So Parker, Nathan, and I went down to Florida for about 2 weeks, and did the Florida state road race. We also meet up with Mikey, he lives in Gainesville. 

We ended up staying at Nathan's moms house in Tampa for most of the trip, and the other times we stayed at Mikey's. Mikey's was really cool, we had basically had or own house, with a full bath, two beds, a tv, and a mini fridge. Nathan's mom was in the hood on the other hand. hahaha it was cool, kinda scary the first night but after that it was fun, parker, mikey, and i drove around all day getting pictures of the hood, well actually the people of the hood, hahaha.

Well now its summer, and its time for nationals trainning. Which means 4 days a-week on the track, 2-times a day. yea  its going to be a blast :(  hahahaha, hey look on the up side im losing weight. Getting ready for nationals have to get down to my fighting weight, which im shooting for 160 but once there i would like to get to 150, then ill be ready.

"Every one else in is pain too, It will eventually end, and It's all worth it"

-William Snodgrass

"DONT SUCK"

              -Clarence Muller

How is everyone doing today? I was having a good day till i heard some terrible news in the cycling world. So i wanted to talk a little about it. 

Yesterday on June 2, 2008 there was a terrible accident involving a head on collision of a car into a group of cyclist. The cyclist were in a 34k race from Brownsville, Tx. to Matamoros, Mexico. They were only 15 minutes into the race when, driver Juan Campus, 28, drunk and asleep "ploughed" into the cyclist in the race. Campus was charged with murder of Alejandro Alvarez, 37. Supposedly the Campus claims he is an American citizen driving to Brownsville when the incident took place. The U.S. consulate has not  yet confirmed that.  They say 

"We are looking into the incident in terms of whether American citizens were involved," 

                                                               

                                                                            -consulate spokesman Todd Huizinga said. 

10 were injured in the wreck and none survived with out injury. 

As a cyclist i am very disturbed that something like this would happen, but all that we can say, if Campus truly did fall asleep is that it was accident, but the fact that he was drunk was inertly unacceptable, and he should get the death penalty immediately. 

"Every one else in is pain too, It will eventually end, and It's all worth it"

-William Snodgrass

"DONT SUCK"

              -Clarence Muller

Ok so pictures are off to a bad start still trying to transfer all of them from one computer to another and no its not as easy as an email its to big. 

Anyways i thought i would just talk about the last weekend and this weekend. Gary Glickman, GS Tenzing, and State Crit all sucked in the aspected of the 4's but juniors wasn't to bad. 3 days, 6 races, 6 starts, 3 finishs, 2 crashes, 2 broken chains,  1 bent derailleur hanger, and 2 top 5. I guess you could say i had a bad weekend. haha. But hey it was fun, and that's all that matters right....wrong that is wrong, wrong, wrong especially when you have a sponsor breathing down your neck saying "DONT SUCK" haha thanks Clarence.  But yea, hey you win some you loose alot haha, i tried. 

This weekend was Tulsa Tough and well it was more than tough, see i just got my upgrade to a CAT 3 so these races were my first as a CAT 3. I got pulled from each  race it sucked i got a little pissy but soon got over. So i could cheer on the rest of the gang in their races. The girls did really well this weekend, Peter pulled away with a 4th place on Sunday, and Nathan "stole" Ronney Strange's prime on Saturday for $100. hahaha. hey that's from Ronney himself. Parker finished every race this weekend which was differen't from last year were he pulled one of mine and go pulled from every race. So awesome job to him. This was also Rachel's first weekend as a 2 and she only got pulled from Sunday's race, and that one is the hardest. i think over all it was a weekend of fun, the boys got to stay at this ladies house for the weekend. Thank you very much Marlene if that's how you spell it.  haha. It was a huge house with lots of more and it was very comfortable for the 8 of us haha.

Well that's about it for the weekend's up next is Florida we leave on wensday right after my exam, cant wait to see Nathan's family, haha. We will be doing some stage race and the States Championships, it should be a fun time. After that back home then off to AT&T crit in Austin or maybe if Nathan let's me to Houston for a Track Cup. either way it will be rad.

"Every one else in is pain too, It will eventually end, and It's all worth it"

-William Snodgrass

Lots of crit racing

"Every one else in is pain too, It will eventually end, and It's all worth it"

-William Snodgrass

I will never forget the time Will told me that before a race, and it is stuck in my head still to this day, so Will i say thank you.

I will have more information on this weekend once i get some pictures to go along with it, which will hopefully be later tonight.

Another day with a beard!

I was thinking the other day about my beard i got growing, yea yea i know i need to shave cause it just doesn't look right. If only i could look awesome like oh don't know Sean Connery in "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" his is amazing, and white it looks good.

He looks like a total bad ass and i want that. but i cant. 

So i was thinking about maybe growing a mustache, like Jason Lee from "My Name is Earl" funny show by the way. Possible have all the crazy hair going and the rad side burns too, it would be awesome right!?!

He looks like one of those guy's that right before you go talk to him, you're thinking wow this is either going to be a huge mistake or a really good decision, and turns out to be a really funny go lucky guy!

Wow i haven't blogged in a long time but im glad i am back online. I have been working my butt off getting ready for the crits this weekend should be a fun one. Well i thought i would just share some funny stuff i found looking on the web all these years so please enjoy.



