Tempo

I don't always understad macs haveing a hard time getting photos uploaded. went this morning for 2 hours of tempo still not felling well enouogh to do any interval work. This has to be by far teh worst cold tht I have ever had, I am at least better enough to drink beer. Felt gerat while riding today got some hills and a lot of speed. Road thrugh the little goast town that was used to film Rasing Arizoina. Highest point 2400 feet , the bigger climbs were futher down the road. Going to go up to flag tomorrow and going to ride MTBs. I hope to have geat picts and some of the coconino work shop..

missed it by that much

Well i was able to controll the sick just enough to make it to this mornings start. 10 guys on the line all tan and looking strong. We got the first start of the day,8:01 and we were off good pace to start and you could watch the breaks form. 2 off the front with the rest of us chaseing. I managed to keep my self from puking which ws nice, that has only happend once in a race last year. Fist lap went well with a 45min lap time and same with the second, third lap slowed a bit but mainly because the expert riders don't know how to pass they say on your left and dont pass with speed they soft pedal and expect you to slow for them .. Bull ShIt. I missed my goal lof 2:15 by 5 mins and miss the podium by 40 seconds not bad for a sick guy. I was the only on asingle that was not from AZ or so cal the winnin gtime was 2:10 4th was 2:16 so I was in the mix sick just suck. Now it is time to start riding the road bike and get some more mtb.. riding damm my bike rode sweet.... Photos to come the girl and I are going to watch the pros race later..

Sick Sucks

This is rough being here in the middle of all this and having the worst sore throat in world. I keep thinking it will get better and it might but damm it sucks. Sophia had a good race it was her and some local kid who bested her but sophia gave it her best shot. This was only her third time on her bike this year. Need to find the switch so I can flip it and have her go faster. She got her self one cool medal and she got to chat with Allison Dunlap and Georgia Gould. Georgia even gave her a once over of the Luna Chicks trailer and some cliff products. After that we walked down to the trek tent to see Dusty and check out all the new stuff from trek and Bontrager. Dusty seems happy with his new job even though he has to drive a lot. Swung by the GF tent and talked with Nat he was chilling getting ready for the super d and then the crit tonight. It was hot out there those pros have to race in 85+ heat tomorrow. I have some pics from the kids race i'll get them up later now just resting waiting for my throat to feel better a few more PBR'S should do the trick. At least I'll be well rested.

6:30

Ok got an hour hills and a nice push back to the house 20 miles and got in just before dark. The weather man says snow, I can't get out of here fast enough.. Work tomorrow and get things ready the wily is tuned they didn't to do much but it is ready fro 30 miles of fun..

Sophia's new bling

I hope that I am not getting behind on what needs to be done.. I get good work in on friday and saturday it snowed sun was short and james was sick today so noting happened. I know rest is good rest is good and next week it is on like donky kong.. Sophia got a new wheel set today from her coach we set them up of road riding and once the new frame is ordered we'll switch out the XTR's for the crossmax's. Nice hook. What is the weather going to do? I'll try to get out tomorrow but we'll see.

As Big as your head....

Short day snow here in the county and no one wanted to ride with me so i had to do some thinking. The girls liked the idea of going to the big d and getting some chipolte's so sophia and I went and did a loop at green mountain. Things were still moist not wet just soft. A steep climb to start it took sophia 25 mins to climb it, I like it a stout climb to start. We checked out the views and picked a single track to go down. I let her go first and she rocked, nice and smooth even on the tech stuff. I would have like to ride more and got some high end intervals in but got to do what you got ta do. Had a great pork burrito and go some much needed sun shine. Friday is the start of vacation and sophia races on sat and me on sunday.. I wish I could snap my fingers and get her a new frame she needs a bigger one. Boy is sick once again so I'll stay home and try to get out when mom gets back from work, can't ride inside. Dan is running a wrench through the Wily so it is ready for the trip, now just need to clean the Lemond. Here it comes...

