Its late..really late..10:30PM. I am going to be getting up at 5AM so I need to get into my bed very soon or else their will be some serious morning issues I'll have to deal with. But I miss writing my blogs, I've just been busy the last few days with this that and the other. And on top of that the weather has decided to be nice again so that means that all the sudden I'm doing double sessions of training from out of nowhere. The mornings are still the times when I get the real work done..the swims...the high intensity bike intervals...no running yet because of the Achilles thing. I am watching this like a hawk, I haven't run more than 10 minutes since race day down in Galveston which was almost a month ago. Am I worried? Nah, the running will come back and I will have it locked down for Placid. Pace the bike, Pace 20 miles, and rip a smashing 10k to wrap up a beautiful day in the Adirondacks.
One great thing about today was that our Train This Uniform order arrived. Very cool stuff indeed! Probably the coolest piece of gear is the Jacket..the jacket is stellar and its very sad that only 4 ppl got the jacket during the first order..now that everyone has seen the jacket everyone wants one, deep down they know that they only want it because Turbo has it...lol...speaking in third person is truly a wonderful thing, it reminds me of that one episode of Seinfeld. You know the one I am talking about right? No not the one with the big rubber ball of oil (that was a good one though)
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
A Century a Day Keeps You Regular
This past weekend was a good training weekend. With no time being spent running I took to the bike to put some miles on both the tri bike and road bike. On Saturday I had the chance to ride with CuseTri. See his blog for a couple of pics and more details. And yeah I already took enough heat about my damn white tights...so please hold the comments. It was cold and they were over my bibs so as to keep my bits and pieces nice and not chaffed.
The on Sunday I headed out to the hills of Bristol to meet up with some cycling buddies and do a nice little recovery ride. About 7.5 hours and 100 or so miles later the recovery ride ended. AWESOME! The day began well with a good sized group of us taking off from one of the guys house which is located right next door to the Bristol Mtn. Ski resort. After a couple hours and a few hills we stopped off at the house where a few guys had to duck out due to family responsibilities (Lawrence said he had to take his daughter to dance practice, but I think he was hiding the fact that he instead was the one going to the practice). Another guy named Adam who was riding a bike for the first time in Bristol (and did great!) had to go play golf...at Oak Hill, I felt sooo sorry for him, haha.
So after we left them Crispino, Josh, Mr. Grimm, and myself headed back out. I thought we would you know just be taking it easy...well that quickly changed when we started climbing again. We headed into Chesire (I say these names of places like I know where they are, I do not. I just follow people where they take me, it takes way to much thought to think about where I am going)and then sure enough I remembered the route we were on and it ends with Bopple..freaking Bopple. 19% grade and all...I had to pee and decided to stop before climbing the monster. Good thing I did or else I probably would have had an accident at the one flat section of the hill...you know ride before it gets REALLY steep. So yeah we made it up...were cyclists, we've got legs of steel. Well then..around the 3 hr mark Josh and Crispino peeled off and headed back home. Well I had a decision to make..to call it good with a 3 hr recovery ride that had probably 5-6k ft of climbing, or keep going straight ahead on the road which happened to be West Gannett. If you know the area you know that Gannett is a really nice hill, not to steep but its very long and makes for a good effort. Needless to say I went straight up the hill. I couldn't pass up the chance to keep riding with the other rider in the group, Mr. Grimm. His first name is Erik but he's so many light years ahead of me in respect to umm..biking swimming running, basically any type of athletic event. Seriously, if you look at any of the races around Rochester..he's probably one it at one point or another, and oh by the way he's done Kona not once but twice, for kicks. He did it way back in 1993 and then came back for another round of fun in 2007, talk about an age group difference! We ended up riding for another 3.5-4 hrs. Not exactly sure on the exact times or distances since my garmin died at mile 88 which was before we climbed another hill to get home. I think it was around 102 or thereabouts.
I can't say how cool it was to just ride, ride without data, ride without time limits. It was truly a great opportunity to get to ride with Mr. Grimm, he's done it all and has been places that I would like to get to. You can learn a lot from people like that and I really soaked everything up during the ride. We road on roads i've never heard of and on roads that Erik himself had never been on. Needless to say a check of the map on the Blackberry was necessary.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Ready, Set, Wait
I don't have much time to write at the moment but I just wanted to put something up here to remind ya'll that I am alive and well.
