I didn't have any classes this morning, so with nothing else to do, I decided to give names to all of my bikes:
Road: Shadazia
Mountain: Tra'Miyah
Track: Ja'Kwavis
Time Trial: Ebonise
Just kidding. But, according to URBAN Style Baby Names, all of those are real names...
I wasn't kidding about actually naming the bikes though... Here are the real ones:
Road: Rhea
Mountian: Gabrielle
Track: Lucille
Time Trial: Freya
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, Part 2
Here is the pile of stuff I won:
The envelopes are free entries to the Hotter 'n Hell, so I guess I'll be doing that this year.
Here is what you get to do with the ponies when your team wins:
they were still there when we got back to Austin.
I was going to steal some other pictures from Chris, but his blog has been down all day, so you'll have to check them out sometime later. (use the link over there -->)
Also, go check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pFJpawptJ4
Sorry for not having it links on those last two things, but Blogger isn't letting me do them tofay for some reason. I'll edit it later of I can get it working.
The envelopes are free entries to the Hotter 'n Hell, so I guess I'll be doing that this year.
Here is what you get to do with the ponies when your team wins:
they were still there when we got back to Austin.
I was going to steal some other pictures from Chris, but his blog has been down all day, so you'll have to check them out sometime later. (use the link over there -->)
Also, go check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pFJpawptJ4
Sorry for not having it links on those last two things, but Blogger isn't letting me do them tofay for some reason. I'll edit it later of I can get it working.
Sunday, Part 1
Saturday night we decided that the plan for the crit on sunday was to attack out of all the corners to keep the pace up, and hopefully get at least one break started. Then it rained all night and up to about ten minutes before our race started...
The last two corners (3 and 4) had bricks right before and after them, but close enough that normally you would be turning on them, and they were uber slick. During warm up, I noticed that I was able to take the corners faster than most people due to my apparently "wierd" cornering style. SO\o I decided that during the race I would attack into the corners instead of the normal plan.
An MSU guy attacked right off the start and we chased him down by the third side of the first lap. There was a crash around the last corner on that lap, and it split the pack up a little bit. Right before the third corner on the second lap, everyone had just about caught back on, so I decided that would be a good time to start attacking. I took off and an MSU guy caught me fairly quickly. I expected the rest of the pack to come up pretty soon, but the two of us started working together fast and managed to not only put 30 seconds on the pack, but to keep at least that gap for the entire race. He ended up outsprinting me, so I got second, but still, I'll take that.
Sean got away from the pack with a few laps to go and almost caught us, actually, but still finished third, about ten seconds behind. Somehow his attack along with something Tony did managed to drop the rest of the MSU riders from the field (MSU was our only competition for the team overall competition for the season), so besides the first, their hghest finish was 9th. This helped alot in the team standings, and UT is once again the conference champions!!!
Oh yeah, during the race, there were also four primes that went four places deep. Me and the MSU guy both took two, and second in the other two, so I got a nice pile of stuff from the race too.
And since it was were this entry was supposed to end, I'll repeat what was supposed to be the last line:
standings, and UT is once again the conference champions!!!
Part 2 will be here later today when I go get my camera cable and can upload pictures.
The last two corners (3 and 4) had bricks right before and after them, but close enough that normally you would be turning on them, and they were uber slick. During warm up, I noticed that I was able to take the corners faster than most people due to my apparently "wierd" cornering style. SO\o I decided that during the race I would attack into the corners instead of the normal plan.
An MSU guy attacked right off the start and we chased him down by the third side of the first lap. There was a crash around the last corner on that lap, and it split the pack up a little bit. Right before the third corner on the second lap, everyone had just about caught back on, so I decided that would be a good time to start attacking. I took off and an MSU guy caught me fairly quickly. I expected the rest of the pack to come up pretty soon, but the two of us started working together fast and managed to not only put 30 seconds on the pack, but to keep at least that gap for the entire race. He ended up outsprinting me, so I got second, but still, I'll take that.
Sean got away from the pack with a few laps to go and almost caught us, actually, but still finished third, about ten seconds behind. Somehow his attack along with something Tony did managed to drop the rest of the MSU riders from the field (MSU was our only competition for the team overall competition for the season), so besides the first, their hghest finish was 9th. This helped alot in the team standings, and UT is once again the conference champions!!!
Oh yeah, during the race, there were also four primes that went four places deep. Me and the MSU guy both took two, and second in the other two, so I got a nice pile of stuff from the race too.
And since it was were this entry was supposed to end, I'll repeat what was supposed to be the last line:
standings, and UT is once again the conference champions!!!
Part 2 will be here later today when I go get my camera cable and can upload pictures.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
MSU Day One
Meh. Field sprint with people deciding to sit up right in front of me and stuff... yeah. I still pulled off like, 11th-ish though, so I guess it isn't all bad... yeah...
There was also a TTT, but I didn't partake in that fun since there are enough better TT-ers than me. They did decent.
There was also a TTT, but I didn't partake in that fun since there are enough better TT-ers than me. They did decent.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Stuff
So I finished my final project in architecture like, super early thanks to many long days in studio... fun stuff... and I am now in Wichita Falls (pronounce Wich-ee-ta please) for the conference championships.
I am really looking forward to whenever I realize that I'm basically done with school. I'm guessing it will happen at about 2:46 tomorrow afternoon. Yeah...
