Race Weekend 1

Well it started off with a 9hr drive, which wasn't that bad. Then we stayed at Brad's house who wasn't there. In the morning there was a Red Flicker in the house! WTF bird crap everywhere!! well we got it out but almost lost my life. Race one went well Rob Campbell Won!!!I thought J-rose was going to win it but we caught him with 1k to go. Good work ROSE!!! My legs felt like flat, really didn't have a whole lot of spunk to them!! Last week I was really nursing a strained hammy which didn't allow my to do much training

Banana Belt my legs felt a little better still lacking some power!! But the team race like studs making it into almost every move! Rob got 2nd in this sprint which is pretty dam close as you can see! Well there is a TT this weekend which means I have to recable my bike again uhg oh well. OFF to school!!!

Game Day!!!

Bob's got a win with Sprinter Rob C. today. That's it for now need sleep!!!

All right here we go, it's the debut Team Bobs-Bicycles.com. Well the debut in force with lots of cards to play!!! I'm so fired up right now. It's a good thing when you are dreaming about the Tour de France all night long usually I don't remember my dreams but it was bike racing central in my head last night. We got into Olympia last night around 1030, what a long car ride. Long road trips like that are good for saving energy the day before have a race because there is nothing to do other than tease Slack(all in good fun). I hear the weather is Suppose to Rain hard today. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping the weather is going to be good. We don't talk about the good things because that can tail wind into head wind and good weather into bad weather. As of now I have turned off the tour vision and have started the thoughts of how I'm going to get my first cup coffee!! Well I will update tonight after the we drive back to Portland!

The Idahoans are coming MaMa

Alright the season is about to begin, less than 48 hours and the first one will actually be over with. I can't wait to go out there and see what I have gained over the winter months of training. The Boise crew is leaving tomorrow towards Olympia and racing at Mason Lake #2 72 mile race. The Mason Lake #1 was last Saturday. I have been riding well, so this will be the true test for the legs. I'm looking forward to also having 7guys all wearing Bob's jersey's at this race. This squad has some real horse power this year, OH IT'S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG!!!! After the race in Olympia we are heading to Portland. This will be the first time I have ever been to either one of these places so it's going to be a Rad trip just because of that + I get to race my bike= Great times. The Portland race is the Banana Belt#2 77 miles. It's nice that we are going to the 2^nd of both races because some teams will want to only contest for the series so the Bob's will be super aggressive and get something to go up the road. OH BOY IT'S HERE BIKE RACING SEASON!!! Wish me luck and the team, hopefully we can get 2 wins and come home satisfied, because we only race to Win.

Oh the weather is going to suck for both days Rain Rain Rain!!! I'm not bring my plate for Pie this week, only my can of whoop ass to hand out to some folks.

Pie Please

Today the Boise Bob's gents a couple Bob's ladies and a couple of randoms did an Emmit Horseshoe Bend loop. I was looking forward to doing a little battleing with j-rose on the big climb out of Horseshoe Bend back to the treasure valley. What I was not expecting was eating a big piece of
I did not take a pull and ridden off of Sam J's wheel. He's riding really well right now, he got 3rd and Valley of The Sun two weeks ago in the Pro cat 1 field. Pie sounds good, but I would rather be the server at this humble pie joint, but today I was eating the pie. Some time you serve the pie and sometimes you eat it. Other than getting housed by Sam the ride went really well, and got some quality time out on the road.

This is the power file when I got dropped OUCH!!!

Fun things

Well yesterday was not a fun day. It was a reminder why I am in school.

• Racing bikes -fun
• Snowboarding -fun
• amusement parks -fun
• beer pong -fun

I had a day off the bike but it was not a rest day! I was a stump removal system not the big horsepower kindIf you haven't seen my arms they are small and don't have a lot of power. Yet when I got the first one out it was a great feeling of achievement. It was quick removed by looking around and seeing the other 30 stumps looking me in the face. My arms and back were pretty much jell-o at the end of the day!!!