The word of Gnome

DC Roster, 2007. March 22nd, 2007 Dot Dot… Da Dot… Dot-dot-dot We got ourselves a team. Infact, we have Jake, and his other brother Jacob. And, two guys with the last name of Nowicki… Oh, and Tool Time & Rainy, DS and a Gnome, An Elf named Faust… A Tex, A Randini, Devin Toe Jamming up in Brecky, A Big Juanny…A Nate & a Diddy? No I said Fiddy. And T.C. must attend. Should be a good time. Now we gotta start thinking about racing or what? Allen Tim #7 Cavallari Dan #5 Curran Devin #3 Dunstan Fiddy #3 Eberly TC Faust Blair #3 Friedman Nate #8 Friedman Nathan Herbold Dave Kircher Jon #9 Mason Randini #3 Nowicki Scott #6 Nowicki Scott Rainey Mike #3 Rubelt Jacob #4 Rubelt Jake #3 Tullous Jason

More more more

day 6 on my bike and things went well. Did a nice climb up swan 1 min faster than last week 9 min not bad and hit one of my fastest speeds on the way down 52mph. Flipped in summit cove and went back up 11.5min on the next climb felt great and back to breck. Did some more hill work in the highlands and called it a day. Dinner was great chili mac Damm I love food.. Vacation is coming soon can't wait.

Toe Jam

Sophia and I got some good riding in on saturday she was getting after it. Smiles and good lines I think she is ready for a new frame.. We had a fun night in the hotel I think that james had the most fun. I have to say it is nice to do what your kids want but the olive garden is not a good IDEA. The food sucks and well you know me bit of a food snob. Party in the hotel room and sleep//. Woke up up to free food and STARBUCKS damm good cup of coffee. I had plans for two to three hours while the kids played at a park. Good start smooth and buttery single track and the bike rode so good all of the dirt to my self. Good thing about getting out early super crowed latter in the day. Blew a flat on More Fun which slowed things down but good to be on dirt. I have a bit more to do before Scottsdale but I think that I am close. The new Mavericks will be nice... Enjoy the warm..

warm and dirty

Blew Up Sir

Not Tim This is Ryan Heres Tim Me walking with a flat.. A good day riding until I went flat and the back up tube exploded. Warm and sunny bit o wind but good climbing.. Here comes the dirt!!

Dinosaurs

45 and sunny enough to get me out on a bike again.. did not have a lot of time because anna has 3 or 4 massages tonight but an hour on hills was all I needed. Loving the new shoes man they are stiff and fast, I like to think that they are what Tom Boonen would wear if he rode a mountain bike. A big happy birthday to coach he even got press today on 29" because of the fisher team.. Good on ya this springboard is for you.. Anna got word that she got the job in wisco today and the pressure is down a little now just need to move, but not till after vacation. Highs in the 70's this weekend in firuta James is stoked I keep telling him that their are dinosaurs he thinks that is cool. Here comes friday another day on a bike. All smiles here..

Bad connection

I am having problems with my internet so things might be skimpy for a while.. for the longest time things were fast but have not been able to connect to the fast network,. Left the house after work to try out the new shoes which rocked and ran in to c-ball. I had other plans and ended up doing his ride which was going south on highway 9. I have not climbed up hoosier pass in a few years, a lot of people avoid this climb because of the traffic but it is a great climb. I frlt great on the climb slow at the first switch back and then started to crank it out, I had a great sprint to the top, again felt great.. On the down I was a little cold the 45+ speeds and the wind made it a bit rough but damm I was glad to knock this one out good fun.. the whole house is sick better not mess with me I am going to ride the shit out of my bikes this weekend in Firuta.

KEYSTONED

Another day outside and things felt great.. 30 miles up and over swan and then back.. climbed up over swan and flipped at keystone and back over swan. My legs felt good after the work that was put in yesterday. The Gnome got back to me today sounds like i'll be lining up in the Drunk Cyclist gear this summer.. I like Beer.. My new shoes showed up to day I'll break them out soon maybe this weekend if we go to Firuta.. Watch out the spring break has broke.........

I rode it through the grape vine

Well the Friuta thing did not happen no wanted to go and that is a long drive to go solo. Sold the house signed the papers on sat, now just need to find a place to live in wisco.. Coach and I went down to the big D and went road riding and it was nice. The sun was out the wind was down and their were a lot of people on bikes a lot!!! He took me down to Morrison and we went up Bear Creek until a road called Grape Vine.. Cool road it went up and up and up steep grade and unreal views. It dropped us out in mt Vernon canyon and we took that down to Golden. Then came the next climb one I have always wanted to do Look Out Mt. A nice long climb. Not knowing the climb I did not go all out did not want to blow up and still have a long way to go. Not bad 24 mins only about 2 off of coach and the kid he was climbing with. After a short chat at the top it was back down to the car. 35 total 2 hours lots of climbing. Got my self one of those slip stream burritos and life was good.. It is going to warm all week which meas more ride time......

