back in NJ

everytime i take the lirr back from lisas i see one thing that stands out. the last few times its been the same thing. in queens there are so many apartment so close together. everyones houses back up to each other and evrything is fenced. each time the train stops in the same spot. surrounded on all sides is a taxi cab in the middle of a lawn! how the hell do you get a taxi in a courtyard thats surrounded by apartments. if i spend enough time ill figure it out. im in NJ now. scheduled 6:51 arrivial in stirling. im gonna catch a little bite to eat with my parents... then off to the gym. lisa played well today and it was fun to see friends from school. pats hair is crazy.

CW post

sitting at lisas kitchen table watching the today show. headed to CW post to watch the sisters battle for division 1 vs division 2 pride. pat will be showing up, and so will j. Im looking at a crock pot full of meatballs now, so i know the post game feast will be great. Just a few days till the cross race at palmer, anyone who participated this past saturday--what was the field size? did the promoter end up doubling the prize list? prereg looked good! look foward to a race report then. lots of packing inbetween. will post later, definetly a review on pats new haircut. ahhaha hes shot.

on my way to LI

havent posted on my blog in awhile despite repeating over and over to myself that during my return to riding a bike i would keep up with posts. i havent kept up with posts but i definetly have ridden my bike. i feel so much better. i have dropped almost 17 pounds this summer just riding and eating healthy. ive completed three racing days. one crit and one weekend of cross. my legs feel good however i always know that there is more training i can do. the start of the NYCROSS series is getting closer, however i will not be attending the first race. that weekend i will be in NC celebrating lisas cousins wedding. the next weekend is vermont UCI weekend and i will race there. that is all far away however. in less that a week i will be on my way to palmer mass for some cross racing, then cape cod, then albany NY! moving into cushing and cooking! i am really looking foward to this school year.. a new, more interesting and lively major, and lots of material for discussion. i was gonna end saying i will post more now that i have this app but who knows... somehow when i checked my statcounter i had MAD views on my blogger. thanks everybody.

more than a year without the blog... eeek. Also more than a year without some steady training in my life. Lots has happened since I last posted. I am back on the bike and no longer dealing with injury. I am also back and riding. no training program yet, but im thinking of breaking out the old plans so I atleast have something to guide me. Otherwise, im still working at High Gear and im trying to catch up with all the new bikes and technology. I look foward to maybe posting more on here...

Good week so far. Trying to work out some wheels for this upcoming cross season. We will see how things pan out with that. Im also working on doing a purchase for some more cyclocross tubulars. Check back for some updates.

summary of today:

And...

It was a marathon...

done.

I think I started my addiction to tubular tires the other day. Ive reconsidered my component choices over the past two years and decided that for the money ultegra and 105 are blangin. However there is one condition to this. You must have tubulars and a collection of carbon wheels. Im working on another set of carbon wheels. Currently I've asked a few manufactures who make wheelset that come in 50mm and 85mm if I can purchase rim only. My plan would be to run the 85mm wheels on the road during road season and have two sets of 50mm for cyclocross. If the price is right this should work. Who here has seen 105 hubs on carbon rims?

Up next is the tubular collection. I just got in a 32c dugast that is in neen of a repair, so I will do that. I also just purchased a set of dugasts in 30c. I have my vittorias. And if the carbon wheels work out I will buy a set of vittoria pave 24c for racing on the road. blang blang blanging.

I'm recovering well from sugery the other day, I went down and played a little basketball.

Car shopping this past week went alright it is kinda down between the Subaru WRX and a Volvo s40 leaning more toward the Volvo becuase of praticality. so here is is...

it has some potential.

Done

....back! surgery went well, my incision is healing up well and I have my one week checkup tomorrow. Lisa came over for two days after my surgery, she brought ballons and candy it was very nice to see her. I've been hanging out on the couch most of the week working with sales videos for work this summer.
here are some updates to my cross bike:


New BBB pad holders that carry road pads. change your pads with out having to adjust the posts on your brakes!
Cutout saddle for my gooch... I've got three more of them in the mail.

done!

A couple new updates!

Went for my first ride in almost 6 months the other day. It was fun, got out for a spin of about an hour or so, all the gooch could take right now. It was about 50 degrees or so. I rode the cross bike.

Up next, my car is on its way out right now and my parents and I are looking for a ride for school and summer. Im thinking 04' Subaru Impreza WRX. we will see. That is all.

Done.

Cartoon from this weekend. Lisa and I made it on the train.

I did 30 minutes on the trainer today. I feel pretty good and im up from 20 minutes I was doing last week. gooch strength.

Done.

Dahh its 2:26AM and I am up becuase I have slept so much today. I woke up at 10:30 then got on a train with McGoots from boston at 12. Slept for prolly 2 more hours. I worked on My schedule for this cross season and as it works out there may be a few road trips. vermont and long island included. IF my gooch agrees this time around I will also e flying the colors at the NJ usgp race in the B men field. Tomorrow I am gonna ride the trainer some and do some resistance training at the gym after I took the whole weekend off in boston. Lisa and I made a funny comic on her compute on the trainride back from the pictures taken on the trip so watch out for that here or there hopefully tomorrow.

