pure jenius.

7/19/06 32 more days. Travis Kv...Kw...Kaw...Kavw...Travis can sure wheel that thing much better than this tard could. Talk about a big gord! Let's see... This guy sneaks out of SuperWeak (yes...I meant to spell it that way), and shows up to help with number 9. Sure as chevy, that kid threw the hail-mary in the third half of the bicycle competition. The kid timed a perfect attack with me in tow that cleared us from the field and got me close enough to the break that I had to pedal a little on my own to close the rest of the gap. Thanks Pat! What else...oh yeah...Dakota Tech long before 9 straight.

Dakota Tech circa 1999 Caption: "Enough of this $1.25 a gallon BS, I can't wait for gas to hit 3 bucks!"

07/17/06 I missed a few days. We are now at 34. Saturday was hot hot hot. I rode in the moring and rewarded myself to a daylong adventure of AC and couch surfing. Sunday was a killer. Two squirrels enter the road...only one returns. You'd be suprized how soft those little guys are. I looked back to make sure the little guy wasn't suffering, thankfully it took only one blow to do the job. I'm glad too, because the '03 San Lorenzo had a taste for blood and I was affraid I would have no controll over it if it took off into the densely wooded area looking for more. I got home and pulled a double esspresso...mmmm....esspresso. DIG IT!

7/14/06 Well, not that I'm keeping track, but we're at 37 days to go. How to fund the war on terror. Boy is it hot and I'm tired. later.

Phone home 'cause it's 38 days to go! Homegirl probably wishes I had started my count down a little earlier . I did some roundy rounds at the track tonight for the first time this year. That's probably why I don't have a sprint on the road this year, my leg speed it g-o-n-e gone from last year. Luckily I found where I left it and looks like I have time to get it back. Anyway, the racing was fun. In the 15 lap scratch race (scratch race = first guy across the finish line wins) it was quite difficult to get my now desiel engine legs spinning fast compared to the zippy legs of the track guys. I finished without crashing. The second race was a miss-and-out-becomes-points race. whuuut? Miss-and-out = last guy across the finish line every other lap gets pulled out of the race. I did my typical sit at the front and set the pace until we were down to the remaining 7 riders then the race turned into a 20-lap points race. Three quick legged trackies took off, Dale looks at me a...

7/12/06 39 days.

7/11/06 40 days and 40 nights Giro D'kota Tek #1: Got into a 6-rider break and was able to hold on to win the final kick and up the streak to eight. Dig that. In the "why would you ever do this" category: P-cakes , T, E-rock, and I were out for a warmup ride when I noticed one of these is not like the other. P-cakes decided that he would pin his number on the left side of his jersey. Now, it was one of the best pin jobs I've ever seen, I was quite impressed. But for this night of roundy rounds proper placement of the number was on the right side of the jersey. As we were riding along, P-cakes finds it necessary to proceed to take his helmet off followed by his jersey, unpin his number, then repin the damn thing on the correct side, and for a grand finally put damn jersey back on. All while riding mind you. That Pat, quite the trickster. 40 fast approaching days left.

07/10/06 41 more days. What would Reed do? He would probably take today as an easy day and look at some old photos. Hmmmm...who won this race?

4.9.06 42 more days as JP makes a suprising announcement about the 42 !!! Rode with homeslice for a few hours yesterday, we tossed in a few things on the ride that made my legs burn for a bit. It was all good because I was looking to log a few miles and try to keep the legs fresh for Sundays race in Hopkins. Hopkins Crit. The race started with a pretty good size field. It only took a few laps before some action started as I found myself in a group of four a few seconds off the front of the field, one lap later I look back and saw that E-Rock jumped across solo to add a fifth rider in the group. We had to keep the tempo high because the field was single file behind us. The gap reached almost 20 seconds when one of our break away riders got dropped leaving E-Rock and I with two Nature Valley guys. Our gap slowly grew over the field, and I mean SLOWLY grew. After about 25 minutes of a four person rotation, the prime bell rang for us, E-Rock picked it up a little, took the prime and in do...

07/07/06 44 more days ! Home Slice has a plan for me, getting it rolling tomorrow. No SuperWeek for me and I couldn't be happier. Only 44 more days and I'm already losing sleep. Good sign? This will make me feel better, but dang, it's a long time until the 27th.