Giros are coming

Has anyone been watching the Olympics? Me, neither...

I just finished up rockin the 29er for a good solid few hours over at dryer rd. It was nice to see some actual dirt under those wheels instead of snow. Conditions were great, wasn't even muddy. I'm loving how quick the 29er picks up speeds on the flats. Also climbing some of the lesser grade stuff it just rolls up the hills like they weren't there. I know they were there cause the legs were burning.

Looks like the GVCC spring Giro's are coming up quick. Has everyone been doing loads of training to get ready for them?? I know that it might take me a few of them to get my legs back under me but I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone has made out over the past winter.

Hopefully I won't get dropped on the first climbs....

Go Floyd Go...

~J

29er days are here

That's the new ride. Thanks to Matt at Fisher/Bontrager for hooking me up. Soon to be lightened up with all the Bonty carbon she can handle

Marky Mark, pulled a special covert op and built her up for me this past Friday night. We ran her through her initial paces on saturday morning. I was a little dogged from some catch up training after being away for a week, plus the fact it was 8 degrees and snowing harshly. So it wasn't much of a great trial run, especially with the damage done to the trails after the recent crazy windstorms. But I wasn't satisfied so I set her up for another test run.

I pulled the rig out for a nice solo ride on the frozen tundra of dryer rd. (not to be confused with the fisher singlespeed 29er "rig"). What can I say, I was quite impressed. Where have these bikes been? Coming from a 5" cake I rarely missed having the rear suspension as the big ol wheels soaked up all the bumps and spit em out. Once that bad girl gets moving she hauls balls up the hills and over anything in er way.

I'm quite impressed overall with the entire ride of the bike. I'm new to the SRAM world of shifting and can say so far I'm liking the shifters. I can't wait to line her up at a start line soon.

Where did I go?

Whew! been quite a long time since I been here to update (about a month exactly) Sorry for the sluggish updating. I've been training from my new job, which included a stint of time in Charleston, WV; Manchester, NH; Boston, MA; and Albany, NY. Been traveling just a bit.

I've been working from home for almost a week an a half now and it seems to be going pretty well. As soon as I get away from my kindergarten esque work desk and get a nice home office desk things should be quite a bit better. The only downside is that I'm stuck using a dull, I mean dell laptop. It's nice and big and fast, but it runs xp, gawd how I loathe the user interface of windows. I mean what is the point of making it so difficult to use? You can see now that people are actually figuring out that Apple computers and their software are the way to go; just take a look at Apple's current net worth. They are now worth more than Dell!

Oh yeah, how is my training going...Well I fell off the wagon a few weeks back. It was mostly due to the huge build up of stress in my life. But, I am glad to say that I'm back on my bike and training again, but damn are the legs a little bit slow right now. Hopefully they will come back in due time. Right now time is on my side, yes it is. While all you bums are reading my blog right now, worried that your boss is coming any minute; I'm sitting in my underwear at my desk with no stress at all...