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1) GREATEST SNL EVER!!!!!
2) WORLD HIDE-AND-GO SEEK CHAMPION
3) NEED I SAY MORE
4) MR. MIKE NEIMI
5) I AM SO BUYING ONE OF THESE WHEN I HAVE THE MONEY
6) RUNNN TIMMY RUNNN THEY FOUND YOU

Racing and more Racing

Last weekend was Mineral Well's and it was a good race, I raced the juniors and Day 1 was insanely easy. We only averaged 18mph. So it came down to a sprint finish, and the funniest thing happened with about 2miles to go a kid tried to break away and with nothing around on his own he flipped over his bike and landed on his head, it was so funny. But anyways with about 200m to go i sprint off and won by a couple of seconds. Day 2 was a lot harder we averaged 21 so we picked it up a little. The climb was crazy too thats were i got dropped but there were only two up the road and every one else was dropped way off the back. When i came to the top of the climb i kicked it up a gear and tried as hard as i could to try and catch them before the finish. I ended up third, not to bad though a 1st and a 3rd.
This weekend was Rocky Mount stage race in Louisianna, this aswell was a good weekend. The road race was on Saturday, and it was a lot of fun but hard, i raced the 4's. It was a 54 mile race with a brutly last hill, the race up until that point was pretty easy it was an attack fest though, which was stupid. But when we came to the top of the hill one guy attacked which is what i was waiting for sort of, but i had some shifting problems when he attacked. This kind of paosed me a little, but i didn't worry about it and just standed in the gear i was in, but that little pause caused me to loose out on finishing top 5, but i was able to hold on to 7th. The time trial was later that day, i was really tired but ready to give it my all and gain as much time as possible. The time trial was straight into the wind then the way back was a tail wind the whole way. It was a 4 mile time trial and i rode a 10:09 which is really embarassing but hey im not the time trial type, so i wasn't that disappointed. I was really waiting for the crit the next day, and man was i ready. The crit had a break in it about half way through and i wasn't sure if i was going to go with it or not, but i did anyway. Luckily it stuck to the end and it ended up being a sprint finish. We came aroung the last corner and the sprint was on. I was tied for third going into the sprint, and i kind of got boxed by that guy well not really but i got pushed into the outside corner and there was a guy in front of me, so i had to move quickly get around them, once i got passed them two there was only one more guy to get. I was in my smallest gear but i just couldn't go any fast. I mean i caught up to him but i couldn't pass him in time. So i ended up second and 6th overall. So i guess i couldn't say it was a good weekend.

Nathan's in Cali

While Nathan and Shannon have been in Cali. i have been doing alot of trainning. Over spring break i got a solid 4-5 hour ride in everyday, it was heavenly. I have been doing alot of effort workout's out at TMS like one day a week its been hard it is all worth it. I had a time trial 2 weeks ago, in Aubrey, Tx me and Rachel where out at it. It was a lot of fun, well sort of. It was crazy windy out. The start we were with the wind and on the way back straight into it. The wind was easly over 20mph prolly closer to 25mph. Over all out of all the times i got 16 out of a good 80 people. But in the 4/5 group i got 6th which is pretty good. I can easliy say that i gave it every thing i could, when i was done i had nothing left, i was dead tired. I just got beaten far a square and im ok with that, hahaha. The next race i did was the tuesday night crit in Plano. It was a tough race, but it shouldn't have been. I did the B race, but showed up late which was my fault, i did not know that the trip would take as long as it did. So i did not get any warm up and the race started off very fast, but tomorrow will be different for sure. This last weekend was the Belterra/Manda road race, i did not go though. I did not have a place to stay or money for a place to stay either. So that's about it for these past few week's sorry for not posting.

Here is a video for those of you who mountain bike or like to jump stuff, it is so funny.

I have let my blogging get away from me again, sorry about that. I have not really had the time to look at blog's lately, oh yea and im lazy. Well the past few week's have been pretty busy with riding and all, i have been trying really hard to get my sprint insanely fast. I have also been working on actually being able to finish a race so i can sprint! hahaha! I had a lot of fun on this sunday riding with these two kids who were like 8-10 years old, just kinda showing them the basic's of riding in a group and how save some energy going up the climbs. Which is kinda wierd cause i need to learn how to do that too. Well i sent in my upgrade request for my 3. Hopefully they will accept it, and maybe i can race next weekend depending on what the team is doing. 

Well i will make sure to keep up with my blogging and keep every one up to date with the latest cycling news.

So i believe i have gotten complete over my sickness, my throat is still a little. I will deffinetley be better by this weekend, and ready to take home another win from Vista Lago! CANT WAIT!!!

So i just saw Will's post about "Flight of the Conchords" and i am really happy to see that someone else listen's to them besides me so to go along with his video here is another great song from the 2nd most famous folk rock band in New Zealand, well used to be! haha

In Norman, OK today!

These men are installing and setting solid steel pillars in concrete to stop vehicles from parking on the pavement outside a sports bar in downtown Norman, OK. Wonder how long until they realize where their van is parked.

HA HA HA HA HA, that is were Pickle-O lives.
(Willy Snodgrass)
Will did you see these guys?

Awesome stuff going on!!!

So Pace Bend Road Race was this weekend, and man was it excited, well maybe that's not the word for it, perhaps the word, well two words would be heart racing.
On Saturday Nathan, Shannon, Parker, William, and I road with the club member. Later in the ride Rachel showed up out of no where, it was really confusing, because I had heard that she was sick, so I was wondering what the hell she was doing there. I thought about it a little and well i guess even if you are sick you still need to ride a little. Speaking of being sick, i went to the doctor today and it seems i have a mild flu, sick again i cant believe it. Usually i never get sick, but just this year i have already gotten sick twice. I know, I know that's crazy.

