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invisble_bike_crash
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i totally crashed today.

lemme tarantino it a bit and backtrack.

about 45 minutes into my ride i encountered a gentleman on a sweet bike who i'd never seen before, he said his name was grant and he was marveling at his new powertap and i was sorta chit chatting with him about it. An hour into the ride there is a spot where if you are on the group ride you turn left but i have my own route that i do, and i turn, you guessed it, right. So i fan way out to make a right and when i make that right, im going at a fair speed of say, 25. I totally slam into him, do a bit of the "concrete waterskier" routine, and finally hit the deck. Dude is screaming like he lost an eye. We are both no worse for the wear besides a little damage to our rigs that is at most cosmetic. Dammit what a bummer. My arms has a couple scratches on it but my hind quarters are shot to hell. Much scratching all over the arse-region. Im so bummed on a lame crash that could have been avoided by either one of us simply indicating which direction we were turning like we had on EVERY turn up to that point. So lame.

wow...

thirty minutes.....heh.... thirty.... heh heh


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sunday bloody sunday

i am so tired. Got to the top of calimesa with zach mark and some rndm dude. Met up with hector and lisa. The 4 of us went to the canyon even though i TOLD them i didnt have the hair on my ass to pull through the entire duration of the canyon, bam, paceline just like last time when i got left for the wolves. Not this time though. Pulled through the entire duration. I was weeping blood when we got to the train tracks. i couldn't even respond to normal talking. Im SO not feeling hair appointments today. Good clients are hard to find however, so i must remain as loyal to them as they are to me. Im thinking about a shower in the fetal position right about now. The sunday ride is so much worse than the saturday ride. Zach is cruel.

Mark is way too sweet a dude to be going through the kind of pain he's going through. Life sometimes gives you a painful opportunity to make different decisions , i hope mark can make the best of this rotten-ass situation.

saturday

I went for the group ride today even though i was supposed to run. i will probably still run cuz i didnt open my engine up at all on the bike, but there is hair to be done first, namely mom's. Im feeling SUPER good right now, and ive been warned by a dude who used to be pro that if i cant finish my intervals that i need to tell my coach to cut back. It just isnt happening right now. Ive finished them all. Maybe i didnt totally manhandle them, but i finished them as close as i can to perfect (which admittedly isnt anywhere near perfect in the platonic dualism sense), so im not wanting to jinx it. I think everything is perfect right now as far as riding is concerned. Im wiped when i get off the bike, but when i wake up the next day, im ready to go again, unless of course its friday, in which case i welcome recovery with open arms, and hopefully few clients. Feeling positive going into loop/crit practice come beginning of march. Posi posi posi.

a season of change...

thats all. I just need some.

overstanding dah roots.....respectjah

if it wasnt so lame to be a 30 year old skinhead, i would totally be one. I practically am now. I:

1. listen to MUCH reggae nowadays
2. work like a crazy person
3. enjoy sweet 60's brittish fashion (need a tonic suit and steelcaps)
4. own bleached jeans
5. can grow/am growing sweet chops
6. drink and fight (by drink i mean coffee and by fight i mean ride a bicycle)

on a totally unrelated note, i enjoy most of my clients, but some are a royal pain in the keester

on a further unrelated note if you call people your friend, f*cking act like it. If you slam your friends on your blog/to other people, or go to where your friends are hanging out and be total fun sponge, maybe you should re-evaluate who your friends are...? Be a friend to your friends. I have a person in mind that i am referring to as im typing this, but, it is not exclusive to that person. Dont be a drag, stick up for the people you care about, dont take them for granted, and if you cant do that, be honest enough to not act like you are their friend, because truth be told you arent.

i was born the wrong color on the wrong century in the wrong continent. I was a skinhead from jamaica who was a bad ass brittish track cyclist in my past life, its just coming full circle now.

bumoutz

im totally doing the boulevard race.... except...


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here's the thing. I was going with trevor. Trevor registred as a cat 4. He needed to race in 2 races as planned to race in cat 4, cuz he hasnt yet moved up. Due to ilness/death in the family, no dice on the races previous to boulevard. He's stuck with me in the good old crash 5 category. I ask him if he's going, he says yeah, sign up. I go to sign up and cat 5 is full. BOTH OF US ARE TOTALLY HOSED. According to him its time to gain 20 pounds and get a beer logo jersey. Im thinking 30 pounds and beer dispensing helmet.