Rolling Rolling Rolling

Here's whats been happening

Been doing some club racing with some good results, still undercooked, but the form is coming back on schedule. Last week was what I called and everyone in ballarat thinks, the longs hill world championships. It is the hill in ballarat that everyone tells everyone else they've been riding or doing repeats of, this anyway brings me to my quote of the week, if not the year, from the ballarat-sebas forum to Jonathon Lacey

"That makes Rob Doyle & Beth Canny world champions! If they have children (no pressure ...), they will be (i) blonde, and (ii) fast - perhaps to rival the scary Keating-Keirl super-cyclist breeding program that's going on in Creswick. These programs work! Look at Taylor Phinney. Hopefully he will marry one of the many starlets and lingerie models allegedly at his disposal, not a world champ cyclist, or it's all over for the next 30 years."

In fact im still laughing....

This weekend has a 20km Time Trial on the cards, this usually wouldn't be a problem being a Time Trial Specialist, but unfortunately im a Time Trial Specialist who has done any specialised Time Trial training since Feb, so it should be a cause for pain. Hopefully get some good photos, might take my phone and play on twitter. Hopefully Rhys and I can mount a bit of a local resistance, against jono and co, although cuthberts road is unrewarding even when you spend 6 weeks praying to the dead road/dead fox/wind gods, nothing ever goes right.

Another big word has influenced my life as of wednesday, Holidays, yes yes and yes, really excited to go out riding, skiing, riding, sleeping, looking up random things on wikipedia then editing them.

anyway, some photos






I was a lion

Dont buy normal knicks or I'll do this to you
Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason
Bike Hubs new advertising campagain
Great Ocean Road

Word up

DT

4 out of 5

I have even surprised myself, in the last 5 days I have ridden 4 of them with witnesses. But what does 4 rides actually mean? This is what my return to "training" can be broken done too....

- 390km
- 4 hot chocolates
- 7 Mochacinos
- 3 pies
- 2 sausage rolls
- 3 nutragrain bars
- 3 Apple and Cinnamon Twist Bars
- A toasted focciacia
- A ham and cheese toastie
- A long neck peroni
- And Angry Cold Girlfriend who just wanted a short ride

Outstanding.

Luckily most of this time was spent in lorne, and the food was supplied by Grandma Shiels Bakery under the cumberland.

I have some photos to throw up in the next fews days.

Clanky, you can be my wingman anytime......

I chose that line over "thanks a negative ghostrider the pattern is full"

Still not convinced it was the right choice.....

The Go Go

I'm on a train... how exciting... There's a guy coughing.... could be swine flu.

Alots been happening over the last month or so, maybe to much to write in a "constructive piece of prose". It's almost at the stage where I wish I could put a power point presentation on here.

Dot points it is,

Racing
- Phillip Island was fun, the Extra laps Cyclesport gave us were quite enjoyable. I sat up on the last Lap realising i was 120th wheel. A bunch of others sat up and i thought I'll just roll in with them, they pulled into the pit, and I looked like a loner
- Club racing has been good, great guys, not to serious, about the only real riding I've been doing.

Bike/Sponsors/Random
- Last week I ended my sponsorship with YouandI-Ride.com/Bianchi
- The Ridley is Reborn
-This week I've signed on with Prime Estate Buyers Agents, same team as Beth, maybe she's checking up on me?
- Started writing up a Private Sponsorship proposal to help cover some of the expenses for Beth and I for the rest of the year
- Decided no matter how much I try I still don't like Anchovies, I think I used to, but I cant be sure.
- Dancing in the super market is not appropriate, no matter how catchy the song is
- Prime Estate kit is white, will it survive a ballarat winter?
- Moved house, I know live on top of a hill, this has it pros and cons

Cons
- I now have to ride up hill at the end of each ride
- I have a 60kph decent to "warm up" on at 6am when i meet phil

Pros
- The air is fresher?


Other notible events
- Jonathon Lacey should be in A grade
- Ben Clark should be in A grade
- Rob Doyle should win tattslotto so he can buy a boat


Coming up
- The Coast, for some trundling while battle gale force sea breazes, ocean spray, stupid tourists on the great ocean road.
- Maybe some riding?
- More chess titans
- Setting a new Sudoko top time on Beths Phone, (my current is 5mins on hard)
- Disrupting Beth from ever breaking that score
- A new bike.... Teschner SL9 with SRAM Red, have to sell the ridley first though
- Finishing Tony Hawk pro skater before Toby (housemate) does

Thats all for now as the laptop is about to go flat

Word.