This post is going to be short, but since I wasn’t going to write anyways, you shouldn’t be too disappointed. It’s Sunday morning and the first of my official time off the bike. A couple of my roommates and I are heading to a small mountain in western, MA called Berkshire East. It’s about 40minutes from the house and snow was falling here all night, so you know its gonna be good. I’ve got a cup full of home made mud water and we’re off and running. I had to post this video someone showed me. Its too funny not too.

Finally I have some time to update my blog now that the storm has passed. The best news I can tell everyone is that I’m officially on vacation. lets start with Cross’ world champs. The venue, people, training around Venice and FOOD was tip top. In the race I finished 27th which was a little outside of what I was looking for, I got some stomach crap the night before the race and it left my legs flat on Sunday. I felt like it took me about half the race to feel normal. While it wasn’t ideal sometimes you have to make the best of the situation and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one battling one obstacle or another on that given day, sometimes thats a problem with one day racing, in stage racing you can bounce back, one day racing has a lot of factors that come into play. Overall, I’m happy with how the season played out, I won a few races, raced competitively in Europe and I’m looking forward to next season. I flew pretty much directly from Italy to Jelly Belly’s training camp in San Diego. Once I got to sunny California, the team had pictures taken, we met all the new sponsors, got our new bikes, etc. All the sponsors this year stepped up to the plate and we are really looked after, tons of clothing thanks to champion systems, custom GT frames with Jelly Beans all over them, Rudy did custom helmets. No doubt we’re official this year. All the sponsors really took care of us! Sunday after the super-bowl a couple of us headed over to double x action sports radio and we did 1hr radio show which you can listen to over at there website, linked above. My duties were fulfilled at camp and I made my way back to Massachusetts to catch up on sleep and relax so I can get back to the action come April. Unlike some have been saying, I will not be racing in the Tour of California. Sorry. I opted out a few months back after tearing up my achilles tendon last year going from my cross’ season right into California. On Monday we all rode out to Palomar mtn and it was a good ride, the team this year is cool. Danny put together a lot of fun riders with tons of experience and aggressive attitudes. I think Jelly Belly is going to have its best season ever this year. During the first couple days at the camp I got to catch up with ROAD Magazines, Neil Browne. Neil did an article on me in the most recent issue of ROAD and put Tim J on the cover for winning cross’ nats. Cross’ is in effect in the last edition! Everyone should pick it up, its sold everywhere, if you haven’t gotten familiar with ROAD Mag yet this is a good month to start! So, I might update if I’m bored, but, I’m gonna walk away, go on vacation and throw the legs up for a couple weeks. Until next time, thanks again for all the good comments, e-mails and prank calls. Stay Classy MissingSaddle-