The title of today's post (which I hope to have more time to expand upon) is about how eager I am to tackle my training and races. I want to GO GO GO and train hard..train long...get on the track and do speed workouts. But my body is saying no and that just stinks. It's hard to deal with the fact that you need to rest when you really have the drive to go out and run for 2 hours and bike for 6 hours.
The title of today's post (which I hope to have more time to expand upon) is about how eager I am to tackle my training and races. I want to GO GO GO and train hard..train long...get on the track and do speed workouts. But my body is saying no and that just stinks. It's hard to deal with the fact that you need to rest when you really have the drive to go out and run for 2 hours and bike for 6 hours.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Welcome to the Club
My friend Mike L. from the Windy City told me this on twitter "woah dude. glad you're okay. there's two types of cyclists: those who have crashed, and those who will. welcome to the club" This comment was made in response to the fact that my buddy Corona and I crashed and burned for the first time today. Let me re-phrase that, we both completely and absolutely performed a picture perfect Yardsale across some train tracks by Jamesville Beach in Syracuse, (aka the transition location for the Syracuse 70.3 that is coming in September). Here's the aftermath on my side. Its remarkable that only the bike lever broke off the bike and that I only have a bruised elbow, it really could have been way worse.
This accident happened at about the 5hr mark of our ride that was originally planned to be 6 hours. So on the bright side, even though we crashed and had to call it a day, we at least got a good solid 5 hours in! And my original training had been scheduled for 5 hrs, so I was right on target! Haha, you've got to find the good in everything.
But yeah, the crash happened right at the beginning of the homestretch. We had just hit about mile 86 or roundabouts and we were headed for home after completing the Syracuse 70.3 loop. We were hitting our tempo power zones (meaning that we were starting to really push the pedals down for the last stretch home). Mike was leading the way on this course and had ridden it multiple times and did the exact same course the week before. As he approached these train tracks he slowed down a bit and got ready to absorb the bump that always come when crossing train tracks, something that usually always works over these. Well this time we didn't have the best of luck, Mike's tire caught the track and turned his front tire immediately to the right and launched him. Brakes don't exactly work as they should on bikes in wet conditions so when I hit the brakes and tried to avoid Mike's heap I to when down in a flame of glory. Mike even said that he saw my face both before I commenced my launch and during. It would have been so funny (weird) to come upon the aftermath of this. Just picture to mean sprawled out in the middle of the road, across train tracks just rolling around checking their bodies to see if they were all in one piece and then doing the same for their bikes. Thankfully though a nice guy in a white pickup truck stopped and gave us a ride home..super cool of him. He turned out to be a rich dude who build housing complexes near where Mike lived, and happened to be headed that way to check on them. You wouldn't know it by the old 4x4 he drove that he was this well of dude but when he dropped his dog off at his house before taking us back to Mike's, we were treated to seeing his Mansion size home. I guess the rich are rich for a reason because on the way back to Mike's he did try to sell me a house. Unfortunately I told him that I would be emptying my piggy bank to fix my bike and that a house wasn't quite in the budget yet. The funniest part of the ride home was that he had this crazy doverman pincher dog, scared the daylights out of me (I mean the things was huge, and mean looking!) ....and it made Mike sneeze like 15 times on the ride home. Mike didn't have the heart to tell the guy that he was allergic to dogs, something I found out when we got back to his house, although I did have quite an inclination that this was the case after his 10th sneeze within mmm....18 seconds of being in the truck. Priceless.
This accident happened at about the 5hr mark of our ride that was originally planned to be 6 hours. So on the bright side, even though we crashed and had to call it a day, we at least got a good solid 5 hours in! And my original training had been scheduled for 5 hrs, so I was right on target! Haha, you've got to find the good in everything.