Well enough about people being sick and getting sick. This weekend was like i have already stated heart racing. I raced in the Junior Open class, the distance was only 25 miles, and for me that's more of a warm-up ride. The night before the race Nathan and I were talking, he was saying that if i didn't win this race then well i wouldn't have a BH bike anymore. Now I'm not sure if he was serious, but when somebody say's something like that you better take them seriously if you don't know better. You can probably tell that i got to keep my bike, since I'm still posting on the Blog, and if i got to keep my bike then......Oh Yea that's right i won. No biggie or anything. The race was farley easy, i didn't really warm up that much. I figured that i would kinda warm up during the actually race. That is precisely what i did. The race started at 8:15, we were doing 4 laps, each lap 6.2 miles. About mid-way through the first lap i did a little fake attack to see how my legs were feeling. I broke away for about a minute then let the pack catch me. After that i sat in for the rest of the race. 2nd, lap..........3rd, lap..........4th, lap. Same thing every time just sat in and enjoyed the ride. Last time up the hill came off some one went i got on third wheel and we started to break away. This kid though was not very strong so the pack caught us again. After that i just sat in till the down hill to the sprint leveld off, but going that early was a bad idea, way to early for me. I am more of a sprinter for the last 200m and less. So i got up to go and was off the front by about 50-75m but like i said i went to early. I sat back done to push it some more just sitting down. I looked back and there was a kid clossing in on my wheel so i had to get up and go again. No worry's i had this sprint in the bag, easy as pie. Of course i went across the finish line with hands raised high.

So as you can see my weekend was great, as for every one else not so good, Alot of the team was getting cramps, Corey and Leo got in a crash, Cory broke his colar bone, and Leo has a little road rash. Peter got DQ'd for a stupid call, the said he tossed his water bottle 100m before the feed zone.

Ok that's it for now lets end this with a funny story to keep you going in times of need.

Confucius Say

1. Woman who goes to man's apartment for snack, gets titbit.

2. Man who lay woman on ground, get peace on earth.

3. Man who gets kicked in testicles, left holding the bag.

4. Man who kisses girl's behind, gets crack in face.

5. Passionate kiss like spider web--lead to undoing of fly.

6. Man with holes in pocket, feels cocky all day.

7. Man who fight with wife all day, get no piece at night.

8. Virginity like balloon--one prick, all gone.

9. Girls who rides bicycle, peddles ass all over town.

10. He who farts in church, sits in own pew.

11. Baseball all wrong--man with four balls can't walk.

12. Man who live in glass house, dress in basement.

13. Kotex not best thing on earth, but next to best thing.

14. Man with penis in peanut butter is ------- nuts.

15. Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok.

16. Man who drop watch in toilet, bound to have shitty time.

17. Man who take lady on camping trip, have one intent.

18. Man who go to bed with sex on mind wake up with solution in hand.

So all the sudden i have been really addicted to solving Rubik's Cubes, and i mean i can do it no big deal, but i do it all the time, and now i want to get even faster at it. It is a major addicition. Some people say that it is really hard but it really is quite easy all it is, is a bunch of patterns that solve it for you. One day i wish i could be like this guy.



its amazing !!! 8.8 sec !!! its crazy.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

OK so now that i am back on my regular schedule of posting i would like to talk about a vital issue, affecting the world right now.

I'm not sure if y'all have seen it but there is a video running about on the web that shows a Police Officer, completely abusing his power as a law enforcement officer. The officer in the video is very aggressive, and his actions are completely out of hand. The situation is set up like so. A couple of skate boarders are ridding down what looks to be a public area, for instance a boardwalk of some type. The officer proceeds to tell the young men to leave and from there on it gets completely out of control. Now as a human being i am subject to see all sorts of grouping, or segregated i guess you could say. As every one else on the planet, i have seen my fair share of mis-treatment towards a certain group/groups of people. For example being a cyclist some people tend to not like us and well want us all to die i think, haha. But really the world has gotten kind of ridiculous in the this sense. Even the being discriminated against are well sort of trying to be a nucense. I personally cant believe that it has gotten to this extreme in society where people cant do things or be a certain way with out some kind of stereo type, that was created years before they were even born, just all the sudden thrust upon them.

I'm going to call Gordon out on this, the video that he has on his blog about the cyclist, well isn't the greatest video. I see it as kind of bad naming cyclist. The fact that "oh we are the cyclist, so we don't have follow the regular traffic law's and we are better than every one else be were ride bikes." Come on this is just asking for people the discriminate against us. Now i will say that i do not know Gordon's intent in posting this video, for all i know he may have posted it because, that was someones view of the cyclist and he thinks its funny.

Here is the video i was speaking of before.



And on that note lets end with a funny story!

The three race horses
Three racehorses were standing in a stable bragging to each other one day. The first horse boasts "I've been in 59 races and I've won 35 of them." "That's nothing," says the second horse. "I've raced 97 times, and I've won 78 of them!" The third horse joins in: "Well, I've raced 122 times and I've won 102!" Just then, the horses hear a voice say, "I've got you all beat!" The horses look down and sees a greyhound. "I've raced over 200 times, and I have NEVER lost!" The horses look at the dog in amazement. One of them says "How about that! A talking dog!"

Im Sorry i have let you down!

For the past week and half or so i have not posted anything. Well actually i think it is comming up on two weeks now. The truth is, that i have not wanted to post because people would like me to post about my races and well they are not going so well. But i will now post all i can about the Tour of New Braunfels, and Th Valley of the Sun.

