Normally Thanksgiving, and all other major holidays, begin with an early start and a long drive back to Lewis County where I am from.  This year we decided to try something new, staying home and having our family come to us.  It was so nice, my wife cooked a huge meal and we ate and I didn’t have to drive anywhere, even better I only had to go to 1 Thanksgiving meal instead of the normal 4 to 5 rushed meals as my wife, kids and I rush to see everyone in our family’s (both divorced so a lot of places to go and people to see).  Anyway, I had my normal Oats for breakfast to attempt to avoid overdoing it for lunch.  I ate a good bit but didn’t stuff myself (another first) but man was it good.  Then we all sat around and did nothing, just talked and hung out…Talk about a perfect day.  Then I went and messed it up by putting in a killer hour on the trainer, but even that and the gallon of sweat that came with it couldn’t ruin this day. 

Tomorrow we are heading to Eastern KY and I’m going to ride Cave Run Tomorrow...

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Last summer I was hit by a car while on a club ride.  It was deliberate and intentional on the part of the car.  Actually, it was a Hummer H2, but that’s not important right now.  What is important, is that someone intentionally hit me with their vehicle, on a main road, it was witnessed by more than four other riders (people I didn’t know), who got the plate of the vehicle before it sped away from the scene (hit and run), it was reported to the police and I was treated by EMS – and nothing was ever done about it by Metro Police. 

While this bothers me to no...

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The new kits arrived last week and they rock.  It’s been a long road getting here, countless design meetings, choosing a look, discussing the color changes, gather sponsor logos and asking team members to volunteer a ridiculous amount of their time to get this done – but I’ll tell you – it was all worth it.  I took out my new kit this weekend for the first time and headed out for a team ride.  It fits, it’s clean, it’s new and I think it’s a great new look for the team. 

Kudos to Rick Hinze for designing our new BikeClicks.com/Team Louisville kit and working...

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OK, so first things first, I got on the trainer this evening and put in an hour at a pretty steady pace, felt like I had a good solid workout.  When I downloaded the data from my HRM/Computer it said that in 1 hr tonight I burned about 1200 cals, however last night doing the Spinerval in like 30ish minutes I burned 1600 cals.  I guess there really is benefit to doing a targeted workout.

Secondly, I bought the new Guns N Roses album today, first album I have bought in literally years.  After listening to it while on the trainer tonight I’ll rate it a 3 out of 5.  One of the great things about it is that it was put together over 15 or so years so there are a ton of different sounds and artists.  That timeline is also one of the downfalls of the album over the past 15 years a large number of sounds have topped the charts and it seems that Axl Rose must have picked one sound from each of those genres.  You can hear Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, Santana, etc.  I will say one thing though, the title track Chinese...

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THe GOings on at Goose Creek Cycle

I don’t know the man, but I really can’t stand him, the sight of him and the sound of his voice makes me want to puke.  Mainly because I know an hour or so of punishment is coming.  Today my kids have some friends coming over so no time for an actual MTB ride so I retired to the basement to jump on the trainer and do a Spinerval.  Wow, Yet another smack in the face about just how out of shape I am, I did a short 40 minute workout and went really hard the whole time.  It was a good one mixed it up with high cadence work and one-leg drills, etc.  I haven’t uploaded by HRM data yet but I guarantee I averaged better than 160ish bpm the entire thing (besides the warm up).  The one legged drills really got my quads BURNING, sitting here after a shower and a short rest and they are still kind of burning.  Oh well, weighed myself today and I’m down 2.6 for the week so far, if I can keep that up consistently I’ll have the weight off by 1st Quarter ‘09 leaving me to concentrate fully on stamina and speed from April through...

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So today is the first day that I'm allowed to ride.  so, what did I do? I rode!here is a summary, so we get down to champions park wearing about 3-4 layers and off the bat I notice my front derailleur was bent so that my chain was rubbing against it.  for just a short time fix so I could ride a bit I bent it away from my chain. that worked, for 15 min.  but any way after that about half way through my first lap I realized that if I did not go back to the car and get my heaver gloves that my fingers were going to frost bitten.  they were so numb I couldn't shift or feel my fingers when I was braking.  so after that was taken care of I got back on the course and immediately got a ferocious headache. so I try not to think about it and it went away. while I was not able to ride outside for two weeks I rode a bit just for fun on a trainer, problem is it chewed the tread on my back tire  (the tread is as smooth as a road tire) so I fell twice due to sliding out on frozen turns.  and then when things could not go worse...

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Yeah sad I know, today I pulled out the Canzo and hit Cherokee and did about 1:20 ride around the park.  I noticed many technical features are gone but I still had a good time, I couldn’t really focus on the trail anyway because my lungs were burning horribly.  It was cold but I was dressed about right, so I wasn’t too cold (except on road sections) Other than the missing features the trails were in pretty good shape, solid and fast for the most part.  I parked at the base of Wilderness and started there, it didn’t take long to get my HR up starting up that little hill.  The rest of Wilderness was pretty uneventful, there were a couple new log crossings which was a nice touch.  They helped me remember why I went to the 29er as it rolls stuff so much smoother and easier than my old FS 26er. 

One of the low points of the ride was when I actually had to drop to granny to clean the hill coming out of Wilderness loop toward the golf course trail…it’s been 2 years since I ever used anything lower than my middle...

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In 2002 my brother spent a summer and fall in Alamosa, CO guiding elk hunts.  In early November I flew out to Albuquerque, NM where he picked me up at the airport dressed in full on Cowboy gear, after an initial laugh, we were off to the mountains.  In Alamosa we took horses (I know horses in a bike blog) to the Great Sand Dunes national monument and then up into the San Juan Mountains it was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.  After several days in Alamosa we headed north and the adventure continued, we took 285 North out of Alamosa and continued for a while through some beautiful terrain.  We decided to go to Aspen so we took a left onto route 82 past two of the most clear/still mountain lakes I have ever seen here’s a pic:

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I just updated both the classifieds and photos (pics) pages on the site.  The updates are mainly to get around an issue with the Flash 10 Player causing issues with photo uploads.  Apparently, when Adobe released Flash 10 Player it broke the photo uploader we use that allows you to upload multiple photos at once.  The good news is that this update should fix it...the bad news?  It's going to break if you use an older version of the Flash Payer.  But wait...there's more good news.  You can download the latest Flash Player (version 10) here for free.