Anybody have any good recommendations for 28 spoke hubs? Im lacing my campy montreal rims up so I can have file treads incase we actually get some snow this coming season.

it's 2:32
done.

I really haven't posted here in a while but I think im going to start again. As lame as it sounds this thing helps you train. It gives you routine that you can follow and track/log your training. Right now im back on the bike after several crazy things happened since september. First off I was not able to bring a bike to college. While I was home for thanksgiving I jacked up my urethra/gooch area on a cyclocross ride with nig nug. A week went by and peeing felt funny. Then I had urgency and frequency and I was way out of wack. Went to the doctors and he didnt know what was going on. I couldnt pee for like 3 weeks it was crazy. Found out that I had crushed my urethra with the saddle and after a proceedure and some antibiotics for the UTI I was back to normal.

The scare came when my doctor in Albany said no more bikes...AT ALL. Then I went for a second and third opinion and by 2/3 vote im riding again. In the meantime I met lisa, my girlfriend of the last 5 months. Its been a great time since school started with friends and relationships and for once...grades.

Ive been riding the trainer and doing some resistance training. Im writing all of my own training programs with the guidance of the programs i used to follow an online articles. I find I have so much more fun and even feel stronger on the bike when i work how I feel and how I want to train.

I sold my chorus grouppo that I was using on the road and I think im going to be buying 2 new centaur grouppos for matching cannondale cross bikes. I will do most of my training on those bikes and by the time next cross season comes hopefully ill have matching bikes. One single ring and one double. The CAAD 9 I have is getting buld up with the grouppo thats on my cross bike now and that frame will be sold. Cannondale Optimo Cross frame anyone???? 56cm!

moral of the story I will be posting more so check out my blog more often...

ohh check out lisas new blog and photography website too!

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David

yea so ride today.

or lack there of ride. I showed up at the shop typical tuesday time. Aidan was coming on the ride so we waited on valley road for him. He caught up to us and we chased for a bit. We got back together with the group at the bottom of Allen road and the ride continued like normal. I made it almost to 202 when I flatted. Aidan and chris stopped then we decided we were going to ride the ricola course for them. got on 202 and completely messed that up. Then I flatted again in bedminster. with no more co2 I found a seat at the bedminster exxon with Gulzar the proprietor. I wish I had my camera. He kept asking me if I wanted his electrical tape then packing tape and duct tape. Then Gulzar the exxon worker and I fed the birds. that was nice.

If you ever have a chance to nearly kill yourself with a co2 cartridge, then double flat, then spend and hour plus with a gas station attendant who doesnt speak english, Do it.

Photo cred on this goes to colin. and LOU!

Scott I promise a race report soon.

done.

Somerville was today. I raced juniors and it was pretty fast. word on the street is that it was like 28mph. Shane Kline won for ehh the third year in a row. redic.
Colin was shredding the camera. Here he is pictured with a professional photog.
Alejandro acton maybe. Ehhh i dont know my colavita people. that was a guess.
sweet navigators backup bikes. mmm yes and bora pit wheels all around.

sort of a lame update.

Went for a cross ride today to test out the new shifter.
im gonna say its semi spot on.
but it looks good and is mega comfy.
i have to do some adjustments its kinda slow shifting to smaller cogs.

I went down on a sandy section of the trail, in the middle of the powerlines and quickly got up to see if anyone had seen me go down. haha.

then i went for a run

weak blog

anybody wanna ride cross?

pleez

kthankxbye

im kinda proud of myself. ive been pullin down mega blog results. like 30 to 40 views a day and have almost hit 2000 views in the past few months.

did a little hustlin at the shop today and scored this sweet 105 10s shifter for some elbow grease.
I may have 9 speed der. and cassette but this is still flowing and shifting well with one dead click.
4 grams heavier and like 10 to 15x more comfortable. Shimanos 10s stuff has kinda warmed up to me, but Id prefer to ride their huge levers off road and stick with the campy crisp on the road. i dont think its even possible to slip off one of these huge hoods.

ill give it an official test wed.

tomorrow 3hrs in the saddle and the second run of the new tuesday loop

killer loooper

Raced this weekend. Junior race this morning. Didnt race very well, one of those days. not gonna really attempt excuses but I messed with my program this week and it hurt. So after no legs I raced the cat 4s. dicy race with about 10 flats or so, yet no crashes, most of which centered around the right hand shoulder. TomTom got us there in good time.

This guy is on an effin mission. he rides for the fitness mission team.
Now, 60mph is not the impressive part of this photog, the impressive part is the 5000rpms mixed with what I diagnose is a effed up exaust in chris' audi. anyway i needed a dashboard shot somewhere on my blog. ishes.
this porshce thought it was cool to pass us on the shoulder. so i made a roadside appointment to catch a photog of his sweet ground effects!

When we got back to my house ma and pa had subs for us and this stellar guacamole. festive for yesterdays' cinco de mayo

The landscape for the rest of the day, wish me luck.

rangers gave it a good run.

kthankxbye

As of a few months ago i had two of these. I went to put them on tonight and only found one. shit

if you have sat in the rear seat of my car and kicked one of these out the door tell me. shitluck

so...search party. set your clocks to 24hr. or give me a spare speedplay pleez.

They changed the fresca label on me.