First with the good news I suppose. My roomates and I dominated the local cross’ race Sunday in Bedford, MA. Pretty nice to be back on the cross’ bike and get a win at my first race of the year. It wasn’t star cross’ or Michigans UCI weekend but it was good enough for me and served as a nice
post tour of Missouri opener. Not traveling to those other events gave me a chance to relax after ToM and get my new ridleys dialed. I should mention they are friggin’ sick. Full carbon, sram red equip’d bad ass machines. They remind me of a dirt bike only with pedals! I miggghhtt make those dirt bike noises when I’m riding it….maybe. Okay I do! We also got cocky over at cross’ world and got our names on the back of our kit this year. (I had to put a picture of this!) Niel from Road Mag has been thinking he’s real slick, randomly calling me up before his race at star cross and qouting me on his blog. If you need another good laugh check out Niels blog Also. I added this program in the top right corner of my of the blog. It’s called finetune and it lets you stream all the music I enjoy, so if you’ve seen me riding around with my ipod and ever wondered what got me pumped before the race, click play and enjoy. I have to say the reason I named this post “lames” is because I’ve have a light case of the lames lately. You would ask why, I don’t really know, the normal things in life I suppose, but last Sunday topped it off when some guy at my local Massachusetts cx race yelled at me and asked me what “my crit was…” I alllmost stopped dead. I had two laps left after that and I was stunned, that someone would actually accuse me of anything un-ethical. It hampered my concentration and I told this person my next time up the courses run up to come talk with me after the race because I hoped I could help him understand the depth of what he said. I never got my chance as he didn’t show up, but it didn’t sit well with me as someone who tries very hard to make sure people see me as a regular guy who likes to ride his bike hard. Doping talk is actually lame and I promise not to ever mention it here at my blog. I’ll end with a picture of my roomates and I at the podium on Sunday. Off to Cross’ Vegas see everyone there!