Sunday.

Today Dad and I met up with Matt Weeks and Scott Carter at Squire's Castle to do a training ride. When Dad and I got there, it was snowing pretty hard and we were actually thinking that no one would show. Then a couple of minutes later, Matt and Scott rolled up. When we started riding, it was cold and snowing pretty good. As the ride went on, the sun came out and it quit snowing. We rode for about 36 miles and did mucho amount of climbing. It was a great ride and I'm really happy that we are able to get out and ride today. Tomorrow is looking like it is going to be a nice day so Dad, my cousin Scott, and I are most likely going for another ride and jumping off the bikes and running for about 2 or 3 miles. My Dad and I were talking today saying, only two more months until RATL. Also, Chippewa Creek is on this year too!! So the hills are calling our names.

I'm out.

Chemistry.

Man chemistry at Lakeland has been impossibly difficult. We have been talking about conversions and conversion factors for the last week or two. This has been the hardest thing for me to ever learn. I have a quiz on Monday on conversion factors and conversions and a good grade isn't really looking good for me. I do really good in the labs but not the lectures. I just like to do more hands on projects and mixing different chemicals together to find different kinds of chemicals or compounds. Sitting in class and copying notes from the chalkboard into my notebook isn't really my style in that class. So for the rest of the week and this weekend I am going to be sitting a lot in front of my little desk in my room and studying my chemistry. It is really hard for me to get what my professor is talking about. I went from high school Biology last year to College Chemistry this year. That is a really big jump in one year for me. I was talking to my professor I had last semester and he said that I will do fine on my quiz and I will do fine in this Chemistry course. So that gets me more motivated to study even harder.

Training wise, I took a day off today. Tomorrow I'm going to ride when I get home from school and same with Friday. Saturday, Dad and I are going to meet up with Shawn at the Brecksville Reservation to get in a good and long Tempo ride.

Later days.

It's about time.

Today was the third day in a row that I was able to ride outside. I rode on Saturday, riding for about 35 miles. Sunday Dad, Robert, Rudy, Matt, Mike, Todd, and I all met up at the Brecksville Reservation and got in a 32 mile ride. Then today, Dad, my cuz Scott, and I rode for almost 2.5 hrs. riding around 42 miles. We rode a lot of hills today and this is Scott's true first year riding his bike. I tell you what, if Dad, Scott and I ride together more often, Scott is going to be rockin out this Triathlon season. He is a great runner, he is swimming 2-3 days a week and he is riding awesome! Awesome job to Scott today. He was with us on all the climbs and did some great pulling. I can't ride tomorrow because in our ride today, my right pedal broke for a SECOND TIME!!! I was so mad! I was calling that pedal every name in the book. It was a good thing that it broke with only a few more miles to go in the ride. I have those Crankbrothers Eggbeaters on my bike, since it is my cyclocross bike and this is the second time my pedal broke. The first time was the day before the first BA cyclocross race at Whiskey Island. I replaced them that same day with another pair then raced with the new pair the next day. Now today the pair that I received during cyclocross season broke and now I will have to go purchase another pair or I'll have them replace the broken pedal with a new pair again.

But other than my pedal breaking, it was a great day and I don't know, I might go for a run tomorrow. I would like to go out on the bike for a bit but yeah........

Wet and Windy.

Today my Dad and I took off for a ride around 9:00. We are finally riding outside!!! It's about time! My Dad rode yesterday with my cousin Scott for about 1hr and a half and they said the roads were wet, but not too bad. Today's ride was the wet one. Since the temperature here at my place is like 55 degrees, all the snow is melting and the roads are like flooded. There is so much water on the roads which meant a lot of clean up afterwards. It's funny too, the one day when it is nice and warm, and perfect to ride outside, the winds were 25-30 mph. The gusts were around 35-40 mph!! We ended up finishing with 32.5 miles in just under 2 hrs. We got in some good climbing and some good fast pace work, since we had a tail wind. Average watts:159. Tomorrow Dad and I are heading to Brecksville to meet up with Rudy and Robert, and maybe some other folks to get in a good group ride.

I'm outie.

One day at Westlake.

This picture was taken by my Dad right after the race at Westlake. I love this picture because no one is making a good face, except Rudy and Austin. Check out Matt....... I can't stop laughing. Funny pic Dad. I don't think me or Mike had a good race. Can you tell??

Finally

Finally there is good weather coming our way. I think it the weather folks are saying that it is going to be in the 40's this weekend and sunny. So you know what we are going to be doing this weekend. Last month, I might have ridden outside once or twice. That was just a horrible month, horrible for everyone. I really hope that this month is going to have some days that we can ride outside because the trainer is killing me. So I'm excited for this weekend because I'll finally get some good riding outside.

I really want legs like this lady. I wonder what kind of bike she's got back there?

Georges St.-Pierre

I wasn't able to watch the fights last night because I don't think we can purchase pay per view. But I checked UFC.com this morining and saw that GSP stopped B.J. Penn in the fourth round. Penn was talking so much crap about St-Pierre before their fight, saying that it was going to be a quick fight and St-Pierre was a quiter. Now that St-Pierre beat him, B.J. Penn just made himself sound very unproffessional after saying all that. But, if you want to read the story here is the site.http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=17593

GSP! GSP!