Wednesday

uprooted

i've been packing everything into boxes lately as i'm moving on saturday. it's quite a process to go through all your stuff and see what you want, what goes to the trash pile, do i really need/want this? all that pluss finding a way to organize it all for when you unpack. it's daunting, but necessary, i don't want a huge mess at the new place too. besides, we really need to get rid of some stuff as our new place has less storage space (no garage) so all the extranious accumulation is getting weeded out and dealt with.

had a garage sale, sold a ton of bike crap and other misc items that were just sitting around, i figured it's going to cost me money to move it so if i can get anything out of this junk it'll be worth it. so a few bike geeks got great deals on stuff and i made a month's rent off stuff i never use. the problem is, it still seems like there's too much and it's never ending. i could sell stuff on ebay all day and still not hit the bottom of the pile.

oh, the racing has sucked lately, in case you have not noticed (which is easy, since i haven't done anything noticable). i'm good for races under 10 minutes, which seems odd as i'm going well in training and have no problems getting the hours in. just need to crank up the intensity a bit, but every time i want/need to something gets in the way. flats in races, crashes, stomach bugs, it's been like i constantly have a roadblock as soon as i can open it up, so i feel i've never gone full gas this spring. i'm trying to be patient, and i know there's many more races and opportunities to come.

Saturday

Sneek Peek at the '05 CX Bikes

Sneek Peek at the '05 CX Bikes

Here's the first look at the new CX bikes for this fall. Serotta has come
through big time and produced an even finer CX bike then the one I had last
year. It looks like Serotta will be going big this CX season, and I'm very
excited to be part of it. You can see the bike along with the entire
Serotta line at their booth at the Sea Otter Classic this weekend.

Speaking of, the KG/SN team will be at the Serotta booth at Sea Otter on
Friday from 1 to 2 PM promoting our fine bicycles. Come check us and our
machines out!

Monday

Racing update

Racing update

Redlands is in the bag, and it went from good to really bad in the space of
five minutes Friday. I had a great opening TT, got on the podium, felt good
for more, and then on Oak Glen flatted with 15 K to go, chased back on, okay
try and recover, salvage something out of this, literally 30 seconds in the
pack flat #2 hits and it's game over. Chase back on again, and all I'm good
for is passing off my H2O bottle to someone who really needs it.

The Crit went okay, and then sunset was a huge sufferfest for all involved,
just tons of animation and I wanted to go for a break, tried like 10 times
but HNBPM for some reason didn't want me to ride so Jackson countered and
the break immediately went. Oh well. Rode around in big fat hilly fast
circles, got popped, chased back on and then got popped again, this time
with everyone watching on the finishing circuit.

I also did a primary school class presentation this morning down in Palm
Springs which was great and it's fun to see a bunch of 8 year olds getting
into cycling and wanting to know more. Lots of questions going around like
"what's your bike's name?" and showing off scars which the boys liked but
the girls thought were gross.

Anyway now that I'm home I can update more often and I might even be able to
take the computer with me next time so I can update on the road.

Cheers, BJM