The trail

does this work??

http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107005681661070721242.000477b873cb918e0d01a&t=h&z=11

hmm copy and paste that junk

I'm still alive and ripping around on my finalized fixie. In fact, that and a single speed junker that is ssaweet. They are my babies, along with my fishtank, espresso maker and other unfinished projects.
Pictures of the whips to follow.

Oh my other baby is a trail me and Andrew are building.. maybe i should go ride it now :)

woah. Time to ride. It's cold and snowy in sarnia. Trainer?

Hiking with pieces of firewood in a back pack is a bit hard on the back.
If you go for a 4 hour walk is that considered epic? or even training?

MIA

MIA and my name have been in the same sentence far too often this week. A combination of school work, sleeping in and a late gym seesh every night will do that. Although I don't really seem to be getting much homework done eventhough I'm attempting to work on it constantly.

Going to the gym getting jacked is pretty sweet and I kinda like doing that once a year to balence things out so I don't break an arm trying to lift a case of beer. Only problem is, is that its pretty boaring and other than the local sarnia cougars trying to pick us up not much exciting happens. Thus the lack of posts.

Something unboaring did happen last weekend tho naminly Halloween which was pretty neeto. Drank some barley suds and hung around dressed up in a suit. Im not sure what I was exatly but most people thought I was either Michael Jackson or Scarface. I might even find a picture of it somewhere. Jammin out on the guitar lots lately when I can too.

Got the plane tickets for home booked up. Looking forward to causing some havoc in the TOB/ Maritimes sooner than later.

It was like 20 degrees today in november. lil bit of climate shift going on here. Nice now but in May when its still snowing out I'll be pissed. If the wether keeps up I'll be going for a rip tomorrow.

So I was on a roll a few days ago riding lots until Lambton college decided to put a stop to that. I was living with my nose in a book for 3 days straight. It was a little stuffy. I think I redeemed myself today tho with a solid 4 hour ride with my buddy Andrew. Drove down along the St. Claire river, went further south and then back up the river ending up back home. Good day in the office. Also had a little cross country meet in Windsor yesterday that went fairly well considering my legs are short and not meant to run. Final meet is in Hammertown on saterday. Then I can get jacked at the gym and start riding like an animal. An animal such as a Liger or Lyger depending on if your Canadian or not. I think I've said enough. Time to watch the red sox loose.

Bonk

So with a little bit of new found motivation I headed out again in search of some dirt roads to shred. And shred I did. Probably a little to hard but its hard to hold back for whatever reason this time of year. I'll get into the smart training grove soon enough but I decided to have some fun. With the sunset on one side and the full moon the other it was a pretty bitchin cuiz down this road that just kept deteriorating. Exactly what I was looking for. Besides one tangent through a random corn field that led to a dead end, the ride was going well. A little too well because I found myself pretty far from home when I decided, hey I should turn around no? And when things start to get a little dark and your in unfamiliar territory.. ya start to take some wrong turns.. at least I did. And when an unexpected 30k on dirt roads comes along, that equals, yes, the oh so familiar hunger bonk. So for the last half hour of my ride I was only thinking of chocolate chip cookies and trying to remember my name. Good times.
Sarnia is straight roads. Ride, turn right for an hour, ride, turn right again, and once more, and well your home. Except for one god damn road that some jack ass decided to put in to throw off cyclist. That road, was the one I took.
Enough bitching. Oh wait...That was my view the entire time. THE ENTIRE TIME.

More MTB

Today I ripped some shotty trails with my buddy Alan that runs on the XC team with me. We both kinda suck at running, me more than him. And so instead of training for that, we did something fun and went for a mtb ride. I once again donned the cross bike and headed out to these trails that are somewhat of a secret outside sarnia. Tricky to find unless you've been there before.
They started off pretty ballin', some fast flowy trails, not to technical that I could handle with the cros bike. But as we headed further in, everything was demo-ed by falled trees from this storms we had a week or 2 back. So that kinda put the kybosh on those trails. We rode one loop again and decided to come back with a chain saw and do business. Headed over to the trails I roade yesterday after to get a few more miles in. There's more potential there too but lots of work to be done.
Came home and prepared a gourmet meal consisting of KD and a cold glass of coke. Just keeping it real.

Now for some more of this....