wow, So much for the new years resolution...
lots of change: new job, new bike, adopting kids, and a few races.
The new job, I left Eclipse and took a job with et alia, llc. A great consulting firm based in Milwaukee, WI. I am doing project management work on SAP implementation. Presently, I am working on an implementation in Long Beach, CA. I am in CA every other week and work from home the rest of the time.
Janine and I have decided to adopt kid from Ethiopia and have started through the process. it is exhaustive, lots of paper work and soul searching. we are done with our home study, have been accepted by an agency, and will begin putting our dossier together in the near future. Janine is going to try to set the dossier completion record, present record is 1 week. after that is complete we wait to be matched with a sibling group, we hope.
I am close to getting my new bike, an Ibis Mojo SL. it is being built up at the shop right now. Just in time to get a few rides before the leadville 100. which is next weekend.
Finally, I have had some mixed success at races this year. 4th at old pueblo, 3rd and san ysidro dirty century, 8th at dawn to dusk (after a nasty crash where another rider took me down on the first lap, yep, an excuse), 3rd at the 12 hours of Mesa Verde, 5 at Silver Rush 50...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A resolution... blog more...
One resolution for 08 is to blog more... I really had expected to use this to capture thoughts and lessons... I have been a total slacker.
07 wrap up... top ten in moab, top ten at 24ITOP, top 10 at Leadville silver rush. Hope to step that up with help from Derick and Source E this year.
07 wrap up... top ten in moab, top ten at 24ITOP, top 10 at Leadville silver rush. Hope to step that up with help from Derick and Source E this year.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Moab!
5 days until Moab, my nerves are starting to crackle and come alive in both a positive (and negative) ways. I have a few more training rides to do before the big ride and so many things to think about.
I will do a recovery ride tomorrow, then a few climbing intervals on Wednesday, off day on Thursday, and a little ride on Friday. Big thanks to Derick Williamson at Source Endurance for helping be get ready.
My light situatin is dialed. I will have 2 L&M HID's with and ultra battery, an li ion battery, and and NIMH battery. It looks like I will be able to use 2 L&M stella's for the helmet also.
I am working on the food plan. most of my substinence will be from hammer products, perpetuem, heed, and gels. I will also have some salty stuff, most likely pringles, to mix it up a bit.
I have the strongest support team anyone could ask for, janine and gene, (wife and dad). both type a organizers that will have plan a, plan b, and plan c documented in crisp lap by lap checklists.
woo hoo... can't wait.
I will do a recovery ride tomorrow, then a few climbing intervals on Wednesday, off day on Thursday, and a little ride on Friday. Big thanks to Derick Williamson at Source Endurance for helping be get ready.
My light situatin is dialed. I will have 2 L&M HID's with and ultra battery, an li ion battery, and and NIMH battery. It looks like I will be able to use 2 L&M stella's for the helmet also.
I am working on the food plan. most of my substinence will be from hammer products, perpetuem, heed, and gels. I will also have some salty stuff, most likely pringles, to mix it up a bit.
I have the strongest support team anyone could ask for, janine and gene, (wife and dad). both type a organizers that will have plan a, plan b, and plan c documented in crisp lap by lap checklists.
woo hoo... can't wait.
Friday, September 28, 2007
First Flight
I had the privilege today of taking a ride in one of our companies planes, and Eclipse 500. It was a hoot. Talk about a moral boost. This plane is amazing, a flying SUV
We flew to Roswell, did three approaches, then back to DE in Albuquerque.
what fun.
Gotta go help build some planes.
We flew to Roswell, did three approaches, then back to DE in Albuquerque.
what fun.
Gotta go help build some planes.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The Double Boundary
Things started out a little tough on the DB for me this weekend... I managed to twist a wheel up about four miles into the race and crash, I was hanging out with the lead group at the time and the soon disappeared as I pulled myself together.
Things got worse at that moment as I realized the GPS screen was blank. Most of the trails of the DB were new to me, and the first half, the NBT, was a maze of little used single track, I hung out for a bit and latch onto the wheel of Chad from AZ. At that point I had given up on doing anything with the race and wanted to use it as a training ride. After 45 minutes or so, we caught Matt, Dan, and a couple of other guys as they were stopped gettting food. I latch on to Matt's wheel and never left it. I felt a bit bad about following Matt, these are supposed to be self supported races and I had NO idea where to go. I finally caught Matt and explained and he was really cool about it. we ended up riding together most of the day.
The DB included some amazing trails around taos, the SBT is the best known, but a new loop on the Jacarita is my new favorite trail in NM. I cant wait to get back to that place.
Matt flatted with about 10 miles to go and encouraged me to go on. I was on the SBT at that point and knew my way. 20 minutes after I left Matt I managed to crash again (I will blame weariness). It would not have been that bad but I landed on my arm, between the shoulder and my elbow, directly on the exposed end of the cut log. My original thought was that I broke my arm. I looked at it and then thought I had taken a huge check of skin out as there was a large indentation... the indentation turned out to be a "dent" in the arm and it returned to somewhat norma looking. Normal looking is different that normal feeling. It hurt like hell. I had to use my left arm to do most of the steering from this point on, the right arm ached and I had sharp pains when attempting to brake.
