An update

Alright, so the end of my summer has been really hectic with school and lots of work. Final news. The Zinn Frame is done, anyone want to buy a 3600 dollar frame for 3000? Built for a 6'2" to 6'6" rider. The steel Badger is in in Jig and should hopefully be going to paint this weekend. My riding has taken a toll these last two weeks due to work, lightening, and saddle sores. I need to ramp it up these next two days. I get to go home on Sunday, Ingrid and I are driving my truck south and then flying back up for school time. I've been running 4-8 miles a day while I haven't been able to ride with my saddle sores. Its been trying but oh well. My body weight is well below 210 lbs. So I am out, will post pictures of all the frames I need to sell.... here is a list


21" black Gary Fisher Rig frame

62 cm Red Magnesium Zinn

other things for sale

Ksyrium Equipe wheel set.

Thats all for now. Hopefully when I get home, I am going to meet up with my old coach and he and I are going to sit down and plan out my training for the next couple of months. The month in Jan. in Itasca should make it a challenge but not impossible. Its hard to ride in -60 degrees though...

out

The life

Is fine. Lots of school, chem is getting hard. I am fighting some saddle sores and riding as much as possible. My dad told me about some new stuff called Brave Soldier friction protection, so I am going to try some of that. Getting in 300+ miles a week on my fat butt has been taking its toll. I am going to bump up my milage and stuff. I have pretty much called it quits for racing the rest of the year. I realized this last weekend that I have lost a lot of weight and its taking a toll on my ability to keep a high speed for as high as my hrt is going. So the plan for the rest of the summer is to put in lots of base and some interval/TT work. My goal is to ride till it snows. Take the end of November and most of december in the Gym doing weights and core and yoga. Then in January I am going to be in Itasca state park doing research. It will be hard to do workouts there, so I will see what I can do there. I might add some frame saver to my KM and ride the single speed an hour each day while there in -20 degree weather. Then in Feb. I plan on stepping it up. I want to be well below 200 and build a strong base. That is my plan for the rest of the summer/winter into the spring. I will probably take my bike home at Christmas and do a weeks worth of base there. Anywho, anyone see any problems with this let me know :)

Got more

I have been able to get more riding in. I feel like I am in better shape. I got to ride with brandon last saturday at the nature center in F-bau then I got a couple of days in on the road this week. Hopefully I wont break my last working frame... hopefully. The bottem bracket has a crack that looks to be just the paint going around the old bond. Ben says that happens on the older OCLV frames. We'll see. Its starting to split at the top. I am keeping an I on it and if it goes Ben thinks he can get that frame replaced with a new Madone.... that would be hot. Milk Me II That would be another story. Anyways life is good and I am hoping more riding is in the future.

Mark

Ouch

Today hurt. I hadn't eaten enough. Went out for a NWP loop with Kyle and got my ass handed to me with a bonk and my left knee hurting. Not at all good. so I am gonna stretch and try to feel better. Got lab tomorrow morning and work tomorrow night so no time to ride the road bike.

Alrighty then

The summer is underway. I have been working my ass off at the coffee shop and trying to help out at Milltown as much as possible. Yesterday was my first day off and all I wanted to do was sleep. Oh well, saw the new pirates lastnight with Derek and that was a nice change.

My bike situation right now. I have a steel frame ordered from Badger Cycles, and I have a new mag from Zinn that I am going to be selling on ebay. anyone need a Large bike? Give you a nice deal. Anyways I am now riding a SS surly bike around as my day bike and I am attempting to train on the Trek as much as possible. I cant really push the bottem bracket to far, Ben and I found some age/stress cracks forming so I am just playing it easy now until I have a safe bike. Anyways. I am excited for the Badger. Its going to be sweet.

Alright, I hope this is a nice update, I dont really have any internet at my apartment so any updates will be few and far between with my ability to get online.

Harder day

So Monday turned out pretty good. Road for an hour and a half with Brandon. We did some hill sprints and stuff. Got a good burn going in my legs. Then Brandon and Finn wussed out for some longer riding, so Bria and I went and did the windmill loop for an hour. We got rained on, and it felt wonderful. Made myself work hard on every climb. I was happy with my ability to go pretty hard on most of them. I weighed in at 220 this morning. Which makes me very happy.



Later

Ok

So thursday I got a two hour ride in, hammering into the wind in almost any direction. That was that.

Friday, I had so much stuff to get done that i just ended up not getting to ride. Saturday, I went with Brandon to Marty, MN and road. Brandon won the 3's, and I got 20th in the 5's. Which makes me really mad. Because I think I could have won. I got dropped on the climb of the second lap, and hammered into the head wind on the descent and was almost back on, on the descent the follow car had gone around me, and after she went two civilian cars had gone too. There was a stop sign at the bottem of the hill and a right hand turn. The follow car went through the stop light, but the two other cars stopped. making me have to slow down, loosing all of my momentum and I never was able to catch back on. I kept within a minute of the group, and the eventual winner was a guy I had blown off the back on the second lap with my break away attempt. I could have one that race. Its frustrating.


Later