2 For the Road

The Bike Choice,

                                                    The Destination,

Loving the Pain..

The other Lance

Coffee is going in and 

flapjacks are on the way.

Goals are good and mine today is

to end the month on 

2 wheels. 

Good loop picked 

and the CX is the tool of choice 

now just need the temps to go up a bit.

Yes punk rock changed my life but this movie change my world......

From Hell

Woke up this morning and 

it came faster than I expected.

Had still be around 

stuck in my head,

looked all over the internets for the song

could not find one. 

It is friday

which is the best news so far. 

Now the mental battle starts to

ski or ride a bike or both. 

Man choices are hard.

YouBEE4Tee

The reports on the internets is

that the skiing is good.

I would not know it has been a week.

Need to get off my ass and get back out

there.

Got to love the rain,

Put together a good string of outside

two wheel rides, and

have been supplementing with

Rolling in place.

It works and I am tired when it is over.

Need to stop looking at pictures of Tuscon,

looks nothing like the frozen tundra up here.

Soggy

Woke up to the sound of rain,,, It rained all night which made the snow pack in to 

mush.

So with the voices in my head yelling at me

I hit the pave.

The CX with some fenders made sense, because

after the rain stopped we got a .25 inch of

snow.

I am going to get sloppy I thought but did not care.

I kept things on flat roads and

headed north in to a good wind the kind of wind

in which you feel like you are going no where.

Through New Amsterdam and now the wind

was at my back strip some layers off and

spin home.

Glad to be out would like to see the sun!

So Long

Best Free Bird Ever,,,,,, Jay Leno Sucks,, He should have just retired !!!!

Round and Round

Wheels out spinning

first two wheeled

adventure of 210.

Good fun even if it was just to work.

I know that the haters say riding to

work dose not make a

difference on your cycling work

load but poo poo on them.

Grate way to start and finish the day.

ALL smiles here.

Tursdays low lights

The work comes in

waves like the weather here

in the upper mid east.

We sit on the edge of another

shit pattern of sleet and rain.

Oh well still can't control the

weather.

The Boys in Flag town are

going to need big shovels 

to dig out of what is hitting them.

up to 6 feet in town.

More is not less and less is not more

it is that perfect balance the will prevail.

I could use a spring training camp in the warm

mountains but instead I will

layer up.

Eyes wide shut

When you sleep at night what do you 

dream about?  A new bike for 2010 is what I see when I close my eyes.

Spot has changed up the rear end to make the belt change

easier but also to make tension and wheel changes quicker.

I'll take mine in red and black.

#12

Bike shop was jumping

yesterday.

A bit of warm weather

brings out the people.

Road Bikes were the

items of the day.

One more 5.2 is out the door

to another EMAG

rider.

I think that it is going to be EMAG brought to you by

Trek.

All smiles as it is january and roads are getting a bit

dry for riding.

I got the Lemond all ready for riding with

some new shifters and a full wipe down.

Out on skis today but the pave is in my sights.

It is weird to here this come out of my head but lets go

cowboys. It to see the real old man play:)

100%

Wiped out and not

sure if this coffee is strong enough.

My brazing is getting better

which makes my brain

rest.

Need more time but needing the

body to wake up.

More spinning in place,

then back to the skis.

And my internal sound track!

Amost

Blue Bird and warm

today.

With a break in my

day between work

and school it was

ski time

This weekend I skied in negitive teens

and today 35.

Crazy change had me almost thinking

about riding a

bike outside but, got to ski it while it is here.

Two hours full sun and race pace or at

least what I think is race pace.

Fried now I get to

play with torches and silver soder. 
This was playing in my head while skiing sure like the noise. 

FaceMasked

Back at it again on the

sticks.

Tired today lots of yelling and

jumping up and down yesterday.

Skied hard and now look forward to going

to bed and sleeping.

Weather is warming up time to

check snow temps

and wax up.

Fast enough for You?

The skis were much faster today. Big issue was that the pilot  was a

bit worked from the cold sharp snow of yesterday.

Wind was blowing on the golf course so

I stayed in the woods and beat my self up on the hills.

 

Good and cooked from the hard work.

More tomorrow with a break in the day

before refrigerant class starts. Would

like to get a few hours in.

Have to see how the body responds.

Till then It is Football day.

Go  PACK  Go...

Styrofoam

Cold out this morning but to not ski would have been crazier than not skiing. -8 when I got to the trail head, goal was one hour.. Ran in to a bunch from the Emag, and we skied around the forest.

The air was cold and the snow was even colder

which made the skis slow. Theses Atmic's just want to go fast but it was at times like skiing in place. 

After it was all over I was cooked all efforts we

x2 because of the

slow snow but it was so nice and quite in the woods

the new snow felt so good.

Now time to get the wax right for tomorrow

for another day slip sliding away.

I hope  the frosty effect is not the word of the day.

It's Uranus

Grab on and go

because it is going to be rocking. 

2 dark Park

Skiing in the

dark is not my favorite  but it is still better

than not skiing.

A good hour around links and woods

of Lacrosse.

Fast very fast almost

to fast for being dark.

The ski move and slide better than

any other that I have been on.

Now if the snow that is out there could just start to

stack up.

Back to Work

A blast of cold air showed up

for the new year and

the outside modivation 

has been hard.

After a long day of work at

the shop my modivation was

even less.

The kid got her first shot at the

skate ski on sunday the

temps were in the low 0's

and she spent a lot of time on the snow.

I think a few more times out and she should

be able to move around much better.

I got to fly around a bit on the new skis and

they are fast, all they want to do is move.

Now if I can only find the time to move them.

Shots

A full season of racing in just a few pictures.  All of these come from Dana's site. She does great work and spends a long time standing on the side of the trail snapping shots..

Now if only 2010 can be as good if not better than  2009.

Thanks to all for the support!! I could not have done it with out the help from the folks to the Right of this,,,!

What the Heck are you doing in my closet

The hills above the St Mary campus was glistening with a half inch of fresh snow. It was just enough along with the cold temps to make things a bit slow. I could feel the difference in the boots and skis. The new sticks want to go fast and the bit of hang up that they got from the fresh was slowing down that goal. Every thing was groomed and groomed well, the hills of SMU don't stop. Lots of climbing lots of climbing. Now the deep freeze is setting in so cold that skiing may be unpleasant. So far so good.