Upcoming: Serious Reality Check

Well Metropolitan Champs are up this weekend.  Crit @ Muzza on Saturday.  120 km Road Race on Sunday.  Race calls for hills and loads of wind.  Awesome.  Hopefully pull something out of the bag just to finish but just expecting to get some good training honestly.  The crit on the other hand.  Going for the win.  Raced awesome last weekend with my Team Mate Julian taking the win.  Fooling the sprinters on the inside with 500m to go.  I got all excited back in the pack and jumped on a dummy attack.  Got to 200m before the line with no more gas in the tank.

Good racing for the day.  Was active all day, getting into some breaks.  Did some hills post race and wrapped it up with 140 under the belt.  42 avr for the race.

Will just have to stay patient and race smart for Saturday.  Sunday will be sucking wheels to the max!

New Veels! Kicks in next week!

Never far from my new babies

Maurrarie - Mazza for short - Muzz for the Kool Kats

First Australian race after all that talk last year!  Got cold feet for nothing!  'A' grade race was a 'piece of piss'!  Equivalent to Cat 1/2.  Mazza is a crit track which wasn't designed to be very technical.  All corners are easy to pedal through at high speeds.  That being said, there was still a knarly crash today with 2 to go.  A handful of people down and 80% of peoples' race over.

Rode top 10/15 wheels the whole race.  Sat up like a pussy everytime I came to the front.  But todays goal was to finish and see where my legs stacked up with the likes of Southern Hemispherers.  Acting like a tough guy to gain form is for next week.  Unfortunately the crash with 2 to go really messed up my flow.  Gave my sprint up to bridge back up to the front.  The fitness is there to hang in until the end.  50 minute crit.  High 40 avr speed.  Happy with the legs!

So riding my high all day, I basically signed up for the up coming tour de Tweed.  4 stages, 3 days.  Also includes a Dash for Cash on the first night.  600meter street sprints.  Can you say Zip X front street races?!  YAH DAMN!  I'm no pure sprinter, but the things I would do for a little more cash!  The rest of the race is characterized as very hilly!  AWESOME!  I'm not expecting much, other than an awesome racing weekend, but I'm hoping to acquire some form .

Anywho, other than that, the training is getting better by the week and the fire for racing is back.  Hurting sucks but Phuck does racing quick ass!  Some guy tried to take my wheel with 1 lap to go, giving me the shoulder and elbow in a corner going 50kmh.  Gave it to him back and could do nothing but smile!  Sorry SUCKA!  This guys 80kilos!  Go move the skinny guy 3 wheels back!

Charity ride tomorrow and some intense hill cramming for next week.  Wish me luck.  Enjoy the fancy tan lines and the new kit.  

BTW those are small bibs and medium jersey!  Next best to a skin suit!

BOOYAH!

Ozzie Aerial Bomber and My First Taste of Winter in 365 days

Cock-a-Phucking-too. Sounds like a terradactyl, has a beak which would snap a piece of rebarb steel clean in half and has terrible instincts when it comes to facing off with a group of 20 cyclist mid effort charging at 45km/h.

CHARGE FOR THE CANUCK AT THE FRONT!

CHRIST!

This yelling prehistoric sounding bird had his sights on my red Oakley's. Of course everyone had a great laugh while I shat my self for the second time. I avoided it at the last second, as I hugged my top tube and shouted all types of obscenities at my second assassination attempt. Australias airforce has been quite adamant at forcing me to leave the country. Hopefully the birds leave my airplane alone as I leave the southern hemisphere in August.

Other than that, the riding was good last week. Although the kms were only decent the quality was again very high. 250 for the weekend. 350 for the week not including Sunday. Tons of hills and speed. Sunday was Tamborine Mtn. Great climb and had good legs despite the hard ride on Saturday. My form isn't quite where it needs to be to start calling the shots in races, but then again, I'm not sure I've ever called the shots! Wheel surfing and pipping you at the line are my specialty! Purchased some wheels this week. Not my first, second or third choice, but these rising prices are really limiting my very limited budget. Went with Bonti's Aeolus 6.5, Sprinter tubs and a Record Cassette. Interestly, my bike wheel budget is over twice my new car budget! At least I got my priorities right!

