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A the black keys

2 really funny

happy derby everyone.

springtime in the village- kids cx countdown

The signs are all around us that the season has changed. Its Derby week, so Dougs enjoying morning pleasures on the backside(according to his email, hopefully at the track), I'm digging around for my julep recipe, the short track series is almost upon us and the arguements about whether the trails are rideable are fading away, but at my house the best sign of spring is the highly anticipated email from Father Cross(mr bobrow, esq)
That's right
Countdown to Kids Cross!!that's right light those sabbath candles and shoulder your bike because Friday nights are fun again.

Time to dust of the little redline and do barrier drills in the yard, if only to amuse the dog.

Now kid A and I have a "purpose" for dodging responsibility and riding. He's just trying to get his moves down and clearly I'm just attempting to be a good dad. While riding my cross bike....a lot.
Bobrow's a freaking genius.

Short Track MTB... It's On...

Like Donkey Kong.

The Louisville Short Track MTB Series returns for a 6-week run on Wednesday nights starting May 26th. The series is presented by Mountain Bike Depot, Rogue Racing Project, Niner Bikes and Bob's Red Mill.

There will be races for all levels (that includes you, Dug) and you're sure to have fun. Even if you've never raced a moutain bike, come on out and give it a try or just come enjoy a fun evening of racing.

Contact Joe or Lindsay at Mountain Bike Depot with any questions.

short track mtb series too?? too much goodness

http://louisvilleshorttrack.com


More details to come, but the Louisville Short Track Series returns in May thanks to the Mountain Bike Depot, Niner and Rogue Racing Project?? Yup! Stay tuned.

OVCX Series Dates!!! Good Times Coming

Looks like another great season for Ohio Valley Cyclocross:

http://www.bikeclicks.com/News/tabid/3124/ID/3091/Zipp-OVCXrsquos-Red-Hot-2010-Schedule.aspx



Thanks Web-Dood for the update!!!

RUN.LIKE.HELL!! Derby Festival Marathon/Mini

Once again its time for the cities sweatiest social event. 15k people will spend the morning catching up and then running btw 13 and 26 miles. In our circle-Doug(recovering from a mtb crash), Tallgirl, the locust(and mrs locust)...hell everybody we know will be hustling their butts off in the rain for the MINI. Zack will be chasing Seiler (who is either seedy or seeded or both) until they explode....and speaking of exploding, DrDood is marathoning again. Bring me the rain, all the non-crossers will be freaked out and therefore amusing.

waverly trail day...or how to hang w your kids

The shot is from last weekends trail day @ Waverly. Now Im not trying to get high and mighty about this shit, really Im not. I went for a couple of reasons.
A. the kymba guys asked me to
2. It was a chance to hang with my 10 yr old in his natural environment, digging in the dirt. The concept that he was building a trail that would last for years to come blew him away. We got to spend several hours of hang time, just moving branches, digging and having a good time...then we rode the other sections and went for lunch. Total dude's day out. There's only so much longer that he's going to want to hang with his old man. Teen years are looming, and Im probably going to embarrass him daily, or already do.

Want in on the action? Get your own child, or get permission from the domestic goddess/totallynotamusedbythis and borrow mine.

here's a message from Billy Davis, sorry for getting all "provincial" here on ltp, back to the bitter sarcasm and hate-speak tomorrow...and before you all email me that you cant read this , click on it and it should super-size its ass for you, mm'kay?

Cross Goes Mainstream?

As has been reported here and elsewhere, the May edition of Men's Journal, features a fashion shoot with Jeremy Powers, Tim Johnson and friends. you can find a link to the article here
Men's Journal

So when the most punk rock form of bike raccing gets a fashion spread in a respectable magazine, what do the hard core think? on the one hand, its a fashion shoot, I mean how punk rock is that?
On the other hand, this doesnt need to be so indie and inside that noone else should share in it. I remember when R.E.M. got a major label deal. All the hipper-than-thou folks dropped them like a hot potato. Shouldnt they be able to make a living? When something that seems like its ours gets shared we see who can play with others in the sandbox if you will.

