Pure Domination

So for all the smak talking spak and jacob could muster, turned out to be nothing more then just that. I will have to wait until the results are posted online to confirm, but i think that Team Awesome beat jacob by a matter of like 2-3 minutes. with spak a distant third in this race inside a race.

So the race order went bike, snowshoe, ski. Tristan led it out for us on the bike, after not getting taken out by matt on the start(not for lack of trying on matts part), he seemed to roll out in good position. He would have to talk more of the bike, but it seems jacob gapped the feild on the first climb, and tristan said he just took more risks on the decent, and caught back up, so we were only down a few seconds on the bike going into T1. Well obviously being a team, we were going to win the transition game every time, so a quick tag off once tristan found me, and I was off. I was going at a pretty good clip for the first 1km or so, so I backed it down a notch, and walked like 4 times. Mostly after a climb, and just for a few seconds, catch my breath, re-adjust my one peice, aero, race suit, and back to the running. Coffee run was a little sketch comming down the hills, but it wasnt the worst. I rolled in, well ran in, and tagged off to Sir Watson. Posting a respectable 12:29 on for the 3km. So I was pretty pleased, I was under 15 which was my goal time. Andrew held onto our solid lead, to finish about 1:40ish ahead of second place. So I am happy, my fun race was both fun and we won. I believe they call that win win win...the extra win is for how awesome the team was.

Now lets back up a bit, yesterday, hit up blue mountain to see a man about a mountain bike. Well loosley defined as a man. Got the new bike loaded in the car. Got changed, and headed out for a road ride, figured when in rome.........(anchorman reference for those that dont get my humour). Rode Senic Caves rd twice....its alot longer then i seem to remember. Then figured andrew would kill me if I wasnt fresh for today, so I headed down into collingwood to spin out the ol legs. I was feeling good, and going through town I was actually using the left lane to start passing cars. Without having a computer, I would have to assume I was doing around 55-60. Then again i did have a tail wind. So I continued with my little circumnavigation of collingwood. Stopped at Expresso Post for a latte, and headed back to the car. Finally rolled into home around 230-3 ish. Played with the new bike, some changes to make it mine(gold derailer housing), and slightly adjusted the saddle height.

This afternoon is going to be full of cleaning bikes to get them ready to be sold in the hardwood swap. Then going bowling apparently to celelbrate a certain teamates birthday, which was yesterday..

Seacrest out.....I mean Brandon out.....

never trust a man named tristan, when he is on a bike beside you...

Well, to be honest, i dont think I would go so far as to call tristan a man......maby pre pubescent boy.....judging by the scream as he crashed, and took out jacob today.

So started off the morning nice, got up, made a turkey and peppper omlette, some coffee, slowly got dressed for the days ride, and headed out to the magical horseshoe valley. Met up with Jacob, where he announced that tristan stopped to get a bagel, which ment he would be exactly 7 minutes late. 8 minutes late tristan pulled up....liar. We talked for a few minutes while he got ready, and we rolled out. Climbing out of the valley, we dropped tristan like a butter face you met at the bar lastnight. This seemed to set the tone for the ride, me and jacob were not really going all out on the hills, but seemingly to tristan, we were given 'er. Oh, i forgot to mention, Tristan forgot the road bike part of the road ride, so he was riding his Rocky Mantain(cross bike). Rolled into JIZ's place around the 2 hour mark. All in all, a fun, albeit wet and cold, ride.

Tomorrow will be a surpirse, as i have no idea what i am doing. Car need to get into the shop, as i think my front passenger brake isnt working, makes stopping more of a challege. Driving was too easy it seems.

Looks like I am going to head a tad south to get my new bikes this weekend....that will be like christmas in july....only in march. Oh, and pancake ride #1 in a week.....lots of training to get done for that ride....gotta fast before hand so i can eat lots of the 'cakes.

mmmmmm....caffeine

Just drinking some nice Kicking Horse coffee, wanting to try some of this fabled Inteligeista coffee.

Anywho, lastnight i finally made my way over to JIZ's house(i like it tristan), for game night. I was about 30 minutes late for the shenanigans. I came into the house, found out that it is an obstical course just to get downstairs. Then just hung out and talked for like 3 hours, there was not a single game played.....i feel upset as I was promised games.....All I got was tristan revealing he is "hairless from the waist down", matt and shannon dammed near announcing their engagement, seeing watson in a full body spandex suit, and tristan slowly sitting closer and closer to liz, until they were literally touching. It was a really fun night, lots of laughing.

