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Peezy's Black Magic 2013
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walter
Fourth Party
jplt, if ekuhn was paying his bills
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Sorry, All this Boston stuff is insane, kind of distracted to update today. Listening to the police feed.
Rode Six Mile from Jacques with Mandi. Nice and smooth even with the little drizzle we got.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/299896107
Legs are feeling a little tired. I think I need to take the day off. Have to fix some of the bicycles too.
Rode Six Mile from Jacques with Mandi. Nice and smooth even with the little drizzle we got.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/299896107
Legs are feeling a little tired. I think I need to take the day off. Have to fix some of the bicycles too.
soulchild
Well-Known Member
I think you took one day off after BK right? I would imagine that's why you're tired. Hopefully next week I'll CX 6mile with you, you were killing it on the Ridley. I remember doing it on Tyler's cross bike when he lent it to me and it was challenging (was just recently back on the bike at the time).
soulchild
Well-Known Member
And drink beers and eat tacos!!!!!!
........ well you and I will drink beer, and Pearl and I will eat Taco's since you think Casa is beneath you and your sensitive pallet 😉
walter
Fourth Party
soulchild
Well-Known Member
my cross bike should be ready mid week, after that I'm good to go...
the first time I ever saw a dude on a cross bike at 6mile when I started riding I was was like PRO! as he slowly faded out of sight haha...
ekuhn
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walter
Fourth Party
me too!
I'd love to join this too if I can make it whenever it goes down.
Delish
Well-Known Member
Unless you're on a $5000 road bike with knobby tires.
I've been itching to rip turns on CX bike @ 6 mile. I'd love to join a murder train there.
Pearl
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
I would love to plan a Six Mile CX event; Eric, Pick a date, It will revolve around your schedule as you are the farthest.
Friday was a big day for the weekend; Really depended on what Mandi wanted to do. Just was itching to race Sunday, so we did Blue. I really did not feel like spending all day up in NY, and the 9AM Cat 2 start and 11:30 Cat 1 start were not really interesting me. I decided to do Cat 2 Outlaw after speaking with Jeremy. It makes the most sense right now.
My body really needed a day off, my legs felt heavy Thursday and decided Friday would be the day I head over to Halters and try to have the boys fix fix Mandis bike. She has a wicked chain suck issue. Trip tells me its the hub and she needs a new rear wheel. Lame. All weekend we tried to tell her she needs some carbon hoops 😛
Think she could also use some new pedals; but we have 8 pairs of SPD's around, just need to swap them around 😛
I decided to take a quote from woody; "I'm not going to let a race ruin my ride". If I was halfway serious about being 100% for a race, I probably wouldn't do this ride, but why the hell not? it's suppose to be beautiful.
I headed out Saturday to meet up with Lou and OG Madness at his Bakery ride. Madness is a OG at Six Mile and was ripping it up when I first started to ride bikes. He always tells me we need to link up on the road. The stars finally aligned. I didn't know what to really expect, but I figured it would be a B+/social sort of ride. I was pretty close.
Couple times we would turn up the pace and hammer out a couple of sections. Recognized one guy from the PFW A rides at Cranbury; There was about 4-5 of us that would turn the screws every once and a while. I tried to grab some KOMs on this loop but only had a 50% success rate. They also paved Coppermine which means it is now extremely fast to go uphill on.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/300608633
Later we went to get some tacos at Casa. Man they are delicious. Glad to catch up with Madness. I'm sure I'll be out again. After this I cleaned my bike and man, it was filthy. It had dirt in places I couldn't imagine. Enjoyed the warm sun but not the cold north wind that was making it chilly.
Mandi than filled out one of these:
We were approved for an amount we were comfortable with, and interested to see how far this gets us to staying in NJ. I will update you on the slow progress which is looking at houses. Probably will get more serious around June/July? No idea what to expect really.
Sunday, 515AM and man, its cold outside. And dark. Who's idea was this? Oh yeah Mandis. right.
Arrive at Blue way too fast; GPS says 1:50, I think I made it in 1:25? Chill with Dustin, Jeremy, ChrisRU, and then the whole world shows up. It was FREEZING. Jeremy lends Mandi a really nice hat since she didn't bring one.
Blue Race, yes. Me, Jeremy and Chris all lined up together. They let the Outlaw class off after the 50+ men. Interesting. We start picking through the traffic and man, this course is a mountain bikers dream! Not many places to really open it up and with the traffic, you really just hoped the person in front of you made the feature. We did a lot of CX moves in order to move up places from fumbled riders. I remember the courses from prior years having a lot more fire road and downhill. Jeremy only brought bottles so I was curious to see where he would be drinking.
At one point on this baby head uphill climb, Jeremy puts about 10 seconds into me and it takes me the last half mile to catch back up to him before the S/F. Or maybe he just didn't want to ride alone and wait for me. I realize I need to be in front of him at that point in order to have any real chance of beating him.
We are together through lap 1 and I felt relatively calm. My legs hurt, but nothing that I haven't experienced before. I still felt good.
Lap 2 starts and I take the point from here; Not sure I should have, but we pass a couple more people and we stick together. We come around to the same spot where I got gapped before, and Jeremy just drills this section. This time its 15-20 seconds. Ouch.
I try my hardest to make up the time that I lost on the climb, but it's hard. You can really only go so fast on this stuff. I up the risk factor and try to turn it up a notch. I eat it pretty hard and go down on some rock section, but land in the dirt. Somehow the zipties break my garmin mount right off of the stem. Never though I could crash so hard I snap zipties. I grab my Garmin, throw it in my pocket, and realize I need to go back into the same flowy zone I was in before I crashed just to stay alive.
