Because my post titles are so lame I decided to bust out with the 1964 mary poppins. It’s getting hot and humid here in CT. Starting to get some training in the legs and I’m leaving Wednesday for the second annual Mike Jones training camp. This years edition is being held up in classy Binghamton,NY. I’m sure they’re will be a press release and photo-ops for all interested media in the coming days. Found Rat Beek laying around ruining more stuff again.  Finally beat the jet ski pretty good the other day, also had the pleasure of having my 5 foot vessle boarded by the US CoastGaurd. “I didn’t do anything wrong” was the first thing out of my mouth, but I did.  I was 100yards close to a large frieght boat in the Long Island sound and aparently, ship boat captins can’t navigate in front of them when we are jumping the wakes in the back of them? Why doesn’t that make sense? I also didn’t have a whissle, so I got a warning. I wasn’t doing anything that was dangerous to anyone and the worst part was someone actually drown around the same time we were being “boarded.” The next day was just as eventful, i did my first group ride in months and some motorist tried to take the ride off the map perminently. I would rate this guy above average in his techniques used for this perticular incident of road rage. He did what I call a “breezer” which is where someone comes so close to your arm that you can feel the heat radiating from their car, once a few of us objected to the breezer, this clown put his pick-up into the sand and kicked everything he could into our faces like the true loser he was. I caught up with him a little ways down the road at his house and after some chatting about how he almost killed me and six other guys I told him he was wrong. This is the deal though, why do I bother even trying to talk to that guy? It should have been aparent to me that he just wants to be an idiot and the fact that he got to have a confrontation with me just adds to his satisfaction. The truth is, I get pissed when people drive like idiots and 98% of the time I let it go. This time, just up the road they’re were a couple kids riding bmx bikes with their dad going to the country store and it hit me how dangerous this guy actually was. My favorite qoute, the one which made me call the 5-0 was that he was going to hit me next time he saw me. What a true waste of space. thats what I got for this one.

Well, I’m back to training starting this weekend.  I’ve been riding a couple hours a day nothing over three hours but I’ve been ramping up the power in the work-outs and I’m recovering from the rides so I’m going to start training again Friday.  Besides sleeping, napping, riding and eating, I’ve been keeping busy with my friends here in CT.  The other day Jay took me to the shooting range and I blasted off his 40 caliber for a couple hours.  I was getting pissed off because I kept missing the targets though.  We fiqured out I am right handed but left eye dominant.  I use my left eye to see the target but shoot with my right hand…It throws things off because I ended up being about three feet to the left of the target, that was a little frustrating.  I always used to wonder why in the movies it took 100’s of shots fired to hit the bad guy.  I fiqured it out though, its not easy to hit a moving target, I can’t even hit one thats not moving.  By the end though I had blasted the bullseye several times and had a good understanding of the gun.  I also picked up a new toy over the last weekend.  I haven’t had much time to use it, but since I live close to the water and I’ve been bored a lot I found this 99′ kawasaki 1100 zxi quite charming.  I’ve been keeping her to a dull roar until my friends get they’re machines in the water, than we’re going to beat those machines to death. Until next time.

I’ve been riding more and more now. This week the goal is to make it 2hrs everyday and increase my wattage to where it was previous to my valley fever setback. I can actually do the wattage, but I’m anerobic when i’m doing it and pretty tired soon after that so it really defeats the purpose. The weather here in CT feels like the rain forest, everytime I look outside it’s raining, really windy or both. A real change from Tucson living I was doing last month. Speaking of Tucson, I haven’t talked to zijachek lately, but he won a stage at Mt. Hood a couple days ago and sent me an e-mail not too long before that, he attached a small portrait he painted for me to make me feel better while I’ve been sick.

The last week of US racing has been great to watch, Marky and Jack Stone won CSC and Lancaster, Lancaster was a good race to follow on cyclingnews live updates. Sounded hard as usual and I read Wherry is back at it in the breaks and what not, so thats definetly a good sign since he’s goin to defend that title this Sunday. The good news is he keeps that jersey til’ Sept. regardless of how Sunday ends up. Philly is still a great race, whether it’s for the stars and bars or not. Thats all I’ve got as its pretty late here. Adios.