Too Much stuff

I recently decided to start playing the drums. I have played guitar and bass since I was 13. So about 13 years. Since my brother bought the Percussion Shop I felt like I should know how to play drums. So I bought a new set today. Tack it onto all the other activities I do. I signed up to take lessons with Dennis one of the teachers at the shop, the same teacher my brother had for 9 or 10 years. So we will see how it goes.

For Mertz

Could this be the new Porsche 928?

Im a CAT4 now. But my body is sore all over.

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Finally Happened (Hellbender Report)

So the day started off good. My legs were feeling good and I got a good warm up in before we sat at the line for 30min waiting to start. There was 50+ riders in the cat5 field so it would make for a good race. When the whistle blew I was on the front for the nuetral and pulled with another guy for the first mile or so. I thought I'm not going to have anything left so I dropped back into the middle of the field. It was the most nerve racking peloton I have ever been in granted this is my 11th race. I mean everytime we would slow there was almost a crash, and people were yelling slowing every 30 seconds. Going downhill sucked bad because people were slamming on their brakes and not leaving enough room. At mile 10 of the race all I wanted to do was get to the front and either try attacking or pull the whole damn peloton just so I wouldn't have to be stuck in there with all those people. There was about 20 or so riders left in the group and I could not get to the front for the life of me (yellow line). So finally on a flater section it started to string out a bit and I was able to get up to about the first ten. As I really wanted to be up there because the big climb was coming up anyway. So we started the fast downhill before the start of the climb. I was leaving quite a bit of room between me and the riders in front. As we aproached the bottom of the hill 40+MPH 2 riders went down in front of me I slammed my brakes on, and thought about bunny hopping them. But then I realized that If I didn't clear them I could hurt them and me pretty bad. So I pretty much just plowed into them did a flip over the handlebars hit the right side of my head pretty good and laid on the ground wondering if I had broke anything. The lady in the wheeltruck got out and told me to stop moving, and another rider that wrecked asked me if I was okay. I tore my helmet off let out some groans and started to get up. I was pretty shook up had some scrapes on my knees and tweaked my wrist a little bit. They asked me if I thought anything was broken and I said no. One of the other riders said he was going to continue. I glad he said that cause I had pretty much thrown in the towel by then. So I said I'm going to finish too. I got on my bike started the climb noticed that my front wheel was wobbling and my rear derailer was bent. So I wasn't able to use all My gears. I actually did pretty good up the climb. By this time I had lost about 5-7 minutes on the main field. So I just though well I'm already in pain I may as well just ride as hard as I can to the finish line. I ended up catching a group of 2 and sprinted by them I didn't want to pull them and I didn't want to set on their wheels. I was holding about 21-23MPH avg the rest of the course by myself I felt good. Anways thats about all for the race I hate riding in CAT5 fields. I did drop my bike off at A&B for Charles to look over tommorow. We also though it would be a good idea to go to urgent care just to make sure I didn't have a concussion, the doctor said I was good and told me I was going to be sore for the next couple of days, then I got a tetnis shot because I hadn't had one in about 11 years so I figured what the hell. I am happy that I finished the race. But it's got me thinking is racing really worth the medical, gear, and buttloads of other crap you have to buy. I mean I love cycling because, well, because I love to ride my bike plain and simple. Getting hurt or hurting other people just to get a jersey or a few bucks isn't worth it. I know you can get hurt just as serisly just on a group ride or by yourself, and I know accidents do happen. But some people will do whatever it takes to try in win with no regard for other peoples saftey. The fellow who caused the wreck kept apoligizing to me and I told him not to worry about it that accidents happen. Im glad they were both okay though. But on the climb one of the guys blew a tire half way up so he pretty much blew a fuse after that. I think I may have even placed better this year than last, we will see.

Finals are Over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 weeks off and then summer school. Math and public speaking on the calender for summer. Me and Christy sold our books back today and got 292 dollars. Then we bought our three books combined for summer classes, and walked out with 62 dollars. Man books are expensive, and that was the price for used ones. Whos going to the State Champs RR?

Personal Victory!

After a while when I got into road cycling I incorporated a 25 mile loop starting from my house. The first time I did it it took me about 1:45-1:50 min almost 2 hours. Today I rode that course in 1:10 and some change. It's basically County Line road east make a left to 186. Then take 186 to old 65 make a left back onto County line road. Then about 1-2 miles past NN I cut through a neighborhood and head toward the house. The best thing about this ride is I finally reached my goal of a Avg speed over 20MPH solo 20.5MPH was the end result. The wind out of the west wasn't helping me. I know it's not a big deal for most cyclists, but to me this was very big personal achievement.

Sorry for the quality.

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Get off my LAND

The last two days have been filled with good riding. I went to Branson yesterday for a total of 62 miles. It was my first time riding on the shoulder of the highway. I was a bit nervous at first, but the shoulder was pretty much clean of debris and traffic wasn't that bad. I enjoyed the first climb I got to the most. It stayed the same gradient pretty much the whole way up so I was able to keep a good pace and sustain it the whole climb. The rest of the climbs however ripped my legs apart. Today I rode a little over 2hours I think it was about 40 miles just trying to go easy. I have been finding I want to stay on the bike longer, but that takes time I was lucky to get a couple of longer rides in. Finals are next week so that should bring me back to feeling like crap on the bike again. Oh well I do it cause I like it so that's all that matters.

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Refueling. I started using the sport beans a while ago mainly to support the local pro Brad Huff and his team. Turns out these things are like little beans of energy they seem to work well for me. Except I didn't take enough with me today.

Got rid of the blazer for this very economic Honda Civic. Its a 5 speed woohoo I love driving a standard. Christy is still learning, she is doing really well though.


Interior. A little blurry sorry. The speedometer is pretty cool this thing is like driving a spaceship.