11/30 Forgetaboutit

With 35 deg weather on top of 35mph winds, its probably best to train inside today. I'm pretty beat up from the last two days.

on a later note, i think i'll take a recovery day and watch football.

BP 106/59 with a resting HR of 58.

11/29 3.5 ER

Woke up this morning to some snow and overcast, another long day of endurance riding. Only one more day to go to finish out a nice 3 day block of riding. BoB was pulling my legs off all day, but i managed to hang on and finished with a 197watt average, pretty crazy since i sat on for over half the ride just trying to hang on. Legs are trashed, need to eat some grub and gear up for Sundays ride.

11/28 Three Hour ER Ride

Got most of the Catagory 3 team together for a 3 hour ride today. I'm still working on getting back in shape for the `09 season. The weather was 39 deg. (it was actually 40 but 39 seems much colder so im sticking with it), and the wind was blasting us from the North/East. I was doing fine but about an hour into it the toes got wet and froze for the rest of the ride. Two more days of 3 hour ER (endurance zone) rides should get most of the Thanksgiving's Day Dinner worked off! Tomorrow's ride starts in McPherson and includes some of those famious Kansas hill's located in the Flint Hills of Kansas.

Dirt Ring Road Races

Specs Racing put on 2 weekends of dirt road races over the last two weekends. I got a chance to ride two of the courses in the 1/2/3 cat field. Nothing makes u feel weak like riding with some cat 1/2's. More pictures of the races at http://photobucket.com/WichitaCycling

11/14 PT Graphic

Interval Suckage

11/14 Back in the Saddle

Another kick butt day in Wichita Kansas. I just got back from the armpit of the world Balad Iraq, and Kansas doesn’t seem so bad.... now. Ive been back at work for a whole week and i got out of work early to go to a veterans appreciation thing for my youngest (13) daughter Emily’s School. She plays the french horn for the local hs band (usually plays the trumpet) and she did great. My oldest daughter (15) Jen is a driving machine and has been helping drag emily back and forth to school...
I've gotten back on the bike after 45+ days off (they wouldn't let me ship it to the suck) and i have a shit ton of work to do before next seasons racing starts up. Cycling has a lot to do with the power/weight ratio and my fat butt isn't going to do well on the climbs at the moment. I got home and figured out i gained 15lbs from the lack of 2-3hour rides and the same amount of chewing. So now im kick'n the calories back to 1500ish a day and riding 2+ hours a day to get my butt back on the right path. My sadistic buddy Erik Schick has bull dogged me into doing some 15+min intervals and i have to say they suck on a trainer. I got on the bike around 6am and did 2x10min Int's and 2x5min Int's....
Saturday and Sunday im promo'ng the Dirt Big Ring Race series. Its 4-tuff ass courses on local dirt roads and should make for some good racing.

Pic's from Iraq

Im back, here are a few pics from Balad. Lots of long hours and not much training, i did some running to try and stay in some kind of shape. I did the army 10 miler in 1hour 16min, and the Tulsa 15K in 1 hour 10. Not bad for a fat boy that dosn't like to run i guess... glad to be back home and back to the bike.