The weather is getting mega cold. The afternoons are still beautiful, although I wouldn't know. Sweat Shop rules don't allow us to leave during the day. But the mornings between 5-9am are cold as heck. Today was especially bad as we rode inland towards Tamborine. Fog and that breath steam. Good thing I left my booties, long weather gear in Canada. It's really helpful in my probably flooding basement!

Anywho, not riding tomorrow morning. Big sleep in until 8am or something!

Happy Mothers Day!

Go get me 50 bags of ice. Should keep you busy for a while

Sea Food Festival.  1 day, 1 street, 20,000 people

Do you know who you are talking to boss?!  50 bags of ice!  Pff!  10kg each = half a metric phucking ton!  No worries! You are paying me 20 bucks an hour! Oh Yeah.  The ice is at the bottom of the hill!

6 bags at a time and some serious pushing!  But I put all the other stalls to shame.  They had two panzies pushing 5 bags at a time.  Pussies!  Got my Half Ton done within the hour and resumed being Mr. Amazing!  I got paired up with this other dude, but honestly he did nothing but slow me down and follow me like a fricken two year old.  Icing shit, or picking up stuff, he was right behind me!  "DUDE!  LOOK!  I GOT THIS TABLE OR CASE OF BEER!  GO ICE THAT ONE!  THIS ONE WILL BE FINE AFTER I POUR THIS BAG OF ICE ON IT!"

WANKER

Anywho, it was nice to see people who began work hours after me getting laid off hours before me.  Putting in a 3-4 hour shift.  I ended up being good enough for 10 and got laid off before the final clean up.  Beer never tasted so good!

Also rode 100km that morning at 5am!  and 100km of major hills the day before!

Last week was nice on the bike.  The milage was low at 250 but the quality was very high.  Did some school of pops riding.  When slow and weak.  Ride big ass hills often!  Hit the back side of Coot Tha 3 times and did the hilyest store ride to date.  Clear Mountain followed by the Nebo Goat Track.  Clear mountain is best explained by 5 steps which bring up up to this sweet ridge.  Unfortunately each step has an average of about 18-20% each.  Yeah that hurt.  Good thing the 30km before were nice rolling hills and the following 40km include the Nebo goat track!  There was no saving the legs.  Straight up hurt.  A total of 1 hour 38 minutes of climb time.  Average speed at a decent 28 and a cool max speed of 78!

Just gotta keep up this attitude and the fitness will be back within a month.

Damage Control

Well I'm not looking to create another Bangkok Uproar because of my lack of bloggin'.  So here is a post.

Everyone is sick.  I've been lazy as hell.  Having a hard time riding any more than 250km a week and work has had some serious downers.  Oh yeah.  It's cold as hell riding in the morning.  12-14 degrees.  Arm warmers, vests and even the wool knee warmers this morning.  It's supposed to get colder but what ever.   The winter gear is out and now, won't be going away until my Canadian return this August.  The plan is to return early august as there are a few good races I'd like to do in Ontario.  August should also offer some nice riding weather.

I also plan on buying my first car.  Anyone got a rust bucket?  Something with 4 wheels and a drivers seat.  Anything else would be pushing it and unnecessary!  I know choquette has that 350z.  It's only got 2 doors and is just simply unpractical in this economic medium. 

I got a thousand ozzie for that lil snot rocket of yours!

Anywho.  It's all I can muster up at the moment.  I will not be able to get my Dorothy's until June'ish and wheels are being sought after by someone else.  So their status is still unknown.  I did buy some bad ass frog skins.  Turquoise with white arms!  Ugliest most expensive pieces of plastic you've ever seen but stopped from complaining about not getting any gear!

Over and out