If anyone has room for me in their car for these races on saturday and sunday, I’m in need of a ride. I can meet you in Portland/Salem/Eugene, and I may have a place for us to stay in Seattle. I’m working on that part. Thanks, and give me a call if you want the [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 27, 2009
A little taste of the past
I was looking through my training journal last night and I was shocked to see what I was doing back in October 2006. Here’s an example. Very crazy and stupid:
Monday:
3 hrs intervals:
6X5 (6 sets of 5 sprints like before) straightaways plus about 60m extra (past the small tree and to the second lamp [...]
April 24, 2009
The beast is broken
A string of events:
After getting home from throwing down with Chris at the Thursday Nighter last night, which, by the way, we completely and utterly destroyed everyone, I saw that my bottom bracket was loose. This had happened a few weeks ago, so I took the bike in this morning to get it re-tightened [...]
April 19, 2009
Cat 1/2 Team Oregon: two victories and two field sprint wins in two days.
Eugene Roubaix: Chris “iron legs” Swan crushed the six man breakaway in a humbling and humiliating sprint that left his breakaway companions sobbing like babies.
The race didn’t go as well for me, but it was great seeing Chris win, which was our team’s first victory of the year (the men’s cat 1/2 team). [...]
April 16, 2009
The Kennett’s back in town the Kennett’s back in town the Kennett’s back in towowowown.
Obviously sung to the tune of The Boy’s Are Back in Town.
I’m here in Eugene for the next six weeks to get some serious pain in my legs. Today I started out with the local hardman’s race-ride: the Thursday Nighter. A group of 15 or 20 started out on the one hour ride [...]
April 11, 2009
King’s valley
I just ate me a big ol’ bowl of bran cereal. 76% of my daily fiber needs. It tasted like old meat and ground-up vitamins and metal. It’s a giant bag too so I have a lot more to eat.
The race today went decently. I’m finally starting to feel [...]
April 8, 2009
Recent training
My legs were a bit knackered on Monday from Cherry Blossom. But they began feeling better already on Tuesday. I planned on doing a three hour ride in the morning, but it turned into a one hour ride because I had to get a new chain and then fix my shifting again. And I hate [...]
April 6, 2009
Cherry Blossom Stage Race
Thursday: Chris and Karey picked me up in Sherwood and we drove out to Hood RIver to pick up our race packets and do the Hood River crit. But the crit was around a parking lot, it was raining, and there were only 8 people signed up for the 1/2/3 race so we decided [...]
April 2, 2009
Cherry Blossom
I’m heading out to the Cherry Blossom stage race this afternoon with Chris and Karey. We’re doing the Hood River crit tonight to open up our legs for the four stages of racing starting on Friday. The weather looks pretty good in the Dalles this week, low to upper 50’s with little to no rain. Much better [...]