But yeah, the crash happened right at the beginning of the homestretch. We had just hit about mile 86 or roundabouts and we were headed for home after completing the Syracuse 70.3 loop. We were hitting our tempo power zones (meaning that we were starting to really push the pedals down for the last stretch home). Mike was leading the way on this course and had ridden it multiple times and did the exact same course the week before. As he approached these train tracks he slowed down a bit and got ready to absorb the bump that always come when crossing train tracks, something that usually always works over these. Well this time we didn't have the best of luck, Mike's tire caught the track and turned his front tire immediately to the right and launched him. Brakes don't exactly work as they should on bikes in wet conditions so when I hit the brakes and tried to avoid Mike's heap I to when down in a flame of glory. Mike even said that he saw my face both before I commenced my launch and during. It would have been so funny (weird) to come upon the aftermath of this. Just picture to mean sprawled out in the middle of the road, across train tracks just rolling around checking their bodies to see if they were all in one piece and then doing the same for their bikes. Thankfully though a nice guy in a white pickup truck stopped and gave us a ride home..super cool of him. He turned out to be a rich dude who build housing complexes near where Mike lived, and happened to be headed that way to check on them. You wouldn't know it by the old 4x4 he drove that he was this well of dude but when he dropped his dog off at his house before taking us back to Mike's, we were treated to seeing his Mansion size home. I guess the rich are rich for a reason because on the way back to Mike's he did try to sell me a house. Unfortunately I told him that I would be emptying my piggy bank to fix my bike and that a house wasn't quite in the budget yet. The funniest part of the ride home was that he had this crazy doverman pincher dog, scared the daylights out of me (I mean the things was huge, and mean looking!) ....and it made Mike sneeze like 15 times on the ride home. Mike didn't have the heart to tell the guy that he was allergic to dogs, something I found out when we got back to his house, although I did have quite an inclination that this was the case after his 10th sneeze within mmm....18 seconds of being in the truck. Priceless.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Big Weekend Ahead
Welp, as luck would have it as soon as one Achilles starts to feel better the other decides to throw a fit and act up! Seriously, why can't they just live in harmony. The soreness is in a different spot than it was on the other one which makes me wonder if it is just a results of some muscle pull on the lower calve area. The pain isn't really intense, just noticeable when I walk down stairs. Hopefully a good nights sleep and some ice will make it feel better. I have a nice 6 hour ride planned with CuseTri tomorrow morning and I am really hoping that it gives me no issues. I've been dying to get my mileage on the bike and run back up but I will be smart and back it down if things don't go as planned. The run will still be there when I need it..their is no need to push these things...
But aside from me complaining about my lower legs, I can't tell you how excited I am to get to ride with my good buddy Corona tomorrow. A 6 hour ride can be pretty daunting even in the best weather, and since Upstate and Central NY are expecting hurricane gusts of wind and temperatures in the 50's with rain...well that add's another piece to the puzzle. The conditions will not be ideal but they will be manageable. Everything is manageable if you plan ahead. The route is planned, our safety is planned, our nutrition is more or less planned, our clothing is planned..the weather however is not, so we will just deal. Will strap lights to our bikes and ride on...who knows the weather could be alright, that's the beauty of unpredictability :)
Optimism Rocks
But aside from me complaining about my lower legs, I can't tell you how excited I am to get to ride with my good buddy Corona tomorrow. A 6 hour ride can be pretty daunting even in the best weather, and since Upstate and Central NY are expecting hurricane gusts of wind and temperatures in the 50's with rain...well that add's another piece to the puzzle. The conditions will not be ideal but they will be manageable. Everything is manageable if you plan ahead. The route is planned, our safety is planned, our nutrition is more or less planned, our clothing is planned..the weather however is not, so we will just deal. Will strap lights to our bikes and ride on...who knows the weather could be alright, that's the beauty of unpredictability :)
Optimism Rocks
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The Incredible Sport of Triathlon!
