training training

Not to much has been going on since the Louisville race. I have been hitting the training pretty good trying to get out of the rutt I am in. My legs have just felt like dead wood and I think they are finally starting to come good again. We did a couple local races last weekend and they were about 1.5 hours from the house. Got some nice training in the mornings of and then tried to race through it. I raced pretty average and just tried to help the team as much as possible. It was kinda frustrating but I think it actually did me some good as this week I have been feeling much better. I actually rode almost 6 hours on Wednesday! yeah, thats about what I normally do in a week so as you can see I am actually training:-)

I am off this weekend and just been getting in a huge week before the big run of huge races in August. Next week we have Elk Grove which has a 4 mile TT, 100 mile RR and a 60 mile crit. So that will be good for the fitness as well. And I get to ride my super cool new TT bike which I finally got set up. After that the Marion Classic which is a super cool new race and then the big daddy in Crit Nats. So hopefully I am on the up and up and will have a good August.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that since my father passed away our family has been trying to get his foundation up and running. We have finally got all the kinks worked out and have fully launched what we hope will be a huge success. This is something I have been wanting to get going for a while and I am super stoked its finally a go. We are going to be doing some really cool events and things to raise money and are always up for ideas. So feel free to post em if you got em! for now you can check it out at www.ftafoundation.org make a donation! it will make ya feel good:-)

till next time,
m@

Louisville - back to business

Sorry for the delay in the update. Last weekend I was back on the bike as Team Inferno hit the LMPD Crit (nrc) in Louisville with another cool crit the following day. Day 1 was tough. 90 Minutes in some CRAZY heat! I thought my eyeballs were gonna explode out of my head. A great field with Toyota United, Time, and Roadhouse in full effect. We started off good with Jim scooping up the 1st prime and I followed with winning the 2nd. Soon after a break went and Matt was our lone rider with 2 roadhouse, 2 Time, and Hilton Clarke from Toyota. We would have liked another guy in the break so we tried getting across.. I must have attached atleast 5 times until I blew to bits.... the break ended up lapping so we looked after Matt but int he end Hilton was too fast taking the win and Matt had a great ride finishing 4th. The rest of us clawed in in the field and wanted to jump directly in the river it was so hot.

My buddy Daup and Shawn put us up for the night just outside of Louisville. It was good to catch up with some old friends. Thanks guys! The next day was a crit in this little stand alone town. It was basically a little housing development that was self contained. It had its own grocery store, and a bunch of little shops and bars. Basically like Truman Show.. you would never have to leave there.. kind of scary. Anyway, the race was aggressive but stayed together and in the end it was a battle between leadout trains.. Roadhouse lined up with like 15 guys, and we were on 1 side of them and Time on the other. I was sweeping Hayden's wheel which was fun b/c everyone seemed to want the world champs wheel.. but I was having none of that.. We cooked it up with 1 to go and Hayden and I go separated and swarmed like crazy... we couldn't recover in time but Matt came through huge again and finished 3rd with Adam Myerson taking the win. Jbald rode great as well finishing 7th, Hayden in 10th and I scrapped in for 17th.

Overall my legs were trash this weekend again. Just real flat and have no snap at all. So I have been trying to find them. I know there is some fitness in there but I need to get that dead log feeling away and have some freshness in the pistons. We have a good race weekend close to town sat and sun so hopefully the pistons will be firing on all cylinders.

Just wanted to share a funny video of me and my boy chad breakin it down at my wedding... Look out So you think you can dance!!

Wedding Bells....

Haven't been doing much pedaling lately. Had a little time to rest after tour of ohio but the main reason was because of my wedding:-) Had this big plan to do all this training during my week in Canada but that just didn't work out so good. I had friends coming in from all over the place so I did a ton of catching up. It was great to see all my boys and the wedding turned out better than I could have imagined. Tara and her parents (and everyone else that helped:-) did an unreal job and the big day went off with no hiccups at all. Tara looked more beautiful than ever and I couldn't be more happy to be her husband:-) I had a good 3 solid days of just staying up till 5 in the morning catching up with the boys. Its crazy how most of my friends live all over the country and we may only talk here and there... but when we get together its like we haven't missed a beat. Was great to see them all... Well I could ramble all day about the day, but I won't. Here are some pics from the big day, I will post better ones when I get the professional ones back from my photographer. Oh yeah, I tried to race master nationals after the wedding.. wow, that was shocking. Worst legs I have had in a long time.... hope that's not what marriage does to ya.. haha.. had no legs at all and was in perfect position to win.. 3rd out of the last corner but had nothing and just sat up... forgot there were more medals up for grabs.. oh well.. its win or nothing. Got 6th. boo hoo... anway.. here are some pics!

Me and my pimp wedding party

We had quite the spread.. this was only the 1st of 7 courses.. yummy anti pasta bar..

Our Head Table was amazing... and thank god no one got drunk enough to knock it over

My brother and best man Franc

Me and Tara with her parents and my mom...

My Fam....

Danicin with moms...

Gotta love the chocolate fountain....