The tour of New Braunsfels was not one of my best races at all. The the first day was the crit. I started out feeling fine, warmed up and ready to go. The crit was more of a circuit becaues it was 2 miles long. It had no hills really but there was one point in the crit that i had to get used to and, that was the quik turn aroung a up hill corner. The problem wasn't the hill, it was the fact that every time we got up over it on to the flat, every body would take off like it was the last 200m of the sprint. After i got used to this crazy way of riding, all was good.
But i felt a sharp pain in the back of my leg, on the other side of my knee cap....It was cramp, a bad cramp, and i should have just called it quites right then, but i came to win not to drop out. I sucked it up and kept pushing. It was argueably the most amount of pain i have every been in. 3 laps to go and another sharp shot of pain ran down my leg. It was like my body was telling me to stop and was giving me warnings every so often. Now my legs were hurting even more than before.
1 lap to go and you remember that quik little hill i was talking about, yea well once again we took off on the flat part of it, then all the sudden both of my legs locked up. Luckily just after that my left leg loosed. But that right leg of my stayed locked all night long. if you havent guessed already i dropped out of the crit.
The next day was the road race i had a pretty early start, so me and rachel headed out to the start. My legs felt allot better than they did, but they still a little soar. I got on the trainers about an hour before my race started. Doing some quick little intervals to get the legs moving. The start of the road race was a little hecktak, there were around 85-90 people in my race, so it was really crowded. We started out pretty slow, nobody really attacking that much. The hole race was allot like this, a few jumps but nobody really got away. So far my legs were feeling pretty good. They weren't really soar that much anymore. The sprint was comming up, we had just caught a break that had about a 25 second lead, the sprint was an uphill sprint, not necasarily my specialty, but i had to win thats all i had in my head was winning this race.
The sprint started with roughly 300m to go, which again im not used to doing, but i pushed through it and was headed for the win making my way threw the pack, from 10 up to 5 and moving up some more. As i started to move around the outside of 3rd place the 4th ploace guy made an incredible stupid move that almoste took out everybody.
This guy the hole ride was just being a plan idiot and not making the greatest decision. He would not pay attention when he was moving around in the pack, and one time had to ride off the road because he wasn't paying attention and almost hit the wheel in front of him. He was deffinatly one of the fours who moved up way to fast.
So back to the sprint, this idiot in the front of me to the right(4th place) again almost hit the wheel in front of him so he decided to swing way over to the left heading straight for my bars. i would have would over to the left aswell and just kept moving up the feild passing 3rd place but my front wheel and his rear wheel where still even so i would have taken him out. by this point in the sprint we only had about 150m to go. Then only option i had was to brake hoping no one would run into me so that the idiot to the right of me would not take us all out. Since i had to start braking insanely everyone flew right by me, and i new if i started to sprint again, i would probably cause crash, so i was screwed majorly.
In conclusion the Tour of New Braunfels weekend was horrible for me.

This past weekend was VOS or Valley of the Sun for the none cyclist. Overall it was a fun weekend and the junior team pulled away with a nice 4th place by Mike Neimi. All though Mike got 4th overall, i was still pretty disappointed in myself.
The origanle plan was for Mike to get the jersey on the first day, the time trial. On the second day was the road race and The plan was for me Mike to attack up the hill on the second time around, then when ever the pelaton caught him Parker and I would attack again, hopping to break away for the rest of the race. On the 3 time up the hill Mike would break away again, and try to catch Parker and I, us 3 would go on to take the stage, with ease. Will was then on the last time up the hill, to the finish, attack and try to take fourth place, or the next best thing. On the last day was the crit, and we didn't really know what the plan was for the crit but i really wanted to win the crit, or do really well. I thought i had a pretty good chance too.
That was the plan but nothing ever goes the way it should. The time trial for the most part was okay, Will, Parker, and I were not really supose to go that hard just kinda warm up a little, and thats what we did. The only problem was that Mike's wheel was not in the drop's correctly and his wheel was rubbing on the chain stay the hole way. This pervented Mike from be able to go as hard as he could to win the TT. Mike ended up 9th place with about 2:30min down from 1st place. This meant that Mike needed the KOM in the road race and first by a little bit of time. So the next day are race started early, 7:30 to be exact. We had a little trouble getting out there so we did not have time to warm up at all. Luckily the race did not start out fast so we had a little warm up before the climb. The first time we went up the climb there wasn't an attack till we got up over it. Mike was the first one to attack, we pulled him back in and then Paker went. After that I gave it a go. Right now we were trying to keep Mike fresh, and make every one else tired. So Parker, Will, and I took turns attacking. Attack after attack we kept it going. Then on the straight away back down to the start line. I attacked one more time, little did i know there was another kid right on my wheel. This made it possible for us to break away from the pack. Which we did. At the beginning of the climb the 2nd time. We had about a 1:30, to 2:00 min lead. The only problem was trying to hold it up the climb, and for me that was no walk in the park. We started up the climb, and i soon got dropped, Mike came flying, by me on his way for the KOM. Soon the pack caught me and i just sat in with them up the climb. The hole 3rd lap the pack stayed together for the most part. A few km before going up the climb for the 3rd time, Mike broke away again, and would stay away. Going up the climb on the 3rd time, was the hardest for me. I got dropped but so not done, i needed to catch back on i case they caught Mike we needed to lead himout for the sprint. So i used everything i had to catch the group. With the pack in my sights, they were roughly 30 sec ahead. All the sudden i felt my front wheel starting the get wobbly. What are they odds. I had a flat, all i was thinking was how could this happen now, any other time would be fine but not now. To top it off there wasn't a wheel van in sight, im not sure how or packs wheel van wasn't near by. So now i was out of luck, i started walking, and by this time the pack was a good 3 min up the road. About 5min after i had started walking, and generouse rider came by with a tube and some air. After i had changed out the tube, i was so far behind that i decided to drop out because i thought i would not make the time cut. Little did i know that there wasn't a time cut, and i could have finished. So with this little mishap i was unable to race in the criterium the next day, which i was really looking forward to.