I am really looking forward to whenever I realize that I'm basically done with school. I'm guessing it will happen at about 2:46 tomorrow afternoon. Yeah...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Yeah
So this is a couple days overdue, but here is a list of things I am really looking forward to that will come along with not living in the dorms next year:
-Having my own parkng spot. I really get tired of waiting 30 minutes for the ONE loading zone spot for a dorm of roughly THREE THOUSAND people. Then someone will always try to race me to it even though they just showed up as it was opening up...
-Having my own bathroom. Someone has taken to putting toilet paper all over the place and then peeing all over it... And the dorm is going to fine everyone on the 7th floor $75 if it doesn't stop...
-Not living with the gross/fat/weird asian guy is a given.
-Eating things besides chicken strips with partially solidified gravy. Like, vegatables maybe...
Yeah...
-Having my own parkng spot. I really get tired of waiting 30 minutes for the ONE loading zone spot for a dorm of roughly THREE THOUSAND people. Then someone will always try to race me to it even though they just showed up as it was opening up...
-Having my own bathroom. Someone has taken to putting toilet paper all over the place and then peeing all over it... And the dorm is going to fine everyone on the 7th floor $75 if it doesn't stop...
-Not living with the gross/fat/weird asian guy is a given.
-Eating things besides chicken strips with partially solidified gravy. Like, vegatables maybe...
Yeah...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Then I bought some ice cream
I was walking across the street to CVS earlier, and some guy in a car thought it would be really cool to just not look if there was anyone crossing the street and floor it around the corner. I saw him in just enough time to run out of the way, then he stopped and was like "oh, sorry man..." Then I bought some ice cream.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Tx State Weekend
TT:
Reduced to .7 miles, 90% of which was at an 18% grade. Good fun.
Umm... not really much to say about this one, it hurt really bad for about 3 minutes and 39 seconds, then I couldn't breath fpr about an hour, but neithr could anyone else, so it's all good. That time was good for a tie for 5th place, and only 11 seconds off of 1st.
Crit:
More of a circuit race, seeing as how we only did nine laps. No corners, a small climb and downhill. I didn't really feel too good before the race, but by time I was done warming up, I was a little better. Our plan was to just keep attacking and hope something would stick, but no one else was too hot on following our breaks, so it ended in a field sprint. I got 10th. Nothing too notable happened, though appearantly some guy crashed from throwing his water bottle too hard or something...
RR:
After a good night of sleep, I was feeling pretty good for todays race. At our team meeting we decided o pretty much the same plan as the crit, and for the first two out of four laps we got just about the same results. About half way into the third lap, I somehow ended up in a fairly large break, there were nine of us, and after about four miles of tearing it up we slowed down to around 25-26mph. By the end of the race we had put about 5 minutes on the pack (yay finally being in a breakaway that didn't get caught!!) and I sprinted in for 6th.
Overall, I don't think I can really complain about the weekend at all, well, except maybe about the bike shop in San Marcos that charged me $13 to tighten my rear hub when they didn't even have the proper tools for the job... but I guess it had to be done... But, yeah, three top tens. I'm happy with that.
Reduced to .7 miles, 90% of which was at an 18% grade. Good fun.
Umm... not really much to say about this one, it hurt really bad for about 3 minutes and 39 seconds, then I couldn't breath fpr about an hour, but neithr could anyone else, so it's all good. That time was good for a tie for 5th place, and only 11 seconds off of 1st.
Crit:
More of a circuit race, seeing as how we only did nine laps. No corners, a small climb and downhill. I didn't really feel too good before the race, but by time I was done warming up, I was a little better. Our plan was to just keep attacking and hope something would stick, but no one else was too hot on following our breaks, so it ended in a field sprint. I got 10th. Nothing too notable happened, though appearantly some guy crashed from throwing his water bottle too hard or something...
RR:
After a good night of sleep, I was feeling pretty good for todays race. At our team meeting we decided o pretty much the same plan as the crit, and for the first two out of four laps we got just about the same results. About half way into the third lap, I somehow ended up in a fairly large break, there were nine of us, and after about four miles of tearing it up we slowed down to around 25-26mph. By the end of the race we had put about 5 minutes on the pack (yay finally being in a breakaway that didn't get caught!!) and I sprinted in for 6th.
Overall, I don't think I can really complain about the weekend at all, well, except maybe about the bike shop in San Marcos that charged me $13 to tighten my rear hub when they didn't even have the proper tools for the job... but I guess it had to be done... But, yeah, three top tens. I'm happy with that.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Ketchup.
Scratch that...
Try "Catch Up."
So Wednesday I didn't get lost again. Yay riding with people who know where they're going better than I do.
Then laterme, Chris, and Litespeed Chris, Litespeed, AND I went on a well good adventure to go look at the hill climb TT for the Texas State race this weekend tomorrow.
Yesterday at the crit I had an awesome three laps. Then I blew my tire off of my rim, clipped my pedal (the order of those two still has yet to be decided, though I feel it is the order I typed it in, and I can't really see how much of a differance it makes anyway...) resulting in my back end flying pretty high followed by my tube exploding when I landed. I suprised everyone by not crashing, then changed my tube and skipped the open race to go to studio.
Sweet.
Try "Catch Up."
So Wednesday I didn't get lost again. Yay riding with people who know where they're going better than I do.
Then later
Yesterday at the crit I had an awesome three laps. Then I blew my tire off of my rim, clipped my pedal (the order of those two still has yet to be decided, though I feel it is the order I typed it in, and I can't really see how much of a differance it makes anyway...) resulting in my back end flying pretty high followed by my tube exploding when I landed. I suprised everyone by not crashing, then changed my tube and skipped the open race to go to studio.
Sweet.
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