Too busy having fun

Oh, If only I could blog while riding. Once I start pedaling, my mind starts racing… thinking about everything. This week was pretty rough; I had three exams on Thursday. So for about four days leading up to the exam, I studied… and didn’t do much else. It felt great to be done though… not that I’m ever really done… I’ve still got plenty more on my plate.

Yesterday the Grinch and I ran (hammered) up to the Royal arch at Chetaqua.

My legs kinda hurt today, so I decided to go ride up sunshine canyon through Gold Hill to the peak to peak, over to Ward, down Left Hand canyon, and up over Lee Hill. I was hammering for most of the ride; I just can’t ride easy anymore... riding easy is just boring.

The leaves are absolutely beautiful right now! If you haven’t been up there yet, get into the mountains before its too late, this shit only lasts for a few weeks, and it’ll be over soon. The leaves in Boulder are starting to peak too, so getting up to high vantage point to overlook the town, is pretty damn sweet too… I highly recommend doing that too.

My Girlfriend is in Portland for a few days for her friend’s wedding. Miss you baby.

Tomorrow I’m catching the 10:10 to Ned. Hope it’s epic (but not too epic). Last weekend, Grinch and I went up there and got totally lost… surrounded by Gross Reservoir… w/out enough food and water. The ride ended up being a little over six hours… not what I intended on doing. We did find a bunch of new trails though, so I’d say it was worth it.

I felt like having a White Russian tonight, but I didn’t have any Kalaua. So, I mixed vodka with milk (1:1), and added a little sugar, vanilla extract, and Ice… it was pretty darn good.

Oh yeah, I went to the Boulder cyclocross race at the research park today (to watch), and decided that I really want to do that. I need to get a cross bike though…. I will have cross bike, oh yes, it will be mine.

Dusting off the camera

Here are some pictures to stuff I've been up to lately.


This is the podium of the Global 24 hour race that I teamed up with Trek for. Yup, that's me wearing a Trek jersey. Kona got second, and gave us a battle, when we were originally expecting to have an easy race on hands... It forced us to actually race our bikes... which was good... it made it way more fun.

Had to celebrate with some tequila shots... out of plastic cups!!


After too much sex, drugs, rock and roll and inactivity, Ali and I decided to head up into the mountains to try climb a peak. We got way to late of a start to sumjit anything. It was super windy and cold immedietly after we made it above timber line, so we got as high as we could until are fingers and toes were complelty umb and then ran back down to the shelter of the tres a quickly as possible.


I think this is abou the highest point before we turned around. Pretty, huh?

Updating the blog

A month and a half has passed w/out blogging.... sooo sorry. No, really I am. Well if I wrote about everything I've done in that time, it'd take me all day. So I'll just try to summerize really quick (in 10 minutes) before my next class starts. Well that reminds me of one thing that's happened. School started, Ochem is hard, and my otherclasses are okay. is that too vague? I've done a hell of a lot of MTBing, some racing, and most recently I teamed up with Trek/VW to do the Global 24 hour race again up in Granby, CO. We won, and took home a nice paycheck and some good hard memories. My Girlfriend moved in with me, and it's going amazingly well so far. We have the occasional spats, but we're pretty good at straighting that crap out. For the most part, everything is going peachy, except I'm super stressed because of school and lots of other things. Especially what the hell I'm going to do next season. Fro the past severl years, I've always had some sort of plan for the comiing year (always racing on a team). But this coming year, after much soul-searching, my focus is shifiting. So I'm trying to come up with some sort of plan for my future... that doesn't put cycling as the number one priority. Right now, I'm seriuosly considering going into physical therapy, chiropractic, or osteopathic school. But I still want cycling to to be a main focus of my life, I just don't think I will have the ultimate goal of becoming a cycling God anymore. I still plan to race very competitive next year, and wil still be on the sponsor/team search too. But, I'll be racing mainly MTB, and just a little road. Well, I'd love to expand on this topic a bit more in depth, but I gotta go to class!!