TT series reminder

Don't forget Tuesday everyone races for free.
Payout at least 3 deep in every category with 3 or more racers.

If you break the men's or women's course records you get an extra payout!!

Divisions are Aero men, nonaero men, & open women.

The men's course record was set on a TT bike. Scott Sifferman 22:04
The women's on a standard road bike. Stacy Bertsch 26:23

Movie Day

Today I let Mia stay home from daycare for a daddie & Mia day. If figure with her days of being the only child fleeting I need to give her some one on one attention while I can. She really likes 3 D movies after seeing Toy Story 3D. She says the "movie is in her face". So I forked over the $20 for two tickets to see another 3D movie with her. 3D will be the death of watching movies at the theater, wait and see. Way too spendy. Anyway we went and saw Despicable Me. I was a little disappointed. I guess I shouldn't have been with all the hype. Turns out a movie with the main character & most of the supporting cast having shows on NBC is going to be a big advert. They didn't even try and make it subtle advertising for NBC & PlayStation Wii. But I guess its a kid movie & they are advertising to the audience. Mia managed to eat most of a giant bucket of popcorn while watching it. She enjoyed it so money well spent.

We came home and took a PHAT nap. I ended up napping longer since Amber came home. Since I've not been riding lately I've been a napping machine. Strange when I need the rest I can't get it. When I don't all I can do is sleep. hmmm?

I did a little bike shop work for a friend of a friend then we headed over for dinner at Los Portales. If you follow me on Twitter or the Facebook you know how much we eat here. Best Spanglish food in Springfield. Plus ICE COLD Negra Medolo's what more do you need.

Tuesday Night TT

Results Link

Smaller turn out again this week. Times were slower as well as everyone had to fight heat & a pretty good cross to headwind. Stacy Bertsch did set a new women's course record without using a TT bike: 26:23. She would have placed 5th in the Aero division last night!

Remember next week everyone races for FREE & their will be payouts! FREE MONEY! Plus if anyone breaks the course records there is bonus money.

Course Records:
Men Scott Sifferman 22:04
Women Stacy Bertsch 26:23

IT'S A BOY & OTHER NEWS

First off for those who don't follow me on the Facebook or the Twitter.  Amber & I are having a baby BOY!  I had all but convinced myself we would end up with two girls.  One of each just seems right.

Other news:  What else is going on?  Thanks to a technology fail a big long blog post vanished off into the tubes of the web never to be seen again.  I figured I better update this thing or take it down.  The new Design feature let me shoot some life into the format so maybe I'll dabble in more than 140 characters a little more.

Training Time Trial Series.  I'm a race promoter now.  Crazy I know.  After the initial jitters it is actually fun.  Make a flier.  Hand them out to the local shops. Make a Facebook Event page.  Mark a course. Time it & post some results & presto your a race promoter.  Turn out was about what I expected for a time trial, on Tuesday nights, that isn't on the East side of town.  But its a race with payouts in Springfield. Not many of those.  Two more to go. Tonight & the following week.  The last TT(7/20/10) is free to all & there will be payouts at that one as well. FREE MONEY! 

Other News: I haven't rode in 2 months.  Decided that with the kid on the way & my new work schedule its not fair to the family to go racing on the 2 weekends I have off every 8 weeks.  Race wheels are hung up for now(that means no cross!).  I think it is time to start some training though before I turn into Jabba the Hut.  Plus Baby Boy Dunsmuir is due Thanksgiving Day. That means I need to run REALLY fast at the Turkey Trot this year.  I've run 17:30 on the old course.  Haven't yet broke 18 on this course.  Might need to log some miles & get into the low 17's so I can get to Labor & Delivery. It's possible; I ran 19:13 with zero run training.

I think I'm going to use the time I would normally spend riding to fully rehab my shoulder & back.  When I was Adventure Racing I was a lot fitter because of all the cross training.  Its time to get back(no pun) to a more fitter well rounded Scott.  Then when I do race CX again I can be faster.

