INTERNET I AM BACK

INTERNET!

Hello! I have not seen you in more than a month! How have you been? Everything good? Family OK?

Glad to hear it.

I have had an exciting 5 weeks. I have been on an odyssey of self-discovery. Well, actually several odysseys. 2011: a bike odyssey. A crab odyssey. A brief-writing odyssey. An odyssey of applying for jobs.

I stuck to my word of "I am going to take some time to just ride and enjoy it." I said, I am going to ride 1000 miles this July. And you know what I did? I rode 1300 miles this July. I lost a solid 12 lbs doing it, too. I feel pretty great. A little tired. I had a lot of fun. I have also been running a bit and hitting the weights. Literally hitting them. Pow.

WHO IS READY FOR CROSS SEASON

I am not. Yet. But I am working on it. Pretty hard actually. Not that hard yesterday; yesterday I worked pretty hard at going to a barbeque after work.

OH, but I did finally get my TT bike set up so that I can hang out in the aerobars for more than 8 minutes at a time. Which is great because the TT at the Tour de Millersburg is upcoming.

Some of you may be asking, am I racing this weekend? It is Page County, or something like that. HELL NO. I don't want to race anybody uphill (yet; I have restored my drive to get there). I will be at MBRG next weekend.

FORTHCOMING IN THIS SPACE:
-Riding a bike with a gold AK-47 decal for extra power
-The RZA gets a new crankset
-Substantial announcements
-Racing CX in up to 7 different states this season
-Trying out a compact crank for the winter
-The essentials of a face-melting training playlist
-Maybe actually participating in a 1/2/3 race
-Gluing your own tires, round 2
-"Little giants"
-Webisodes?

-Eat this for breakfast: