Thank you sir, may I have another....

...... windy ride that is. Today my Dad and I got in about an hour and a half on the road bikes. Since the weather has been so great, we just had to get out. It was about 45 degrees and sunny, but there was one problem, and it has been the same problem all year long...... wind. Everytime we go out for a ride, it is windy. It's not an easy breeze or calm wind, it is just plain WINDY. Most of the time around my house the wind is pretty tolerable. But the last couple of days, including today, it has been around 20-25 m.p.h. I don't know what has been up with this lately. I mean we are used to riding in pretty strong winds, but not this bad. O well, at least the weather is great, especially for this time of the year.

Riding outside is so much better than riding the trainer. Yesterday I got in a hard trainer workout. If I did that workout on the road, it would have been so much better. But, the reason why I didn't go out is because of........ the WINDS. That's mother nature for ya.

LATE

Saturday's ride.

Awesome ride on Saturday. There were about 21 total people. From the team, there was Rudy, Robert, Me, Dad, Jim Gilmore, Pete, Scott, Matt, and Shawn. Others that showed up were, Dave Chernosky, Sally Price, Ernie, Jane, Rick Adams, Gary, Elves and More, and some summit riders. We got in about 41 miles in 2:15. We started at the top of the Brecksville Reservation and rode through Medina and then into the Valley. We kept it at a good pace throughout the ride and even picked up the pace in some parts. This is a great loop to do if you want to get in a good hill workout.

Again, it was a great time spent on the bike with everyone, and the wind really wasn't a factor at all. Awesome temperatures and awesome conditions. Thanks Shawn for putting this ride together.

LATE!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone and their families.

Rays is calling my name.

Since racing season is over for the winter, I'm going to try and make it to Ray's a few times. Nick is the one that is talented at the obstacles at Ray's. He's pretty crazy on his Chase Cannondale bike. I'm gonna try to not crash this time if we go to Ray's. The last few years, I have crashed as soon as I got there. I gotta get some pointers from my bro. This is him rockin out a monster bunny hop on his Chase. Nice.

Nice pic Robert!
Late.

LAZY...

Today had to be one of the laziest days I have had in a long time. I woke up around 7:45 this morning and got a bowl of fruit loops and got back into bed to watch my teli. Got outa bed around 8:30 and went into Nick's room to play some playstation. After about an hour, I looked outside and immediately shut the blinds and walked around from the window. The driveway had like a foot and a half of snow on it. It didn't help that there were like 40 m.p.h gusts either. My bro and I got outside and shoveled the driveway and it wasn't bad at all. It's a good thing that all the snow on the driveway was just powder, which was a lot easier to shovel. After all the shoveling, got in and just layed around the house until about 2:30 when my Dad got home. Around 3:00 put on the bibs and rode the trainer with my Dad for about an hour, it seemed like two hours. I hate riding the trainer, but you know when its 13 degrees and 40 mile an hour winds, the trainer is not bad at all. Now for the rest of the night, Im gonna do some more layin around and being lazy. That is until I have to go pick Nick up from work at 10:00.

So other than riding the trainer and shoveling the driveway twice, it was a lazy day for me and actually this might sound crazy but I hope I have something to do outside tomorrow, whether it be going out for a run or playing some snow basketball. I don't feel like really calling any of my friends to do something because all they want to do is sit inside and play video games all day or sleep in until 12:00. LAZY!

Late

Slippery ride.

My Dad and I got in a really good ride today. We started out riding in the nursery roads and we were having a lot of trouble. Not anything mechanical or anything wrong with our bikes, it was very difficult to stay upright because the nursery roads were nothing but ice. I took a nice fall in the first nursery. After some more riding, my Dad and I rode to Indian Point Park and rode some of the trails along with runnig up the steps along side of the huge hill. This time, the camera didn't break. Nice Dad, way to not break the camera! While we were riding home from Indian Point, my Dad slipped out and landed hard on his knee. We were both riding our cyclocross bikes, and on his bike, he had those small block eights for the tires and those are just like riding with road tires. They get no traction whatsoever on the ice or in the mud. But other than the crashes, it was a really fun and I can't wait to do the same ride next week.

Git it! Git it!

Trouble

with my laptop recently. A blue line appeared on the screen of my laptop in the middle of last week. I thought that it would go away as time went on. I gave it about two days, nothing happened. The blue line was still on the screen. We had no clue what could have caused it or how to get rid of the the annoying line. So we called up my Grandpa because he is really good with computers. We asked him what it could be and he said that pigments in the screen were bad and if I would have waited longer, it would have gotten worse. Today my mom took my laptop back to the place where my parents bought it. They exchanged my laptop with another one because it was only a couple of weeks old. It is the same kind of laptop but it is better because it doesn't have that dang line on the screen.
The weather has been really crappy to be training outside lately. I have been doing a lot of running. This is actually good weather for running, just not good for the bike. I rode the trainer on Monday for about 45 minutes, took yesterday off and rode the trainer again today for about an hour, doing some occasional jumps to keep my power up. If the weather is good tomorrow, I would like to get out on the road with my Dad. It has been a pretty long time since I rode outside because of the weather. But, even if the weather is crappy again tomorrow, my Dad and I could maybe go out on a good run or something. We'll see.

Later days