Friday, September 29, 2006

Camping VS Racing.

Hummmmm Seems like a hard choice.

Camping.

Actually that was very easy.

JR

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Good Weather Bad Timing.

the weather in baton rouge is great every morning is brisk and breezy and just very pleasurable too bad it came just a little to late this football season great weather here is always related to shortened days whether that is the spring or the fall and all the time between well i will just say sweaty balls the training races are winding down but the good thing is that camping is right around the corner clearsprings here i come and i will come often this winter in search of fresh air and primitive camping the only thing that i really do not like about the clear springs recreational area in the homochitto national forest is that some where near enough to the camp sites to hear is a pumping station it sounds like your grand fathers truck stuck in a ditch with him gasing that ole ford every seven seconds trying to dislodge that beater from a muddy half grave well actually my grand dad drove a chevy but ford sounds seems so much better for a visual the training is finally coming around today for me was a series of long hard pulls in my fifty three eleven at the training race and a couple of extended pulls in the twenty nine plus range up to the mid thirties so maybe just may be i will have a descent race this weekend in monroe louisiana i really like the course that the twin cities cyclist used last year my only problem was that it really did not work well for me anywaythisistheendofmyblogfornowbecausesomethingsarealittletohardtowriteandsomeothersalittletohardtoreadperiodjr
maythewindalwaysbeatyourback
lae
jr

Good Weather Bad Timing.

the weather in baton rouge is great every morning is brisk and breezy and just very pleasurable too bad it came just a little to late this football season great weather here is always related to shortened days whether that is the spring or the fall and all the time between well i will just say sweaty balls the training races are winding down but the good thing is that camping is right around the corner clearsprings here i come and i will come often this winter in search of fresh air and primitive camping the only thing that i really do not like about the clear springs recreational area in the homochitto national forest is that some where near enough to the camp sites to hear is a pumping station it sounds like your grand fathers truck stuck in a ditch with him gasing that ole ford every seven seconds trying to dislodge that beater from a muddy half grave well actually my grand dad drove a chevy but ford sounds seems so much better for a visual the training is finally coming around today for me was a series of long hard pulls in my fifty three eleven at the training race and a couple of extended pulls in the twenty nine plus range up to the mid thirties so maybe just may be i will have a descent race this weekend in monroe louisiana i really like the course that the twin cities cyclist used last year my only problem was that it really did not work well for me anywaythisistheendofmyblogfornowbecausesomethingsarealittletohardtowriteandsomeothersalittletohardtoreadperiodjr
maythewindalwaysbeatyourback
lae
jr

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Rasing Canes Road Race

Raising Canes Road Race
So today's raising Canes Road Race consisted of a few key ingredients.

1) Fried Chicken Boy (ME)
2) Two La Sport riders
2) New Orleans Transplant Rialdo and Brooks
and all that diluted into the same quantity of Herring Gas.

That equals Slaughter.

Herring Gas Cycling Team was just too strong today and not of the underarm pit odor type either.

They controlled the race from the start. I like racing against them because they are so strong but heck even if you roll with the punches you will eventually get hit.

I was TKO'd after around 30 miles of racing. Herring sent all of its riders off one at a time till a group of 5 of us were left chasing there group of 6. My group was not playing nice and so I decided to go on a suicide mission. I took to the front of our group fully intending on catching Herring. After cruising between 26-33 for a few miles, I realized that every time we started to reel them in they would go just a little harder. That is frustrating. Really it is.

Needless to say I was successful in completing a suicide mission. I blew up, which is just as I expected. My bud Trent told me of this cool race tactic that will make me much stronger next year. Basically, ride myself into the ground at every race I enter. Either go for the win or go for broke. I broke into the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle today. But I did get in a good workout.

Till Next Time, LAE,
JR

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Race Season is Here.

Tomorrow for the first time since Sonoma I am racing. The course is in St Francisville, LA and will consist of many of the roads around the Oakley House. The course though fast, and beautiful will not suite me. Though, I do look forward to starting this race. Many of the roads have deep tree canopy cover and rolling hills with some of the best asphalt in the state. I am not going to talk tactics. I am just going to have a great time and try to survive with the Aussie Train Troy "The Man" Porter coming back to make us weaker riders eat some Vegemite. Apparently this is some good shit from Australia.




NOT!!!!


So the only thing I have been riding lately is a sofa. Sunday-Wednesday I was floored by something that reminded me of the flu. I am going to need some help tomorrow to do anything.

Well anyway night peps and wish me LUCK.

JNR

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Auto Update.

So I fixed my truck. Well it runs properly. Well what I mean is that my Auto works consistently now.

Well today it is done. I have repaired my auto. It only took a distributor cap, rotor, spark plug wires, fuel filter and a battery. Now I have to change my oil, fill my winshield wiper fluid and replace my U joints and fix my AC and driver side window.
But hey at least it works now. Right.

But at least one of my problems is fixed. Well now I am back on schedule. Many miles tomorrow morning await me. I hope my sinuses clear up before then right now I sound like I am on Nitrous or Helium.

Getting better is my other goal for this week and starting up my core work again before I pay for it at my next race.

yeah I bought a lemon.

Anyway, LAE Peps.

JR


Wow I love American Cars.

The Illest

Hell yeah I am ill. So ill I am pretty much bedridden. This little spell of bad luck has to be on its way out the door. Hopefully, I will get a chance to stop riding the ole couch tomorrow and go put in some QT on my road bike. Other than being sick, not too much has happened lately. I had a moment of good legs at last week at the training race. I really thought things were starting to get better then in one of lifes sin like curvature things started to point downward. Wait. Am I complaining. Sorry I just had an out of body moment and noticed myself bitch'n about some truly insignificant stuff. Boy I am one whinny bastard. Sorry about that peps. Well I am going to be proactive in turning around my bad luck.

LAE,
JR

P.s. This weekend my fall assult is supposed to start on the local race scene. This shit is going to hurt.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Mountain biking on Pavement.

So the trails are a little ways from me casa. For all you peps whom live with in 2 miles of great single track. Go to Hell. Well really I am just a little jealous. These emotions reduced to their lowest common denominator is to blame on the fact that I have to ride on horrid and quite treacherous 4 lane busy roads and then on some small but even more dangerous back roads that are not that far back. Each time I ride to the trail I think I am going to die at least, hummm, twice on a good day.

So the past few days I have been logging the big miles on the MTB either commuting to work or riding to the trail. Basically, 3+ hours per day on a MTB with 32 psi in the tires. I long for the days of a quick commute home on the ole road bike.

So the trails here in BTR just as A-Town are Powder. There is little traction and lots of sand pits all over the place. I know where they are but it is still disappointing to not be able to rail some of my favorite corners due to powder. There are also face slappers all over the place. I swear the undergrowth grows so fast here that each lap there is a new face slapper waiting on me to fly through a corner.

I think it is time to start racing again. So this weekend will be me either in Oxford, MS or Chappell Hill, TX. The race in Oxford will not have a good field and the Race in Chappell Hill will never let me see the front for hours unless I do something stupid and irrational. My pro buds are saying do the Road Race and Suffer and ride like a man on a mission but boy if that mission is to get dropped and finish 15 min off the back I can make that happen. Oh Well, I think I will head to TX anyway either to MTBike also.

Till Next Post LAE<>
JR

P.s. Hey at least it has Cooled off to the Upper 80s this past week how cool is that???