I fail

at my blog.

I'm going to try not to fail anymore.

Starting now.

Last night I did my first omnium of the year at Alpenrose.

I was both happy and dissapointed with my perfromance.

They had the madison before the omnium this week, which means I got a good warm up, as I practiced with my madison partner one last time before the six day. Candi was kind enough to change the rotation and start the cat 4 men before us, since more than half the women's field also did the madison. After getting a chance to catch our breath we all lined up for a 10 lap scratch race. The race really turned about to be a 7 up match sprint. I got boxed in on the bell lap, but still managed to finish in 4th.

Next was I win and out.

I hate wind and outs.

I ended up kind of giving up, I almost quit, then I decided I didn't want to do that, and still got 5th.

Finally was the points race, in which I got second. I got points in every race except for the second. It was a very short points race. There were only 4 sprints. 

I ended up with 3rd in the omnium.

ETT #2

We did the right distance this week. :) horraayy

Haha, but I dropped my chain, which made it kinda sucky, but my time was only three seconds slower than the previous week despite that.
It was nice weather and the wind wasn't quite as fierce as Christian Siriano. My long sleeve skin suit was a little warm though.
I left the time trial asap to go participate in track clean up day. I got there very late, but not too late to make myself useful.

Yesterday I went on a ride with two BBC gremlins, but it was fun, we went up Doschand around fairmount a few times. It was nice catching up with my ex teamies.

I'm debating doing P.I.R. tonight, but I'm not really a big fan.. Etiherway I'll be there, but racing? I'm not too sure..

To anyone who still reads this despite my lack of regular updates;
my apologies forthe breifness and defeciet of quality in this post--My interenet is down, I'm a Teacher's Aid this period, and I had nothing to do, so I'm updating my blog from the school library. And oh man, this key board is ghetto. I mean, this space bar sticks so much, I'm not even sure I actually hit it half the time... And it's missing the home key. You know, between insert and page up?

ETT #1

Today was the first of three in the Estacada Time Trial Series.
I had intended to do two ten-mile time trials. One Jr Women's, one Cat 4 Women's. However, I managed to get my 20 miles of time trialing in all during the Jr Women's.
What's this?
Isn't the first Estacada always 10 miles?
Well, not for me, or any of the other juniors and not for the Cat 5 men, or the Master Women.
This is most perculiar, no?
Well the flaggers were told that it was a ten mile race, but instead 5 miles to the turn around, they drove 1o.
WADAFACK?
There was a fierce headwind the whole way out, (fiercer than Christian Siriano, and he's fierce) it was awful. For a while I thought I was going to have to move to my bullhorns just to stay upright.
As I was drilling toward the five mile turn around however, I felt great. Then I passed where I remembered the turn around being. Needless to say, I was somewhat confused. I thought perhaps since I hadn't done that race in two years that I might've just remembered wrong. How ever when we started crossing the bridges, I knew something was amiss. I remember the first time I saw the bridge was on my first 20 mile ride. As I realized I said to myself, "oh [insert explative] I'm doing a 20 mile time trial"
The way back was amazing. The tailwind was BAMF. I flew up the hill on the way back at around 30mph, I was booking it like Flash.
Despite the headwind, I broke my PR from two years ago of 1:04:34 by 4 minutes and 14 seconds with a time of 1:00:20.
After my race, I saw the sexiest bike I had ever seen.
It was a look 596 TT bike.
I wanted to lick it.

J.F.T.T.

It was amazing. I had such an amazing race. I won my category, beat all the 17-18 girls, and even some of the guys, as well as setting a new Personal Best, by 3 minutes and 34 seconds.

some jr results:

jr women 15-16

  1    999   Graham               Fiona          RCB/Specilizied                            34:21.44

jr men 15-16

1    955   Wait-Molyneux        Colby          North River Racing                         28:28.76             
2    923   Prettyman            Joe            Beaverton Bicycle Club                     28:48.04             
3   2105   Pugh                 Lance          Beaverton Bicycle Club                     34:00.56             
4   2269   Preble               Kolben         Hammer Velo                                35:27.50             
5    951   Alling               Austin         Fred Meyer/Lakeside Cycling Team           43:48.00 

jr women 17-18

 1    982   Cartwright           Liz            Beaverton Bicycle Club                     36:08.33             
2    954   Hahn                 Carina         Team Rose City                             40:58.02 


jr men 17-18

1   2506   Bowden               Zach           Fred Meyer/Lakeside Cycling Team           31:39.85             
2    961   Kostur               Phelan         Fred Meyer/Lakeside Cycling Team           31:41.42             
3   2507   BURTON               Michael        Fred Meyer/Lakeside Cycling Team           33:51.19             
4   1014   Robinson             Christopher    Hammer Velo                                35:41.51  

More post to come later, verrrryyy tired now.
Goodnight folks.

aye, people.........

So I'm out on a lovely ride home, after doing some super top secret training, [if I told you, I'd have to kill you] and as I approach a stoplight some dumbass switches without even looking, ends up stopped diagonally across the lane, and I almost plow into the side of his van. Aye... people.

F.I.N.A.L.S.

F$%# I Never Actually Learned this Sh!t

SNOW!

I love snow.
Yesterday I went frolicking with Nina, and today I slept till 10:00. =]




yay snow

fatty

snowy flamingo? what?