So there you have it my last two races in a nut shell, well not exactly but close enough. This week i have been getting ready for are up comming race, in the gym tuesday, and a couple of soft sprints, to open the legs up a little, nothing too much dont want to throttle it before a race. This weekend we are heading down to Austin, Tx for the Pace Bend Road Race. I am really looking forward to this race, its my kinda road race, steep quick climbs and RAD fast sprints. Looking for a win so im hopping every thing goes swimmingly.

Sorry Rodney for not posting in a while, and i now it has taken me a while to post this one but there was a lot to talk about, because of all the times i have not posted, but i got it out there so you have some reading material.

Too all the others out there that made it this far thank you it really shows you actually care about what i have to say.

And to end things off with a bag here is once again a funny story to keep you going.

Decomposing...

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward ! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him.

By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.

By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the crowd asks him if he has an explanation for the music. "Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously. "He's decomposing!"

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain"

Another day in books. Today was a tiring day, not sure why, but through out the whole day, I've just felt down in the dump's. Now though im really excited, because tomorrow is friday, and that means ROAD TRIP, it is going to be so RAD, yea thats right, i said rad. I'm trying to bring it back, probably wont happen, but hey i can try. So i might use it allot in the post.

I completely forgot to tell yall yesturday, that i got a new helmet and sun glasses, from Uvex. They are so rad, the glasses when are sweet because when your wearing them people cant really see your eyes, its like a mirror, and they are crazy light, itdoesn't even feel like your wearing them. Same goes for the helmet, it is really comfortable, and supper light, i swear on the ride today, i forgot i even had a helmet on. Dont worry though it's deffiently there and tight enough were it will protect you, but you dont even notice it, it so rad. The glasses we got were the Crow Pro's which feature 3 lenses: A Supravision gray lens that does not distort colors for sunny days, a vision enhancing yellow lens for flat light, and a clear lens for wind and dust protection for those weird light conditions where you just want to eyeball it. So you know that they're super RAD, haha.
The helmet we got was the Boss Pro, and this helmet, is amazing it has this monomatic mechanism, for easy adjustment's. No fiddeling with straps, while riding, all you have to do is reach back and turn the monomatic mechanism to lossen or tighten the helmet.

Today's trainning was an easy hour out on the road, but man it was windy, and cold. Well it was really cold, but the wind made it cold. The winds had to be atleast around 25-30 mph, it was crazy, but it was a good ride. I really needed to ride today too, im not as stressed when im on the bike. See i have 3 really big test tomorrow in Spanish, Chemistry, and Geometry, so im kinda of worrying about them. So riding today made it allot better.

On another note, i was reading Will's daily blog, like every day, and i noticed he posted about how the song "Just the Two of Us" by: Will Smith, is arguably one of the greatest songs ever made. Well of course if you know anything about me, i like to argue, so i dont think its one of the best but this song on the other had is "The Greatest Song of All-Time"




HAHAHAHA, come on everybody has to agree that song is pretty RAD!

Now for a funny story to make your day.
Today's is funny

Male stripper
The other day, my friends and I went to a Ladies Night Club. One of the girls wanted to impress the rest of us, so she pulled out a $10 bill. When the male dancer came over to us, my friend licked the $10 bill and stuck it to his butt cheek!
Not to be outdone, another friend pulls out a $20 bill. She calls the guy back over, licks the $20 bill, and sticks it to his other butt cheek. In another attempt to impress the rest of us, my third friend pulls out a $50 bill and calls the guy over, and licks the bill. I'm worried about the way things are going, but fortunately she just stuck it to one of his butt cheeks, again. My relief was short lived. Seeing the way things are going, the guy gyrates over to me! Now everyone's attention is focused on me, and the guy's egging me on to try to top the $50. My brain was churning as I reached for my wallet. What could I do? Then the marketer in me took over! I got out my ATM card, swiped it down the crack of his ass, grabbed the 80 bucks, and went home. . .

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid"

Oh man do i have some big news for yall today. Well first i lead up to the big event that happened tonight, it was so spectacular, i cant believe it happened.

So just about ever wenday night we do this ride out in Los Collinas, but this isn't any ordinary ride, its a crit. Its not a race but its about a mile round loop that we do for about 2hours or so. So its like a crit. Just like a crit there are sprints, and there is a finishing sprint, when everyone, feels like they have had enough we decide when the last lap will be and that the last sprint. Well tonight it was Parker, Will, Rachel and I, and usually we all work together to get each of us across the finish line to win a sprint. Tonight though was a little, different, since we are going up to New Braunsfuls this weekend, and we are all racing different categories, we will not have each other to help us win sprints. So we decided that we were not going to help each other out.

The ride started around, 6 and everyone was already out doing some laps, but not me. You may be asking why i didn't start with every one else, well i made a little mistake, and well.....accidently left my shoes at home. haha, yea i know Nathan im a idiot. No worries though, since i have a mom who loves me so much, she brought my shoes out to me, thank you so much. haha yea so i didn't start my ride till around 6:20 but it was all good, i just hopped in with the group when they came around and i was ready to go. I sat in the front of the group for about 5 laps. Soon Parker and I were up at the front of the group, and ready to go. I wasn't sure what Parker was doing, because it looked as if he was leading me out, but we just had the little discusion about how we weren't going to lead each other out. Little did i know he was not leading me out but waiting to sprint past the man in front of him. Once we got to roughly 100 yards to go, the man in front of Parker moved over to the right and started to sprint, after that it was a chain reaction, Parker than I. It ended up being Parker and I for the finish there was no one else in sight. Waited for the right moment and mover right aroung parkers inside, there was nothing he could do, I just over powered him, bha hahaha! It was amazing, that was the first time that Parker and I had ever really sprinted each other with out each of us nowing it. I was really excited that i beat Parker, thought because i wasn't sure up until that point if would be able to stand out as a sprint on the team, and now i have no doubt that i will be known as one of the sprinters.