TT Training Series

Week 2 TT Results

Week 2 TT Results http://bit.ly/aZLmes

Small turn out this week only 12 racers down from last weeks 19 & no women this week. I guess paying people to race isn't enough to entice them out. People complain all the time about the lack of racing in Springfield. Give them a race & they still won't race. Baffles me. Oh well the people coming out are having some good training & making some cash in the process.

Time Trial Results

Link to the results for the First Training TT 6/29/10

Course records are now set:
Men's Curt Evenson 23:14.0
Women's Kris Locke 33:48.0

Hope to see everyone next Tuesday!

Who says Monday's suck?

Slept in. Drank some coffee. Watched Paris-Nice on the Web. Ate a couple of cinnamon rolls. Drank more coffee. Caught up on Facebook, Twitter, & Google Reader. Now listening to Blip.FM drinking more coffee & blogging. Then off to Lowe's & an afternoon recovery ride.

Good weekend of riding. Sucks its my last weekend off for a month now that the spring races have started. Guess that means more training time.

Saturday after a nap got out for an impromptu FTP test in shorts & a short sleeve jersey! F Yeah! Surprised myself with a 15 watt increase. Guess all the training & weight loss is working.

Sunday met THE Espenkotter on the Highroad for some TT training. 45 miles of hills & TT bike time & my legs were SHOT! I pulled the plug on the planned 4th lap. It would have gotten ugly in a hurry. Still a great day of training.

If anyone is planning on doing the OCC Highroad TT I recommend using a TT bike with Deep dish wheels & a min of 11-25 cassette. I think the winning time will be low 38. I work the night before so its pretty doubtful I'll go. Though it is close & a good course for me.....hmmm

The Cobbled Classics begin

A great review of the race

How The Race Was Won - Het Nieuwsblad 2010 from Cosmo Catalano on Vimeo.

Summer TT Series

Think I have found dates & a course(6 mile loop) for Training TT for month before State TT. Now have to see interest & how much effort it will take me. Plus securing venue parking for start/finish.

Big Air on the Dries

Its getting to be Creeking time

Fired Up!!!- whitewater kayaking from charlie simmons on Vimeo.

Video of Dugast Diablo

thanks Gewilli

Article about the Diavolo aka Diablo

2KX FTP #1

Switched my FTP testing method for 2KX. I'm using the method described in the Time Crunched Cyclist By Chris Carmichael. Its a 2x8 min method. Last year I used the Joel Friel Confirmation method. http://bit.ly/b6bIDh.

First go around I wasn't impressed with the 2x8. I thought the recovery period between the two 8 min efforts was too long. I did the Friel method a bunch last year & really liked it. Mostly because I could train hard the next day. I'll see how tonight goes(especially after 24hrs w/out sleep & a night @ work).

As for the test numbers were up slightly. Which I guess is a good thing. Not as high as I would have hoped. But I did take 3 whole weeks off due to sickness in December. We'll see if I can keep moving up. I want to gain another 20 watts before my first "A" race in April. Big goal I know but what are goals for?

A Taste of Mol Masters World Championships

Master's World's 1961-1965

This Years Results

Universal Sports covering Cyclocross Worlds!!

From Mud & Cowbells

26, 2010

Universal Sports covering Cyclocross Worlds!!

This just in to my inbox from my friends at Universal Sports!

Hi Greg!

I wanted to let you know we will be broadcasting the Cyclo-Cross World Championships from Tabor, Czech Republic on-line January 31. The broadcast will be showing the elite men’s and women’s races at 12 noon (ET), while the rest of the races will be offered on demand. We are excited to offer the broadcast for this event again and hopefully highlight more Cyclo-Cross through the World Cup season. Please help in any way you can to spread the word about the broadcast.

The link to the event is this one:

http://www.universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=398217.html

This is one of My Life List Rivers

The Zambezi

Zambezi - Gopro HD Hero from Peter Csonka on Vimeo.

CX DVD to make you better

CHRIS HORNER'S CYCLOCROSS ESSENTIALS from Cosmo Catalano on Vimeo.

Live CX Natz Coverage plus Prizes. http://bit.ly/5mai2g

How to Weld A kayak

Pretty cool How To vid

Weld Your Broken Boat