Mr.Crampy

2008-04-02T15:30:00.000-07:00

You see the funniest things riding home!

2008-04-02T15:28:00.000-07:00

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View From I-90 Bike Tunnel

2008-04-01T10:58:00.001-07:00

I snapped this pic on my ride home last week.

Lovin' the single!

2008-04-01T10:16:00.000-07:00

So this weekend the crew met up at Seward park Sat morning. We started with a short run at a good clip, B and I averaged a little under 8 mi/mile we then changed quickly changed and hopped on our bikes. With the weather still suspect and snow looming on the forecast B and I opted to roll the singles the girls were on road bikes. We road across 90 and did a loop around Mercer Island and the weather was nice so we decided to continue on and do the South Lake WA route to Seward. B and I were both cruising on the single and felt strong. We decided at some point in the near future we would like to try the ride across america on singles :). As we got down into Renton and were rounding the airport things got interesting when Mac tried to take on a cop car and lost. She was OK and hopped back on the box and finished the ride. The last few miles brought the rain though. But it was a great brick.

Sun B and I spent most of the day servicing the bikes which is always fun :)

Mon was opening day at the ballpark so I did not get any training in but did ride in this morning in the cold and fog :) Hopefully the weather is going to start improving.

bike swim bike

2008-03-25T15:19:00.000-07:00

So yesterday was a gorgeous day and I had a great ride in to work. After work I did a good swim work out at All Star with Bri.

200 WU
300, 200, 100 (25)
200, 100, 50 (NS 25)
200 fast
100 fast
3x 100 pull
100 WD

After that I rode home which was a great early season brick :)

This morning was a chilly ride in but still a nice day, cranked the rear cog down to 16 and pushed my average up to 16.1 mph :) Not looking foreword to the ride home in the rain.

The 2008 Season Begins!

2008-03-23T20:35:00.000-07:00

So this last week things started kicking up a notch, starting with last weekend. A group of us went for a 40 mi ride around N Lake WA. It was kind of a crummy cold wet day so most of us were on our rain bikes. I took the new/old Bianchi Eros out for it's maiden voyage. It's my latest bike acquisition :) a beautiful candy red 1997 steel Bianchi Eros, all campy 8 spd which I have tuned and added fenders to to serve as my training bike. Bman decided to ride his single which at first everyone though would be the anchor of the crew.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA anyway. It was a good ride but I need to get in shape B kicked my ass up every hill on his single, that doesn't sit well with Crampy LOL so I decided to do something about it. I started commuting into work the long way on the Lemond Single. It is a great ride, about 16-17 miles and so far is taking me about an 1:10 but that will change ;) I switched from 45:18 to 45:17 and think I am going to give 45:16 a shot this week. Thur's ride home had to be the worst weather I have ever ridden in though, it started to rain lightly as I left the office and only got worse and worse as I climbed up Dearborne. I saw Mac's brother Kelly on the Rainer intersection. By the time I got out of the I-90 tunnel and dropped down on the bridge it was hailing... yes hailing. Oh well it was better than working :) Last Sun I did the Henrys St. Pattys Day Dash 5k (3.5 mi this year). It started out raining but by the time Bri and I got to the start line it had cleared up. With my knee I had no idea how the run was going to go so I didn't line up on the front line like usual LOL. But after the first mile at 6:20 I felt pretty good and just ran by feel not the watch. All said and done I managed to average a 6:15 and place 150th overall out of 15,000+ so not a bad day.

This weekend Bman and I too the track class at the velodrome, and man am I hooked, building the new bike now! We are going to have tons of fun this summer racing. Today I did a 9 mile run around the Phantom Lake loop averaging about a 7:50 mile without working too hard so feeling good on the run and no knee soreness!!!!