Fenders' back

Yo. Well I put the fender back on the winter bike...FUCK! I hate fender season. Oh well, that's the way it goes. Nice weather huh? Thanks for the people who commented on the last swell blog post. This weekend I'm gonna go for a ride to make sure the fender works so if anyone wants to rock from uptown area around 9 I'm up for a slow one. Anyway, not much exciting is going on. The ICE special agent gets into town tonight so I gotta hurry up and finish some stuff. I haven't seen him since last winter so it will be nice to see him. Anyway, later.

WTF else is new?

I got 11th, Again!!! one of these years I'll break the top ten...Running race are hard. Happy B-day to patty cakes. I should have drank a little more at his party the night before the race to ensure a top ten at the grey Ghost. There's always next year I guess. Now I am officially to for the year.

Hospital

YO. Ya know it's funny how many people don't like hospitals. You definitely could put me in the category too. Today I was in one with my sister again. For as smart as doctors and nurses have to be, some are pretty fuckin' clueless when it comes to the basics. Today I worked till 10, and the went to the hospital from 10:30-2:45. The couldn't do the surgery because her blood was too thin. Something that could have been avoided if they would have given her a simple test. So she has to come back Monday...Figures
Later

Rough Patch

Yo, Well I hit a bit of a rough patch in the Swell life.
Sometimes trying yr best just isn't good enough. Murphy's Law and
good old Benny Franklin's Death and Taxes idea, seemingly apply to my life a lot
lately.

I dumped almost 300 buck in to the winter bike, so that's what
I'm on right now.

Finally,Ten Speed on the winter bike!!!


Training for running is going ok. I think I'll do my first race
in a week or so. I'm prob gonna be around 18 minutes, so I know I got work to do before the Grey Ghost! Other than that, not much is going on just survivin'
Later

Humbled

Yo. Sorry it's been a long time since I last updated. The road season has officially ended for me. I guess it was an ok year. Last year was a little better, but as I get older that seems to be the trend. I did the Chir Kerr road race (a WIsport race) a couple weeks back and it was just as sketchy was I imagined. No center line rule , tandems legal, and lets not forget helmets with rear view mirrors. Matt Williams won and I couldn't have been happier with the outcome. Him, Jimmy, and I against the tandems and aero bar people. Pretty great. The week before, Micah and I did the last Blackdog. We both met our goal of breaking 15 min. He got 14:58 and I got 14:50. I was really happy about that since I suck a time trialing, comparatively to other 1,2's. Anyway, last weekend I did the two man TT state race with Dan Casper. Fuckin' Humbling experience. We started out pretty good and kept it rolling around 29-30 the whole way out. I kept looking at my computer for time. About 8 min in I was getting pretty uncomfortable. I couldn't pull through as much and started to suffer just sitting on Dan's wheel. Pretty soon I cried uncle and it was damage control for the last 5K.
I felt bad and Dan was really cool about it slowing down for me. The last 2K were mentally the same as NVGP, drill it and hope like hell the finish is around the corner.
At the end of the day we were 3rd. 30 seconds off Gordy, and Lance Niles. If we practice and my ass doesn't come unhinged, next year I think we got a shot. Anyway, my lil' sis had a blot clot in her arm and had to have surgery to fix it yesterday. I'm happy to say she's fine and on the mend. With some swizzy pain meds to boot. Al right, that's all I got.
Later

Get Ready!

Yo. September 12, "If your gonna scream, scream with meeee, moments like this never laaaaaast......."
The Misfits are coming to Myth Night club. I saw them at 1st ave in 1997. I think
it's gonna be a good show so I'll try to make it. Bike racing has been going al right certainly not great. Did Tour of KC and Crit Nationals. Not much to say. I crashed, got caught behind crashes, and felt ok. This weekend is the state road race champs. Hopefully, we will win. We just have to be in the moves and ride a little smarter than we have been. Should be fun. Al right, back to it.

This is why I feel slow lately....

This is getting in the way of bike ridin'a lot lately....







The best part is i gotta clean this fuckin' mess before i go home today. Poor me.