Letters

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

Signed; 1:42

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

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

First post!@ in a while.

Training time begins, and by begins, I mean I have been training for a few weeks now and I’m feeling strong.

First things first, my goals are new they involve, rather do not involve different people. Being 1st has its own advantages but my goals are about me, and being the best that I can be in order to be at the top. I know that I have the ability to be a top athlete so it all start(ed two weeks ago)s now.

Ive been doing a bunch of reading now, including this book

http://www.peakscoachinggroup.com/store/store.php/products/bike-racing-for-juniors,

no don’t buy it from them, if u want to read it, which you should, then ask me to borrow it.

Back to the book, its gone over some fundamentals including talent, and training and has this excellent chart that covers a season of training with two bars, one for intensity and another for volume, right now im training my base, lots and lots of kilometers at very little intensity.

So for today’s ride, (that was supposed to be a gym day)

I did crunches and push-ups, and then went outside because the trainer was kicking me in the face. However good of a workout the trainer is, it is getting harder to stick with. I have to think of my goals, break up the workout into parts.

Today’s ride, involved snow, which on slick tires is really cool and deadly which leads me to my next segment

WORDS OF WISDOM MONDAY DECEMBER 17th 2009

When you are biking (on your road bike) in limited visibility and approaching an intersection. Be courteous and stop.

However exciting sliding through the intersection (clear intersection, dont worry mom) is, avoid it, especially if there is a patch of slush in the middle and cars approaching.

Hey, whatever I can do to make your life better, I’ll do it.

Until later

JUG

I need to fix this, this ugly blog is brought to you through Safari.

Jodie dosent have anything to do with the title of this blog.

Todays ride was good, it was hosted by Scott, we rode out to “not sure where” and we proceeded to continue in some direction or another, but im pretty sure he was planning it the whole time. the evil deciept of the biggest hill in the reigion.

My new goal: not to become a pro, that was yesterdays goal, todays is to conquer that damn hill, of course i conqured it today, but I want to do it with ease, like it was nothing more than a pothole, a gap in the road.

Then i can talk, and maybe even brag about my preformance on the bike.

Trust me this wont be the last time you hear about this hill.

14 mintues till im 19, im excited and currently studying for a law midterm that I have tomorrow night. Yeah thats right as cruel as it is I have a law midterm on my birthday, on the EVENING of my birthday, and apparently “Thursday is like, the weekend” I am missing out, bigtime.

Cheers to the big One Nine 10 years to make it big.

SO Janna is my nutritionist, she’s gonna get me to that 180, if not
there will be trouble

she just told me to dream, so im going to

Goodnight!

JANNA THIS WAS YOUR MENTION

Today was awesome!
I had a meeting with Geoff, my Entrepreneurship prof who let me know what I should be doing in order to get the UWCC off the ground. He gave me some great tips but it all seemed so obvious.

ride ride ride, I heard it before and I heard it again.

He didnt really say “ride ride ride” he said that in order for us to get sponsorships go to some bike shops around town, take it easy and slow. But most importantly, or at least most importantly to me is that we need to get RESULTS! which will require training the ass off, etc.

I decided that however great my offer to guelph is, I am still going to try to get a job with Miller Waste in Markham. It will allow me to do training at home and get all my hours in at work on a real budget which is AWESOME!

Todays ride was perfect, last week at this time there was almost snow on the ground, today it was 16 degrees and the leaves were alll yellow everywhere I looked.

I can only wait for the winter to come to see, no leaves, no sun and oh that 16 degrees, try neg 26.

On a good note, Im studying for a midterm that I have tomorrow, its going to be on Industrial Ecology and yeah i have no idea what the course is either, hence some redbull will assist me in the learning process.

So Ryleas working till 11, some time to get something done.. pretty unfortunate

HOWEVER im glad I get to see u tonite ryles

Cheers from the island of studying.

Well today was awesome in most respects!

It started off late (around 10) when I woke up and told myself that its time to get up because otherwise I would waste the rest of the day.

The next 5 hours were spent preparing for.. or riding to(and getting lost)/in/around Guelph and surrounding area.

It was a great time, I rode with Stefanie Clarke, she’s a pretty good rider from guelph, We proceeded to see the entire town, riding through the awesome houses and in campus.

I started thinking about the University of Waterloo Cycling Club (UWCC for short) and how underdeveloped it is.

I decided to take the task of making it big…

In store I have,
- Major Sponsors
- Rebranding
- the Gold, Silver, Bronze support program.
- a Coach!

So look for some major improvements from the UWCC in the near future, and if you are in Waterloo, or the Tri-City area, watch out for “I like to bike” the kid specific cycling tour to teach and guide kids in the right direction when biking in Waterloo (coming this spring)

Thats the extent of my brain capacity for the day,

Cheers to riding, riding and riding, and thanks again Stef for hosting the ride in Guelph today, much appreciated.

Today was pretty excellent..

I rode to plattsville, but not before getting lost in cambridge, and then following the only street sign I knew would lead me in the right direction.

This sign took me to plattsville, which is not where I wanted to be, but regardless was a good pitstop before I continued, I got to grab a bite to eat and got back on the road.

Scott: sorry man,

I was supposed to meet scott on my way back and his way out but we rode by each other, I hardly recognized the kit, but when i did, turned and started riding back he was gone!

pretty CRAZY!

3 Hr fartleck tomorrow
and trust me, Its as shitty as it seems.
pun pun pun

anyways, I would 100% rather be biking than studying, and I do not think that this is a good thing at this point in time.

Tomorrows schedule includes some law readings, some sociology readings and time to work out something with my entrepreneurship group because I have NO idea whats going on. (bad thing) but its a relativley simple class (good thing).

Now ill end the night by saying roomate 1 needs to turn down the “movie about Jesus” where there is currently a woman a) giving birth
b) having some sort of extreme breakdown
c) doing the dirty

c) is probably the most likely option given the context, and thats what I will stick with,

Hey, the neigbours bought some fireworks!!! I can put off sleeping for a little longer…

Cheers

. to nosy people, they make things such as nose plugs (buy some)

heres a set that I think would fit perfect, only 29.99 http://www.bombergear.com/2009_2/img/p/44-300-large.jpg