OK, the last post i started became old news very quickly. I was mid-way through a 4th of July post, but ran into various internet difficulties, so that post got left behind, and we are moving forward. A couple of worthy photos survived, and some new ones have been added…

Some of you might be pleased to hear i have been given a complex by everyone’s comments on black socks, and you can be assured i have worn nothing but white ones ever since! It is raining outside now, so if it keeps up through till the race start, it is going to be pretty hard for me to wear some new white socks and have them ruined!

So you have to check this out for a laugh. I am currently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of “That 70’s Show”, racing Superweek with two of my team mates. While driving to stage 8, we saw a sight for sore eyes:

My first thought was a chick on a Harley, with no helmet, and i was in hysterics. Funny enough i thought, then i realised she was wearing high heels…

Spencer was driving, so i had him speed up, and when i saw the double wrist guards, excessive blubber, and the “HOTTE” license plates, i nearly wet my pants! Hilarious!

I don’t really know what to say about these photos above, but i strongly encourage you guys to make comments as to your thoughts…!

While in the Chicago, Illinois stretch of Superweek, Spencer and i were lucky enough to be hosted by Mitch. He was a great host, and we had a great time staying there.

There were two main highlights for me, from our time at Mitch’s place; my sinking of the black ball, off the break, with no other balls going in, in our game of pool…
And watching Mitch (white shirt) and his friends play their fortnightly poker game. It was a sight to be seen, with the nine guys sitting around playing poker, while they had poker playing on the BIG (DLP) screen behind them!

If there was a layer of cigarette smoke at head-level around the room, and some sort of organised crime going on, it would have really completed the image!
We had a great time watching them play while we played pool, and had a good chat with them, as well as eating a lot of their great food!

The week before i came to Superweek, i was meant to race Fitchburg, up in Massachusetts. The drive up from Atlanta is long, the best part of 20 hours. It maybe even took longer than that. What made it seem even longer was the confusion between our management and the race organisers, that left us un-registered, and us not being allowed to race. So the drive back seemed even longer…
At least we got to see the NASCAR branch of our team driving down the same Interstate on the way home:

Pretty cool!

Mum just sent over a bag of goodies too, which i really need right now with all the racing coming up! I guess it is a nice little treat though, but the three kilograms of junk food aren’t so good when they all get eaten in one sitting!

So there is a little bit of an update, and i am sure i can continue with my “second-half-of-year’s” resolution of more updating. I had a photo shoot yesterday to get a new header photo for the top of the page, so with a bit of luck that will be up and running soon.

I had a good thought after the comments on my last post; I think i can aim for one “bigger” post a week, with photos and the works, and then one or two other weekly posts that are a bit smaller, but comment provoking, just to keep all the readers interested. What are you reader’s thoughts on that?

In 2001, St. Patrick’s Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.

I have an update on the way, its just that i forgot my cable to load photos from my camera across to my computer, so i can’t put any pictures up this post… You know what i am like with making sure i have photos up in each post!

Thanks to everyone who commented last post, i appreciate it. 13 is impressive! I am pretty happy about that, having 13 readers is about ten more than i thought i had!

Just a quick question for Uncle John, what’s wrong with black socks?

Ok, here is another post that should have been up a while back! It is a week late, but it is all good, because the second half of the year is just a week away, and i have set myself a “second-half-of-year’s” or “old-year’s” resolution, to be a good blog-updater! I have been way too slack this first half of the year, so that is all going to change, and hopefully i will regain some of my faithful readers and comment writers!

So there has been a heap going on for Keally and me. We got a U-Haul van last week, and loaded all of our stuff from the apartment, and drove back to Roswell. We were very efficient workers, and by 10.30 am, we had everything loaded up and were on our way!

Here is the U-Haul van out the front of our apartment.

And here is Keally on the back of the truck with all of the stuff in it. We really don’t have a lot of stuff, as you can probably tell…

So that was it, everything in. Scooter, matress, couch, couple of bikes, drawers, suitcases… Not a whole lot, as the studio apartment doesn’t hold a lot of stuff! It is pretty crazy that we barely had enough stuff to fill the small moving van, but also a good sign that if we do need to get it all over to Australia, it can be done!

So that was the move. Keally just got some work in Roswell, so it worked out really well. We have come back to her parent’s place, and it has been good timing, as her Dad, Oldy Dave, just got work out in Seattle, Washington, so he is off to the other side of the country, and we are here with her Mum and brother to give them company, and help get the house ready to sell.

Everything is changing here and it is all for the better! Keally has finished school and has her degree, Oldy Dave got a new job, I got a new team, and Keally and i have moved houses! All that in a two week period!

So last weekend Keally and i headed up to Nashville, Tennesse, for the Edgar Soto Memorial bike race. Spencer Beamer and i were the two who made the trek from our team, DLP Racing. It was a good time, and we went pretty well too; Spencer won the stage one time trial, and i won the stage two criterium on the nascar track! Wicked! About time i had a win, and what better way to come to the new team than with a win in my second week! Spencer and i raced really well together, and did well the following two stages also.

We got a good morning ride in on the Saturday, and cruised along a really nice bike path. It was a great way to roll the legs out in the morning, and this photo is pretty cool, so i thought i had better put it up!

Keally was on hand to get some race photos for us too, and i thought this one should go up, because it has Spencer and i in it, and i don’t get too many race photos to post up on here either.

So do you see the bike i am racing on there? Well, it is smashed now! On Tuesday, i headed out for a ride, and got run off the road by some car, hit the curb, slammed into the ground, and pretty much folded the down tube of the frame. The wheels both have huge dints in them too, and most things got pretty well trashed. I hit my shoulder and wrist pretty hard, and it all happened so fast i didn’t even get to try and jump the curb. Pretty crazy i didn’t do more damage, but i really thought i must have broken my collarbone… So now i have to be done with crashing for the year! Each time i have crashed this season, i still have skin trying to heal from the previous crash! Its all good now, i am back on the bike and training as usual, exploring my new training roads, of Roswell.

The training here is really quite good. I have found the river ride, which is nice and relatively flat, to give a break from the constantly rolling, undulating terrain. I have also found a really cool climb, really steep too. It took me 8 minutes to get to the top, and its only about 2 kilometres long! That was going really hard too, pretty much flat out (400 watts) all the way!

So things are looking good here, and i have a few races coming up. Also, it is about to turn into the second half of the year, so i am going to be a diligent blog-updater, and more successful, winning, crash free cyclist!

Anyway dudes, i hope everyone is well, and i look forward to hearing from you, or reading some comments, if you remember how to do it… I need to know i still have a few loyal readers!!!!

Fact: It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation. Interesting huh?!