race shedule is updated with some links...

there is a crit in Winston-Salem that i am doing that i cant find a website for, and then there are a bunch of races betwen that and BofA that i cant find either... so if anyone knows a website for these races, let me know...

Matt Svatek

Is living out his CHiPs fantasy.... First he is gonna be a firefighter and then if he is just cool enough they might let him ride a bike and move him over to the Carlisle Highway patrol... But I don't know if he knows that CHP is the CALIFORNIA highway patrol...

this is a clip of the infamous T-Town Kierin crash...

the story is that carney crashed ben barcewski (sp- kirk?)... and so in retaliation fueled by years of hatred andy lakatosh took him out...

i got this clip from carney who feels like it exonerates him of any wrong doing in the crash.. but the camera doest show it all and i cant really tell what has happened to lead up to the crash... carney says it shows that ben crashed himself.. but i plainly see carney chopping down hard onto ben...

you could speculate that the only reason to be so high is to lure the guy under you so that you can chop down on him... its common to do this if you are leading out a guy who is faster than you.. and who, if you stayed low to take it in a staight up sprint, would easily come around... both carney and ben are sort of flicking up and down the whole time... thats sort of normal... but i guess protecting your space and impeding progress are different things even though they look the same...

i wasnt there and thats just speculation.. but you cant tell... and that just might be racing.. what can you say?...

but i do really feel sorry for the poor argentinian guy who got taken down in all this.. i bet he doesnt have any beef with anybody... which is not easy a that track...

click here to see the clip.. its 8min...

this is the part when you got a call from one of these two guys...

i have been on the recieving end of a few of these calls...

Jones has a real hot look no matter what

Vin deisel movies are pretty bad...

I am watching one on the plane...

Chronicles of riddick was especially bad... I thought it might be worth a look... But it wasnt...

I was hoping that it would be like pitch black which is the only watchable VD movie... Its a good cheesy "B" sci-fi action movie... Before he was big at all...

Even though he was playing the guy he played in pitch black it wasnt lik pitch black...

It reminded me of flash gordon, but more sinister and without a sense of humor....

That flash gordon movies was one of the best things to come out of the 80's....

Palm springs airport ram...

Palm springs airport ram

Schedule update...

I am doing the crit that tuesday before fitchburg, then the nats qualifier in encino, then superweek, then bank of america - the biggest crit in the world, then track nats, then manhattan beach, USPRO crit, SFGP... Then i am going to build a wall with poured concrete and rocks... Finish my rock patio and fire pit... And some other stuff...

lessons on living well from the maasai...

lessons on living well from the maasai is a pretty good little story about relating to other humans and enjoying and simplifying your life... it nears that big think bigger than life dramatic point at times as this woman narrates, but you get the point...

i think i learned a lot of this same stuff... and the culminating moment for me came while i was in france.. where you shake hands and greet everyone that you see in the day... and people were so able to see the beauty in everyday life...

this story reminded me how important it is for me to continue to experience life in this way...

and i think the maasai live in an arid climate...

Big Neal appearances

Big Neal will be on MSNBC tomorrow at 5.. and he will also be on the O'Reilley Factor day after tomorrow...

do you want a garage?..

it seems like all new homes no matter how big they are have garages... i dont really like the look of a 1500 square foot house with a 2 car garage as your front door.. but thats what people are buying...

i cant see wasting 625 square feet of space on a place for your cars when the rest of your house is only 900 square feet and no room in the place is bigger than 400 square feet... its just not the way to live i dont think...

here there is a problem.. the lots are small, and second stories are impractical because they are hard to cool... thats why most small places are a single story on a concrete slab... if you want a big place and you can afford to have a big AC to cool the second floor then thats ok, but you have to know that you are looking at hundreds of bucks a month to cool your house... whereas a swamp cooler will cool a single story place cheaply as long as the venting is right...

what would be cool in a small house is to do like at the beach or in cities where the garage is the first floor and then you build your house on top of it.. you dont sacrifice floor space at all that way... but if you only have a slab so big to put only one story on you are limited if you must include a garage...

what does anybody think of detatched garages?... i think for a small house its the way to do it... especially since you can use to block the afternoon sun from your house and your yard... i am going to build me a garage this winter i think... and you can use a garage to help define some exterior spaces and create shady areas that you can plant and stuff... as it is, outdoor areas without shade in the desert are useless...

i think garages are cool, but there is a way to do it that is better... like not have it make your home look like a mini storage... carports are an option... i have seen some very cool carports in palm springs...

i am doing some cool floor plans right now for a place... to build...1500 square feet WITHOUT a garage... 3 bed 2 bath... big spaces... windows and doors... but still cheap to build... so i can make more money on selling it... but all my research tells me that people have gotta have an attatched 2 car garage even if its the biggest room in their house!...

its frustrating.... i'll post my floor plan soon... if i really wanted only to make money i would get a prefab and trailer in the parts and nail it all together and sell it. but if i am going to do anything i want it to be some place that i would be excited about living in...

this house they are building behind me is nice and simple and ok and all but you could do something better for a similar cost with a little imagination...

my goal is to build two houses that are smart and practical with big spaces, and natural light... free and airy... with really efficent use of space, great storage, but cheap to build... i can do it i think... either with a cool carport or detatched garage...

saul!... he was 37 in the tour de suisse...