The dirt is ready

Getting ready for a trip out west to ride some of that Firuta single track... got out for an hour today and did some hill repeats and intervals on the single cross... Gave the boys at GAS a 6er of Dales for the new chain and wheel true.. Put the house on the market this morning at 9:00 and we already have an offer.. That quick... Bring on the dirt...

coconino's boss

Dirt Rag gives props to Garro, as we all should.. Check out the DirtSteve in print.

Col de Swan

Two day outside in a row felt pretty good. Warm all over the state today and only going to get better.. Coach said that he did a lake loop yesterday and it was good just tricky on the downs because of all the shit. I went out on the single cross just looking for around 20 miles and not getting to far way from home(I had a chicken cooking on the stove and did not wat to over cook it). Good work felt like I could have had a smaller gear the 44x18 spins well it is just tough leaving breck going down hill you always want more. The climb up swan was great 10 mins nice and steady and little bubba factor.. Fliped at the top and down was something else.. I am use to doing this on the road bike hitting almos 50+ mph, today I kept the speed down lots of sand and canti breaks slow you down not stop you.. Back to breck good pace all got my chicken ready for tacos/././.MMMMMM FOOD

God lives there

The big news around the bike world is that Steve Garro won Frame Builder of the year... You can know the man down but you can't break him.. Did a fare share of dad time with the kids because Anna was in Wisco getting a j@o#b, one step closer. Got 2.5 hours of cycling in the Springs today felt good the damm wind had it's way with me but it was good,,,... If all holds up Firuta this weekend get some dirt under my wheels.. American Flyer's was on tonight and it was fun to see never saw the whole thing through.. Watch out for big rivers this week.......

Might as well JUMP!!!!!!

Comming to a theater near ................

24-solo movie Found this on the Gnome's site.. Looks pretty good, I still have not seen the Road to Athens.

Snow

It has been snowing and snowing latley. The mountain has been skiing well. Can't find my yard. Thinking about jumping off the roof... Something to do###

Bling Bling

The good folks(david)at Sun Race sent out this hub so I can build up a wheel for the Pace carbon fork.. Nice looking stuff light weight and strong can't wait to get it built

This is not ski area parking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So like my bikes I have three different types of Nordic skis.. I have the downhill tele skis that I am using less and less, and I have my skate skis that I find is a great workout.. The Gnome compares skate skiing to road biking.. Then I have my classic touring skis, The longest in the quiver at 210cm and no edges. So today I went out with C ball, dirk diggler and the blond doctor. We skied the peaks trail,. Nice to get out and do something different and my legs responded to what I wanted them to do.. I just felt like a road rider on his first mountain bike ride. My skis being what they are take a little more work to make them move. A little over 2 hours and we were done, better than going and hitting the rollers again. I hope that I can get out on my skate skis tomorrow and get in some more road biking..

Fuckneckvill

If you can't even walk up the hike what makes you think that you can ski it? I am not trying to be the boss of the hill but people from fuckneckvill are messing up the lake chutes. That aside I need to just ride bikes now and not worrie about the ski hill.. Got to ski with BP yesterday and it was nice to skate with someone, legs felt good after the spin class. More snow to come. What to do need to get the house ready for the move.. To powder ski or to not....

Facial Tick

Work has been good and not the stuff that I have to punch the clock for.. The motivation is flooding my mind and I can't wait till the gloves come off and and the shit is on like donkey kong. Anna is going to wisco next week to meet the folks who want her to work at hospital and I think that I'll be heading down to the Dean headquarters to meet with the big cheese. The wheels are turning will their be dirt soon?

