JB's Adventure Blog: 9/4/05

I got the word from the Trek high court of corperate big wigs "and ear rings" that they would like me to go and hang out at Mammoth despite my not being ready to compete due to my bones still healing and stuff.

The good news is that I should be able to ride. I feel like a lazy slob for not riding for the last week. Ya gotta do what you gotta do. Rocky said that by the way and he is almost as tough as I am. :)

Yeah... as I was saying A NEW BIKE. The New bike that has been in the secret closet of the trek carbon wizards all summer!
The damn frame is a half pound lighter than the 9.8 and it has a pretty slick paint scheme to. I am sure Mark (one of the engineers) and Zap will be there for all the Q&A and I will be there spending some quality time at the tent answering questions, signing autographs and generally haveing as good I time as I can not racing. I may even spend a little time with the announcers.

Well here goes nothing.... Drum roll please... My picks for National Champions are: JHK for the XC but a close second by Adam Craig then Decker. Then for the Short Track I am going for Craig, JHK Wells then Decker.

For the Marathon Chris Eatough and Jay are going to have the big show down and Chris is going to take out Jay on the last down hill for the win! Yeah ...

As for the ladies I think It is going to be the Allison Dunlap Show. She will be on a mission. I think Dara will go well, perhaps second. And for the short track Haywood is going to lay down the big sprint win!

Well any way I will be there and get to see. My goal for the weekend will be to get first results on the WEB! Fred at Velo is allways pretty slow I think the comp will come mostly from the Andy Lee at USAC though of by many as the underdog of cycling gerbalism.. I mean Jounalism.

Ok I need to go do something productive.. Not that hangin with you guys isn't fun but I have been on the computer all stinking day.

Shout out to my hommes at JMU.

Peace; Jeremiah

I wonder what Rolli's doing?

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 4:39 PM 0 comments

The wedding plans.

Yeah.. it's one month to go! Wow.

Erin and I are are up to our hips in the details. We have been debating about where to go on the honeymoon, I have always whanted to go to Hawaii so thats the pick. It is expensive but there are few places of such stunning contrasts and beauty. Land, sky and water meet to make deserts canyons rainforests and volcano's. Sweet!

As Erin said she is worried my idle time now is going to mean I will be ants in the pants crazy to ride bikes by then. I told her I will get the workouts done early if I do anything. I'm shure to at least run and swim alot. ;) Isn't Iron Man going on in a month? Just kidding.

For our wedding presents to each other we are getting Trek Town and Country cruisers! They are going to be fun to cruze around Harrisonburg on.

I learned today while at Advantage Physical therapy from a professional patient where the word came from.... "To be a good pateint takes alot of pateints". Said a mother with on going foot problems. Young grasshopper you have alot to learn yet, I thought.

Later peeps.

Thanks for reading: Jeremiah

I wonder what Nick Martin's doing?

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 11:00 PM 0 comments

A Busy Day of Spectating!

There was an unusual flurry of racing action today with our team doing some solid race winning! From the World Mtn Bike Championships in Italy, the Vuelta, 24 hrs of Adrenalin and the Shenandoah 100.... OH, and the San Fran Grand Prix, geez! There was some serious racing. Unusually, I wasn't part of any of it but I managed to enjoy it. I spent a good part of the day on the internet and on the phone to get the dirt... Get it the dirt? Puns aside, I think I knew a few people in each one of those races except the Vuelta. Maybe even...

So Congrats to Chris Eatough and Todd Helmick on today's wins. Chris won another hard fought 24-hour battle where the elements turned against the racers with cold driving rain just before dawn. And Todd captured his first Shenandoah 100 Miler win! Awesome..

Oh, as I was saying, I spent some of the afternoon spectating and helping my buddy Chris Scott, though it was amusing to see the looks on peoples faces as I volunteered last night and today at aid station #6, "Hey why aren't you racing" was the question. That sucked, but I did have fun to see everybody pushing it and really enjoying the day.

Later, JB

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 8:57 PM 0 comments

Mammoth Mountain, the New 9.9 unveiled!

The wedding plans.

A Busy Day of Spectating!

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