HellaSaul: You never say Hi
HellaSaul: whats up?
Eriksaun: god job in suisse
HellaSaul: thanks, man.. I was happy with it for my first race back
HellaSaul: I pissed some guys off the last day
HellaSaul: a lot of guys off
Eriksaun: why?
HellaSaul: I attacked on the first climb, .25k into the race.
HellaSaul: then the race blew apart.
Eriksaun: psht.. they dont have to follow...
HellaSaul: my teammate got in the break .
HellaSaul: was the whole point
Eriksaun: so you started a bit of nuclear war?
HellaSaul: yea
Eriksaun: ha ha...
Eriksaun: i love that
HellaSaul: kind of funny, Took some balls with all the big pros huh?
Eriksaun: good job...
HellaSaul: I know.. I enjoyed it.
Eriksaun: you are a big pro right?
Eriksaun: forget about it
Eriksaun: anything else good or new?
HellaSaul: haha.. I dont like to think so . Poor jason mccartny was the first guy dropped.
Eriksaun: too bad so sad
HellaSaul: then he got pissed and briged aross to me on second climb
Eriksaun: this is going on the website by the way...
HellaSaul: rode away
HellaSaul: and would not wait.
Eriksaun: oh well.. thats what you get...
HellaSaul: then I caught him on the last climb and droped him.
Eriksaun: ha
HellaSaul: Its all good. we made up
HellaSaul: so sweet.
Eriksaun: so your team must be so so happy with you
HellaSaul: yea
Eriksaun: are you doing the tour?
HellaSaul: na dude.
Eriksaun: espana
Eriksaun: maybe?
HellaSaul: Tour of Austria, Poynormande, the TOur of germany
Eriksaun: no GT for you this year?
HellaSaul: I am on the long long team
Eriksaun: for spain?
HellaSaul: tour of spain is possible.
HellaSaul: we'll see.
Eriksaun: can you say that to people.. that you are on the long long team?
Eriksaun: is that a real thing?
Eriksaun: is it published in l'equipe?
HellaSaul: I dont know about the vuelta.
HellaSaul: I am dont doing the tdf. unless several guys on the team get sick
HellaSaul: I am not doing.
Eriksaun: you could tell chicks that you are on the long long team...
HellaSaul: I can do that.
Eriksaun: i'm on the long long team baby...
HellaSaul: haha
Eriksaun: so yeah... horner was good.. did you say hi?
HellaSaul: we talked alot
HellaSaul: I give him a top ten in the tour..
HellaSaul: he is good
Eriksaun: did he give you sage advice?
Eriksaun: he did for me when i was there
HellaSaul: He gives me advice.. he is one of the best a tactics.
Eriksaun: i think so too
HellaSaul: he knows how to read a race. he will so well in the tour.
Eriksaun: top ten in the tour?... i think it can happen.. especially if you say so...
HellaSaul: Top 10
Eriksaun: people wont believe it... so i wonder what they will say when they see your prediction
HellaSaul: he got 5th a switzerland.
HellaSaul: Booby J was not that good,
Eriksaun: thats right... and won a stage...
Eriksaun: do you have a girl yet?
HellaSaul: not at this time.
Eriksaun: what does that mean?
HellaSaul: My parents are here (changing the subject)
Eriksaun: oh wow.. thats great...
Eriksaun: tell them i said hi
HellaSaul: haha
Eriksaun: dude.. i gotta go right now...
HellaSaul: hi back
HellaSaul: later,
Eriksaun: good job.. and good luck in the next one
HellaSaul: than

.3GP files...

i am having a problem getting .3gp files to play on the site... these are the files created by camera phones... i want to put my treo movies up on the site... real player and quicktime have a plug-in but i cant get it to work... i hope i can get it done in the next few days... if anyone has any insight... you guys will have to go get the plug-in...

i was just thinking how much better i have been going than jackson stewart lately...

reed-not "reid" the soigneur...

i should tell you some stories about this guy.. i think he has done everything... when you are complaining about your stupid road trip he can tell you about the time he got beat up everyday in a foreign prison for 110 days... and then things dont seem so bad... i gotta put together some reed (i got this one right originally!) stories and a couple of photos... if any body has any reid reed stories then you can add them to the comments of this post!...

Racing to Retirement...

i added a new sponsor in the sponsor links.. RBC Dain Rauscher... they do all kinds of financial services... i have an account that i feed my prizes into... its managed by sue capazzoli... she says that i am "racing to retirement"...

Quote of the day

"PR is not as strong as the TRUTH"

D'ou vient le sida?

No changes...

