This is Ted Logic in a more relaxed state than we saw him last night.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
Rubber Side Down!
My lovely wife is always kind enough to remind me not to fall off my bike. I really should have listened last night. I hit White Clay a little after four, rode by myself for a little while then met up with MattyT and fat Marc. My intention was to get 3 hours at nice steady pace. Well, Matt was feeling really good and was laying the smack down all night. I msut admit I would have done the same thing if I was the one felling good.
As it turns out my legs felt like lead weights hanging from my ass. But I hung on. The trails were awesome, I had done a lap around White Clay already, so the 3 of us headed fro Middle Run to meet up with Slick Rick. We hit Judge Morris, or should I say Judge Morris hit me. We flying along pretty good when my pedal caught something and I crashed hard. Luckily I hit my head on a downed tree limb instaed of the ground. I was more pissed off a bout bashing my right knee again, it had just healed from the last time. We finished the judge and headed back to White Clay via Middle Run. We were going down one of the less used trails, which I really like. When at the bottom my front wheel washed out on me and I hit the ground AGAIN, just as hard as the first time. No blood this time. Got back up and we took off again. Matt was relentless, I heard Marc ask him to back off a couple of times which I was glad to hear.
Despite the crashes it was a great ride, we played around on the skills trail while Marc took some pictures, Slick Rick even rode up the skinny bridge,Fast and mad skills. Man there is nothing like a 3 hour mountain bike ride to clear your head.
As it turns out my legs felt like lead weights hanging from my ass. But I hung on. The trails were awesome, I had done a lap around White Clay already, so the 3 of us headed fro Middle Run to meet up with Slick Rick. We hit Judge Morris, or should I say Judge Morris hit me. We flying along pretty good when my pedal caught something and I crashed hard. Luckily I hit my head on a downed tree limb instaed of the ground. I was more pissed off a bout bashing my right knee again, it had just healed from the last time. We finished the judge and headed back to White Clay via Middle Run. We were going down one of the less used trails, which I really like. When at the bottom my front wheel washed out on me and I hit the ground AGAIN, just as hard as the first time. No blood this time. Got back up and we took off again. Matt was relentless, I heard Marc ask him to back off a couple of times which I was glad to hear.
Despite the crashes it was a great ride, we played around on the skills trail while Marc took some pictures, Slick Rick even rode up the skinny bridge,Fast and mad skills. Man there is nothing like a 3 hour mountain bike ride to clear your head.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Better the Second Time
I took off yesterday, I thought about doing a recovery ride but it didn't happen. Todays ride was at Granogue and I thought it was going to be a death march. I got there early as usual and headed out on my own. I was running a slightly easier gear and it was obvious. I felt pretty good. I made just about all the climbs today, and I did 3 trips around Weymoths again. I am looking forward to doing 3 full laps on Sunday.
I got to ride part of lap with Matty T, Billdo, and Ted Logic. I also caught up with Fitzy for little while, it's good to see him out riding. There were many others getting ready to head out as I was calling it a night. We even ran into SS Dan on his sweet Walt Works. The course is really coming together and starting to dry out. Let's hope for a nice stretch of dry weather to keep it that way.
No trails tomorrow, I have to do intervals, YEAH!
I got to ride part of lap with Matty T, Billdo, and Ted Logic. I also caught up with Fitzy for little while, it's good to see him out riding. There were many others getting ready to head out as I was calling it a night. We even ran into SS Dan on his sweet Walt Works. The course is really coming together and starting to dry out. Let's hope for a nice stretch of dry weather to keep it that way.
No trails tomorrow, I have to do intervals, YEAH!
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Blue Marsh Race
It all started today, my first expert race. Matt and I rode up together, and found a big group of Wooden Wheels racers. It was good to see so many show up to race. The weather was beautiful, the sun was shining and it was actually a little warm. The course was in great shape, with the exception of two 20 yard mud bogs, it was dry and fast. We rode around and tried to warm up, but it was tough getting the heart rate up on all the flat sections of the course. Matt talked me into doing the start climb. It was brutal but ridable. We get to the staging and they don't have any signs for the Single Speed class. They just put us off to the side and started us after the Vet 1 group. We had about 8-10 in the SS expert and 4 of us raced for Wooden Wheels, pretty cool. We had Keith(super fast) Goulet, Matty T, Mark Peterman reality tour. A nice fast group. Tofer was out and Ben Yoder(fast big guy), a nice dude named Tim who rode for Guys, and some dude from Pittsburgh who totally crushed everybody, he took off up the start climb and was never seen again. We hit the flat single track section and had a nice 4 man pace line with Keith, Matt, Ben and myself. We got a good gap on the rest of the field and just rode together for a while. We eventually lost Ben but Tim caught on and rode with us the whole time. After the first lap heading into the climbs Keith got away, so it was down to Matt, Tim and I. I was starting to hurt, towards the end of the second lap Matt got a gap on me. I pulled him back just before the climbs and we stayed together for a while, with Tim not far off. Once we hit the last part of the third lap I was really hurting and I told Matt to go, and don't wait for me. It was pretty cool, just before Matt pulled away, we passed a guy we raced sport with, who started 4 minutes in front of us. That gave me a little boost.
Walking up Bitch Slap hill for the last time I saw Matt and he wasn't,t that far in front of me. Then going up the last climb of the day I saw I had gained some ground and really cut loose on the down hill, but it was too late. I wanted a better result today but 4th in my first expert race wasn't too bad. Especially since Keith, Matt and I were only separated by a couple of minutes, I think Matt was less than a minute in front of me.
The team had a good day too. I don't know all the Sport placings but we had a good turn out and that is what mattered today. I do know that John(big ring) Cleary finished 2nd with some ridiculously fast time, not to mention he beat some really fast guys, like Ransom Weaver who I think won a lot of those races last year.
I didn't win today but I had a pretty good day for my first expert race, and I plan on only getting faster. The next race for me is in two weeks at Michaux. It should make today feel like a casual group ride.
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Walking up Bitch Slap hill for the last time I saw Matt and he wasn't,t that far in front of me. Then going up the last climb of the day I saw I had gained some ground and really cut loose on the down hill, but it was too late. I wanted a better result today but 4th in my first expert race wasn't too bad. Especially since Keith, Matt and I were only separated by a couple of minutes, I think Matt was less than a minute in front of me.
The team had a good day too. I don't know all the Sport placings but we had a good turn out and that is what mattered today. I do know that John(big ring) Cleary finished 2nd with some ridiculously fast time, not to mention he beat some really fast guys, like Ransom Weaver who I think won a lot of those races last year.
I didn't win today but I had a pretty good day for my first expert race, and I plan on only getting faster. The next race for me is in two weeks at Michaux. It should make today feel like a casual group ride.
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