Sept 6/09 As I sit in the Calgary t int. airport I am troubled with thoughts of my upcoming few weeks. Going to see my father and brother in the H ha same time, filled with fear and anxiety. I have been in such great spirits lately, life moving forward in mostly a positive form, someone that I care for deeply, and whom I hope feels similar, riding tones and surrounding myself with people that are of the same attitude. Even work is good right now. So why……. With this latest development that brings me home it’s very hard to not start to take these things personally. I know that is a dumb statement and fairly immature, but just as things start to look up and start to become happy some unknown force just tries to thumb me down! Yes I am too sensitive and yes I am pretty hard on myself but yrs and yrs of it is starting to make me wonder. Even going as far to think I’m cursed because of an incident that happened Friday that actually I was not involved with or had any hand in ...
Today was the first of which I hope are many, Leechtown races. For those of you not familiar with what or where Leechtown is, take a look. In my usual procrastinating way I decided to build my Masi SS late last night for the "race." I figured that a SS would be safe as most of the @stuckylife guys run singles. Man was I surprised when the only two SS ( not including the fixies) were Pro city boys, Colin being the other. Well, no refunds so nut up and enjoy the hurt! I think there were about 26 people out which for a gloomy Sunday is frigging awesome. Good to see Tanya out after nuking her elbow at The Ricky Bobby. It was set up Neutralized for the first 15k or so till Veterans Memorial and after that it was game on. As soon as we were off neutral it was giver. With a lot of road crossings for the next while i realized the single speeds only downfall was with all the yielding, it meant a lot of accelerating. Well i do need work on my starts so take the positive right? It lo...
Friday night comes this week with a little panic this week then others, as the shop was a little quieter then weeks past. This means we actually had time to get ready. Just 2 combatants on this full moon evening: Scotty, Clay and Myself. Mitch had sold his cross bike about 2 hours prior to the ride so no PBR'S for him. A downer to be sure but the high to that is that Pro City DH star Dave Pfaffenberger was the proud new owner of said cross bike so we have another man to introduce to beer flavored suffering. We decieded to shoot the goose out to Mt. Doug to check out some of the shoulder trails that in the day are way to busy to try and ride. We stopped for a PBR and after a lot of grunting, climbing, and even some bike shouldered running we were at our destination. Half way up to trails that are fast, swoopy and full of sneaky rocks and roots waiting to grab your wheel and ruin your buzz. The problem is that all that fast dh means you have to climb back up. This climb was fire r...
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