I threw this up on my twitter account as well but I'll put the link to this youtube video here to --> SICK SPRINT FINISH (Thank you Corona, you introduced me to this little piece of inspiration)
Monday, May 3, 2010
Year 1 - Initiation of Phase 2
My first race of 2010 is in the books. For all intents and purposes the 2010 Triathlon season is my rookie year. I dabbled in the game last summer, but this year it's time to get serious...while still having a boatloads of fun, which I am. I use the word serious only because it means I actually have a plan, I have a coach who is guiding me through the ins and outs of training. It's great. The Ironman Texas 70.3 in Galveston was my initiation into the Ironman Triathlon way of life. I truly had one of the best times of my life down there. Having a full weekend to fully immerse myself in the triathlete lifestyle was amazing. I chilled, talked "shop", learned a lot, met my idols, raced along side both friends and professional athletes, and came pretty darn close to hitting my goals. I'll take that for a first race! With that said I had to come back to reality last Monday. After a longer than expected journey back to NY, I made it home in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. So began the recovery week. By Thursday I was pretty antsy so I got myself moving again by getting to Mary's Yoga class. There's nothing like a nice hot yoga room at around 90 something degrees to get your loosened back up. Then to my surprise, I checked my training log and saw that coach had put in a couple little easy workouts for the weekend. This made me very happy. I don't know what I would have done with myself if I didn't have anything at all to do over the weekend. I know that recovery is important and believe me I took it very easy last week, but the weather was so dang nice this weekend that it would have been a criminal act to not at least spin the legs a little bit. The easy bike and easy run worked out great. I took them very very easy and just enjoyed being outdoors. The bike ride even gave me a chance to meet up with some friends and just ride...with no parameters, no data. On Sunday I ran for about 50 minutes on the Canal Path. With no data to fill my head I just shuffled on from Schoen Place to the JCC and back. Not sure on the distance but it as just about 50 minutes. Funny because I didn't even take a watch but I was still able to almost nail the time I was thinking of doing. I guess that just goes to show you how powerful a persons mind is. If you think of something you can do it, whether you know it or not. I think that is why visualization is so prevalently used in athletics. If you can see something happen in your mind and you watch it over and over again you can make that become reality because your brain doesn't know whats reality and what's not. It will believe whatever you tell it. So visualize your goals and make them come true. You never know what you can accomplish unless you try.
Well then, it's Monday morning May 3rd. Phase 2 of the 2010 Season will get underway shortly when I head to my Master's swim class. This it he first time I will have been able to make it to the Monday morning group session in quite some time, a few months in fact. Work coupled with getting ready for last weeks race made it difficult to get to the pool at MCC with the group. But that is behind me now. It's time to get serious in the pool and start working on getting my times down. Plus I really like seeing everyone that swims there. It will be nice to catch up with everyone.
Back from the pool. Good to get back with the Masters team. Hopefully I can learn a thing or two about this swimming business from them.
I am back at my apartment now. Swim was 5:45 - 7:15. This gives me enough time to head back to the APT and get changed before I head back downtown for work. I made my green smoothie for breakfast in my awesome new blender that my Dad got me. The blender has an engine that is comparable to a 747's. I am actually scared to use the thing at night. I'm even a little concerned with the noise at 7:45am but what the heck..I just got done with a workout and I want my shake...let the neighbors come knock on my door if they want, I'm just trying to be healthy. And I'd be more than happy to let them have a sip if they wanted...If your interested in what's in my smoothie here it is:
1 banana (organic of course, ha)
1 huge handful of baby spinach leaves and or mixed greens (make it huge!)
1 scoop dymatize protein (about 24g of protein i think)
Some ice...thickens things up a bit, the stronger and more powerful the blender the more you can get away with throwing a lot in.
And that's it, a quick easy breakfast meal that gets me a bunch of vege's, fruit, protein, water, happiness..doesn't get much better.
Well, time to hopefully go learn about computer systems at work today. I am working in new department within the firm today. I am anxious to learn more and hope that good things will come of it.
Then after work (as long as some long hours aren't required) I will hopefully be able to make it to Yoga class which would really make the day great!
Here's to the start of a new week for everyone, if your training for a 5k, a sprint tri, a duathlon, an ironman 70.3, 140.6, of the Epic 5, train hard and train safe but more importantly have fun and enjoy it because if you don't...well then you need to figure out why the heck not.
Catch ya later!
-Turbo
Well then, it's Monday morning May 3rd. Phase 2 of the 2010 Season will get underway shortly when I head to my Master's swim class. This it he first time I will have been able to make it to the Monday morning group session in quite some time, a few months in fact. Work coupled with getting ready for last weeks race made it difficult to get to the pool at MCC with the group. But that is behind me now. It's time to get serious in the pool and start working on getting my times down. Plus I really like seeing everyone that swims there. It will be nice to catch up with everyone.