Play well. It may be fun to be an O.G. to something that gets huge, or if not an early adopter at least an earlier adopter. I know that the guys who had been doing this for years when I stumbled across it welcomed me in and helped me learn the sport, the equipment, all of it. With a new cross park coming, worlds coming, its all going to get crazy. Here's your chance to practice sharing our little secret obsession with others who may get it differently.

At the very least it'll be entertaining.

This is why everyone I know has so many bikes (Doug)

So Brian and I met the KyMBA folks out at Cherokee/Seneca Park tonight for their weekly "no drop" ride. Exactly what I needed for my first try at MTBing. Turned out to be a great group of 8 guys that all seemed pretty solid, but who were willing to hang with the new guy while I learned how my new bike (essentially the SRAM shifters and hydraulic brakes) worked. I think we managed a reasonalble pace (not fast, according to the good racers in the group, but not too boring for the other guys, I hope), and definitely got plenty of technical stuff for me. Jeff, the ride host, had me following him over some really scary (for me) sections of the course, but showed me the right line, and I did o.k. No major malfunctions, no end-overs, and no blood. I'll take it. I dismounted a couple times when the log jumps were just too big, but am really happy overall. Between Barry-Roubaix and now the MTB, I am really starting to find the stuff I enjoy about cycling. Don't get me wrong, I like a nice road ride every now and then (mostly when it's part of a sprint or olympic tri), but I think the "getting dirty" cycling is going to be my thing. Between this new MTB and cyclocross, I see myself having a bunch of fun on two wheels for the next few decades. I'm sure it loses some (read: most to all) of it's excitement in the translation from actual dirt to computer screen, but here's the screen shot from google earth (courtesy of my Garmin 305) from tonight's ride. Fun stuff. I'm hooked!

The "herd" grows (doug)

I hesitate to call my small group of bikes a herd, especially since the first three members consist of Frankenbike (aka CrossMutt), my 1988 Giant Chinook commuter/utility, and my used 2000 Bianchi road bike, HOWEVER, I recently may have inproved the credibility of the herd a bit.

Remember how happy I was when I got my wonderful wife the Kona Jake for her birthday, hoping that she'd fall in love with cycling like I had? Well, as you know, she didn't ride it, so I just finally sold it. Settle down, I'm not a total ass...I tuned up her old 1993 Diamondback so she'd still have something to ride in case she got the wild desire to do another sprint Tri or ride with her friends on a neighborhood ride. The "proceeds" from that sale (a mere $200 loss) were just enough to help me jump to a new discipline that I've been wanting to get involved in.

Check this out!

Keep in mind that this picture was taken immediately after I got the bike home (can you blame me for being excited, it's my first real new bike), so I didn't have time to take off the reflectors and "pie plate". Apparently, that's a no-no. If you're a Facebook friend of mine you know this already, but I took a bit of hazing for the reflectors in this picture. You'd have thought I actually raced with them on the way my Rogue teammates went after me. They WERE going to come off, of course, but now I'm half tempted to race the whole dang season w/reflectors just to piss 'em off.

Anyway, this is my first new bike, and I am freakin' psyched. I'm going to jump in full force just like I did with cx, and I think I should be o.k. I want to get into a race or two as fast as possible (planning on finishing last and figuring out how the races work), trying to stay out of the real racers' way for the first couple races, then seeing what I can do at the lowest class. I already got my USAC MTB licence (which includes CX, so I don't need the road licence at all), so I'm good to go.

All this said, I've had the bike since Saturday and haven't been able to get it on a trail yet because of work (and the fact that Alison has been on jury duty all week -- in some sort of interesting case, apparently). It's KILLING me! Imagine a kid getting his first bb gun for his birthday, then telling him he can't shoot it for a week. It's freakin' torture! Anyway, I am going to do my first trail ride on the GF tomorrow with a group from KyMBA. Really looking forward to it.

After that, I'm jumping in with both feet. I'm trying to find some local races, including (but not limited to) the local STXC series and the KyMBA series. Might as well see what I can do.

