Its time to begin...

Well I have been completely ignoring this for months now, but now I turn all of my focus back to what I initially started this for - cross.

I just did my last MTB race of the season yesterday, 90 degrees and humid, not exactly my kind of weather. But it was good to get it over with, now I can just specifically train for cross. I started working with a local coach who is a cross nut himself, so that I can prepare for it. It has been a pretty frustrating mountain season with a plethora of flats, mechanicals, and just plain bad luck. How often does a pair of shoes fail you in a race? Man that race sucked.

I am back at the Cycler's Cafe work-wise, its ok, really nice bikes, burritos, all the things that I liked about it before, but also all the things I didn't like too. But I'll leave it at that and just suck it up until I have my own shop.


My girlfriend/manager/sponsorship coordinator, has been awesome at setting me up with some really good sponsors for this cross season. We are in the process of setting up our own team as well. For the first time, I will have my own program, the way I want it, and can actually benefit from sponsors, instead of just my team director. So far I'm set up getting forks, stems, and seatposts from Alpha Q, tires from Kenda, Honey Stinger stuff, and we are signing with a wheel company next week. My friend Rob from Portland has stepped up to build our race bikes this season as well. He built my road bike for me earlier this summer and it is just awesome.

Well, I will keep this updated, mainly to keep track of myself, but I really need to keep track of my races and results.