Saturday, October 25, 2008

USGP #1

Ended up 4th today my best USGP finish since my 3rd in gloucester in 04. I felt awesome today and looking forward to putting together another great day on tomorrow. It is late and want to go to bed but i got some good pics from today that i wanted to get up.

Sram took Todd Meg Brady and I out to a super nice dinner at Mortons steak house. Dinner was amazing the cyclocross crew came along also. Johnson why didn't u get the big one...

Brady trying his best to be like jpows. I think he just got some turntables on ebay.

Meg took a limo to dinner. She is to big time to hang out with us.

Luna's one two punch..

Newt with his 1st USGP U-23 leaders jersey. I thought he got it for the 15-16 yr olds.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Louisville USGP

Well i made it to louisville last night around midnight. I flew out of Albany which is much easier than flying out of newark. Although if i had flown out of newark i think i could have went direct to louisville instead of hanging out in chicago for 3 hours. Todd and Meg had a tight connection in chicago but they made it to the plane and their bags even made it aswell a shocker considering chicago's track recorded. In louisville we got our bags and rental car within 10 mins of landing and even arrived @ the hotel i would say within 45 mins of landing so nice. We woke up this morning to pouring rain. Todd Brady and I rode in the pouring rain and did our openers then Brady and I had to do a clif bar kids clinic. Lucky for us the rain cleared up and we had the sun in the sky for the clinic. Kids have so much energy i could use some of that. After the clinic we hit up the # presentation downtown which we are sure had more fans then the entire norba series. Even Fred's Eye view was signing stuff for the kids from the junior developement team.

On another note congrats to the german for his 2nd collegiate title.. And all the FLC XC racers.. Hopefully CHOPS will dial it this weekend..

Monday, October 20, 2008

Granogue Weekend

I stayed with Newt, Wicks, and Treboo Hoo at Toms this weekend. I had an okay weekend overall. Saturday I didn't have great legs and really had to try to keep it together mentally to finish up in 10th. Sunday I had a much better day ending up with a 5th. The only rough part of the day was when wicks laided it down around a corner and gapped us off from the lead group. I was able to get back into the group for forth and could quite take the group sprint.

NEWT living it up!!


Wicks working on his bike in the little izegem house AKA TOMS

Powers is having a great cross season. I think all his prize money is going to trying to hang with clinton sparks. Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Rest

That's just about all i do when i come back to ny i in the fall. I don't think i sleep better any other place then i seem to sleep at my parents house in the fall. Normally i sleep close to 10 hours a night and even take a hour nap during the day. I've been recovering well from the triple weekend and even got to ride with favata on tuesday. Wednesday i return to my local training grounds at the suny new paltz. It wasn't the same as last fall with shriver and favata there to battle with and gully jumping into the group from time to time. I also had to replace a dugast i busted this past weekend. Nothing is worse then shredding the sidewall of a $100 tire. Well tomorrow it is off to deleware for granogue and wissahickon. It should be a tough one with everyone on the start line minus mcduff and page but then again page is basically belgian anyway.



Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Dekrey Video

Singer has a funny video up on his site of Dekrey trying to dance.. It is entertaining.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

OHIO

Well OHIO ended on a high note with a 3rd on sunday. I tried one last effort on the last lap and the only person i successfully worked over was myself o well. It ended up being a good day all around with summerschool coming in 4th on his way over to euroland and georgia coming in 2nd. Ben even flew in for the day and checked out the race. Gerorgia and I ended up flying in on the same flight from denver and flying out of OHIO on the same flight.


Toast wears his compression tights 2 much the kid even sleeps in them.

Daimo dialing in the bikes. The place we stayed i must have hit my head on a bike just about every time i walked through the garage.


Summerschool laughing up his pre race meal.

A mechanic has 2 recover after a long weekend as well!!

Toast about to puke up his post race meal as well it is a common occurrence with him.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

OHIO

Quick recap of the race yesterday. First of all my parents surprized me by coming out for the weekend since my mom had a 3 day weekend. They are quite the expierenced travelers now. They flew in friday morning and will fly out sunday night. It was krazy cause i had no idea and then here they are 30 mins before the start walking up. I had a little bit of a rough day. I slipped a pedal off the start and gave up my front row start and fell back into the 3rd to 4th row of starts quickly. I got to take in the 1st lap cluster with people laying it down all over the place. The one good thing for me was each person who hit the deck was one less person i had to battle with to make it up towards the front. I was only able to get into 6th then the gap was to large to close so i tried to save some energy for 2day and tomorrow. 3 day cross stage race. Daimoo has been dialing in my bikes. They are running awesome now and actually are close to how they will be for the rest of the season which is nice.

Here are some pics from our adventure so far.






Thursday, October 09, 2008

In the Office

Well I'm in the office A.K.A. DIA. It is so nice that they have the free wireless here now you can pass the time without walking around 2 point less store after pointless store. I was on the early flight out of d-town 6a.m. I had to wake up around 4:40 and made it to the airport right as they made the announcement 7 mins till checkin closed perfect timing. I fell right asleep on the plane thanks to my mountain hardwear puffy that is basically a sleeping bag for my upper body. Of course i woke up mid-way to denver sweating bullets. Fell back asleep and woke up during touch down perfect flight. Besides from that i tried to pack light for this trip will see how i fair with that. I had a busy day yesterday trying to get ready to leave for about 2.5 weeks between storage, fedex, dr. franks, riding, and packing i got alot accomplished for a guy like me. I actually read that chris jones signed with type 1 for next year but he is also giving lessons at pinon hills.
BIG TIME


Well I should land in OHIO around 3 2day and hopefully get to the host house around 5 and then build a bike and head out for a ride. Damo is flying in to help out summerschool and i this weekend. It will be nice to have a mechanic in the pits hopefully we won't need him but it is always nice to have someone there. I will also get my new TRP brakes on my bikes this weekend looking forward 2 that. Summerschool is cocky and is only coming for the C1 on sunday.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Tiger Mcduff

Well i went golfing with Mcduff on Monday down in farmington at pinon hills. The course is awesome and i actually felt like i was playing golf on a couple of holes which is my goal when hitting the links. I took a couple pics.


