Thursday, June 29, 2006
Outer Banks
After an exhausting three weeks of travel and racing, Erin and I are here on Hatteras Island, 30 miles off the mainland coast of North Carolina. The outer banks, for those who don't know, are barrier islands... a euphemism for sand bars. It is a relaxing place that is surrounded by ocean and nothing else.
Today Erin, her Mom Michelle, her Dad (Gregg the "snake man") brother Josh and I went fishing twice and it was decent. Within two minutes, I caught a flounder! MMMM... Flounder. It was a shame both of the flounder and the blue fish I caught were too small to keep.
Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
The storm of le Tour is brewing on the horizon. This calm however is quite welcome.
Jeremiah
Thursday, June 22, 2006
My 10th Mt Snow Vermont
Greetings.
This was my 10th race up here in Southern Vermont. As ready as I thought I was to win this one, it was not in the cards. I guess I would choose next year anyway! MT SNOW IS USA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE for the next 2 years, It’s ON like donkey Kong!
Nick “the Spider” Wait almost caught me in his web on the 2nd lap. I however couldn’t bear the thought of long training rides next winter with my good training bud rubbing that one in my face! So I raced like I was going for gold instead of racing for a top 10. Good Motivation! We battled and I just nipped him by a few seconds! The short track was interesting 2 firsts. The 1st 1st was that I got the hole shot! That was my only goal since my legs were toasty from the xc. The other first was our boy Ryan Trebon Won his first short track! Taking advantage of the sprint I set out for a lap and a half Ryan jumped and no one followed. This hesitation in the chase of Sauser, JHK, Wells, Kabush and Liam allowed his gap to grow to the largest in short track history! He lapped most of the field. Only 10 riders did not get lapped!
In resent NEWS….
Congratulations to Erin for successfully organizing Rockingham Memorial Hospital’s groundbreaking ceremony! Good work Erin!. She has been running this 3 ring circus for months and I am sure she is relived it is over.
Our Trek/Volkswagen teammate Leah Davidson dislocated here elbow and she’ll be out a few weeks resting.
I met the marketing guy from Fender Guitars and he is going to let me use one of his guitars! WOW. Very cool. (I have wanted to learn how to play for a while so this is a great excuse to make me look busy during all this sitting on my ass resting.)
We are now in Mt Saint Anne Quebec Canada prepping for Sunday’s World Cup.
That’s all for now.
Jeremiah.
Monday, June 12, 2006
The Art of Being Domestic!
Wow. That was a good weeked, 2nd in the XC and 4th in the short track at Show Down at Sugar Norba National. #2!
I just got done doing some clean up in the kitchen as Erin headed off for work. As I did my domestic duty's I smiled thinking of how being domestic (as in not in Europe) is a treat.
It was great dusting off the sticky webs of a less than great Euro trip this weekend by having a great double podium weekend in North Carolina. I scored a hard fought 2nd in my battle with Jeff Kabush that came down to the last down hill. And bagged 4th, (a career best for me) in a break though short track where I attacked and lead in the middle of the race! Dag that was sweet.
In the XC, JHK rode away from us on the monster climb every lap. The single track was short and sweet so we could only grab a few seconds back on our climbing opponent. The downhill was the kinda thing where you may loose a lot but not much to gain by going berzeker it was slick rooty and rocky. Sue won the Super D and grabbed a great spot in the XC finishing 3rd and Rad Ross was 2nd in the Super D and 8th in the XC. A good weekend for our team!
I was really happy to see Nick Wait my bud a training partner pull out the game face for 5th in the cross country! I knew he had it now I don't want to strangle him for be SOOOOO CLOSE. He got it!
Mt Snow is next and should be a better mountain biking course!
Friday, June 09, 2006
Sugar MTN
Well here we are at our rental cabin awaiting the XC #2 at Sugar Mtn NC. We were watching Sue's comedy tape and Erin is making us some appatisers. Chris Furrer is doing massage and we are all just lounging like house cats.
The course had endured a pounding from the rain and traffic, in the 2 woods sections it has gotten pretty burly as tire traffic has exposed the slick roots and rocks. Thats good... The climb is huge and it goes on the pavement a bitt. Kinda west coast style a huge climb and big down. I think is will be wise to play patient on this one. 4 times up this mountian will make for about 5200 ft of climbing. The semi pros did 37 min ave laps so I think the winner will be busting 34 min avg laps or so. About a 2:16 or so finishing time. I guess.
Man I did this awesome ride yesterday. I headed out for a jouney up Grandfather Mountain and then headed up the blue ridge parkway. The veiw was awesome. Then I asked a ranger for some direction on how to make a loop back to Banner Elk. I had no map or food but was really into the adventure. So the rager sent me down a wicked dirt road thru alpine meadows into the valley town of Foscoe below. I then took the long way home over 2 really sweet climbs and the downhills were crazy cool.. the most crazy switchbacks since Chris and I raced Transalp in fact! I am definitly coming back to do some serious riding here when I don't have a race to do.
JB
Show at Sugar
Well here we are at our rental cabin awaiting the XC #2 at Sugar Mtn NC. We were watching Sue's comedy tape and Erin is making us some appatisers. Chris Furrer is doing massage and we are all just lounging like house cats.
The course had endured a pounding from the rain and traffic, in the 2 woods sections it has gotten pretty burly as tire traffic has exposed the slick roots and rocks. Thats good... The climb is huge and it goes on the pavement a bitt. Kinda west coast style a huge climb and big down. I think is will be wise to play patient on this one. 4 times up this mountian will make for about 5200 ft of climbing. The semi pros did 37 min ave laps so I think the winner will be busting 34 min avg laps or so. About a 2:16 or so finishing time. I guess.
Man I did this awesome ride yesterday. I headed out for a jouney up Grandfather Mountain and then headed up the blue ridge parkway. The veiw was awesome. Then I asked a ranger for some direction on how to make a loop back to Banner Elk. I had no map or food but was really into the adventure. So the rager sent me down a wicked dirt road thru alpine meadows into the valley town of Foscoe below. I then took the long way home over 2 really sweet climbs and the downhills were crazy cool.. the most crazy switchbacks since Chris and I raced Transalp in fact! I am definitly coming back to do some serious riding here when I don't have a race to do.
JB
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Massenutten Turkey Huntin!
Howdy
Today Erin and I had a great time at the 17th annual Massenutten Hoo-Ha, the weather was perfect and the the course was tight. Fun Fun Fun. Kaylors was stupid rocky and tecki as usuall except a few new lines opened up from the super d.
I almost killed a Turkey today or by the size of the turkey he would have done some damage to me too. In other wildlife related news I had a squirrel incident on a ripping down hill, it seemed like he was off the trail only to come back (go figure) right into my font wheel I braced for impact of my head into the ground from the inevitable endo that takes place when you have a mangled rodent stuck in your fork brace! The little sucker must have just squeezed undet my bouncing front wheel. Good for me, good for him. Needless to say I chilled out on the other downhills. It is not good to push it when you have a health lead eh?
The race was other wise really fun and went well. I got to ride with Todd Helmick for a while, it was cool to ride with a good friend I hadn't seen in 2 months. In the super D yesterday word is that Dillion would have won if not for a flat. Ok I know shoulda coulda woulda's, but he caught the guy who won that started ahead of him before flatting, fixed his flat with a pump and got 6th! Dang. It worked out because the man who was born at this mountain's foot won the Double XC in fine form.
cupcakes rejoice!
the 11 the annually Tour de Burg is coming! see the official release on the www.shenandoahmountainbikeclub.com
Later yall Erin's a calling.
Jeremiah
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