Well that was a really fun night, but heres a funny story to brighten your day.

America vs. Russia

The Americans and Russians, at the height of the arms race, realized that if they continued in the usual manner they were going to blow up the whole world.

One day they sat down and decided to settle the whole dispute with one dog fight. They'd have five years to breed the best fighting dog in the world and whichever side's dog won would be entitled to dominate the world. The losing side would have to lay down its arms.

The Russians found the biggest, meanest Doberman and Rottweiler ------- in the world and bred them with the biggest meanest Siberian wolves. They selected only the biggest and strongest puppy from each litter, killed his siblings, and gave him all the milk. They used steroids and trainers and after five years came up with the biggest meanest dog the world had ever seen. Its cage needed steel bars that were three inches thick and nobody could get near it.

When the day came for the fight, the Americans showed up with a strange animal. It was a nine-foot long Dachshund. Everyone felt sorry for the Americans because they knew there was no way that this dog could possibly last ten seconds with the Russian dog.

When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund came out and wrapped itself around the outside of the ring. It had the Russian dog almost completely surrounded. When the Russian dog leaned over to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund reached out and consumed the Russian dog in one bite. There was nothing left at all of the Russian dog.

The Russians came up to the Americans, shaking their heads in disbelief. `We don't understand how this could have happened. We had our best people working for five years with the meanest Doberman and Rottweiler ------- in the world and the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves."

"That's nothing," an American replied. "We had our best plastic surgeons working for five years to make an alligator look like a Dachshund."

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils"

Ahh it feels good to be posting again. Today was an interesting day, but aswell a funny day. Work out included, a day at the gym, legs, arms, and some rock hard abs. See me and Parker do these ab workouts where you sit on an inclined mat and you hold a 15lb ball above your head, all while doing crunches. It really is alot of fun, it really gets your abdominal muscles going, after about 2 sets of those you really start to feel the burn. I think i might have started to cry today, but its all worth it in the end. The ladies will be all over me, once i get my 12 pack goin.

If you didn't know already we go to the Coppell Family YMCA, in Dallas......No im just kidding its in Coppell. So for the past couple of weeks now there has been this table right in front of the door right when you walk in, with a bunch of T-Shirts on it. We of course had no idea that they were free for all YMCA members. And once we found this out Me and Parker were ecstatic. Right away we filled out our information to get some tee's. Then we ran into a problem, what size to get? We couldn't get a size that fit us, that would be too boring. So it was between Children's Large and Adult 2X Large, with the small one we could act gay,eventually gotten boring, and just down right stupid. We went with the 2xL and omfg(Oh My F-ing God) it was hilarious. We looked like true gangsta's homie. I will have pictured posted ASAP. Oh yea little Will got one too, not Will "The Snot" Snodgrass, but Will Radar. He is a tiny little dude. Well actually hes 6'1 but hes little cause hes 14. I also read after picking out the shirts that, the gym its having a contest, to see you takes there YMCA shirts with them where ever the go. Oh man this is perfect, the team can deffenitly win this one, all we have to do is take one pictures with all of us wearing the YMCA shirts at all of our races and we've won. Its that simple. So ill start working on getting all the shirts, but hey if you know of a Y in your neighborhood stop by and see if you can get a shirt, cause it will be pretty hard to steal that many shirts. haha.

Yay i cant wait, this weekend is my first race of the year. We are going out to New Braunsfuls, for a crit and a road race. Although this isn't really on the team schedule, a couple of us are going down there to get some upgrade points. Im trying to get my 3, so ill be trying to get some point this weekend. Parker, Gordon, Rachel, and I are all going down there, we are going to stay at my Grandparents house for the weekend. It will be nice, since they only live like and hour at the most from the two race starts. So we can go home each night to a nice warm home cooked meal, and a comfortable bed. Oh baby i cant wait. The road trip wont be bad either, its about a 5 hour drive, but it will be nice, my mom's Yukon has a DVD player in it so we can watch some movies, and it has a little bit more room for each person, than the van does. Not saying the van is bad Nathan just saying the Yukon is really nice, haha.

Well sounds like a good weekend to me, cant wait!


Now for a story to brighten your day.

Adventurous Dining

A man travels to Spain and goes to Pamplona during the great "running of the Bulls" festival.

After his first day there, he goes out late for dinner at a restuarant in the center of the town. He orders the house special and he is brought a plate ,with potatoes, corn, and two large meaty objects.

"What's this?" he asks.

"Cojones, senor," the waiter replies.
"What are cojones?" the man asks.
"Cojones," the waiter explains, "are the testicles of the bull who lost at the arena this afternoon."

At first the man is disgusted, but being the adventurous type, he decides to try this local delicacy. To his amazement, it is quite delicious. In fact, it is so good that he decides to come back again the next night and order it again. This time, the waiter brings out the plate, but the meaty objects are much smaller.

"What's this?" he asks the waiter.
"Cojones, senor," the waiter replies.

"No, no," the man objects. "I had cojones yesterday and they were much bigger than these."

"Senor," the waiter explains, "the bull does not lose every time."