Back from the pool. Good to get back with the Masters team. Hopefully I can learn a thing or two about this swimming business from them.
I am back at my apartment now. Swim was 5:45 - 7:15. This gives me enough time to head back to the APT and get changed before I head back downtown for work. I made my green smoothie for breakfast in my awesome new blender that my Dad got me. The blender has an engine that is comparable to a 747's. I am actually scared to use the thing at night. I'm even a little concerned with the noise at 7:45am but what the heck..I just got done with a workout and I want my shake...let the neighbors come knock on my door if they want, I'm just trying to be healthy. And I'd be more than happy to let them have a sip if they wanted...If your interested in what's in my smoothie here it is:
1 banana (organic of course, ha)
1 huge handful of baby spinach leaves and or mixed greens (make it huge!)
1 scoop dymatize protein (about 24g of protein i think)
Some ice...thickens things up a bit, the stronger and more powerful the blender the more you can get away with throwing a lot in.
And that's it, a quick easy breakfast meal that gets me a bunch of vege's, fruit, protein, water, happiness..doesn't get much better.
Well, time to hopefully go learn about computer systems at work today. I am working in new department within the firm today. I am anxious to learn more and hope that good things will come of it.
Then after work (as long as some long hours aren't required) I will hopefully be able to make it to Yoga class which would really make the day great!
Here's to the start of a new week for everyone, if your training for a 5k, a sprint tri, a duathlon, an ironman 70.3, 140.6, of the Epic 5, train hard and train safe but more importantly have fun and enjoy it because if you don't...well then you need to figure out why the heck not.
Catch ya later!
-Turbo
Sunday, May 2, 2010
If only everyday was Sunday
5.2.10
Ahhh.. It's Sunday, my day to train and live like a professional. I get to wake up whenever I want, work out when I want, and take naps if I want to. Today of course if a bit of an exception from the normal as it's the last day in my recovery week post last weeks 70.3. Thankfully the week wasn't a total practice in not exercising. I still was able to get to yoga on Thursday, ride my bike for about an hour and a half yesterday with some friends (very very easy pace, it was very enjoyable to just ride and to just enjoy the weather and the feeling of being on a bike...awesome!), and today I am going to get out on the roads and run. A bunch of my teammates were running at mendon ponds this morning and I had initially intended on joining them but some things came up. I'll briefly describe why I didn't run early this am because I think it's an important lesson for all triathletes and humans in general. I went home yesterday afternoon to be with my mom and dad. The lessened training volume allows for these things. With that said I still was able to ride for almost 2hrs and still drive 1 hr home and be there before 11am, that's the beauty of early mornings! But anyway, going home gave me a chance to see the parents, go watch my 8yr old nephew play little league (first gave I've ever been able to make), go with my parents to a Kentucky derby party at a family friends house, and then watch a movie (the proposal, a nice movie..very light and had some funny parts) with my mom. Well the movie and hanging with my mom kept me up a little longer than normal. So my big executive decision was to sleep. In a little bit longer. The moral of this story becomes that I slept till 7am (this is considered sleeping in for me, the other option would have been to wake up at 5am and hustle to get bak to rochester to meet up with some of my friends who were running) well I got up and saw the parents and let em know I was heading out. I made a smoothie in the awesome blender they have (strawberry/banana/plain yogurt/and ice smoothie with about a 1/4 cup of honey bunches of oats for some crunch! Tasty!)
Brb...teammates just showed up.
Well that was nice, Chris, Ken, Eddy, Mary & Luc all turned up at burgers this morning. Many of them post workout. It was nice to catch up with them all and enjoy a cup of coffee with our stories. I love these mornings. It's so cool to just get up around at your own pace, to find your own way into the days workout. I am really going to enjoy the heck out of my little run today. I've decided that I am going to hit the canal path (as long as no rain) so that I can run amongst runners, walkers, and cyclists. And then Im thinking a nice visit to Towpath bike shop will be in order. After that...napping or book reading or something relaxing to get my mind in order before the work week begins on Monday. Thinking about Monday reminds me that I am going to be getting back to my masters swim group. I cant wait to see all the people that I haven't seen in a few months. Maybe some of their swimming prowess will rub off on me!
