Eventful few days..ish

Not much happened at the beginning of the week, just worked. Same ole same ole. Thursday, I took the day off and Barry came in town for a while, so Josh, Barry, John and I went and rode Oak Mtn for a few hours. Good times and gate flippin's were had. Apparently the ABA cadence on our TARA box is jacked up. After the ride we ate some mexican, man I LOVE mexican foods. Josh was astonished at his lettuce and stuff being on top of his burrito. Good stuff. Friday was a normal work day, afterwards we hung out at 1021 and saw Saw V. Not too impressed with it honestly. Saturday I had to work... BUMMMER SAUCE. Then Saturday night we went to the Farm and rode for a few hours with a few of the Tal crew, thanks Jon for the awesome shirts and stuff. After that we hit up 1021 again and just hung out all night, Carlos showed up late in the night and mixed it up on the 1s and 2s.. Quite a good night. Sunday Josh and I met Taylor and Morgan at Oak Mtn early in the morning and rode for a few hours. Then I had to work out at Pelham. No bueno. Now I'm lying in my girlfriends bed blogging, good end to a fun weekend.

South Carolina

We left Wednesday night, about 7, and drove all night. Arrived about 1 am at my friend Jessie's apartment. Thursday Josh and I drove out to the track just to check it out, then headed to Columbia to hang out in the city and whatnot. They have a really cool downtown area, alot of live music and random boxing rings in the streets. SWEET. Friday, practice was terrible, it was super windy and started raining about 2 hours after we started riding. After all the rain Friday night it got super cold so Saturday morning practice and Sunday morning racing was quite frigid. Tho, AJ Bontorno may disagree because apparently it snows 6 feet in July up in Boston. haha. Anyway, I was happy enough my motos on Saturday, 5-3-1, enough to make it out, so I can't complain. In the main I just squidded out and ended up with 6th. Sunday morning I rode fairly consistently with a 3-4-3 and was determined to better Saturdays finish. Well, when the gate dropped in the main, I completely got dropped till the first turn and spent the rest of the race playing catch up, I was able to get around a couple people and still ended up with 6th. Not too psyched but can't complain about making mains. Definitely need some work on my first straights before Morristown after Thanksgiving.

Atlanta

Midweek/Tatted up

So, Monday was rough, I was tiiiiired. Went for what I thought was going to be an easy recovery ride but turned into a race with Mr. Rogers. Rode about 13 miles, a little faster than I intended.

Tuesday, made it to cyclocross practice out in Tville... and rode wayyyy harder than I should have. But I was able to ride about 45 minutes or so without dying. A step in the right direction I suppose.

Wednesday, I woke up early, hit the gym, worked all day and headed down to BarryNobles.com's house to bum a wheel off him. It was definitely nice to hang out with him again. Ps we're friends thats how we know eachother. Anyway, while I was down there hanging out we decided to add another piece to my awesome and completely random right leg. OOOH son it hurt. But I think it turned out fairly well.

Think I'll ride some tonight and rest for the weekend. Headin' to Atlanta tomorrow evening with Maggie to celebrate the anniversary and just chill. Good times to be had.

Cyclocross is really tough.

So, the big day arrived. Today was my first cx race. I woke up, made Josh climb out of bed and headed to Avondale, ofcourse stopping at Mcdonalds on the way for a delicious nutritious chicken biscuit. When I arrived Riley was the only person there that I knew, but shortly thereafter John and Andrew showed up also. I got a little warm up riding in with John then proceeded to line up and get ready to race. My heartrate was spiked before we even took off. Generally not a good sign. I took off, midpack, was able to pass a few guys and settle into a decent rhythm at about 8th or 9th. I worked for most of the race with a rider from Chain Reaction, not sure of his name. But coming around my 5th lap I was hurting pretty bad and couldn't keep his pace. I lapped Andrew halfway through my last lap, somehow miraculously through a joyous case of human error he only finished two spots behind me. Congrats Andrew! haha. I'm happy for him tho, he finished and he had a good time. So, I was hurting pretty bad on my last lap but I still finished pretty strong, so I'm definitely happy with that. I believe my official result was 11th in a 28 rider field. Way better than I actually expected to do. It was a great race, I had alot of fun and I can't wait for the next Bamacross that I'm able to make it to. I've got about a month or so to keep training for it, I'd love to break top 5 at Tuscaloosa's race. We'll see I guess.

Off days.

I took the last two days off to rest up for Sunday. Futile as it may be, I'd really like to do half way decent tomorrow.

So, last night Maggie, Josh and I went out to eat for Josh's birthday at Bdubs. I LOVE hotwings. After we ate we went over to Robert's house and hung out for a couple hours. Pretty good night, I definitely have missed hanging out with Bam Spenser and Robert the last couple weeks.
Today, we woke up, ate some delicious Krystals (nutrition is obviously my strong point) and went to the zoo. Pretty rad freakin' time at the zoo. Lot's of cool animals and whatnot. Got to pet a beaver. I would like a pet beaver. They're really cool. After the zoo we came home and watched the Alabama and Auburn's football games. Now its time to get some rest.. and see what cyclocross does to me in the morning.

First Blog

New to this. Not much is going on right now. I'll be back with updates after this weekends cross race.