
Jon had a bachelor party. We took a small fleet of pedicabs all over town. Drinks were had. Join me for a moment in congratulations and well wishing for Emilie and Jon.
I know it looks like all I do is party and ride my bike, and while that's not far from the truth I do race. believe! Next up Ninigret and Adelphia.
4.14.05 Work couldn't end fast enough as daylight stole away. Traffic was insane so I worked out in the Arboretum. WORD.
4.11.05 It's so on. I raced Tufts on Sunday and got it handed to me. There were fifteen or so starters in the USCF P123 RACE. The course at Tufts is one of the most exciting courses I've ever raced on, though I was by my lonesome (no-man's-land) while the pace car and subsequently the break (Adam, Johs, and Ari) chased me down and rolled past me.
Here's some happs from the past week.
4.5.05 Some shots from Friday's ride, Saturday's party and Sunday's race, Marblehead. The race was so much fun, lots of old faces in new kit, and definitely the warmest weather I have ever raced this race in. If you slacked than you missed out! This one had all the drama; favorites, breaks, blocking, crashes and field sprints. Speaking of favorites in field sprints, Adam won. That's his trophy in the car, and him giving finger. I know these clips are silent film style, but that's soon to be fixed. dig it.
4.2.05 A little m o v for y o u. The face of things to come.
5.2.05 This time last weekend I was surfing Los Angeles public transportation, looking for Track Worlds. Little did I know that no one in LA knows where anything in LA actually is. No one, including bus drivers, taxi pilots, pedestrians and bartenders. But I made it to the track on Sunday and witnessed all kinds of nastiness.
Meet Gregory Bauge. Riding for the French National Team, my man looked on his way to go shoulder to shoulder with Rene Wolff for the Match Sprint title. When all of the sudden, while sprinting against team mate Mickael Bourgain in the semis, his rear tyre blew out and he used the track boards to remove the skin from his entire left thigh. Dude was pounding the floor with his hands it hurt so much. I had trouble even watching him be carried off on a Stretcher
. And as if that wasn't nasty enough, he gets a fresh skin suit and raced again. I have video of the crash and when I get a tutorial on internet video compression I'll give it the old 'upload file'.
Tonya gave me a place to hang hat while in LA. I was only in town the weekend, and the track was like two hundred miles from Hollywood, so we didn't get to hang out very much. She did, however, drop some diesel/vegetable oil conversion science on my ass. I wanted to bring her to Worlds, but she had rehearsal. And I was getting enough attention from staff without walking around with another punkrockstar lookin sister. I heard the British
team called me white Mr. T
. I can get next to that.
So! Marblehead is tomorrow. I'm having a house party tonight. 100% chance of rain. I missed registration. I know that's a wicked rookie move. I even wrote about the fields filling up. But I bet I get in anyway. It's raining now and isn't going to stop until next month, and I'm already reading bail out emails. I bet I get in.