The officials refuse to change the results...

Worst officiating ever in life... JL is 15th in the stage even though he is a lap down... And devon is 20 something even though he is a lap up on JL!...

laporte came and apologized... I appreciate that...

The officials ruined his race that he works hard on...

The idea that the officials have goes like this... The guys who took an illegal free lap finished.. So they did the distance and get a better time than the slackers like me who pulled their asses up off the ground and rode hard... They pulled me out...So we get 4 minutes off... Reward the cheaters... Penalize those of us who have a sense of fair play...

No dice...

The officials are determined that i lost 4:30 in 2 laps... Thats getting lapped 3 times in 2 laps...

I am not mad... But i tell you... Who ever decided the times has no idea what they are doing....

i'll just cheat next time... These guys like guys who just go ahead and give themselves free laps...

The crash yesterday in the crit...

Really changed the gc... Some guys took an illegal free lap... The officials figured that out and put them down 1:40 which is what the laps were it seems... Rather than take a free lap that i shouldnt get i got my ass up and drilled it to minimize the gap... I was pulled with 2 to go... I dont know if it was the first two to go or the second 2 to go... But either way i would not have been lapped... So i figured that i should be losing not more than 1:20 based on what they did for the free-lappers...

What do i get for riding hard and doing the right thing?... They put me down more than 4 minutes...

I wonder what goes on when they figure this stuff out...

I should have just done the shady free lap and i wouldnt have been penalized...

the manager is on the case to rectify this...

Mn messengers hook it up

Tim and spencer

Mankato road race...

The race today was great... Well done on the part of the promoters... 90 miles with a 5 o clock start... Late finish on a hard circuit...

there was a major screw-up on the part of the officials though... It will actually benefit me... They pulled a lot of groups that they should have let ride... They even pulled the yellow jersey group as they were closing down the gap to the leaders...

When it gets figured out we will see what they come up with... We have until 4 tomorrow to protest...

Ok... I am not going to lie... I tried as hard as i could and thats all i got... Buried in the prologue at nature valley... I pedaled as hard as i could... And that was it... Done...

My teammate was driving...

And he rolled down the window and it blew all his stale musty BO into the back of the van... And i go "man, if youre gonna be rolling down the window in front of me then you need wear deodorant"... And my other teammate goes "yeah, man you need to seriously think about using deodorant"... And so the guy just goes "nah, i dont really fuck with that (deodorant)"... And he doesnt really...

Yeah... In philly they pulled our big group... We were given official finish times but they didnt let us do the circuits...

In a race like that i need 40 guys to finish all together and ride protected in a group... And i need a lot of teams to want to make tempo for a sprint so that attacks on the wall get neutralized and i dont have to worry about trying to follow too much... And i need it to only go hard the last time up the wall...

it sounds stupid... But this race happens like that often...

Lancaster newpaper

Had an article about the promotion of the event being really bad... there were a few frustrated people quoted in the article... The flip of that was that people in the city really like the race and they wish that between the city and threshold sports there could be more effective promotion of the race...

I have always thought that threshold events are poorly promoted... In the first years of the sfgp you heard nothing about it... Nyc is the same story from people that i know in the city.... If you are a bike person then you are more likely to know about the races... But if you arent hooked into the scene already then you may not know about what a fun time you can have at a race...

local.lancasteronline.com/4/14738

Uspro was hard and I didn't go good

Sometimes you just suck... And that is all there is to say...

the city of brotherly love reminds us...

Mark furman...

i am watching a bit on the missing girl in aruba when the anchor goes "lets go to former LA county homicide detective mark furman"... Wha?... this is the new fox news celebrity analyst... I bet his best qualification is that people already know his name...

I have to wait till i fix the archiving... So the site is getting really really big... But i will fix it after nature valley...

Anyway... Trenton was cool... I lost allen on the way up to set up bahati and so it was only me... He got chopped off my wheel by some guy and that really hurt things...

After we were really well set up for bahati in clarendon we have a lot of confidence... I think that we are not far from getting a good win for him... There is nature valley soon...

my website is sort of jacked...

I am having an issue with the archiving... and I think that since I hadn't made a new post since it auto archived there is no current index file...

let's see if this changes anything...

My teammate...

Thinks its just cool to shave your head and leave your hair the middle of the parking lot... Some people just feel entitled o do any gotdamned thing they like...

There is also the wall of marty...

Nothstein has a wall dedicated to his career...

At applebees in t-town

There is this photo of tanya lindemuth... Many times national champion in the sprint... There are other pictures of her too but this fantasy painting is by far the best... And the fact that its on the wall at applebees...

Deep Throat...

It was this guy named mark felt who was the #2 at the FBI... He is still alive but pretty old and somehow not all there... It was supposed to be that they would come out with his identity after he died... But i think that the family wants to cash in a bit and it seemed from the article that i read that woodward and the family has had some back and forth over who owns the rights to the story of deepthroat and the watergate story... Hmmm...