6/12 hours of Addison Oaks

Ahh Addison Oaks. One of my favorite endurance races. The trail is just fun, and the weather being perfect this year made it that much better. Last year it was cold and damp. I woke up, got the rest of my stuff ready and went out to load the bike on the car and noticed a flat. Stupid Moab thorns!!! Fixed that and hurried to the venue, only to arrive late. The registration line was long! The weather brought everyone out. Got registered in time to slap my number plate on and get ready to roll. Had a good pace on lap 1, until toward the end when a guy crashed on an uphill in front of me. There was nowhere to go so I stopped, waited for him to get up when some dildo that couldnt wait 10 seconds tried to ride off trail around while telling us to move, ends up crashing and his bike cracks me in the anke. Douchebag. Hope he broke his carbon frame. Started thinking this is not the way for my day to start, but settled into a good pace for the first 4 laps. Sometime toward the end of my 5th lap I started cramping up. Bad. Gravel grinder like cramps. Stopped after number 5 for about 30 minutes, layed on the ground, drank alot, popped some endurolytes, rolled a painful 6th lap, 7, 8 and 9 were a little painful but ok, rolled the 10th with some slight cramping to finish in 3rd. The 1st place guy did 12 laps, just flying, think the second place guy was maybe 20 minutes ahead of me. Was a really tough day. My cardio feels great, my legs have been an issue. Still, weather was perfect, seen alot of familar faces. Chris Maltby was in good form as usual, seen him eating soup and reading a book about mid way through. Even so he still rocked 100 miles, including a scaling of the fence to get cider and doughnuts mid race!
I ended up with about 70 miles of singletrack. Not bad for as bad as I was hurting. Need to ride my bike more!

Shaun

Anybody Interested?

I will be placing an order in the next month for a RoadID and a mew set of 2010 Awesome Straps. If you have any interest and want to go in on an order with me, let me know!



- Sb

TDT Video

Cool video on the tour de troit I found on you tube. The guy did a great job:

Johnny D Busted for Tour de Troit Doping Scandal

(HDN) -- Reigning Tour de Troit champion John "Hot Dog" D. has rejected the findings of a positive doping test taken while the cyclist was competing in this year's race, blaming it on tainted Hot Dog meat.

"Hot Dog" was provisionally suspended from competitive cycling by the sport's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), on Thursday following the results of the test.

The Macomb Township rider, a three-time winner of cycling's showpiece event and one time winner of the coveted "Ore 2 Shore Hot Dog Award", had traces of the banned substances lipsum and assholeum in a test sample he gave on July 21 -- which was a rest day (which isn`t uncommon for him). However, in a press conference held in his home town of Macomb Twp, which HDN attended, Johnny D said he was innocent.

Tour de troit 2010 is in the books

Well, that was fun! It far exceeded my expectations. What a cool event. 3,200 people take over downtown. I got to see parts of Detroit I never had seen before. I will be back for more next year.

Here's an article about the ride today. Thanks for all the fun everyone. Enjoy a few pics below. I will post more on my Flickr site later.

UPDATE: I've added a few more pics, and put them up on my photo site. Check them out here. Also found another article about the ride on the Detroit News.

UP NEXT? Massive Fall Out, Saturday, October 16

Out of Shape+New Job=Slow Cyclocross Racer

Tis the time of the year when the weather gets a little cooler, the leaves start falling and I spend a lot of my time thinking about donuts and cider!. I didn't have time for cider and donuts today because I hit day 2 of the Tailwind Waterford Hills Doublecross. I knew I wasn't ready to do any racing. Heck... with the new job, I have ridden twice since Ore to Shore in the beginning of August. One of those rides was to the Cider Mill so you know I didn't gain any fitness there!

Last night I spent a little time Converting My Quiring 29er Singlespeed over to cross duty. I changed the brake pads, which I have been meaning to do for 2 months now and mounted up my trusty 35mm Maxxis Mimos. The only thing I didn't do was actually clean the bike up which it needs badly.

This morning I raced in the C class and the weather could not have cooperated more. It was a nice sunny morning with temps in the lower 60's. After about 3 warm-up laps (I usually do 1)it was time to Rock and Roll. The gun went off at 10 A.M. and I was off with the gearies on my way under-geared singlespeed. It wouldn't have mattered any because I had no gas in the tank. My whole body hurt from head to toe from beginning to end. I spent most of my day taking up the rear of the C group and thankfully I didn't finish DFL.

Even with the pain and placing it was still a positive day. My lap times were consistent, I stayed upright and most of all had a nice lunch with the Hot Doggers at BW's over Wings, Beer and Football.

Please disregard my beer belly in the pictures. I am working to remedy the situation!

Next up.... Tour De Troit.



WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

30 minutes? Piece of cake... Crappy cake.

Decided to do something with my Sunday and hit Waterford Hill for a little cyclocross action. I have a love/hate relationship with the cross racing. Love it when I am not racing, hate it when the gun goes off.

Raced in the C race, sat second wheel into the first corner and was content hanging there for a while. Stayed with the couple leaders for about a lap and a half, maybe 2 laps, then quickly started fading, finished 6th. Out of gas. My brain was telling my legs to go, legs were telling my brain to F-off.

Gave it a go, not too bad, will probably hit a few more, I feel like total ass right now, just beat. You wouldnt think 30 minutes would hurt so bad... Time for an Oktoberfest and bed. Oooff.

Looking forward to the next one though. I feel they make me stronger on the bike. After I get back from Moab, I want to hit the one in Linden on the 17th of Oct. Not sure why...

-Shaun