Matt caught me on the last downhill with about a mile of single track. he was flying. I was able to catch him on the road as he was on a single speed, We finished together and he gave me 2nd (one of the two that were ahead had missed the Jacarita section of trail).
All and all a great day. 9 1/2 hours on the bike, some amazing arm art (I will post a picture of the bruise) and a good confidence builder for Moab. I am going to try to make all of the NMES next year as these are great races.
Things got worse at that moment as I realized the GPS screen was blank. Most of the trails of the DB were new to me, and the first half, the NBT, was a maze of little used single track, I hung out for a bit and latch onto the wheel of Chad from AZ. At that point I had given up on doing anything with the race and wanted to use it as a training ride. After 45 minutes or so, we caught Matt, Dan, and a couple of other guys as they were stopped gettting food. I latch on to Matt's wheel and never left it. I felt a bit bad about following Matt, these are supposed to be self supported races and I had NO idea where to go. I finally caught Matt and explained and he was really cool about it. we ended up riding together most of the day.
The DB included some amazing trails around taos, the SBT is the best known, but a new loop on the Jacarita is my new favorite trail in NM. I cant wait to get back to that place.
Matt flatted with about 10 miles to go and encouraged me to go on. I was on the SBT at that point and knew my way. 20 minutes after I left Matt I managed to crash again (I will blame weariness). It would not have been that bad but I landed on my arm, between the shoulder and my elbow, directly on the exposed end of the cut log. My original thought was that I broke my arm. I looked at it and then thought I had taken a huge check of skin out as there was a large indentation... the indentation turned out to be a "dent" in the arm and it returned to somewhat norma looking. Normal looking is different that normal feeling. It hurt like hell. I had to use my left arm to do most of the steering from this point on, the right arm ached and I had sharp pains when attempting to brake.
Matt caught me on the last downhill with about a mile of single track. he was flying. I was able to catch him on the road as he was on a single speed, We finished together and he gave me 2nd (one of the two that were ahead had missed the Jacarita section of trail).
All and all a great day. 9 1/2 hours on the bike, some amazing arm art (I will post a picture of the bruise) and a good confidence builder for Moab. I am going to try to make all of the NMES next year as these are great races.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The LT100 has come and gone this year. Floyd Landis entry in the race made for a great event, Many more starters (rumors of over 1000) much faster times (sub 8 to be in the top 20, and great weather, ok, you probably can't attribute the weather to Floyd, but who knows. Dave Wiens remains that champion, I think most in the crowd were rooting for him. He won with a new course recorde 6:58!!!
I had a good race. I felt strong, hydrated, and only had one small mechanical issue that brought me to a grinding hald on the decent of Columbine. It did not cost me much time and I was on my way shortly. I ended up 52nd with a 8:29. I think I can shave some more time off of that.
On a not so great note, Jan Bear, and 11 time finisher, crashed on the descent of the North Face and broke his femur. He is one tough guy and I would guess they had to talk him out of doing the surgery to pin the femur himself. His wife, Kim, got her 1000 mile buckle, first woman to do so. She pretty much had the whole crowd in tears as she presented Ken and Merilee, the event organizers, with gifts when they were giving her the big belt buckle. She is a class act.
I rode the scott hardtail and was thrilled with it. It climbs like it is on crack and descends pretty well also, The jarring on top of Columbine shoook the chain out of the derailuer and the front chain rings, other than stopping for a minute to fix that, I had no complaints or issues.
I had a good race. I felt strong, hydrated, and only had one small mechanical issue that brought me to a grinding hald on the decent of Columbine. It did not cost me much time and I was on my way shortly. I ended up 52nd with a 8:29. I think I can shave some more time off of that.
On a not so great note, Jan Bear, and 11 time finisher, crashed on the descent of the North Face and broke his femur. He is one tough guy and I would guess they had to talk him out of doing the surgery to pin the femur himself. His wife, Kim, got her 1000 mile buckle, first woman to do so. She pretty much had the whole crowd in tears as she presented Ken and Merilee, the event organizers, with gifts when they were giving her the big belt buckle. She is a class act.
I rode the scott hardtail and was thrilled with it. It climbs like it is on crack and descends pretty well also, The jarring on top of Columbine shoook the chain out of the derailuer and the front chain rings, other than stopping for a minute to fix that, I had no complaints or issues.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
slacker blogger
I am a total slacker in regards to my blog... which is probably ok, as I believe I am the only one reading it. I told by wonderful wife that I had a blog and she didn't believe me, which is also ok... I am not much of a writer and SHE is an editor... literally.
This weekend is the LT100. I am going to ride the scott and should be 4 to 5 pounds lighter for the climbs than last year. Also, I think I am in better shape overall. Should be a great race.
J9 and I rode the tandem partway up the ski area road this weekend to cheer on friends that were doing the santa fe hill climb. My road bike was in the race, ridden by Dale, and they did well together.
enough for now.
This weekend is the LT100. I am going to ride the scott and should be 4 to 5 pounds lighter for the climbs than last year. Also, I think I am in better shape overall. Should be a great race.
J9 and I rode the tandem partway up the ski area road this weekend to cheer on friends that were doing the santa fe hill climb. My road bike was in the race, ridden by Dale, and they did well together.
enough for now.
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