JB's Adventure Blog: 2/27/05

I won! I won!

Today I did my first race of '05 today and it went great!
The 100k Marathon outside of Comfort, TX was the first stop on the National Mountain Bike Series. In addition to the regular fast crew were some ass kickers from Germany, Karl Platt and Karsten Bresser (bronze medalist from the 2003 Marathon Worlds). They schooled us in the 2002 Trans Alp. This time was different because Chris Eatough and I where born for technical riding like the terrain on the Flat Rock Ranch course. Tons of slippery slime stone, rock drops, stream crossings and hundreds of turns made it the perfect fuel course.

I knew our main comp hadn't pre ridden the course so I went to the front to put the pressure on them. I didn't think that the move would stick but it did! My gap was cut down to 1 minute at the halfway point but I had some reserves and kicked it into overdrive so as not to give up my advantage.

After the Marathon I refueled, got a rub and put on a dry shamois and wet shoes for the TT. My dumb ass signed up for the Iron Grind; the best of all the weekend's competitions. Ouch... Needless to say I took my lumps in that one.

I will keep ya posted on the short track results, my goal is to not get pulled, then throttle the XC.

Peace out:

Jeremiah Bishop

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 9:37 PM 2 comments

Back in Texas

Kicking off the 2005 season with the first NORBA National this weekend. The racing starts on Friday morning with the Marathon Cross Country event. Erin might post some updates as the racing gets going.

I'll see you at the races.
Jeremiah

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 1:11 AM 0 comments

Trainer Jam!

Ouch! Another 2.5 hour jam session on the trainer.

It was painful.

So I was indoors from all the snow thinking of how much I wished I was chasing my own tail on the trails somewhere. I had an evil workout scheduled and I was looking for trash to take out or anything to postpone the pain. What a wimp.

It took a little time to motivate but I did get on the horse and pushed it hard completing the bulk of this beastly workout.

Intervals, intervals, intervals oohhh la la! I felt like I was really going to puke! Erin even brought over the trashcan for me to hurl in. I held it in and took a deep breath. I looked down and it was time again. GO! GO!

I hoped on the rollers for another 45 mins of endurance work afterward and I actually felt pretty good.

Afterward Erin and I went down to a local hangout, Luigi's, with the Stava, Taco (Aka Jacob), Amanda, Kelly, Sarah and Andy. We had some good eats, some beer and some good laughs!

I hope you got to ride outside today.

Enjoy the ride
Jeremiah

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 9:26 PM 1 comments

A Week of Firsts

Back in Texas

Trainer Jam!

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