100 miles in a couple of hours...

So it has come again... A whole year has passed since I finished my first Jalapeno 100 and tommorrow I do it all agian.  I have done several 100 mile rides but this is the one I first set my goal of accomplishing when I started to lose weight.  I did this one all by myself. That was then and this is now... This year I'm going with a big group,  This year I'm helping my sister finish her first century.  Even Adrian, the 6 ft 3 260 pounder is going to finish this.  They will get to experience something that not that many people can say they have done.  It will be a good day.

I would love to do this one day...

SCARY AND AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Breakfast after ride...

Went out for a quick 60 min ride today just to loosen up the sore legs and get them ready for tomorrows 100 mile beating.


Pancakes!!!!! I have been craving some all week and I finally got some! It wasn't ihop but Denny's satisfied it. Got the two eggs two pancake two sausage meal. Mmmmmmmm. Let the carbing up begin lol.


Billy was excited!


Adrian tore it up!

Ride Log...

ummmm think I have to rethink whom I ride with again.......  

34 miles, with zone 5 intervals done.

Before the sun comes up...

What motivates you? What does it take to get you to get up and bust your butt before everyone else? What does it take to keep you doing it over and over?


Why?


If you can answer these questions then you are like me. Only the ones that get up everyday and experience the cool air while swallowing up miles of pavement in complete darkeness can answer this. Make the effort and goals will be achieved. Time does not stop, every new day is a new beginning. A chance to better yourself. So if you want to get better you have to have it within you to face the new day and make the best of it. SO WAKE UP!

Surge Blog: I wanna go fast Ricky Bobby...

As many problems as Ricky Bobby has, i follow his mantra. "I wanna go FAST". Isn't that always the case with any competitive racer. Fast, will never be fast Enough, there is always faster, there is always better. Last year Eric and I attended a Tour in which we started late and had to close a gap of over 15 minutes withing 60 miles on another Fast group. It was a memorable moment. We shared pulls equally and averaged just a little under 25mph for over 30 miles and caught them. It was by far the best performance both of us achieved that year.

Over winter, our speed dropped significantly. Just base miles, Alot of base miles. Have to train smart, cant keep a high intensity over a long period of time, youll burn up early in the season. Ive been dying to put in some speed. I watch other riders ride so fast, and i feel like a caged lion just waiting, waiting to be unleashed.

The Cage has been opened, bring on the pain, Fast, will never be Fast enough

Interval time, getting there...

Done with a great morning ride just here at Starbucks blogging without my morning coffee. Forgot my money and my riding buddies are living on beans and rice so we are stuck here staring at each other pissed off that we are at a coffee shop and don't have coffee. Lol.


My legs are feeling better and I can see that Sergio and Billy are getting back in shape again. We will tear it up this year. As long as we train hard we will do good. We did three ten minute intervals keeping a steady pace. These will get longer as we keep getting stronger. Burned 2350 calories this morning. All before breakfast!

New addition to the mancave...

Decided to get the tools out and make myself a sweet bike stand. I could not convince myself to purchase something that just holds my bike up. It was an easy project and cost was just $5 for the hanger part I got from the home depot. I had the wood laying around so that was free. I sprayed it with some black spray paint and as soon as I find some cool decals laying around I'll slap those babies on it. All I know is that it does it's job!

Sergio Garza Racing: Bad Choices.....

Here is another side to the story.. It's pretty funny reading two different perspectives... This is my buddy Sergio's blog. Subscribe to his and find out how two different people experience the same rides in different ways and how they view it lol....

Sergio Garza Racing: Bad Choices: "Yesterday i went out For an Elite ride with Eric, and Billy. The ride composed of most of the Strongest riders in the valley. And like most ..."

On a Sunday...

Sunday group rides.  A time where you can meet up with riding buddies and do a longer ride to see how your training is going and see where others are at.  Group rides are usually supposed to be good paced rides where everyone practices doing pulls,  rotations, echelons and other tactics that you can use during a race.  All awesome things on paper... but in reality... these rides usually turn into short races..... and by usually I mean always!!!

 Here is a little snippet of a magazine article I was reading on how to get back into racing condition....lol I guess it's a known problem everywhere and human cycling nature.  Well this Sunday ride was no different.  Went out with the elites this week and I knew like always it would be a nice fast paced ride.

 On this ride there were attacks, rotations and breakaways all of which we reacted on cue and performed very well.  Towards the end of the ride Billy and I started a break away and hit it pretty hard.  Another friend Oscar and another rider came along with us and we started pushing hard.  At first I felt as the other two were giving up thinking that they were convincing themselves why kill themselves and work so hard thinking that we were going to get swallowed up by the chase group anyways.  I took it on myself to motivate the group and told them lets pick it up, I felt good.  So I picked up the pace.  In a actual race situation the breakaway is supposed to share equal amounts of pulling time, no one cyclist pulls longer than they are supposed to.  My goal was to just not get caught so I pulled for around 3 minutes then rotated through the others to do another long pull about a minute later. I was alright with that, I knew the others were in pain, always think its funny when I hear one guy yelling "PULL!!"  and in a pain felt voice the reply is "I CAN'T" lol.  Well our breakaway worked out.  Later I found out that the chase was slowed down by a couple of red lights but hey WE GOT THERE FIRST LOL....  One thing we need to work on is tactics.  Later while talking to Segio about why he did not come with us I found out that he did not want to follow us because he as well thought we would be caught anyways.  Well thats good but one mistake he made was that he is on our team and he said that he was doing 29 mph pulls in the chase group.... so he actually wanted our team to lose?  No... I think he just did not realize what he was doing... But next time we all know if we are stuck in the peleton and our guys are up front riding hard, your job is to slow the group down or just not help at all, let others get tired or not even try to chase...  All in all it was an awesome ride. Ended the ride with an awesome breakfast and smack talking like always.  I think it's kind of funny how we talk so much trash to our buddies when all we did was act like douches and busted our butts on a training ride lol...

I also noticed that my 2 week old tire is giving birth... Whore!! lol