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Went wheelin yesterday with Nate Dogg. I am happy with how the Polaris 850XP performed.

Sweet ride

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chequamegon pre ride

Went and pre rode the fat tire course. According to the GPS its approximately 6900 feet of climnbing.



Circa 2006 chequamegon


circa 2004 when it was still the "56" and not "project 56"

Border Battle and Avon RR

Two weekends ago I went and did the Border Battle. It was my first mtn bike race in 3 years excluding tandem. It was a lot more single track than I anticipated, but it was fun. I flatted on the third lap, took my time and changed it and finished.

This past weekend, I did the Avon RR Masters 35 plus. It had a decent climb in it which we had to go up 5 times. Usually I avoid races that require small chainring climbs, but decided to do it. The race finished with the 1k climb. I decided to big chainring it on the last lap and see what happened. Well I was good for 600M and then went Kaboom.

Life Time Tri / Hopkins Crit...the good, the bad, the ugly

Lifetime Tri The Good...


Finish Time: 2:19:50.4
Category Place: 1 out of 30 Clydesdale Men 30 to 39 finishers
Overall Place: 29 out of 1040 International Course finishers
Gender Overall Plc: 29 out of 745 Male finishers

The Bad....

I crashed with 4 miles to go on the bike. I just got done getting a drink of water and I smoked a pothole with one arm on the handlebars. I layed dow the bike at 30 mph. I wrecked my new 200 dollar TYR tri suit.

The Ugly....


Many spectators got a good look at my right ass cheek for 6.2 miles.

Decided to race Hopkins the next day, didn't feel too bad, didn't have any sprint in my legs, probably due to Tri, Crash, UFC 100 Party, but ended up 6th or 7th. Then when I warmed down and attempted to get off my bike, I barely could. My back tightened up bad. I haven't been able to run, swim, or bike since Sunday. It is getting better and I should be training again this weekend.

Minneman Tri numbers

I had my best tri performance of the year last weekend. I was 12th overall and won the clydesdale division.


Clock Time 1:03:55
Overall Place 12 / 393
Gender Place 12 / 202
Division Place 1 / 17
Divtotal 17
Sextotal 202
Swimtime 7:43
Swimpace 1:28
Swimplace 9
Tran1 1:33
Biketime 32:00
Bikemph 24.4
Bikeplace 10
Tran2 0:56
Runtime 21:45
Runpace 7:15
Runplace 50

Next up Lifetime Tri on Saturday. Its an international distance, it will be my first international distance tri since 1994.

Lowry Bridge implosion

On my bike ride this morning, stumbled upon the Lowry Bridge implosion, didn't even know they were going to do it. We arrived 5 minutes before it went kaboom, pretty cool to see.

State Fair Affair 805 race W

Me and big Joe in a break

Starting to punch the V after a monster sprint

Ninja victory picture

Massacre on Machinery Hill Part 2 stats

Stats for 8:05 Race
4th Place
17.09 miles
Average Speed = 26.5 MPH
Max Speed = 34.2 (finishing sprint)
Max Speed on Prime Win = 32 MPH
Average HR = 162

TRI Buff

It was a cold and damp affair this morning. I was pleased with my 15th overall (out of 878)place. I had the third fastest swim and 2nd fastest bike of the day. I was 155th in the run. This is just good Chequamegon training.

This weeks racing...Fairgrounds, Lake Harriet One Mile open water swim, and White Bear tri. Maybe the velodrome on Thursday, but that might be too much for one week.

Massacre on Machinery Hill Part 1

Well I was 8th overall in the B race. Average heart rate 172 Average Speed 23.9. I am not a big fan of the 180 degree turn, but it is what it is. 6 guys ended up off the front, there was 8 or so of us chasing 30 seconds back. One guy took a flyer with a lap to go and held it, and I won the so called field sprint of the small chase group.

It was a good workout. PattyCakes said it best tonight, "there is no way you can go average 172 heartrate for 40 minutes by yourself on a training ride"

Double Down for the weekend

I did a 5k on Saturday and my max heart rate was 185. I did black dog today and my max heart rate was 182. I would agree that the 5k is harder than the blackdog, but not by much.



New bike worked well today


Question of the day? Is Twitter going to be the killer of blogs?

Close but no Cigar

I went 50.6 tonight in the 100 free. I was hoping to break 50, but no such luck. I went out in a 23.66, which is where I wanted to be. Just couldn't finish the final 12 yards. I am happy with the effort considering what shape I was in 3 months ago. I was second in my age group and 5th overall. Tomorrow I am swimming the 50 and 200 free and then finishing up the meet with the mile (66 lengths of the pool)

what 325 dollars worth of stickers get you

My coworker decided to make his TT bike pretty with a sticker kit....

HWood Hit Squad

I am not sure NVGP realizes that they opened up a can of!
whoop ass!

Bling Bling

Pellis showing off the Nixon 51-30 yesterday at the Fairground Fundraiser gathering...