Things that are not fun

• Stump removal

• laundry
• homework
• Listening to Rose sing(not good rather I would remove stumps than listen to him)
  

Back To Work

Well with training camp over with, it's back to work! I have been riding my TT bike a little trying to get my neck in shape!! I'm actually getting a fit on the TT bike tomorrow(2/27) by the gents at Physio Therapy Performance Lab! They are going to get me to maximize my power in the aero position with the lowest frontal drag possible. They also did my lactate test last week, to record my improvement over the past few months. The lactate test is great for setting up your zones to train in. The test consists of starting out at 100 watts then they increase the wattage every three minutes tell you can't peddle anymore, its short and sweet. The Physio Therapy Performance lab has been taking care of us like we are Pro's. It has been great being around in Boise this year versus the Colorado collegiate racing. If you want to ride like Team Bob's, have the PTPL help you out. My motivation is at all time high right now on the bike. Keep it going for the new team website, thanks Mayfield!!!

SAUCY legs & Camp

Wow the legs are feeling Saucy!!!
Camp was awesome!!!
Got over 6700 calories burned!!!
200MILES DOWN!!!


Update
After the 1hr photo shoot, in the fog of Boise. We started off on our bikes south of town and got some great riding in with the team. We did have one little mess up, Brandon went down and broke his collar bone. Brandon is fired up for more trainer time thou. It sucks because Brandon is riding really strong right now too!! After the big crew got back to Boise J-rose, C-Alvin and myself went out for a punishing dump loop!!! All the hills had head winds on them which made it a little tougher.

Today after Rose got all of his eggs in one basket we got out the door and did a EHB (Emmit Horseshoe Bend) with the team. This is a ride that I have heard a lot about for the past year and it was awesome!!! The Legs felt super Saucy today!!! On the way back into Boise there is a 10k clim.b The guys who did the extra Dump Loop were taking good hard pulls all the way up the climb. After completing the loop J-Rose, Captain Sprinter Rob and myself did a hard pulling session up to the dam and back. Got a total of 108 miles today and I feel good!! I have been pretty much eating none stop sense I have been home!! Got to reload the body with some energy!!! Pics soon

Camp 08

Well we are having our double secret hidden Mini Camp in Boise this weekend!!! All other teams are soft, they are go to the warm weather for camp!! We are going to have below 50 degree weather and maybe rain both days!! This will make us all feel like we are Belgians. I hear those Belgians don't suck at riding bikes either. Today we are starting off will a little photo shoot then getting out for a 4hr bike ride. Tonight we are going to have a team dinner with the shop and the man Vern'o the inferno(aka the owner of bob's) He is pretty much Santa(but slimmer) to me all year long, bikes, clothes, helmets, glasses and always great coffee at the shop. I want to thank Bob's again for giving me this chance to ride for them again, because without them I don't think I would be able to go to school. I would have to get a full time job to pay for racing, which would also make me slower because I would have less time to train. So if you got some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket I would click on the link to the right Bob's-Bicycles.com to help out them who in the end really help out me!!

Missing Saddle Review

Trackback Thursday’s

Check out this site that I came across the other day. This Blogspot
member hails from Idaho and loves training. At first, the nick names
might intimidate the new reader, but hell, I caught on, and feel
like I know Boise better. http://biker1stu.blogspot.com

http://www.missingsaddle.com/page/2/

39x15

Well today is going to be the spin fest and maybe a little mashing!!! I can't wait!! I was not sure if I was going to race because Yesterday my stomach was flipping me off all day long!! This morning the Stomach and Legs feel good!!! So I hope to see a huge group out there today!!!

Results later?!?!

OH and tour of California starts tomorrow, Does anyone have a cycling.tv account???



Way to start the 08 Season with a 1 2 punch from Bob's!!! I felt really good on the bike today!!
It was a lot harder race than I thought it would be. Rose's cadence was for the entire race was 109 avg. I got off the front for almost a full lap, but the numbers were against me! Rose was the man and didn't do any work and had the Team Georges bring me and there own teammate back!! Rose attacked up the final climb and made it into a group of 4 of us. Rose on the front and me sitting on the back! Nobody wanted to start the Sprint, and Rose took his .2 K(17sec)jump, which started the sprint, I got out of the saddle and started passing peeps, then my legs were spinning so fast that I had to sit down and finish my high cadence sprint in the saddle. I got a win and Justin held on for 2nd. AKA the 1 2 punch. It was good time all around, we got to race and ride from our house.

End of First Lap (me off the front)

Rose in Middle of whats left of the pack!!!