"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."

Sorry about the delay on the posts, readers. I thought about it and i was plainning on only doing one post a week, that would sum up the whole week. Luckly my friend Will informed me that,

"dude you miss one day, the readers will quite reading for ever"

I thought to my self, Will your a pretty smart little guy, so im back and posting again.


The past, well almost week have been fun and tiring. On wensday we came to the conclusion that it was way to danm cold to ride outside so we had a trainer workout at Rachels house, thanks for that Rachel. It was an interesting workout, Nathan had us doing efforts, which i was used to by this point, but not these efforts. That night we did random efforts, where Nathan would just tell us to go, and stop whenever, no warning, just go and stop thats all the heads up we got. I actually thought it was kinda fun though, i guess im kinda good at just getting up and going for the short bursts. Then on Sunday we all went out to Talahina to do some climding, for me it was not fun at all. Im not much of the climbing type. We did efforts out on the climbs aswell, up a long climb then up a short steep climb to finish it off. It was allot of fun, driving up there and back home. Leo and I had a blast messing around with Shannon, but everyone else had a pretty good time messing aroung with me aswell. All in all it was a pretty fun trip, or atleast i had a good time.


Now you might have read about Will using this stuff called Udderly Smoth, and well frankly i think its kinda gross. That stuff is actually used for COW UDDERS, yes COW UDDERS. Well not exactly but come on we dont have udders, haha. Well anyways i wanted to see just what the deal was with this product, so i went to the website. www.udderlysmooth.com, now on the website they have a fantastic aray of items, for example you can get Udderly Smooth: Foot cream, or Hand and Body lotion. That just sound nasty. And its just plain goffy, how wierd would this be....

Person A: Hey baby i got this new lotion today at the store, wana try it out.

Person B: Sure, sounds like a good idea to me. Whats it called?

Person A: Oh its the greatest, its Udderly Smooth!

And there you go, you just killed the mood. I dont even think Udders are smooth, are they? But hey if Will swears by the stuff then it must be good.


Now for a funny story to brighten your day.

A Day in Hell

One day a guy dies and finds himself in hell. As he is wallowing in despair he has his first meeting with a demon...

Demon: Why so glum chum?

Guy: What do you think? I'm in hell.

Demon: Hell's not so bad. We actually have a lot of fun down here...you a drinkin' man?

Guy: Sure, I love to drink. Love the drinks.

Demon: Well you're gonna love Mondays then. On Mondays that's all we do is drink. Whiskey, tequila, Guinness, wine coolers, diet tab, and fresca...we drink till we throw up and then we drink some more!

Guy: Gee that sounds great.

Demon: You a smoker?

Guy: You better believe it! Love the smoking.

Demon: Alright! You're gonna love Tuesdays. We get the finest cigars from all over the world and smoke our lungs out. If you get cancer - no biggie - you're already dead remember?

Guy: Wow...that's...awesome!

Demon: I bet you like to gamble.

Guy: Why yes as a matter of fact I do. Love the gambling.

Demon: Cause Wednesday you can gamble all you want. Craps, Blackjack, Roulette, Poker, Slots, whatever... If you go Bankrupt...well you're dead anyhow.

Demon: You into drugs?
Guy: Are you kidding? Love drugs! You don't mean...

Demon: That's right! Thursday is drug day. Help yourself to a great big bowl of crack. or smack. Smoke a doobie the size of a submarine. You can do all the drugs you want and if ya overdose - that's right - you're dead - who cares! O.D.!!

Guy: Yowza! I never realized Hell was such a swingin' place!!

Demon: You gay?

Guy: Uh no.

Demon: Ooooh (grimaces) you're really gonna hate Fridays

"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

Ah yet another in training, today i had a gym workout (at the gym, go figure). I worked out my arms and legs nothing to bad light weight lots of sets, don't want to over do it for The Wensdays Worlds tomorrow, that should be allot of fun. After the workout we all went out to eat at Which Wich, one of the greatest if not the greatest sandwich place in the world. The only one that i know of is off of 2499 at the corner of Waketon, everybody needs to go there, and eat a Italian Grinder, with yellow mustard, pickles, lettuce, cucumbers, tomato, oil, vinager, salt, pepper, and of course ranch dressing. It is by far the most amazing sandwich there is.


So today was my first day of school with brand new class, it should be exciting. Geometry, Chemistry, and Spanish. So I might start speaking some Spanish on the rides now, to confuse people, and I think Parker knows how to speak Spanish too, so we can pull some sweet sneak attacks off the front. Ha Ha i am the only Sophomore in my Spanish class and everyone else is a Freshman, it should be an interesting class. My chemistry class has allot of my friends in it and should be allot of fun, lots of joking around. My lunch is pretty amazing, it has all of my best friends in it, i was so excited to see them at lunch, that i used my cat like instincts and was able to leap on to the table, head first and slide right in to my friends lap. If i do say so my self it was pretty amazing.




OK so its time for another thing i found on the internet, from that one website that i visit almost everyday, well now i think it may be every day. Today i will be discussing the incredible size of these dogs its freakin ridiculous, i mean come one these had to have been bred with like Underdog, Superman, and The Incredible Hulk, they're HUGE! In the one picture at the bottome the dogs are as big as the danm counter, whats the point in having a counter, if it has to ben 10 feet tall just to keep the dog off of it. I bet those dogs could easily just walk on to the counter when ever they please, i mean come one its not like that poor old lady can stop them. Those dogs will trample her to death, its actually kind of sad......almost. Now look at the other poor old lady in the picture to the left, now come one people you dont honestly believe that she is supose to be able to get up is she. Theres no way, i have a lab who i thought was a giant, and he weighs in at around 120 or so, hes huge, but not as big as these dogs,these im guessing are aroung 200-250 if not more. That lady is in trouble big time. Ok and what is the deal with all these old lady owning these bahimuth animals, that i dont even think exist, or are supose to exist any ways. What were these ladys thinking, when they saw these dogs, Oh how cute, now i can wish i could control my pet. Its just stupid!