Should be set for the season

cento in March

For the first time in my life I rode 100 miles in March. New Stoker is stoked and old stoker is scratching his head wondering why I didn't train like this the last 5 years....

Finally the third time is a charm

Finally I am not the Bridesmaid Sorry Frye, I don't know how you do it, after two weeks of being second, I had to up the ante.

Lifetime Tri number three

Another Sunday, another Lifetime tri. This one was at Fridley Lifetime. The swim went well 34.5 lengths versus last week of 33.5 lengths. The bike was different this week as the put 25% more resistance. The resistance before was set by getting the bike up to 20 mph and then it would would turn 4 revolutions just freewheeling. This week they decided to change it to 3 revolutions from 20 mph. So I went 16.4 miles in 30 minutes versus 18 miles last week. The bike was a little more difficult due to the resistance increase. Then for the run I went 3.03 miles in 20 minutes, which last week I went 2.9, I was happy with the improvement there. That equals approximately a 50 second improvement in the run for 3 miles. You can't find a better one hour workout in March in Minnesota.

I thought about doing two more tris this month, but I have decided to concentrate on swimming the next four weeks and try to break 50 seconds in the 100 free at the state championships. I time tialed a 51.35 on Wednesday and was happy with the progress up to this point. My best time in college was 48.44, that was before all of the new suit technology has come out in the last 10 years. The new technology in suits is noticably different.

email exchange on TT bike for sale

Subject: bike
> Sent: 10 Mar 2009 21:26

> if its still available.....I want to know if you still want
> to sell the bike cos am ready to buy the bike ....please
> consider it sold to me ......I need your name and address so
> that I can forwadr my money Order to you...please mail me
> back
*****
I say I prefer paypal and to call me then I get the following repsonse...

*****
me deaf i can not call you....me send you address of you and me right you check ...sorry me deaf man I can not speak....i neeed your address me send you money order
*****

2-2-2

2nd place again...Bridesmaid

I had the farthest swim and the farthest bike. I was 11th in the run, so when you tally it up, for the second week in a row, I ended up 2nd place by 2 points. I think I am going to have to stop following Frye on Twitter, its bad Karma.

Comming Soon.....

My buddy is opening up this shop in May, its going to be a place for all of you bike racers to save some money and get your Audis and VWs maintained, and a place for me to modify my twin turbo even more....

Do you go to College for this?

I am not sure if I should be nervous or comfortable swimming in this Pool....I am thinking very nervous.

Results

Looks like a took a page from Frye's book and I am the Bridesmaid

Lifetime Tri number one

I felt pretty good this morning. 750 meter swim in 10 minutes, followed by a 17.7 mile bike on a spin bike with some resistance, but not much, and then a 2.9 mile run on the treadmill in 20 minutes. I am doing the one in Plymouth next week and then the one in Fridley on the 15th.

Blackdog road from the sky

Time Trial Bike for sale

Complete bike, without wheels or just the frame....any reasonable offer will not be refused. I must stress reasonable, so dis you can't offer 50 bucks.

early morning ride in Maui

The GPS said elevation was -40 feet. Is that possible?

Mt. Haleakala, here I come 10,000 climbing feet in 36 miles....Bring it!

The Cento 1 is built up with Campy Super Record 11. I don't have a bike box that will fit the integrated seatpost, so the "Opus" bike will have to do.



The Le Roi is boxed and ready to go.

Haleakala, Maui, HI

If this climb weren’t in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 2500 miles from nearest land, it could perhaps be the most popular bicycle climb in the world. The fully paved climb to the summit gains just over 10,000 feet from sea level in less than 38 miles. At the summit, you are only 6 miles, as the crow flies, from the ocean. No where else in the world can you be this close to the sea at this elevation.

Good thing the Opus bike is 15.3 pounds. Will I need more than 39-25?

Hey Watajah

Coach Danny deserves a raise! Think he doesn't? Afterall he is the best masters swim coach in the twin cities...

Tweet This...new Stoker?

Someone already took Donimator? What the F&*K, so I guess I am Donimator11, but I don't have a clue what it does, but if Stoker and Smithers are doing it, it must be cool.

Speaking of Stoker.....Here are the 3 candidates to ride tandem with Donimator this year becuase Stoker the first is wavering...

1) Bergman

2) Patty Cakes

3) Stoker the First

Pimp my neighbors trailer

My neighbor just went to Montana and bought this trailer this weekend think he didn't?...over 30K of upgrades to this trailer. I guess my sled will be transported in style from here on out...

Condo for Sale 5 minutes from Velodrome

someone should should buy this pristine place

Seriously if interested, contact Donimator. I am ready to negotiate, think I aint?

I dumped 30K into this joint last year, its brand new inside.

Think about it, you could leave at 6:30 and still get a 20 minute warmup in for the 7:00 PM Thursday night lights races.

-22....

Global Warming my ass!



At least its not raining

new ride

BlackDog here we come.....