ANOTHER BLUE BIRD RIDE

Dump Loops

Well this weekend the weather was dreamy in Boise!!! I got over 10hrs of riding the past two days. I did three dump loops yesterday then went out towards the dam on a solo rampage. The first lap I saw mostly runners and 1 cyclist. Then the next two laps the cyclist came out in full force they were everywhere! Today I got out and started doing dump loops counter clockwise and then Rose met up with on my 3rd one and we road a full lap. We met up with George and James aka Tad and Calvin. The big group rode a lap together and J-rose and Calvin went home. Tad and myself did one more lap together #5 for me on the day. It was great finally getting out on the bike 3 days in a row. Tomorrow a day off

OUTSIDE RIDING

Well today was the first time in a few weeks that the road bike has actually made it out on the road!!! It was great, we got 2:30 and it was great!!! I got out with J-rose and Brandon. It was the 2nd shortest ride of the week, but light dictated that one, I wanted more!!! I have been logging some big rides on the trainer and I'm feeling good now on the bike!!! I plan on doing a limited gear( 39x15) bike race next weekend. I will be getting my spin on 30 miles but plan on riding to race and riding a few more hours after the race too. School, well its school. The Team Bobs-Bicycles.com Camp is coming up in two weeks I can't wait!! We will be doing some testing and some team building and some bike riding too. The real race season is exactly one month away from today, which is good and bad. Bad is it's a full month away but the good is I can work on a few things that I'm lacking right now, so that makes it OK. I have got the TT bike up and running now too I will start riding that at least twice a week now, and try to get my body use to that position!! Hey if you see Spring tell it Boise is looking for it!!!

NEW FOR 08

In with the new look to bad that the only one who will get to see it is Rose and he's got the same thing going for him!!! I can't wait for winter to be over with and get to go out on the road!! Oh check out those stripes on the sleeves. That is Rose's clothes on the floor, not mine(no starts and stripes for proof!!

1 foot in front of the other

The past week I have been in Minnesota with my aunt Pat, uncle Tom(aka Freddy) and Hana the new Golden retriever puppy. I also went to see a friend from high school, but turned out that they were no friend of mine. I did watch the Golden Gophers get defeated in hockey against St. Cloud. Which was absolutely awesome, hard hits!

I did get some training in on the Minnesota family supplied bikes, a indoor and a outdoor. The bikes got the job done and that's all I need. I did go running one with my Pat and I could hardly walk the next day.

Full specification

Frame: Peugeot
Rear shock: Not invented yet
Fork: matches frame

Bottom bracket: 1989 one
Cranks: FSA Z-Force Light, 175mm, 22/32/4T
Chain: SRAM PC-unlubed 1989
Front derailleur: SRAM X-1989
Rear derailleur: SRAM 1989 BlackBox
Front brake: Avid Juicy Ultimate
Rear brake: Avid Juicy Ultimate
Brake levers: Avid Juicy Ultimate
Shift levers: SRAM STI Thumb

Rear sprockets: SRAM PG-1989, 11-34T

Rims: DT Swiss XR 4.1
Hubs: DT Swiss 190 Ceramic Center Lock
Spokes: DT Swiss Aerolite
Tyres: Maxxis Hard Drive Proto type

Bars: Special addition white FSA K-Force XC, 520mm
Stem: FSA coil 45degree

Headset: threaded
Tape/grip: Rubber

Pedals: Shimano Dure Ace
Seat post: Saddle: Vetta gel
Bottle cages: Elite

Total bike weight: 15.3kg (targeted 9.0kg weight with complete race equipment)

Frame: Trek 1000, Harsh Aluminum with 1' steer tube
Available sizes: L (tested)
Fork: Mizuno monocoque Harshest Aluminum
Headset: Ritchey WCS Carbon Drop-In
Stem: ITM 101 coil
Handlebars: ITM 101 Classica
Tape/grips: ORIGIANL cork
Front brake: Shimano 105
Rear brake: Shimano 105
Brake levers: Shimano 105
Front derailleur: Shimano 105
Rear derailleur: Shimano 105

Shift levers: Shimano 105 DOWN TUBE( for the best climbing
Cassette: Shimano 105 13-26T
Chain:Shimano 105 super wide
Crankset: Shimano 105
Bottom bracket: who knows
Pedals: Shimano Dure ace
Wheelset: Mavic Open pro's
Front tire: Specialized Armadillo
Rear tire: specialized Armiadillo
Saddle: Selle Italia
Seat post: Harshest Aluminum

Thanks for everything Pat and Tom!!!

