Strava

Strava has created a "widget" for blogs. figured i better check if it works on mine. I love strava. it puts me in a competition mindset when no one else is around and is a great tool for tracking progress. k now im going to see if i can get the "widget" to work.

three posts in one day!!!!!!

my goal is to do this more often and just accept that they be shorter. but i didnt mean to do 3 in one day

this reminded me of what i try to focus on during races and that is "the pain you will feel over the next few weeks remembering your weakness or failure in the race is exponentially worse then pushing through the temporary physical pain now."

speaking of pain I HAVE TO figure out whats going on in my lower back pain because it is KILLING ME during hard pushes.

CROSSING in to another year older

i tried cyclocross for the first time. decided it would be humbling to humiliate myself on my birthday. i actually didnt do as bad as i thought and look forward to giving it another try one day. the course was really tough and the crowd was absolutely amazing and i had so many friends and family out there cheering me on. it was a lot of fun.

whatever happened with the high speed rail

so i watched the peoples choice criterium (prelude to tour down under)yesterday (also know as midnight when i wasnt able to sleep) and it doesnt matter what super teams or racers are in a sprint finish (including cav) i always miss the finesse in which htc highroad demanded control of the race in the final kilometers. there was none of this back forth of what team was in control............it was htc in command and everyone else duking it out for 2nd.




oh by the way the manx missle just won the first stage of tour de san luis. spoiler alert whoops.

#OPQS

I won't waste time talking about how "I'm back to blogging" or "this time ill stick 'wit it'" cuz im sure the next post will be in 6 months ;-) but i just had to chime in on one thing. omega pharma quickstep.............i am SOOO excited about this team it is insane. Tom Boonen and Mark Cavendish are two of my absolute flavor flavorites and the rest of the team is action packed as well.

Now as you may have read before i'm not usually a fan of the super teams. for instance thor's talents are wasted on bmc and having griepel and cav on the same team was a waste of griepels. so typically when i see a star studded roster i get worried. BUT these guys seem to be diverse enough that i think this team will just work.

Tom Boonen, mark cavendish, sylvain chavanel, peter velits, tony martin and niki terpstra all under the direction of Brian Holm! i mean..........im just really excited.
oh and this picture of tornado tom and the manx missile is just sick

*photo credits to road bike action magazine's facebook page please don't get mad at me zap