Bike the Bruce to Today update

Past two weeks have been awesome, and now approaching exams training and school have been killing me. But getting better at school and training a ton can never be bad.

The Bruce was a good end to the season with the exception of provincials coming up soon bruce was my first real race in S3 and it was a good example of how you see races on the tv.

I jumped on the break within the first few seconds and stayed there until the finishline, thanks to SRS for great work in the break and in the peleton. good stuff boys.

Since then I have had a few good rides and great news Bryan King got 5th at todays Terra Cotta race.

Great race

More later
Midweek?!

Kitchener Waterloo Road Race

Hidden Valley has grown on me, it’s a great 4.6-kilometer closed course, with a hill, a faux plat and a great sprint.

Heres the race report

Woke up this morning and put on some Miike Snow, Great new album that I am a huge fan of. (check it out on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/miikesnow)
So the day started out pretty good, I prepped great yesterday (Saturday) so I was ready. I rode down, the regular route, to get to the regular training ground and felt good, breakfast was light, had to think light for those hills ;)

Got to the race, and it was a strange feeling, unlike any other race.. I had never ridden this many laps of any race course.. Ever. I felt prepared and knew exactly what was in front of me. (good feeling)

As soon as I knew it, we were lined up and ready to go. Rolled up to the line and listened to the commi’ with really bad breath repeat some rules we’ve all heard thrice by now. Yellow line rule for the first two corners, and, there’s sand on the top of the hill “it is a road race after all, heuk ←” think goofy.

All right so the guns/weird electronic babble sends us off and that was the start to a great race, there are some really good riders in S4 good climbers, but the same as every training ride, the hill kills us. We really need to do some hill repeats.

I can repeat the pace for you as if it were written by the courts-

You must take it easy on the first roller,
You must take unnecessary risks on the first turn
You must attack on the downhill
You must suffer on the climb
You must attack on the downhill after the climb
You must suffer on the faux plat
You must die on the roller
You must recover in the feed zone
You must take the chicane easy
You must go fast on the straight
Rinse.
Repeat

And that happened, 13 times…

in the end.. I WON! truth be told, as @iamtedking typed at me once, “ride, ride, ride”

ai ai captain

Tip: follow all those steps to be successful.

It was a great, race, the course was dry, sand free, with tons of interference with other categories – I’m looking at you Master 3′s.

Until next weekend..

Thanks Mom and Sebastian for coming out and cheering me on, also thanks SRS for being there and for your support… BADASS.
Congrats on your 2nd Charlie dude, and Andrew on the win in S3… moving up :D

imout

CJJCCJ

Sweet Victory – Calabogie Race Report

“GET ON A WHEEL!” a teammate screams from the sidelines as I headed into the last straightaway in fifth position
And I did..

Calabogie Race Report

Race Day: 7:00 AM
I stumble out of bed trying to find my socks and, yep there they are.. right where I threw erm, put them

The sun is out, this is good, “hopefully it will stay that way” I think to myself as I walk down the stairs of our sickass accommodations.

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Hell of North Stouffville – Race Report

The Hell of North Stouffville was yesterday and I had no expectations going into it. I went in knowing some of the roads and felt good on the bike, what have I got to lose? Nothing
So I got on the bike and did a quick warmup. Then saw the entire field wearing arm and leg warmers, thought to myself that’s too much clothing, and it was. But at the time I was COLD. Being honest now, I froze my ass off warming up. I guess that is what the whole point of a warmup is anyway.

So it was time to get to the line, ill pretend there were 80 of us but there weren’t. (This will help my overall placing) started the cold, slow start.

GETS BETTER! after the jump!
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A new blog name! oh my you didnt even know that was coming.

Alright well, today riding the bus I decided to change and the new name is.

Green Tea

Going to and getting back from South Carolina has been an eye opening experience for me, I have met a lot of great people and had a chance to spend quality time with some really excellent caliber athletes from all over Ontario. Team Ontario to be exact, these guys have won lots of races, gone to provincials nationals and worlds and I learned a TON about what I am doing right, and what I need to start doing. So first real day on the bike was yesterday the 23rd and it was chaos, my brain was screaming for scenery, it could not understand how pedaling so hard wasn’t getting me anywhere, so I suffered through that interval workout without a smile.
One thing that I know is important yet almost always chose to ignore or fail to do is be consistent. I know that my training regimen needs to be consistent for success, I know that my diet needs to be consistent and smart, I know that the amount of work I do must be consistent for success, but there is always something else to do, thankfully cycling gets precedence.
Continuing on the journey that I have set on myself I see that not all roads are like the ones in Ontario, but they can be like the ones in South Carolina, they can twist, be on the sides of mountains and have switchbacks that make you shudder at the thought of gravel in the bend. Roads are not always linear and in order, 1st 2nd 3rd there is east fork, west fork and north fork, and they all go to different places, follow the right road and eventually it will take you to another, and another that gets you to where you need to go.
I will take the right road..

Signed 9:11 AM
Getting back

Deaths and births…

First I’d like to send a shoutout to a longtime friend who lost her mom this week, I wish you all the best and know she will always be in your heart. Moving past that, this week marked some new experiences, bigtime. I sat in/ powerpointed a huge meeting and it went alright. As for training, let’s say I’m going to ROCK south carolina next week.. Bring her on! Ill be filling out the training log, by memory.. Today so that I look somewhat presentable to denise or whatever her name is, who I found out is turning 50 new blood required, I think so. But if she’s a good coach or not she will be there training all the athletes.
Cianara and next weeks blog will come in more than 1 dose because it marks the beginning of the OCA training camp.

Keep Isabella in your prayers

Signed 8:15

So we are talking about boxes…

So I decided to take a photo of my box, its awesome, I know.

Signed; 1:42

So I was having a conversation with my brother about office spaces…

I made the decision that I did not want to work in an office, as I do right now. As I sit here and wonder if I would like to look at these two brown walls for the rest of my life, the simple and plain answer is; “no” I do not want to sit in this box, with a few other box people sitting around me. Paid to sit in a box, that’s what I do. I want to get paid to be more than I was yesterday, physically and mentally, I want to get paid to live outside the box.
It’s a funny thing…
I also decided, pretty recently that I want to be a professional bike racer; this will allow me to live as far from the box as possible.
I was listening to “Four-Tet, Plastic People” while writing this blog, great music.
Think of that, living outside the box.

Signed 9:52

Turn around to watch the fishes fly.

Todays my first day at Catalytics Group Inc and it has been an awesome one, this software company is geared at getting insurance companies to use the right brokers for them. Almost best of all, right beside me is a giant fish tank.

Rad..
CJ