So yesterday I somehow hurt my back pretty bad doing weights at the Y. So i blame the Y and the fact that the only changeroom to have no hot water at all was the Mens Plus changeroom. The one that you have to pay almost double to use, good thing I didnt pay to get in....

This morning I was feelling better, so I ran some errands this morning, then after i had a little bite to eat headded out on the ole' bicyclette. I headed to Total Sports to check on my order, and when the new team kit will be in. So it looks like my new MTB shoes will be in this week, my fancy shmancy road shoes looks like they wont be in until mid april....that blows. Though nothing i can do but be mad at Trek for not making enough of their RXXXL road shoes to get me a pair when i randomly decide to get buy them. And the team kit will be in sometime from this week to the end of the month. If I have it before I head to bens I will be happy.

Tommorow looks like I will be heading out with team shake and bake for a ride. Though they dont know when we will leave or to where. So I will just be ready at some point, and wait for a call. Though Jacob seems to have announced to the bloggosphere that senic caves is an option. I like it, I have literally never ridden up senic caves road, i dont konw how that has happened.

So I think I am off to bed now.

Brass frigen monkey

So did the brass monkey ride with the velocity crew this morning. Gord and Alex Keen were there, tristan, jacob, andrew, ron, and 3 other guys that i didnt know. We rolled out and about 5 minutes into the ride andrew decided to try the rail trail, we got about 50ft in, and bailed on that idea, soft slushy snow isnt condusive to a group ride. So we headed out into the backroads in oro. It was a really fun, albiet an icy, ride. Jacob needs to make a ruling, but i think that extra man points should go to me, jacob, tristan and alex for passing a car during this ride. The manondale was complaining pretty loudly, probably something to do with a lack of an overhaul after the muddy cross season i put him through. So i have some work to get done sometime tonight, or tomorrow.

Next up is a 4hr ride with spak tommorow, i dont think it will be another cooch loop ride, as we just rode the shit out of that cooch yesterday.....haha, puns. So i will just ride and make turns when he sais to.

The pole pedal pound is starting to look like it might be a pole pound pound at best, as the weather forecast is for a bunch of warm warm weather, and lots of rain. So we will see.

I was playing around the ol' interweb, and came upon this jem. Now I want to try it, all i can think of is that tremblant would be perfect for this.

cooch loop

So after yesterdays rain/wet snow filled 2 hour ride, i figured i would pray to the weather gods for better weather on saturday, well then answered in the form of overcast, but no snow. Me and the spakinator headed out for a nice easy 4 hour tempo ride....just kidding, it was only a base pace, so like 30km/hr ish. We headed up to orillia, stopped at Velocity, ran into the keen boys getting bike fits on their fancy new Ridley road bikes, talked a bit, matt had his first of 13,000 pees, and headed back out to ride. We rode out of town on Hwy 12, then headed up rama road, got honked and yelled at by a few motorists who believe that a cyclist doesnt belong on the road, or that they were really really gay, who knows, they were loud, and were ignored. After we passed the casino, the traffic fell to almost nothing, which was nice. We rode on, amid matt promising he knew the route back through the back roads, and i trusted him...once we crossed the highway, the roads got a little dicey, with ice still on about half the road, though at this point the sun was starting to come out, which was sweet. We ended up coming out around the upper big chute road, and took quary rd back to waub(the center of the world).

All in all it was a nice ride, and the first ride longer then 2 hours for me. I was definatly feeling that in the last hour, but i have to get some long rides in the next 2 weeks, to get ready for bens. I am just about to jump in for a nice warm epson salt bath, talk to you later web viewers!

crazy weather

Just sitting in a starbucks, thought i would shoot a quick update. Riding about an hour-2 hours a day, with some running and core training mixed in. Down 5lbs in last 2 weeks. Weather is all over the place, 34 one day, 2 the next. I am home in about a week. New bikes when i get home.

I will be happy to be home, planning on some epic length rides, like 4-6 hour days. Gotta be ready for bennos.