Goodbye 07

To quote The Jesus Lizard "Your body's achin,', you need a rest, your body's achin', take a rest I say" Well, OK then, I will. Right after this weekends USGP, hanging it up for 07. Man what a long crappy season it's been. Combining a record amount of illness this year and now some recent injuries, trips to the surgeon, pt and weightroom are all forthcoming.

Last weekends Bald Eagle/Race to the Canal was def the crippler. I was doin good for the first 20-22 miles tradin first and second place with some dude from Nashville, railing the downhills and havin a blast just riding, when I suddenly felt the curtain start to close. I tried to eat, but it was too late, my body is just worn out and the curtain was drawn and they were turning lights out. The next 12 or so miles took a long time to complete with several stops for food and other one long one just to enjoy the view of the lake with the wind blowing in my face. It's a pretty disappointing close to a race season that started out so good in the mountains of Georgia and hills of E-town, but all things in perspective, a bad race, or even bad season, isnt such a big deal.

So, one more big race that I really would like to do well in, (being the biggest cycling event Louisville ever has seen), but I realize theres a good chance that just aint gonna happen. But hey, one way the other, its gonna be a lot of fun and I'll hoist a pint to 08.
http://www.usgpcyclocross.com/

won't you buy me one

Will there ever be a day when I don't hear vehicles driving by randomly blasting "Freebird?" Somehow, this song does not seem to be something that the "reds" can get worn out on, sort of like me and vegetarian corn dogs.

cross and all that

so today was the harbin park cx race. it sucked. well, the race was well done and the course was nice, but it was the second race in a row i had to bow out of because i cant breathe. i had a good start, despite steve tillford crashing right in front of me dropping me back about 10 places. into lap 2 it became aparent that my lungs were not going to function right, and that was that. i spent the next couple laps jerkin around (i hope all enjoyed my nose-wheelie crash, i did it for the fans), then pulled the plug. very frustrating. so that and barry wicks is really fast pretty much sums things up.