The life of a bicycle racer…

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

imout

CJJCCJ

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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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

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

Signed; 1:42

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