Archive for February, 2009

Beat down

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

I think it happens around this time every year. I get a few month into the heavy prep for the coming season and just feel beat down. It always seems to take me 4-5 months to get from a short off-season break to race ready. The good news is that I’m a little head of [...]

Preview

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Here’s a shot of what’s to come: Ever detail of the new Topeak-Ergon team issue bikes has been pimped. We should have then under our butts in a couple of weeks. My understanding is that the custom painted forks, the last piece of the puzzle, have yet to arrive in Germany. Then there is of [...]

The first one is over.

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Race that is. It’s good that it was a short fast race that has no real bearing on my season other than some practice at getting there and going through the process of getting psyched up to kill it for 20 some minutes. After watching the TofC today, I think the Levi approach to getting [...]

Tundra TT this Sat

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The first race of the year is just a few days away….and I’m beat. I’ve been doing long tempo rides that last few weeks and then even more intense stuff on the weekends (when I remember to bring my riding shoes to the trailhead, but that’s another story). I borrowed a Blue TT.14 from a [...]