Watch This
My good friend happened across this advetisement.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
One thing that was missing from omaha
Can you guess what it is? A Bike COOP. An acquantance of mine, Emrick Brown planned for this to go down almost 1.5 years ago. Thanks to all his hard work, we now have a bike COOP in omaha.
Come one, come all, to the open house 5-7pm this Saturday March 15th. The bike COOP is located on 33th and california, right next to california tacos and more. Come celebrate with food and drink and see the new place we can truely call home.
Come one, come all, to the open house 5-7pm this Saturday March 15th. The bike COOP is located on 33th and california, right next to california tacos and more. Come celebrate with food and drink and see the new place we can truely call home.
Small world
I finally got home from bend, slept 12 hours to erase car ride fatigue, and then the obvious thing to do sunday afternoon was go riding. I went up to ft calhoun, around, and back. On the way back, I happened upon a rider. He was riding along on a green 1990's giant, cold weather parka, and cloths pins attached to his pants.
Instead of rolling along, I decided to see what he was up too. I later found out that he was training for a century ride. He was planning to ride to York, NE to help his best friend set up a new bathroom. Upon later inquiry, I found out that he was originally from argentina. In So. America, cloths pins aid commuter businessmen to keep their pants clean from the drive-side bracket. I wish I lived in Argentina. He said he had been out for 5 hour on sunday. That trumps my 3.5 hrs.
Third random fact, he went to grace university and roomed with my neighbor from Charles City, Nathan Kooyman.
Funny what you learn when you slow down and talk to someone who is enjoying the road with you. John Wright, it was nice to meet you
Instead of rolling along, I decided to see what he was up too. I later found out that he was training for a century ride. He was planning to ride to York, NE to help his best friend set up a new bathroom. Upon later inquiry, I found out that he was originally from argentina. In So. America, cloths pins aid commuter businessmen to keep their pants clean from the drive-side bracket. I wish I lived in Argentina. He said he had been out for 5 hour on sunday. That trumps my 3.5 hrs.
Third random fact, he went to grace university and roomed with my neighbor from Charles City, Nathan Kooyman.
Funny what you learn when you slow down and talk to someone who is enjoying the road with you. John Wright, it was nice to meet you
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Dear Nebraska and Iowa,
get your stuff together. Meet, call each other, or whatever. Just don't schedule races on the same day and then wonder why your turnout is half what you thought it would be.
Case 1 - the Dave Babcock Memorial stage race and Blue Booze and Barbeque weekend in Clear Lake. Both, from what I gather are great races. July 12
Case 2 - Race formally known as the Lincoln Plating (Spring Classic) and Finchford Roubaix. April 13.
Yes, I understand that not all races can be coordinated for separate weekends. But the there are 4 weekends in May that are free. Use them. A little communication and we would all be racing these weekend and not twiddling thumbs in the month of may.
Sincerely,
The management.
get your stuff together. Meet, call each other, or whatever. Just don't schedule races on the same day and then wonder why your turnout is half what you thought it would be.
Case 1 - the Dave Babcock Memorial stage race and Blue Booze and Barbeque weekend in Clear Lake. Both, from what I gather are great races. July 12
Case 2 - Race formally known as the Lincoln Plating (Spring Classic) and Finchford Roubaix. April 13.
Yes, I understand that not all races can be coordinated for separate weekends. But the there are 4 weekends in May that are free. Use them. A little communication and we would all be racing these weekend and not twiddling thumbs in the month of may.
Sincerely,
The management.
20 things I did on Spring Break
-Experienced 81 degree weather in Ogalala
-Experienced 20 degree weather plus winter snow advisory in Boulder, Co next day
-Got food poisoning at the Med in Boulder, Co
-Saw Maria, Dave, Katlyn, and Kelli
-Stayed at the foot of snowbird ski resort in Castle Egbert
-interview for dental job
-road bachelor, skyline, aubrey butte, flagstaff
-Played shoot the box at JC's - Lindsey took all my money
-Ran out of gas
-Hitchhiked
-Stayed in palace on aubrey butte
-at dinner in a church
-drove 50+ hours in the car.
Ok so that is only 12. I ran out of time or attention. Whatever. enjoy.
-Experienced 20 degree weather plus winter snow advisory in Boulder, Co next day
-Got food poisoning at the Med in Boulder, Co
-Saw Maria, Dave, Katlyn, and Kelli
-Stayed at the foot of snowbird ski resort in Castle Egbert
-interview for dental job
-road bachelor, skyline, aubrey butte, flagstaff
-Played shoot the box at JC's - Lindsey took all my money
-Ran out of gas
-Hitchhiked
-Stayed in palace on aubrey butte
-at dinner in a church
-drove 50+ hours in the car.
Ok so that is only 12. I ran out of time or attention. Whatever. enjoy.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Lost time
I have lost time and realized that I haven't written a blog in over a week. A lot has happen this week- Boulder, Salt Lake City, Boise, Bend and now the Hampton Inn in Rock Springs.
A quick word of thanks to the 600+ people that have visited my blog!
As you may know, I had an interview and also looked at buying a practice in Bend. More to come about that, but I cased every road in Bend for team Kaos for the CCC. Skyliner Road, Piolet Butte, Mount Bachelor there all still there and are ready to tear our legs off.
A quick word of thanks to the 600+ people that have visited my blog!
As you may know, I had an interview and also looked at buying a practice in Bend. More to come about that, but I cased every road in Bend for team Kaos for the CCC. Skyliner Road, Piolet Butte, Mount Bachelor there all still there and are ready to tear our legs off.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
The Rope-A-Dope
Many sports fan remember the rope-a-dope to be a specific pugilistic style where Mohommad Ali bested George Forman in their famous fight in South Africa. Well, the rope-a-dope I am talking about has nothing to do with boxing and more to do with the temperature change we have seen on our spring break.
Lindsey and I left the greater Omaha area Saturday morning being ushered out with 50 degree weather. The more westward we drove the higher the temperature rose. 50..63..69..78... In Ogala, NE the temperature climbed to 81. Crazy. We arrived in Boulder Saturday night and were quickly greated by Maria, Dave, KK, and Kelli. After offerings of food and drink, we went to bed fully expecting to ride outdoors with more warm weather. Bam! Rope-a-dope. I quickly woke and walked down stairs to hear Maria confirm,"Well, the weren't wrong about the weather." It had dropped 50 degrees, snowed 3 inches, and hit us off guard with a large left hook.
Now we are trying to decide which corse of action we need to take... Ride indoors, X/C ski or a combination plate of the two following.
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