Ahhh.. It's Sunday, my day to train and live like a professional. I get to wake up whenever I want, work out when I want, and take naps if I want to. Today of course if a bit of an exception from the normal as it's the last day in my recovery week post last weeks 70.3. Thankfully the week wasn't a total practice in not exercising. I still was able to get to yoga on Thursday, ride my bike for about an hour and a half yesterday with some friends (very very easy pace, it was very enjoyable to just ride and to just enjoy the weather and the feeling of being on a bike...awesome!), and today I am going to get out on the roads and run. A bunch of my teammates were running at mendon ponds this morning and I had initially intended on joining them but some things came up. I'll briefly describe why I didn't run early this am because I think it's an important lesson for all triathletes and humans in general. I went home yesterday afternoon to be with my mom and dad. The lessened training volume allows for these things. With that said I still was able to ride for almost 2hrs and still drive 1 hr home and be there before 11am, that's the beauty of early mornings! But anyway, going home gave me a chance to see the parents, go watch my 8yr old nephew play little league (first gave I've ever been able to make), go with my parents to a Kentucky derby party at a family friends house, and then watch a movie (the proposal, a nice movie..very light and had some funny parts) with my mom. Well the movie and hanging with my mom kept me up a little longer than normal. So my big executive decision was to sleep. In a little bit longer. The moral of this story becomes that I slept till 7am (this is considered sleeping in for me, the other option would have been to wake up at 5am and hustle to get bak to rochester to meet up with some of my friends who were running) well I got up and saw the parents and let em know I was heading out. I made a smoothie in the awesome blender they have (strawberry/banana/plain yogurt/and ice smoothie with about a 1/4 cup of honey bunches of oats for some crunch! Tasty!)
Brb...teammates just showed up.
Well that was nice, Chris, Ken, Eddy, Mary & Luc all turned up at burgers this morning. Many of them post workout. It was nice to catch up with them all and enjoy a cup of coffee with our stories. I love these mornings. It's so cool to just get up around at your own pace, to find your own way into the days workout. I am really going to enjoy the heck out of my little run today. I've decided that I am going to hit the canal path (as long as no rain) so that I can run amongst runners, walkers, and cyclists. And then Im thinking a nice visit to Towpath bike shop will be in order. After that...napping or book reading or something relaxing to get my mind in order before the work week begins on Monday. Thinking about Monday reminds me that I am going to be getting back to my masters swim group. I cant wait to see all the people that I haven't seen in a few months. Maybe some of their swimming prowess will rub off on me!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
what it's all about...part 2
Honestly I don't really know how to being this post. On Friday I began a post that I had to cut short because I needed to get to work. I enjoyed writing that post because it gave me a good chance to think about all the things that have happened in the past year. One of the last things I was talking about was the first duathlon I did last year. All the distances were new and pretty much the longest I had ever done. Joe was the one who got me to go and re-introduced me into the world of endurance sports. For that I am extremely thankful. Thanks Joe. By the way, just this morning I was able to ride with Joe. It had been quite some time since we had the chance to ride together. I think maybe last November..it was nice to reconnect. Joe will be doing IMLP this year and I look forward to seeing him at training camp and the race. It is going to be a very special day when we all have the chance to race around Lake Placid in July. It's not a day of pain or just a race...it's a day of fun. A day to enjoy the fruits of our labor. I think the majority of triathletes train for races because they love to train. If they didn't then how would they ever get through the long hours on the trainer inside, or the long lonely runs outside and on the "dreadmill". So with that said, our day in the Sun in Lake Placid will be amazing. It will be the reward we've all worked for, I can't wait to share the day with my friends and family.
I really could go on and on about my experiences but it might get a little redundant and quite frankly i've forgotten some of the things I was thinking about on Friday morning. When inspiration strikes me again I will be sure to get the notes down.
