No Pain, No Gain

My dad has always been the active, athletic type, and he has been riding off and on for probably 20 years or so. He hasn't been riding much the last few year with the new business and all, but he's starting to get back on a fitness kick. Sometimes his time constraints or the weather don't let him get outside to exercise, so he gets creative. He's normally pretty proud of his home-made workouts. For a while now his bike had a flat and he didn't have a tube, so he jumped rope... for 2 hours! Give me a break!

For those of you who have met my dad, that shouldn't surprise you. Those of you who aren't familiar with Dave, let me give you a little bit about him. He doesn't ride in his little ring, ever. He just got his first "kit" for christmas this year, previously he wore tank-tops for his cycling endeavors. When he rides outside, he rides the same 20 mile loop as hard as he can, to try to set a PR, no matter if he's ridden 50 times this year or 5 times. He doesn't believe in recovery rides. He is a generally hard core dude. He lives by the slogan "no pain, no gain." And he will for sure, never shave his legs!n So that's a little background on "The Dave."

He has been kicking around the idea of entering a 5's/Citizens race, but he says he doesn't want all those people riding so close to him. He says he just going to ride as hard as he can until he gets away from everyone. Typical. Even though he is pretty ridiculous, I guess it could be worse. At least he out there fighting to stay young. For real though, I think he's serious about racing this time, because he changed the wallpaper on his computer to a picture of Lance Armstrong... typical.

I just hope I'm half as hardcore as he is when I'm 50.

Kila-Hunnies

I did some bike practice this weekend and it was grand. On Saturday we ran into Brett Stewart out on the road and we recalled a situation that had come about a few weeks ago. Lets recap, I was getting ready to go ride and there was a crowd of hot chicks (obviously) waiting for me outside my apartment (seriously). As we were getting to roll, the boys came back from their ride and Brett was with them. We all talked for a bit and soon the talk turned to kilo-joules. Now this isn't the first time I've seen this happen, talking kilo-joules around kila-hunnies. I thought that everyone knew that this was a massive faux-pas, but I was obviously wrong. No girl cares what you 5 minute max is, or about your LT, there must be a separation, like church and state. Kilo-joules and Kila-hunnies must stay separate.


I don't know why I felt compelled to tell you guys about that, but whatever. So the boys went and hit up the Ohio State RR and had a pretty good day for the team. IU picked up the win in every race that they had a rider enter, not bad. I'm planning on lacin' up the racing shoes this weekend a couple times, hopefully I can get some fat pockets.


Alright, I've got some Lost on DVR that I've gotta go catch up on.

Killin' It

So I'm sitting here watching the ToCA live updates, and he's at it again!

KOM 1

1 Jackson Stewart (BMC Racing Team)
2 Danilo Wyss (BMC Racing Team)
3 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Saunier Duval-Scott)
4 Edward King (Bissell)

KOM 2

1 Jackson Stewart (BMC Racing Team)
2 Danilo Wyss (BMC Racing Team)
3 George Hincapie (High Road)
4 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Saunier Duval-Scott)

KOM 3

1 Jackson Stewart (BMC Racing Team)
2 Edward King (Bissell)
3 Jonathan Hivert (Credit Agricole)
4 Iker Camano Ortuzar (Saunier Duval-Scott)

That's all the KOM's, max points for the day! I bet I'd go up hill pretty fast too if it meant I got to kick it with those Dime Piece Rock Racing podium girls.

Right now the white stuff is coming down pretty hard outside, and we're under a winter storm warning for the next 24hrs or so. It doesn't look good for getting outside anytime soon. Now I know how all those Wisco boys feel all off-season. I feel like i'm getting pretty hardcore though, either that or my brain is fried from exessive Benny Benassi... doubtful.

EDIT:
From Cyclingnews
15:45 PST
We're only seeing seven riders in the break so we'll try to figure out who we're missing. Jackson Stewart has pulled up and abandoned the race! He would have been most aggressive rider most likely.

I spoke too soon....

Rough Life...

Well he gets to keep the jersey for another day. Maybe this time Phil Liggett won't call him "Stewart Jackson"... I think Phil is drunk half the time he calls a race.

In other news my SRM is on its way back to me. Their customer service is awesome, it went to Colorado and back, and got fixed in 9 days... not too shabby in my book.

TTYL BFF's

Go Jackson Go!

If you didn't see it, my coach Jackson Stewart spent 115 K or so off the front solo in stage 1 of the Tour of Cali yesterday... pretty sick work. He picked up all the intermediate sprint points and all the KOM points, so he's winning the Points classification and wearing the KOM jersey. That's some pretty solid face time. Hopefully he didn't kill himself too much and can ride a decent rest of the race. Mad props J Stew!

Been A While...

So not too much has been going on, so I haven't had much to update you guys on. Anyway, like I said in my last update, we've had some tough weather so I've been inside a lot, but luckily we got some new dvd's around the place to help pass the time. We got a double disk of Paris-Roubaix from 07, Transitions 1 and 2, as well as "Pro". They are all pretty awesome and have served
their purpose well.


The weather got better for the weekend and I got out to do some good hours with a little bit intensity thrown in. We did a new ride called Devil's Backbone. Devil's Backbone is this route south of town with some good climbing and you end up on some massive ridge with rivers on both sides of you and like 100 feet straight down on each side of the road, pretty cool scenery though.




For the first time this season I felt like I had a good day on the bike. I could actually push the gears instead of the gear pushing me. My first race is still a few weeks off, but some of the boys actually went down to KY and did a little racing this weekend. We put a couple guys in the top ten and Isaac even picked up the win for the team. Not a bad start to the 08 season though.

If you for some reason stumble onto this lame update, I'm sorry. Hopefully the material will be getting better here in the next few weeks.

SRM's are so 07

The weather around here has been pretty terrible for the last few days, so I've been doing the workouts on the trainer. It really sucks, but with racing just around the corner, I'm in no position to be skipping workouts. Time goes a little faster if you surf the interweb while doing intervals... try it.