Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Pure Awesomeness !!!

Hey everyone as some of you might know I am now contributing to Grammo Bicycles blog . . . http://grammo-bici.blogspot.com/. I was originally going to abandon this blog and just write on the Grammo one but have since decided not to do that. So follow the link to Grammo for sure and stay tuned here as well. I just wanted to thank some great people for some amazing things as of recently. First and foremost I want to thank Unreal Cycles http://www.unrealcycles.com/, http://grammo-bici.com/  as well as Standing Stone Brewing Company http://www.standingstonebrewing.com/ for all of their support this season. There is no doubt that with out their help I would not be able to be doing all that I am.

The bike above is my new all mountain bike from Unrealcycles, its a Titus FTM and it pretty much rocks. I can't thank them enough, its a do it all bike and it really finds its self home in these neck of the woods. This picture was taken when I was showing some new found friends around some pretty awesome trails . . . More photos of this ride and bike to follow.
John descending some switch backs




Another shot of the Titus FTM


John coming up over a log . . .

Bummer . . . trail exit, can't get enough of this stuff
Here is a shot of my friend riding out at Applegate lake with me on an easy pedal day, this place is so gorgeous . . . IE look at the background !!!
Alecia killing it, she's been riding less than a month !!!


The picture above was from a ride on my current road bike about to be replaced by a Grammo Road bike thanks to Grammo Bicycles, can't wait for that. But man this picture does not justice to just how beautiful of a road this was, not to mention I reached 45mph on the way down!

another picture from my amazing road ride !!!
This bike is one sweet ride !!!
Here is a picture of the race bike, its crazy how lite this thing is . . . 
The above picture is of my race bike for this season, after a few races I have decided that I will forgo on the rigid and will be installing a front fork. It just doesn't seem to pay off to run a rigid. I feel as if a fork will help me that much more on the run and allow me to be a little bit more rested and fresh. I'll have to wait and see if it makes a difference. More pictures and stories to follow so stay tuned!!!

Monday, February 28, 2011

February is OVER !!!

So like I said I just want to use this blog to share races, stories and what it take to be prepared at the amateur level for the Xterra tri's. This season I started my training later than I would have like to but at last my first month is behind me. Just thought I'd share what my dry erase board looked like for February. . . I also got some cool new gear to train with that I will soon be posting on here my favorite of which is the Garmin 305 Forrunner . . . Till next time Just Ryde !!!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Cathing you up on Dan

Me and Dano !!!




So like I said it has been awhile since I have been on this blog but have all the intentions of using it a bunch over the next 8-12 months. For those of you who have read about Dan this is just a follow up with some cool pictures. It just so happened that where he was ending his trip was only hours from where I ended up moving (insert picture)

So of course as soon as I got into town I called him and we did an awesome little weekend. We rode Mckenzie river, Sisters and Bend. My favorite trail out of the entire weekend was easily lower whoops in Bend . . . So much fun. Dan was all healed up and we had a great time riding together. Its crazy that I met a guy in FL over a year ago, I decide to move clear across the country and then somehow meet back up with him, pretty awesome. So here are some pictures of the awesome weekend I had when I first got to Oregon over 8 months ago now . . . Till next time Just Ryde !!!




Xterra Season is fast approaching !!!

Hey everyone so I took a small hiatus during which I moved straight across the country just so I could have better mountain biking trails . . . And it worked I'm in love with Southern Oregon. Anyways The XTERRA Tri Season is about to begin and I couldn't be any happier. This year I decided to hire a trainer and so far its paying off big time (thanx Darcy!!!) She managed to get me out on a road bike which I was against (stupidly) for awhile but have since fallen in love!!! I also decided to purchase a more race oriented bike which I am stoked about should have it in a few weeks, its a carbon Grammo 29er and boy it wants to go fast!!!

So just wanted to get back on here hopefully have some followers this season. My goal is to qualify for worlds in Hawaii. I am doing at least 8 races this year and the schedule looks like this . . .

3/27/11 XTERRA REAL CA
http://www.tbfracing.com/events/realmtbtri.html

4/17/11 XTERRA South Championship Waco TX
http://www.xterraplanet.com/races/race.cfm?race_id=1310

5/15/11 XTERRA Pacific Championship - Santa Cruz CA
http://www.xterraplanet.com/races/race.cfm?race_id=1413

6/11/11 Granite-Man/ obviously : ) Home race
http://granite-man.com/

7/10/11 XTERRA Vashon Island WA
http://www.buduracing.com/pdf/2011%20xterra%20vashon%20071011.pdf

8/7/11 XTERRA Black Diamond WA ***(Voted Hardest Xterra)***
http://www.xterrablackdiamond.com/

8/27/11 XTERRA Lake Tahoe NV
http://www.bigblueadventure.com/pub/main2.asp?daEvent=60&daPageName=INTRO

9/4/11 XTERRA Canada Championship Whistler BC (Probably most excited about this one!!!)
http://www.xterracanada.com 


9/24/11 XTERRA USA Championship
http://www.xterraplanet.com/utah/index.html

and hopefully . . .
 

THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP in Maui