So....It's about 4pm on Saturday afternoon. I have had quite a pleasant Saturday. Even though I got to bed a little later than usual last night (due to having a nice dinner at the BoneFish Grill with my bud Josh) I was up aroun 4:15. I headed back over to Josh's place around 5:45 to meet up with Josh and Joe for a nice little morning ride. On tap for me today was a nice easy ride. Since Josh just picked up a new tri bike and Joe was starting a 5hr ride, I was able to ride my tri bike, at a nice and easy pace. The two boys were riding a bit harder than my pace so I just let them string it out a bit and I hung back just spinning away in absolute bliss as the weather was absolutely amazing out. It was one of those rare spring mornings where you can walk outside in your shorts and a t shirt and be perfectly comfortable. It was really really great. If only every day started out like this.
As for right now I am back home at the Curbeau Realty HQ's in Penn Yan, NY. Unlike my apartment, my parents do in fact have cable television..and a big screen tv too! What does this mean? Well it means that Matthew gets to watch some tv with his legs kicked up while lounging on the couch. Its nice, very nice. What's even better is that the Versus Network is replaying a 1-day cycling classic that happened a couple weeks ago in Europe. I would tell you the name of the race but if I attempted to spell it I would butcher it so bad that it would not even be recognizable and you would probably be dumber for trying to read and understand it. So with that said, I'll just say that I now love watching cycling on tv, I can't wait to watch the tour this summer. It's gonna be really really awesome. Contador v Lance...round 2 - It's Like Rocky 2 where Lance is gonna come in all shredded after intense training and work Contador like Rocky took it to Apollo Creed. Oooooo, its gonna be fun, and I happen to know that for at least 4 straight days in July I will be planted on my butt preparing for a certain IM race, so watching the tour will be perfect timing. Yes!
Im off to a Kentucky Derby Party/Get Together right now at a friends of the parents. Should be a good time, its an annual thing and the food there is always awesome. Lots of shrimps and finger foods like that..very tasty! I have absolutely no idea who the good horses are but I am hoping I can pick a winner out based on their name. I need all the money I can get so I can save up for a SPEED CONCEPT, hehehe
I really could go on and on about my experiences but it might get a little redundant and quite frankly i've forgotten some of the things I was thinking about on Friday morning. When inspiration strikes me again I will be sure to get the notes down.
So....It's about 4pm on Saturday afternoon. I have had quite a pleasant Saturday. Even though I got to bed a little later than usual last night (due to having a nice dinner at the BoneFish Grill with my bud Josh) I was up aroun 4:15. I headed back over to Josh's place around 5:45 to meet up with Josh and Joe for a nice little morning ride. On tap for me today was a nice easy ride. Since Josh just picked up a new tri bike and Joe was starting a 5hr ride, I was able to ride my tri bike, at a nice and easy pace. The two boys were riding a bit harder than my pace so I just let them string it out a bit and I hung back just spinning away in absolute bliss as the weather was absolutely amazing out. It was one of those rare spring mornings where you can walk outside in your shorts and a t shirt and be perfectly comfortable. It was really really great. If only every day started out like this.
As for right now I am back home at the Curbeau Realty HQ's in Penn Yan, NY. Unlike my apartment, my parents do in fact have cable television..and a big screen tv too! What does this mean? Well it means that Matthew gets to watch some tv with his legs kicked up while lounging on the couch. Its nice, very nice. What's even better is that the Versus Network is replaying a 1-day cycling classic that happened a couple weeks ago in Europe. I would tell you the name of the race but if I attempted to spell it I would butcher it so bad that it would not even be recognizable and you would probably be dumber for trying to read and understand it. So with that said, I'll just say that I now love watching cycling on tv, I can't wait to watch the tour this summer. It's gonna be really really awesome. Contador v Lance...round 2 - It's Like Rocky 2 where Lance is gonna come in all shredded after intense training and work Contador like Rocky took it to Apollo Creed. Oooooo, its gonna be fun, and I happen to know that for at least 4 straight days in July I will be planted on my butt preparing for a certain IM race, so watching the tour will be perfect timing. Yes!
Im off to a Kentucky Derby Party/Get Together right now at a friends of the parents. Should be a good time, its an annual thing and the food there is always awesome. Lots of shrimps and finger foods like that..very tasty! I have absolutely no idea who the good horses are but I am hoping I can pick a winner out based on their name. I need all the money I can get so I can save up for a SPEED CONCEPT, hehehe
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