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

That's just tacky

Great ride by Luis Leon Sanchez today.  Very smart to not try and fight Sagan at the finish line.  Obnoxiously someone put tacks all over the road and caused over 40 flat tires including three for cadel Evans and one for Maillot jaune Bradley Wiggins.  That's total b.s. and could have caused someone to be killed (not being sarcastic).  Try descending the Pyrenees with a flat tire.  Much respect to Wiggins for slowing the race to wait for cadel.  Made me proud to be a part a sport that has so much respect for each other and only wants to win in a sporting manner

fine whine in france

In the sprint for yesterday's stage finish (stage 5) tyler farrar was caught up in ANOTHER crash. As my regular readers will know I am NOT Tyler's biggest fan. In fact I believe in previous blogs I've reffered to him as the pelotens biggest whiner. anyways, when a door closed on farrar he resorted to trying to shove himself into argos-shimanos line. After bumping shoulders with one of their racers he had a bit of a tumble, nearly taking out greipel and putting sagan on the ground. So how does whiner mc-whinerson confirm what a baby he is. he storms the argos-shimmano bus after the race! try's barging in to chew out the racer that HE bumped into! What a tool. There's two positives to take out of this. 1.) we can stop wondering if maybe we should like tyler just because he is the only american sprinter. It is now confirmed he is a mess. 2.) check out greipel's amazing handling skills as he unclips and plants his foot on farrars stomach, gets around, finds his team, and wins the stage.

The manager of Garmin-Sharp (tyler farrar's team) said that tyler would not be sprinting anymore this week and probably not next week either so that he can "cool down and recover". My guess.......he's in trouble

*ive gotta be honest i expected sagan to do a bunnyhop 360 over farrar's bike but i guess he forgot all his old bmx skills