My first Century Jalapeno 100 bicycle tour...

With the Jalapeno 100 just around the corner I wanted to post a video of me doing it one year ago.  I have come a long way. At this point I had just started cycling for about 5 months on and off.  I had set the goal of doing the 100 miles when I started dieting.  I was determined to lose the pounds!

Got skillzzz on the the court...

Every Monday and Wednesday we have been getting together to shoot some hoops.  It's been fun but I have come to realize that I was not blessed in every sport. I play basketball like a donkey plays basketball.....they don't!!!  I'm not meant to play bball, for some reason every time I have gone out there I have been getting hurt some way.  Am I a cluts, am I just uncoordinated or is it just a consistent bad day.  Well on Monday I was going for the ball which was going out of bounds and the guy in front of me caught it and tried to inbound it straight in my face! Wow! That hurt.

On Wednesday I was going up for a rebound and landed on someones foot causing my ankle to roll and hit the concrete!!!  Pain!  Twisted ankles... something a cyclist never gets.... Come to think of it, cyclist don't get that much ankle workouts so I'm guessing that is why it is weak....hmmmm  Well anyways it looks like I got to stay off this foot for a couple of days, that is not good for my training schedule.  

Performance is what it is about!!!!...

Yessss! lol

It's like a sauna in here...

 This is a picture I took while on the freeway yesterday.  That is how it has been the past week.  Horrible! Gloomy! Just plain nasty... Unsafe riding weather.  Good thing I got my man cave!

It's cold outside but we still get a good workout inside. Too may people in here that it feels like a sauna.  You sweat like crazy, dropping pounds on a trainer is easy!  It's gonna feel weird next week when we start on the road again. My legs are gonna be all muscle! lol

Actually rode today! Sweet...

We were finally able to get away from this torture fest.

Today was the first day of the week that we could actually get outside and ride so we took full advantage of it!  Still feeling a little bit under the weather, we decided to do a nice spinning ride to loosen up.  Riding the trainer has some benefits and today I noticed some of its flaws.  My legs feel like Jello!  They hurt... like if I am riding through sand.  They have lots of power but they feel as if they are sore on the inside.  I think it is all the "sanding climbing" on the trainer that has buffed them up, or they are just beat up by all the resistance.  Either way we did a couple of miles and felt how it was to be on the road again.... at least for a day because seems like tomorrow will be another cruddy day.

Take advantage of every opportunity you get!

Ehh throw in a rest day...

I'm feeling a little bit off today.  Might be the beginning of the flu so I decided to just take it easy today. ZZzzZzzz

I got game....

Today I hit the court!  Laced up my Nike's grabbed a basketball and went out the school some punks!   Well the first guy to challenge me was an 8 year old kid.... He did not look that tough so I challenged him to a game of horse.  It was just a kid so I started off easy to not discourage the kid.  All of a sudden he starts doing trick shots off the backboard, bouncing it off his head and doing layups.  He took me out quick!!! I got horse and all he had was the H!  Damn, kids now a days got skills! lol

After that warm up, well lets just say it was a warm up cause I will ignore the fact that I got embarrassed by an 8 year old,  we started the real game of 5 on 5.  Now I brought out my skills which were pretty much my awesome endurance.  I can run around this guys and not get tired, it is awesome! I can't shoot worth a damn but I can get there!!! lol   

After the game I went home to get our good training ride done.  Billy, Serge, Sebastioangns and Chris showed up for the fun.  Overall it was a good workout day mixing it up with bball.  On to tomorrow!!!! 

Rest day...

Day off.  Thats it.  We all need it.  Tomorrow we go at it once again with full power in the legs.  Played a little Call of Duty and now I am checking out the Oregon Auburn Game! It's a good one!

Weather does not look good, probably gonna be a week on the trainer!

Some good deals I found...

I am always surfing the web for awesome deals but sometimes I just don't need them or the deal is not in my size. I'm gonna start posting these deals on my blog randomly as a second blog of the day to just spread the word.


 For example

These are the exact shoes are the exact shoes my friend Billy rides with for only $39 bucks! If you have a smaller size foot, buy these carbon shoes asap, they are $170 road shoes.

I just purchased these shoe covers for $4.50 and they do the job of blocking some of the cold wind off my toes.

I also got this beenie to cover my delicate ears. Works perfect and only costed me $4 bucks last week, price went up on it now but its still a good deal

NASHBAR.com has some real good deals going on right now so check them out too.

Took Sunday off, had a day with the family...

The first thing I usually do in the morning is grab my Iphone and check the weather.  Today looked like doomsday!!! Look at the pic! lol So I just went back to sleep to later find out that it was the most beautiful day ever.  I felt like it was a good day to head out to the flea market to see if I could get any deals.  We went to the big flea market in Brownsville where you can get anything and everything! You can find stuff from the mall here, its like if your shopping a Hollister, A&F, Macy's lol  well most of the stuff is fake and or broken but you will find it!

If you want pampers here is the spot!  Brought to you by good ol' medicaid and having 12 kids!

Found a cool looking bike, it was two bikes parallel connected together. I would be going in circles with this thing because I would want to drop the passenger! lol

After we took off from the Mexican Mall, we went to Panda Express!! They just opened the first one here in my area and it is one of my favorite restaurants from when I was a chunker.  ahhh memories!!!

Later in the day we played some tennis to burn a little calories.  I then ended the day with some Wendy's chili and chicken nuggets to wash it down.  Now that is what I call an off day.  We need one of these days every now and then to keep us sane.  Back to the plan tomorrow!