Now for a funny story to brighten your day!

"SMART ASS STUDENT"

The college professor had just finished explaining an important research project to his class. He emphasized that this paper was an absolute requirement for passing his class, and that there would be only two acceptable excuses for being late. Those were a medically certifiable illness or a death in the student's immediate family.
A 'smart' student in the back of the classroom waved his hand and spoke up. "But what about extreme sexual exhaustion, professor?"

As you would expect, the class exploded in laughter. When the students had finally settled down, the professor froze the young man with a glaring look.
"Well," he responded, "I guess you'll just have to learn to write with your other hand."

Well butter my butt and call me biscuit.

OK so i just saw this picture on another website that i go to just about every day, and i was thinking, this is a guy that with the right amount of money and supplies could change the world. I'm serious, if he could come up with something like that on a very limited budget and no supplies, besides what is laying around is yard, then just imagine what would happen if every one sent him a dollar a day for the hole year, he would be rich, and maybe just maybe be able to come up with some sort of raft, that you sat in, instead of on. And maybe you could go really fast, and pull stuff behind it, like another like blow up raft that one of your friends sat on. Man i am so excited to get this guys ideas up and running. He could change the world.
Oh and might i add that this redneck hillbilly is obviously from Alabama, which well even more defines why this man needs to be recognized for some sort of an award of some kind.



Aw and yet another reason justifying for the redneck above to get money. This video proves how innovative the true Redneck can be.

"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

No riding today, the weather was too crappy to ride, so instead today I went over the Nathan's to help him build Cory's and Wills bikes. It was allot of fun, everyone [Shannon, Rachael, Will "The Snot" Snodgrass, and Cory Ray(his names famous), and Gordan], just hanging out helping Nat out with what ever he needed. Shannon and Rachael were on the computer selling stuff and setting up the website, Gordan, and I were were cleaning up some bike stuff, and building some bikes, Cory and Will were running around town (mainly to Bicycle's Plus 4 times, and the store to get 6 Mountain Dew 2 liters for 5$), and Nat was running to get some parts from different people, then back home to finish cabling Cory and Wills bikes. So over all it was a day to help out the team in general and Nat get organized.

HaHa and yet another funny story to make your day!

4 Sons

These 4 gents go out to play golf one sunny morning. One is detained in the clubhouse, and the other three are discussing their children while walking to the first tee.

"My son Kent," says one, "has made quite a name for himself in the home-building industry. He began as a carpenter, but now owns his own design and construction firm. He's so successful in fact, in the last year he was able to give a good friend a brand new home as a gift."

The second man, no to be out done, tells how his son began his career as a car salesman, but now owns a multi-line dealership. "Norm's so successful, in fact, in the last six months he gave his friend two brand new cars as a gift."

The third man's son, Greg, has worked his way up through a stock brokerage, and in the last few weeks has given a good friend a large stock portfolio as a gift.

As the fourth man arrives at the tee, another tells him that they have been discussing their progeny and asks what line his son is in.

"To tell the truth, I'm not very pleased with how my son turned out," he replies. "For 15 years, Chico's been a hairdresser, and I've just recently discovered he's gay. However, on the bright side, he must be good at what he does because his last three boyfriends have given him a brand new house, two cars, and a big pile of stock certificates."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

It was a cold morning, not as cold as yesterday, but cold. It was probably around 40-45 out. Or as Parker and I say it was SC "Shit Cold" outside. Today called for everything, Leg warmers, Long sleeve jersey, and Thermal Jacket to top it off. We (Nathan, Rachael, Parker, Gordan, Doug, Brad, and Myself) left from Nathans house around noon. We starting out planning for a 2 hour ride. It was a easy day, nothing to tough maybe a sprint for a city limit sign, but over all an easy day in the saddle. Our ride started in Grapevine (Nathan's house) and headed for Southlake, Keller, Roanoke, and back home. On our way back we stopped by Quizno's for lunch, everyone had a Flat Bread Sammie, there so good. Got back to Nathans house, we all changed and went are separate ways. Later today, were getting together to have dinner, and hangout. Will and Cory will be in town so we can all ride together tomorrow, for a few hours.


Now for a funny story to make your day! (Clarence, I think you'll like this one)

$200 Bucks...

A guy goes over to his friend's house, rings the bell, and the wife answers.

" Hi, is Tony home?"

" No, he went to the store."

"Well, you mind if I wait?"

" No, come in."

They sit down and the friend says "You know Nora, you have the greatest breasts I have ever seen. I'd give you a hundred bucks if I could just see one."

Nora thinks about this for a second and figures what the hell - a hundred bucks. She opens her robe and shows one. He promptly thanks her and throws a hundred bucks on the table.

They sit there a while longer and Chris says "They are so beautiful I've got to see the both of them. I'll give you another hundred bucks if I could just see the both of them together."

Nora thinks about this and thinks what the hell, opens her robe, and gives Chris a nice long look. Chris thanks her, throws another hundred bucks on the table, and then says he can't wait any longer and leaves.

A while later Tony arrives home and his wife says "You know, your weird friend Chris came over. "

Tony thinks about this for a second and says "Well did he drop off the 200 bucks he owes me?"