McGovern's Dance Moves

How time flies

Well we are at the end of another year again. I would have to say 2007 was a great year for me! I started the year off in Boise hanging with J-rose and a new years bike ride. I went off to Cali to hang with Jessie Stuart for a week and go out with her good looking friends; ) Then I started training back at Mesa State College( with the Gingers and the locals in Grand Junction) for the Collegiate season which was amazing for me. I got the National Championship in the D2 Omnium(the best feeling in the world was getting called up to the podium knowing if you put your mind to something, you can truly do anything you want to.) I then went back to Poky for a few days and hung out with an old friend the xc runner for a week. Then on the road again I moved to Boise for the summer I ended up liking it so much it here that I decided that I wasn't going to be going back to Mesa State, and starting up at Boise State. Now that I have got 1 semester out of the way at Boise State, I have realized that I will be staying here for a while. Well long enough to get my degree which is going to be, like another 3 years or so. I really don't see the hurry to have to work for the rest of my life. Oh I have to tell you about this amazing feat that I did. I got an (98.2%) on my applied anatomy final with a 111 questions. Thats how it's done, at least in my book. I just got back to Boise last night from the week in Poky hanging with the family!!!


In 08 I will start off with that freezing bike ride at noon. Then I will be going to school and doing a lot of racing!

Goals for 08
Get my cat 1 upgrade
Get some great results
Win a Stage at the Gila
Top 10 at Twilight
Attack at the start of a race and win
Help the Team achieve great results
Get top 5 at Elites Crit nationals
HAVE FUN DOING IT ALONG THE WAY

TGFCB

The roomies and I getting well hydrated at BSU vs U of I game


I don't know how some people do it, study everyday all day long for 16 weeks. I put in a solid 2 weeks of studying and my brain was not use to the amount of info it took in(it hurt). My body also took a huge beating too, the study position is really not the comfortable there needs to be better ergonomic seating at coffee shops. I think I averaged about 5 coffee's a day which had me so wired that some nights I would lay in bed and go over my studies tell 2 and 3 in the morn. I was getting back up a 7 most mornings, to resume my studies. I passed all my class some with A's and B's and one that I had to get a 75% on the final to pass the class. Sounds easy right well my other two test grades in this class would say it was impossible. It shows if you put your mind to something you can do it, 75% is what I got and I'm so happy that I don't have to take that class over.

Riding has been good on the trainer as long as I'm doing a work out. It's the easy rides that kill me it's unforgiving like studying. Jrose and myself did a little rearranging to consolidate the beer pong room to setup the trainers, TV, DVD player and 3 fans.

It also snowed last night in the valley which puts a real NO NO on riding outside today. I might go for a hike tonight just to keep me sane in the outdoors.


Congrats to the 3 gingers (Ginger Twins and Sambo) for supporting the red hair like champs at cyclocross nationals!!!
sambo's Pic taken by the ginger below Ginger love

Photo ©: Kurt Jambretz/www.actionimages.cc

Lactate Threshold Test

Well I got to say it's been the first time I have been on a trainer this year, and it really wasn't that bad. I have been dreading it for sure, it's over with now. It's really perfect timing because last night it snowed for the first time. So yeah back to the test, I got it. So start you off at 100 watts and ramp you up 30 watts every 3 minutes. So really the test is easy then you are suffering and then it's over for the most part. This picture is not my test, but this is pretty much how it is broken down. The zones are set and now it's all up to me to get fast with a little help from the guys a Physio Therapy. I also want to put a little side note in, those guys are super nice and have really nice setup going on in Eagle, Idaho. I hope to see some massive improvement this year, like 10% or more power and stay a little leaner to this year. I wasn't busy enough this past year and not eating healthy enough so I wasn't shedding the pounds. Wish me luck now and make sure I'm on the bike and not eating any bad foods. I just ask one thing let me have one good beer every once in awhile.

Keeping up

So I had a great weekend on the bike and off. My older sister and dad came into town for a few days and we got to see Dane Cook's live stand up. That dude is so funny.
I got out on Saturday with Rumps and his wife and Sunday with Buster-B.Last night I got to have dinner with Sam and Hunter Allen the man behind cycling peaks coaching group. We did a little talking about cycling but a little more about snowboarding. Hunter also got a Ferrari and took it up to 160mph last week on his way to work. Wow that's rad The weather is also being pretty sweat here in Boise, nice and warm.