Kickin ass Takin' scalps

Well it was hard to quell the cross jones yesterday. I had to work, so that is that. The legs still feel flat from the week of pain, but I can feel the form coming. Heard from the champ, he manage to cruise to an easy 35+ win, with the berries boys going 1 -2. Sounds like Hernando is working out the CX bugs as well but no one can say it better than he can so check his blog out. I started my morning of no cross early with a five mile run. This is the first time I have run that far since the accident so I took it real slow like, and tried not to get baited into a alpha male anerobic slug fest. Luckily it was just a nice easy gallop, and a "mornin" to all the fine folks. After that I went to work ,committed to doing deathervals in the afternoon as penenance for not racing. Somehow the afternoon got away from me and my ass was appreciating the chair. Not that I was slacking I just had work to catch up on and my legs were nice and happy not doing anything after that run. Well today is a new day, I am getting ready right now to go face to face with the deathervals. So there!

My worky wingman Hermanito has been in a funk, seems he went on a 26 year old girl who hung herself. Kind of puts it into perspective, very tragic. The first time you see stuff like that it messes with your head, after 22 years of doing it your head is just messed up all the time.

Seems like the time is right for a good wildland fire. We have been chasing down the phantom grass fire all day. The weather and time of year is just right. Besides we are due for another Oakland Hills fire. That one was nasty, still have scars to show for it. Let's hope we make it through.

If you missed the Clinton interview on Fox, that was classic, this is a QT video (you really shuold be using an apple anyway). The Fox people have no soul, and are so weasely and predictable it is pathetic. Okay, I know Willie was not able to control his hormones but I would rather have a horny guy with a soul for a president than a low low IQ having, redneck good ol' boy, monosyllabic primate for one. Whatever. Check it out though. What the hell is waterboarding anyway?


Feed the cross monkey please! DFL wednesday!

VJ

Pretty Pain Prose

Went to DFL last night. Decided to go at the last minute. I was suppose to watch the kids and chill at home, but..... I brought little man with me, he was my "crew", the princess went to soccer then hung out at home while the old lady was at school, or so I thought. Anyway, after doing a two hour interval and starts cross ride, I figured what the hell it's just DFL. Famous last words. Got there 2 minutes before the start, no warm up no course preview, just riding blind! Pure DFL style. Anyway, the interval session earlier was barking at me and I kept thinking what Hernando said 85%, 85%. That was about all I could handle. It is always good to shake the bike around a little bit to make sure nothing is falling off. I dropped a chain on the first lap, the handle bars started to move around by lap 4. Oh well, now I can get it all wired and ready for CCCX this weekend hopefully. I broke out the swiss miss outfit, and I must say that I look pretty good in a dress. It is hard to take yourself serious when you are going anerobic in a dress, epecially when you have to do laps across the basketball court through the home boys game. I am not sure what they thought but it was epic SF style. T

he first few CX races is like old home week, you see everyone for the first time since last season, and seeing most of them in drag is kind of funny. Il Falconer better known as Max Throttle has the unibomber look going on and he is blowin up for sure. He looked great and killed a very large DFL field that included some serious talent. Funkmiester wes there, as was Snead, I think. The Swobo and DFL crew were out in full force, Brad was even riding a cross bike with gears! By the end I was bearly walking up most of the run ups. The legs were gone. Good times though. Maybe next week I can sneak out again. Don't tell the old lady.

The bad news was that the old lady beat me back to the house. Bummer, I had some 'splaining to do. It was worth it. Today I thought about doing the nooner and the legs were not happy, especially after running for 30 minutes with the academy in the morning. I rallied though, and managed a decent ride, made it up and over the college on the back end of the group. Not bad! Well I hope to make it to CCCX but it may not happen, depends on work. Time to put the head to bed, tomorrow is a recovery day! I get to work on the bathroom remodel that has been going on for four months. It never ends.

Oh yeah, you had to love Bush getting ripped by Ugo and having Ugo bust out the Noam book. That was classic. If every other country hates you, you may want to check and see if it isn't you that is the asshole. W seriously bugs me. That and his approval rating is up. WTF??? Who did that poll? I am waiting to see the sponsor of that one. "Brought to you by the good people at High Times magazine". Come on. 2008 can't come fast enough. Bring on the night sweats.

Later,
VJ

Slow Mo

Been a little slow on the blog stuff. Just trying to keep my head above water and try to stay in shape. Got some good miles in the past few days. I may be able to salvage cross season yet. A little reality check though. Respect to the AV rider who was killed by a druck criver on the noon ride last friday. First hand accounts say that the driver was going 60 mph down old page and hit the AV guy head on. Dude rolls his car get out with a beer bottle in his hand. Hippstar was first to get there. I don't know how he did not go off on the driver. Man, that is messed up. My condolances go to his family. Life is short my friends. Live today.

I am slowly getting bikes out of my garage. Sold the green weenie to my bro in law. Got some CX bikes for sale put them up on the NCNCA list. A little fall cleaning makes the wife happy. Well now I am tired. Time to go rest. This blog sucked! Oh well I will try harder next time.