The fun downhill section back to the road shows up and open it up. Pass one more SS rider and I decided to hammer the road for good measure. I look up and see Jeremy coasting to the finish. Lame! Probably would have been 30 seconds, but the score sheet says 10 😛
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/301651148
Felt good and I feel like I still have some rock skills. After my fall at Skyline, I lost a bit of it, but now I think I have it back. Except the uphill tech climbing. Jeremy went by like I was standing still.
Turn around and cheer on the rest of the riders coming in.
They let the ladies and juniors go first for awards, which I think was a nice gesture. The way it should be IMO!
All the ladies grabbed the bike pumps and posed for a PG-13 picture.
Headed to get some pizza down the street and home. Mandi made steak and potatoes for dinner. We took the 86 Lebaron to the grocery store
So thats two back to back weekends of waking up early and doing race things. I think next weekend we will be local.
Friday was a big day for the weekend; Really depended on what Mandi wanted to do. Just was itching to race Sunday, so we did Blue. I really did not feel like spending all day up in NY, and the 9AM Cat 2 start and 11:30 Cat 1 start were not really interesting me. I decided to do Cat 2 Outlaw after speaking with Jeremy. It makes the most sense right now.
My body really needed a day off, my legs felt heavy Thursday and decided Friday would be the day I head over to Halters and try to have the boys fix fix Mandis bike. She has a wicked chain suck issue. Trip tells me its the hub and she needs a new rear wheel. Lame. All weekend we tried to tell her she needs some carbon hoops 😛
Think she could also use some new pedals; but we have 8 pairs of SPD's around, just need to swap them around 😛
I decided to take a quote from woody; "I'm not going to let a race ruin my ride". If I was halfway serious about being 100% for a race, I probably wouldn't do this ride, but why the hell not? it's suppose to be beautiful.
I headed out Saturday to meet up with Lou and OG Madness at his Bakery ride. Madness is a OG at Six Mile and was ripping it up when I first started to ride bikes. He always tells me we need to link up on the road. The stars finally aligned. I didn't know what to really expect, but I figured it would be a B+/social sort of ride. I was pretty close.
Couple times we would turn up the pace and hammer out a couple of sections. Recognized one guy from the PFW A rides at Cranbury; There was about 4-5 of us that would turn the screws every once and a while. I tried to grab some KOMs on this loop but only had a 50% success rate. They also paved Coppermine which means it is now extremely fast to go uphill on.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/300608633
Later we went to get some tacos at Casa. Man they are delicious. Glad to catch up with Madness. I'm sure I'll be out again. After this I cleaned my bike and man, it was filthy. It had dirt in places I couldn't imagine. Enjoyed the warm sun but not the cold north wind that was making it chilly.
Mandi than filled out one of these:
We were approved for an amount we were comfortable with, and interested to see how far this gets us to staying in NJ. I will update you on the slow progress which is looking at houses. Probably will get more serious around June/July? No idea what to expect really.
Sunday, 515AM and man, its cold outside. And dark. Who's idea was this? Oh yeah Mandis. right.
Arrive at Blue way too fast; GPS says 1:50, I think I made it in 1:25? Chill with Dustin, Jeremy, ChrisRU, and then the whole world shows up. It was FREEZING. Jeremy lends Mandi a really nice hat since she didn't bring one.
Blue Race, yes. Me, Jeremy and Chris all lined up together. They let the Outlaw class off after the 50+ men. Interesting. We start picking through the traffic and man, this course is a mountain bikers dream! Not many places to really open it up and with the traffic, you really just hoped the person in front of you made the feature. We did a lot of CX moves in order to move up places from fumbled riders. I remember the courses from prior years having a lot more fire road and downhill. Jeremy only brought bottles so I was curious to see where he would be drinking.
At one point on this baby head uphill climb, Jeremy puts about 10 seconds into me and it takes me the last half mile to catch back up to him before the S/F. Or maybe he just didn't want to ride alone and wait for me. I realize I need to be in front of him at that point in order to have any real chance of beating him.
We are together through lap 1 and I felt relatively calm. My legs hurt, but nothing that I haven't experienced before. I still felt good.
Lap 2 starts and I take the point from here; Not sure I should have, but we pass a couple more people and we stick together. We come around to the same spot where I got gapped before, and Jeremy just drills this section. This time its 15-20 seconds. Ouch.
I try my hardest to make up the time that I lost on the climb, but it's hard. You can really only go so fast on this stuff. I up the risk factor and try to turn it up a notch. I eat it pretty hard and go down on some rock section, but land in the dirt. Somehow the zipties break my garmin mount right off of the stem. Never though I could crash so hard I snap zipties. I grab my Garmin, throw it in my pocket, and realize I need to go back into the same flowy zone I was in before I crashed just to stay alive.
The fun downhill section back to the road shows up and open it up. Pass one more SS rider and I decided to hammer the road for good measure. I look up and see Jeremy coasting to the finish. Lame! Probably would have been 30 seconds, but the score sheet says 10 😛
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/301651148
Felt good and I feel like I still have some rock skills. After my fall at Skyline, I lost a bit of it, but now I think I have it back. Except the uphill tech climbing. Jeremy went by like I was standing still.
Turn around and cheer on the rest of the riders coming in.
They let the ladies and juniors go first for awards, which I think was a nice gesture. The way it should be IMO!
All the ladies grabbed the bike pumps and posed for a PG-13 picture.
Headed to get some pizza down the street and home. Mandi made steak and potatoes for dinner. We took the 86 Lebaron to the grocery store
So thats two back to back weekends of waking up early and doing race things. I think next weekend we will be local.
JDurk
Well-Known Member
You can have my spot and ride my SS this weekend.
I am not going.
Now let's talk about this deadline I have given you.
j