Personal sacrifice.

That's the name of the game , ride times are getting longer and faster . This time of year is key , your motivation is everything to keep you on a bike, if you don't got some, go get some . The pics of are new Jerseys are out and they look really nice , cant wait to wear them ( it will be warm out).

update

march 8 2008

IT'S NOT ALL BAD

OK lets see I raced the chilly chili that's was bad news , it was the first race on a single speed and is going to be the last time , my single speed has no front brakes and that is fine but when you have to go down a steep ice hill you tumble end over end and I get all cut up from studs , that sucks. 10th place in A class . I raced the hill side on the week the trail did not pack down it was a long race and meant to be fun and it was for me ,not so fun for most, 4 place .Training is going OK I'm sick of the trainer, I'm sick of my 50lb winter bike ,and I'm sick of the cold . This will be my last week in base 2 till my rest week. Tonight I road to leb, biked a 1.5 laps 2.5 hours in ,it was getting dark , I was in the x loop and my chain brakes again. Dark , cold , hunger is setting in, so I ran, 1 hour later I was home. 5th time my chain broke this winter penn replaced it and said there is nothing wrong its in the shop again . O one more thing to ad last week I crashed on the road going 20 or so miles an hour can you spell road rash. OK times up, later

My week off

I bike 3 times a 1hr ,2.5 hr and 3.5 /4 hr . The long ride went great till I got 3 tubes that sucked, and a lift from some guy in his truck to Eric's bikes to get more tubes (one tube flat on bike ,one tube hole from factory ,one tube valve stem broke.)4.5 hr day .

Good stuff.

This bike could be the bike ,the stuff that is no good I have better to replace with off my Scott scale . 110 mm in front 100 in rear. Felt better than any other bike I have ridden .

off week

The plan is to go have fun at the chilly chili ice race, this time of year training is to detailed, you lose the feel of racing . The thing is you plan on racing a day, if you don't feel up to it you still race, you just work around the feelings and race your best and not give up. This time of year race a little, train a lot never stop doing both. Not good at racing? Race more till you need to work on training. For me A race should be 100% fun, if not there is a bit of stress involved and that tells me I need to race . http://www.morcmtb.org/photopost/data/519/CHILLYrace081.jpg

Base 1, week 3 ,SUN, Jan20

Fri 1hour spin 4 or5 30sec fast spin. Sat 2hour e2 .Sun 1.5 hour run then 1.5 hour e2 .