Jeremy Powers

The website got a little upgrade, I’d like to know if everyone can still view it correctly. I like the new look, but sometimes when we change stuff it’s hard for people to read. Leave a comment if its jacked up. Last time I updated I was in Gloucester, MA and had won day 1 to take the New England series leader jersey. It was sweet, I won my first big UCI race and couldn’t have been happier with how everything went. In cycling the mood changes so quickly. I finished the weekend off in Gloucester a bit disappointed. Sundays race was crap. I ended up 9th place and its not that it was a bad result, I was just plagued with bad luck all day, broke stuff on my bike, had course tape blow into my bars and I hit the deck pretty hard. ( I know I’m a whiner…)So hard that I was just laying on the ground slithering around like a snake that just got run over. I really thumped myself and it took me a few to get it together to get back going. That left me kinda pissed and fueled my fire going into the Granouge / Philly weekend. Granouge is probably one of my favorite races of the season, it’s tight turns, technical off cambers and steep ride/run up suits me well, just a course I really like. TJ won, I was 2 and Wicks was third. Dr.Barry (Jelly Belly chiropractor) who is local to the Philly area came out and gave Tim J and I some work after Saturdays race. Thank you Barry! After we spent an honest 9 hours in the car on the way down to these two races, it was really nice to have Barry help us out, I felt a whole lot better after his work and Sundays race in Philly was awesome, my back felt great! And it showed! If your a reader / rider in the Philly area, look him up! Today was the first day it was cold and raining out in MA. I train pretty good on Wednesdays so I was happy when the rain let up for a little while. I was doing some intervals out at one my favorite climbs in the area and they were doing construction just after the start of the climb, so I had a little delay from that, then did a race with the mail lady, anyone ever have that happen? If you haven’t, it goes like this, the mail person stuffs mailboxes as quick as they can in order to either stay in front of you or pass you. Shortly after they stuff the mailbox if you’ve gotten past them, they floor it, get by you fill another box and step on it, until they have to finally concede when they get a ton of mailboxes all at once. So I was able play that game, meanwhile slaving away at the pedals… Then I got the same thing from the school bus driver, same story, substitute mail for kids instead. I assume the bus driver got radio’d in by the postal worker, who probably got radio’d in by the police officer down at the construction site… And thats kinda how the day went here in Hadley. I’m flying Friday to Louisville for the first USGP of cross’. It should be pretty good. With United not taking the vouchers for bikes anymore I’m flying Southwest a lot now, they have so many fast cheap flights out of hartford its hard to not fly em’. I’m looking forward to the new venue and seeing what Kentucky’ has to offer. Check out Sam Smiths cyclofile from the last two weekends. One from Gloucester and the other from last weekend in Philly. In the second one, Wicks pulled a good one out. It’s a little like Trebon at Hoogerhiede for those in the know. haha. Check em out. C-YA!