Lastly, I think B and I have essentially run our last significant training runs before the Derby Festival Half Marathon, and both went fine, so we should have some fun in a couple of weeks and cruise in around 2 hours for that race, too.

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Post Barry-Roubaix recovery and/or Derby Mini Marathon taper (doug)

I sure hope I'm doing this right.  The schedule was so confusing, since I'm combining running, mtbing, trails, and epic rides, and preparing for the 1/2 marathon in a couple of weeks. This seemed right, though.

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Wow, I could get used to this (doug)

So, as usual, B beats me to the punch on the race report, and it is right on. What a great event! Rick and his team of organizers and volunteers at Barry-Roubaix made this thing run so smoothly and made it so much fun. It was a clear reflection of his efforts last year that the race went from 250 participants to the 700 that raced this year. I expect another big jump for next year, for sure. It was everything we'd hoped for, and is already definitely on OUR schedule for next year. The only question now is how many more people we convince to come up with us. I'm not sure the video footage of our time the night before or the night after would convince anyone to come up with us, particularly, but hopefully they'll come up on their own. I'm tempted to elaborate on the extracurricular events of the wknd (since that was more the focus for Jon and I this go around), but I'm going to wait, in deference to Brian's "other" race report that has been commissioned by XCC Magazine (coming soon to www.xxcmag.com). Suffice to say, B, Pope, 50m Jon, me, and our good friends from Team Sandbag Racing (MI) got the most out of Kalamazoo, MI over the weekend. Combine 7 exhausted racers, plenty of good beer on site after the race, a couple of good breweries, a sports bar with Elite 8 basketball and a very frustrated waitress (thanks to TP), and a bar that likes PBR so much they put it on TWO taps (thank you Green Top), and you get a story worth (but maybe not appropriate for) publishing. Can't wait to read it.

As far as the race/ride itself went, it was amazing. Jon and I were not in any position to push it like Pope and Brian, and when they took off at mile 2.5, we were still in "I'd like to get used to riding on gravel" mode. Minutes later, we turned into the sandy, uphill two-track that Brian mentioned in his post, and that was that. B and Pope were gone, Jon and I got through that section as best we could, and then treated the rest of the race a bit more like a casual club ride than a race. That's not to say it wasn't hard, we just weren't looking for folks to draft with and "go". We stayed together when we could, separating as needed as the terrain suited one or the other of us better (I climb ok, but am terrified of fast descents), but mostly rode side by side, chatting and just having an good time in general. It was beautiful country, and the occasional residents in the remote area were awesome, as Brian said. I'm still not sure if they were cheering us or mocking us as we grinded ourselves up some of those hills, but I always treated it as a blessing and used the native drums, chanting, and screaming as motivation. Jon and I finished about 10-12 minutes, and 100 racers, behind B and Pope, and were pretty happy with the experience as a whole (at least I was).

Now that we know what we're up against and got a feel for the racecourse and atmosphere, we discussed treating next year's race a little different. I think that could be a blast, as well as making it a different experience altogether. I think we might get a group together, add a little strategy, drink a little less the night before, and see if we can't even race in the expert category versus the sport. We'll see. All in all, I can say that is was some of the most fun I've had involving cycling, and I hope we can get ourselves, and our friends involved in more of these "epic" rides/races, versus just the standard racing series. Brian has already started recruiting for a MTB race in GA later this year, and it has some real potential. Stay tuned. I was able to sell Alison's KONA JAKE just yesterday(the one she never rode), and will be getting my first MTB before the end of April, just in time for this year's local Short Track Series. Can't wait.

On another note, to save me the trouble of another post, today was the third leg of the Louisville Triple Crown of Racing - The Papa Johns 10 Miler. I think the week off after B-R actually helped me, and I was able to run a PR 1:18:52. That's almost a minute/mile faster than I train at, and I'm thrilled. Last year I ran a 1:23:xx. I'm headed to FL for spring break with the family tomorrow for a week, so I'll get some training runs in (but no cycling), then B and I plan to run the KY Derby Festival 1/2 Marathon together on 4/24. Wish us luck.