My swing not so nice!!

Tiger Mcduff!

Snow Capped Kennebec
Today I got back on the cross bike and did a little effort in the park. It has been nice getting back on the mtb bike over the last week. The trials are in great condition in d-town right now. It has also been nice and warm after the crappy weekend. We got back into the 70's today which is perfect weather. After that i finished up gluing my tires onto my new mavic r-sys wheels and rebuilt my #1 race bike. Thursday I'm off to OHIO for the triple weekend. Two C2 and one C1 hopefully i can build upon my weekend in madison and land on the podium a couple of times.

Sunday, October 05, 2008

A Day in D-town

It started with a ride with barthel and schultzman

Then i was a superfan of chops at the DS i even carried a couple of bikes up the hill in the pouring rain..

Kanye West was out for Todd and Megs 5 year anniversary...

He did it all for the nookie

Dekrey is getting on muscle milk for a month watch out!!!

Friday, October 03, 2008

Vegas Recap

Vegas is crazy!!! I landed this year at around 12:30 a.m. just looking forward to getting to the hotel and hitting the hay. Once you get in the cab and hit the strip you end up getting this rush of energy that you only get in Vegas. I was good though and went to my room and was asleep by around 1 a.m. Woke up early well not that early 10 a.m. but I think that is alittle early when your race isn’t until 9 p.m. Went to the show did an interview with towel that is on velonews TV that you can check out if you want to listen to my dumbass for 6 mins. Did a couple other things at the plush clif bar booth then headed back to my room and got some lunch. After lunch I just laid in bed for a couple of hours I know that is weak I didn’t even make it to the pool to work on losing my farmers tan. Built up my bikes than it was off to the race. I drove over to the venue with my brother who was basically on the move all day since he didn’t land in vegas until 4 p.m. The course was better this year with a couple more corners. The crowd was off the chain and we actually had poperotsie at the race since Lance aka LA was in the house. My race went okay overall ended up 18th but I dropped my chain and ended up riding around in the LA group. People were going crazy for LA out there. Then I was lame after the race and didn’t even go out. It was hard to motivate when you don’t get back to your room until 12:30 a.m. Not to mention last year was a 7 a.m. return along with a hang over from hell!! I also wanted to keep it under control for my next 2 races in madison only 2 days after Vegas.

The following day was low key to say the least as far as vegas goes. Woke up went for a ride. Vegas isn’t the best place to train. Packed my bikes and began the long hike from the ventian to the treasure island parking garage with all my luggage (2 bikes, 2 sets of wheels, backpack, carry on roller bag). This ended up being much harder than a cross race. You have no idea how many times I had people just walk into my bike box and knock off my wheels or carry on bag and look at me like I just ran into them.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Catch Up.

So the deal is my cross season just got off to a quick start with 5 races in 8 day. I wrote an update about the racing on Clif Bars Blog so i'll just write about the other stuff going on in this update. I went to seattle a couple day early since my friend Alison B-day was on tuesday. I arrived and it was basically right off the plane to dinner and then a night out on the town in Fremont. We had a good size crew with a couple people i know well including morgan schmitt and LG. The night ended up being a good time besides from a couple small mishaps. The best part of the night was this one guy came out with us who didn't really fit into the mix of people out. He was a tri geek and lets just say he proceed to crash over the RR tracks. He still had on his areo bars as well that just added to the entertainment. Then i would say less than 10 mins later at a bar he tells me and Ryan Idding "I'm not going to lie I'm really good" not sacastic what so ever either dead serious. There was also another insident with just some random dude on the street but i don't feel like getting into it. Basically he was saying he could kick my ass at star cross in the Cat 4 race. It all started because when he came sprinting by us i got on his wheel and he said he could beat my ass any day on a bike. People in seattle are serious..

Another crazy part about seattle is that no one waves to eachother. I think on my wedneday ride i waved at over 100 people and maybe got 5 waves back at the most. Most of them would do the look away to me which im not a big fan of. If u aren't out killing it doing an effort how hard is it to raise your hands off the bars. I guess people in seattle only wave 2 people they know or at least that's what i was told!!

I can say this i found the best park for cross training in seattle (woodland park). You could do a 6 min lap without having 2 go from tree to tree and there is alot of buffed out single track. Alot of up and down also something that we don't get here in d-town.

On Friday Alison and I went to see Morgans bro Evans film Remember 2 Breathe at U Dub. All i can say is Alison has lived in seattle for most of her life and had no idea how to find the building the film was playing in. It was also in the main part of campus which she couldn't find either. Eventually we found it thanks to a freshman and his map of campues. The movie is awesome with a mix of road and cross footage from last season. Everyone should check it out you can purchase it at http://www.dirtymoose.com/ .

I even got 2 play a round of golf when i was there. Morgan, Noah, and I hit up the par 3 on monday afternoon. It was a tight course with alot of fours being yelled out. When you have one green 30 feet away from the next holes tee box u know u are asking for trouble.

The last thing i'll talk about from seattle was Alison cat Floyd. The guy was not the biggest fan of me and my last day there he decided it would be cool 2 leave me a going away present and pissed in my roller bag. Luckually we saw him do it so the pad came right out and directly in the washing machine.

Alison got me to the airport and I was off to Vegas.

Besides from that had a great time in seattle got some go racing and riding in. Thanks to Alison and LG for putting up with me for a week and entertaining me.