Time for some more change

Well I have decided not to go back to Mesa State College, I will be attending Boise State University!! I like the B-town so much that I figure it would be a good place for me to stay for a while longer! With that now I'm kind of under pressure with time, finding a house to live in and getting ready for school! Job, well that seemed way to easy. I went into the Olive Garden to get an application at 3:30 and the host told me that I could talk to a manger before 4:00. I went out to the car and filled it out and went back in to meet with a manager. 80 min later and a tour of the restaurant and a 185 question, personality test, I got a second interview. Went back and got the job. Now in Pocatello for a few weeks before starting the job. I will be working for the man! I also have to make a trip to GJ to pick up all the stuff that I left behind!! So it's going to be pretty busy right up tell school starts 7/27. I will be ready to settle back into my own space and have my own room. Oh I will be attending my first wedding of my High school friends this week. I'm glad it's not me but happy for him!

Dam critters

Critters keep on cracking nuts on my deck. This is what they get and you better tell your critter friends!!!

Twilight

Wow this race can get a man moving really fast for 90min! With all of my peeps showing up and cheering me on, which extra motivation to go fast. Its' going off the front and chasing things down that you think might go off the front!!! Well the race was flying fast this year, a 30 mph average. This year the race went by so quick compared to last years,108degrees race. The race had a 103 starters the biggest twilight ever! I felt awesome during the race and could move in the pack pretty easily. Corner one was awesome that was the Bob's corner, we had our great cheering squad there. Also on corner one was a hot dog stand on this corner. Man did it smell good, for the few laps that I could smell over the burning brake pads on peoples carbon wheels. Corner two was good too. Someone out side corner two was yelling Go Stu!!! The back straight away was a little dark for my likings, toward the end of the race. With my eyes being dilated and constricted back and forth the second half of the race. Corner three was a little crazed because of the position of the big grooves and wholes in the middle of the road. Corner four, wow it had a lot going on with fans again cheering me on, and the barriers that I hit once with my shoe and bars that was a little scary. The front straight away was loud, really loud. With two laps to go it was amazing it was like hitting a wall of sound. The Cuban missile won the race and sat on the back of the Crit for 75 laps. in last place. He can also be racing and reach over and pick something up off the road, very impressive. I saw this at cascade a few weeks ago and J-rose saw him do this at Twilight. So the two of us practiced this at a park with our water bottles. It's hard but we got it down. So I ended up placing 31st not bad but, I thought I did better. Well that's that. I ready to do some bike riding now. Hope to see you out on the Road!!

HA HA!!!

I have cracked

So the Indonesia trip is out, not just for me but the whole team. The race got moved back to November. Oh well with twilight pretty much being the end of the season for me!! These are the things I cant stop thinking about now!! I have not stopped drinking the Icee's but soon I can switch to the ICE COLD BEER and beer gardens and cocktail parties and BeerBQ's! It's been a long season 9 months of training for me and I'm pretty drained. I need to get off the training plan and just ride my bike for a little, and enjoy riding my bike. I will take a month totally off the bike this fall and do other things to stay fit(chase the ladies at Mesa). This way I can look at what needs to be done for next season!!! I need to look at a few things and pick some goals for 08. It's pretty early to be thinking about this stuff, but this is good mentally for me! Mt bike season is not going to happen this year. I will be doing nothing but the road from now on!
















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Cascade

Well it was really hard and it was a good serving of humble pie. I DNFed on stage 5 when my legs had nothing left I mean it hurt just to peddle my bike.

Well to the stuff that more exciting to talk about than sucking on my bike.

SO I saw this truck the other day. What the hell do you think it gets for gas mileage? That's a whole new level of small man syndrome!! McGovern it's all you buddy!

Matt W. got 9th in the elite Nats TT 31sec off the win flying!!! Good job matt

I also went to the fruit stand with J-rose today and loaded up on the goodness. Fresh spinach, Romain, snow peas, raspberries, strawberries, watermelon, cantaloupe(the best I have ever had), peaches, cherries. SO GOOD.

Well Twilight is this week!!! The coolest one day race that I go to all year!!!

Do 5 and Get 1Free

This is a good enough reason to stick around Pocatello for an extra few days. A raise will always get me to work more, harder, and longer. So today is the 4th of July and I will be missing all the fun but I will be getting money for 6 for the work of 5!!! Happy 4th to everyone hope you have a few beers for me because I'm holding strong!!! Still got to cut some wait it's not that easy!!!

Gate City Grind

I had a little bit of Alexander Vinokourov

in me during the road race. It always seems like the first part of a Pro 1,2 road race is always attack after attack. Well lucky or unlucky Sam Krieg got in the break with two team mates from Porcupine/Specialized Racing. The biggest team then went to the front and and started to rotate through trying to bring it back. With a few miles of doing that, they pulled off the front looking blown. We got to the tail wind section and the move had put 2min 30sec into the group in a few miles. It was time for that move to start coming back! With help from a few teams we kept them with a 2min gap. Rose start helping out and keeping the pace high. On the 4th lap and killing myself on the front of the field the gap was only had 15 sec, but we did not want that move coming back yet. If it did the attacks would be fireing off again and we wanted that break to be blown when it came back With ending the 4th lap and going into the 5th lap I knew my legs didn't have much left but I knew it wasn't about me today. This was going to be for Matt. I killed myself keeping the pace at 36 to 40 mph no joke. With Rose taking a pull on the front going up the hill then me I waited a few sec for Rose to get tucked into the group then I threw it down. I wanted the pressure to be so hard that no one would want to attack!! I did this and then blew off the back of the main group, but with my move there was a lot of carnage out on the road. The group I was with, actually made it back to the main group and I went right back to the front to keep the pace high. This yo yo effect happened a few more times before someone surged and I got caught out from the main field and was the only one off the back. At this point I cruised in knowing that my job was done. Rose and Matt got 4th and 5th on the day. This race would have been so awesome if the whole squad would have came. The cross winds made it really difficult. Tad it was one of those days that you dreamed about, I know how much you love the cross wind.

Time trail I did some soft pedaling to not waist anything for tomorrows crit. Rose and Matt rode the TT as if there was no tomorrow. Rose got 3rd and Matt got 2nd. I have not seen the GC yet but Team Bobs-bicycles.com is sitting really well. The Cirt is going to be a real hard Bike race with so many people with in just a few seconds. I can't wait I plan on ripping peoples legs off helping my mates out. It almost easier going in knowing that my place at the finish doesn't even matter. I will ride for bobs and for the over all win.

The Crit was an all out fist fight on bikes!! With the race being so close the Logan team had to keep the pressure on the front of race. This tried to stop all the attacks. With the First prime being a 10 sec time bonus the field was in a constant fight for position. Logan's race leader picked up the time bonus moving him up 19 sec over Matt W. The next prime was for 50 dollars, I used my home court advantage because I know where I can attack from on that course. 50 dollars was added to the pool of money. I then chased everything that was a threat down and sat on their wheel. With about 8 laps to go Justin took a flyer and stayed out there for 5 laps. making Logan chase and blowing a lot of there team right out the back door. Matt got 5th in the crit and Justin got 6th in the crit.

Team Bob's got two people on the podium Matt in 2nd and Rose in 3rd great job guys!!

I also got to thank

for all the help they gave Bob's team this week. They gave us some paper because Matt forgot his number so we had to make one via Tri-med Paper(injury report paper)! They had an outside AC that we sat by to stay cool during the crit. They gave us food which was awesome!!! The ice cold rags before and after the race was huge for not overheating and cooling down. THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!