weekend

Where to start................ The wind and snow on friday was something else.. When I left for work at 5:30 their was not much going on.. By 6:30 their was 3 to 5 inches on the ground,,, then the wind started and it blew and blew and then some more....So no one really got to ski up high on friday everything was shut down... Saturday morning I was out the door going to get as much as i could take... I was in all the right places at all the right times..Frist tracks down tiger and southern cross..1st down Inferino trees and other spots on e chair.. And 1st into contest bowl it had been years that I had to bust out the line to the bowl... Then to top off the day and by far the best snow was the frist line down window #2... Perfect snow fast skiing and face shots the whole way down,...,., Now I am read to sell the powder skis, dont need them time to ride and race bikes the snow has come and don't care if I get it again.. After all that went down to the folks house for t bone stakes and crab legs.. I think that they are sad that we are moving.. Got good work in today on the raod bike with over 3000 feet of climbing and only a bit of snow and water on the road, and now I am home drinking beer and thinking about having to go to work tomrrow.. I don't hate mondays just don't like the thought of having to go back to work.. Skate ski on monday and I;ll try another spin class.. what ever works...

Where do you want to go?

This guy is Stronger than all of you

spin

Not the worst thing in the world I think that I can do the same on the rollers at home but it is nice to have a little push and a little hey go faster.. I can do this but to with the same effect. All in all it was goood... Snow is falling that could mean skiing will be good again just need to get the tele boot fixed.. We'll see what happens things fell good now they just nedd to fell better. Have you ever gone to sleep with Bo Derick and woke up with Bobby Lee??????

Nationals ****** the Desert is calling

Bike Racing

Back in the saddle

More of the same as last night.. Coach came out with me this time, warmer than the ride last night felt like it could rain.. Good work and it just felt soo go to be out again on a bike.. Cooking up a pork tender with tuscon white bean and tomato.. I think that the Italian food is some of the best around,,,better than that french stuff,, And i am not talking about that noodles you get when you go out to eat the real Italian food that is cooked by folks in the country.. Lets see what the week brings.. might try a spin class on wed.. I might be out of my relm but worth a try..

Hott like the Sun

I had to get outside and because the snow is not good for any kind of skiing,and I could not ride the rollers, and because I had to get outside.. I went for a short loop on the Wily and damm i had a great time it was almost like ridign in the summer minus all the extra layers. I had on the right amount of layers and because of the traffic on the roads I was able to all the way over sally baber and back down to town.. All in all it wa 10 miles in a hour. It was nice to be out on a bike I know what i'll be up to in the next few days....

K Sol

Upper right is Kevin Soller a local hero now traing with the development team... What a stud!!

Soft snow and big hills

My day and what a warm sunny day it was. Went out for a nordic ski and it felt so good. Did the siberian loop and did it with out having to stop which is a lot I think a lot of hills. The photos are of the Cabin that is on the nordic loop it looks line a nice place to spend a night. And the one of the dog and lady well the dog tried to hurd me so it bit my calf. No blood or broken skin just ripped pants which she said she would pay for but they can be fixed.. I like dogs just sometimes wounder if they need to go every where the owner goes? New DIRT RAG came today!!!!!!!!!!!Some eye candy...

The mighty Mr. T!!!!

This here is my brothers boy sking down in Taos you can see that his arm is in a cast ... Broke it sking on the ridge?!@!@ Or something like that.. But anyway he is killing it and having a blast..

Huh

Below zero last friday and saturday and today 44 strange can't decide if it wants to be winter or spring.. I think the ideal world would be spring everyday.. Tyler got out and raced today in europe dose not sould like he went for the stage win don't want them to think he has funny blood in the first race. Good skate ski yesterday and some roller to fill in the gaps. Went to the mountain on sunday to show folks how it is done and was killing it untill the toe buckel on my boots blew up. Need to fix that one and I think that it is time to sell the powder skis. Need the money for bike stuff plus it is fun to have to work when turning. Things might be breaking loose in frutia so some bikes might have to go that way or down to New Mex and check out Matt and all his wheeled freaks. The norba in scottsdale is going to be here before we know it.. If only my bride wanted to go back to Flagstaff.. Warm snow rocks mountains and sometimes water... Oh well.....

learn um

  The boy checking out some new bikes.....

wendy where did we go wrong

Two day with out the upper mountain open due to wind. This morning breck said they had 108 mph at the top of the hill. If the wind stops and the lifts open it could be one of those days that the snow is three feet here and 0 feet over there. My brother said that the snow is going off in Toas. Soon the dry will come and bike will come out. Check out the Gnome and his fun with skate skis.

Burrrrrrr

Damm cold this morning for the ride in -28 tomrrow they are sying a high of 1 so that means the ride in is going ot cold.. Better cover the nose....