My Fan Club

While the "Team Enmark" fan club is not a huge group, these two are looking forward to '07. They are most excited that T-Rent promises to get off of his arse and ride like a man this year. Hopefully, Alex's first words aren't,"Trent, you're a dumbass, attack those chumps". Well on second thought, I hope that they are her first words.

Looking forward to warmth and racing.

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That Friggin Skinny Kid

So I get a call Friday night from Barker that it isn't supposed to be totally freezing on Saturday, and I am to report by 9:30 for bike practice. Since the club ride was across the river in Henderson, we decided to hook up and ride in Indiana. We coordinated getting me to leave the house, and the heat, with a phone call and I rode out to meet him Saturday morning. He was wrong, it was freezing when I left.

Now, I am way behind on hours this month from Rich's plan, but I have been riding more than any other winter, and I am still 30+ pounds lighter than last year, so I did not expect to take the ass schlackin' that I received from that skinny f**ker. Apparently he was "just going easy" on a couple of the climbs that we did. He had to go easy after them so that the fat kid, yours truly, could catch back up. You have to be carefull riding with the original doper, he's on the stuff, whatever the stuff is.

After we went over the biggest climb we were going to do for the day, we were finally allowed to ride slower and talk. It turns out that Barker was in Spain years & years ago, and by virtue of being in Spain was part of Operacion Puerto. At least the fact that he was in Spain, is not French and raced a bike, makes him guilty, although he has no idea who Dr. Fuentes is. He is banned from a start in the Tour this year. The media and the French have taken the overwhelming evidence into account, and banned him from ASO races, no Paris-Nice, no Roubaix, etc. Much like Pierro, who had a get out of jail free card, he is guilty, just because. While he was saddened by the news, he is still eligible for Hillsborough Roubaix, so his season is back on track, the original doper lives on.

In all, it was a good day, although it took me 25 minutes to get warmed up again after we stopped at BP. The original doper can roll. Look out for him in '07. He is still in the 155-157lb range and looks like he can rip it. I think that he might have contracted the HIV from Trent. I told him not to look Trent in the eye.

Anyway, check out this pic of the original doper from last year. I think that he will go faster than this in '07.

Anyway, always remember, when the offical says go, rip it!

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Friggin Cold

It is friggin cold. I am watching the weather channel, but things aren't looking good for a weekend ride outside. I hate the cold.

I am going to push for global warming on a larger scale. Possibly an '08 run for the White House on the no more winter platform. Do you think that if everyone switched to the southern hemisphere for winter the world would spin out of orbit? If it won't, then when I am president, I will pass a law that states that everyone has to live in the summer, regardless of hemisphere. Well the Mexicans can stay. They just want to migrate north anyway.

So, it looks like I am stuck on the trainer for the next few days. I thought I would post this picture to remind myself that I will get to go fast again sometime. For those of you "in the know", that is the man, T-Rent gettin his swerve on last season. He is training like crazy and plans to be twice the pimp of previous years this season. I can't wait for sunshine and racing to pick back up.

Winter Sucks.

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Damn Rain

Well, what do you do in Indiana when the weather is shit and rain for a week on end? Go to the gun show! T-Rent, Jeff and I were at the gun show this past weekend. This rain is costing me cash. This is a Smith & Wesson Model 28-2 California Highway Patrol .357 Magnum.

If you can't get outside to ride, you might as well look at cool stuff!

Floyd

After this response to Dick Pound, how could you not dig the guy.

By the way, isn't it ironic that the head of WADA is a dick pounder? If you have a name like that, you shouldn't be in the public eye.

Flip Flaps

According to Rich, I have flip flaps.

I did 15 minute intervals last night on the trainer and I was suffering after the first one and got through the second, albeit quite a bit slower than the first, at a lower wattage total.

Rich suggested that it is either a mental block on the trainer, or I have flip flaps. He says the second should be easier than the first. After giving it some thought, I think that I might not have the attention span for long intervals on the trainer. I can't remember to stare at the little liars box, so I keep slowing down and I miss my movie.

Intervals are a detriment to quality film viewing and should be banned under the first amendment as a barrier to free speech and cinematic expression.

I am starting a petition.

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Can't resist

I have to post this. If you have kids, make sure that they stay off of drugs. I had no idea that Rich was part of Operation Puerto for a mixture of lithium and ludes. Don't look for him at races in '07 or '08 for that matter, this picture should provide enough guilt for the French to ban him through 2012 and remove his Olympic eligibility.

Rain

Well I didn't get all the time that I needed too on the bike this weekend to make my goal for the week, since it rained all day Sunday, but I am at 9 hours for the month a quarter of the way into the month. The sad part is that I have only been able to get outside once. I hate that damn trainer.

If you are looking for some winter motivation, check out Rich's log and the photos from his solo Sunday ride. I hope that I can put the "after" ride look on peoples face this year. That is totally hilarious!

I was not able to catch up with the T-Rent this weekend, so I cannot comment on the man, the myth and the legend. My guess is that he is holed up somewhere with a midget hooker, worrying that I am training over the winter, knowing that the pain in Nashville will be worse than what Rick Fox went through in the season premire of the show "Dirt". (For those of you who didn't catch it, it involved a hooker and a strap-on)

Stay focused T-Rent. Racing is coming!

F***ing Weather Channel

So I leave the house today at 8:30 and the temp on the Weather Channel is already 49 degrees. I figure, this is January and I am riding in 50 degree temps. Maybe the island of Evansville isn't that bad. Not until I turn out of the garage and on the road do I realize that I should have paid much more attention to that whole wind chill factor that they were babbling about. It seems there was a bit of a north wind and it sucked.

I slogged for an hour into the wind up to the group ride, then it got as dark as night as it was about to rain, so we took off trying to avoid the storm. We went north of town and the wind picked up, the temp dropped some and we got beat around Het Volk style. There was a solid group of six of us that did a fair amount of taking our turns getting beat up by the wind, and then we got to experience the joys of a tailwind. It was a pretty good ride, and since I rode up I ended up with 71 miles in 3.75 hours.

The best news of the day was that Skip had on his new shifters, so he had more than the 39x15/53x15 he had been using.

When is Het Volk again?

T-Rent the Terror

Well here it is January 4th and I am already hours behind T-Rent for training. I could only knock out 1.5 on the trainer last night, after I lost an hour to him on Tuesday. Hopefully, this doesn't effect the ass stompin' I plan on throwing him in Nashville and I am not talking about the one like Rich gave him when they were bunk mates last year.

If all goes well, I can knock out some hours this weekend outside. Watch your back T-Rent, I am training and Rich lives with a pregnant girl. Both of us are coming for you.

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Get off of your ass photo!

The man, the myth, the legend.

Get off of your ass!

I received an email today from the T-Rent. Two hours on the trainer last night, 4 15 minute intervals in zone 4. The guy is on fire. Apparently, the jokes from Spencer last year must be working. He is starting to behave like a bike racer.

According to the reports on ESPN, there were only two beer hand ups during the epic cycle struggle and the ensuing vomiting further reduced his weight to 98 pounds.

This just in.

Our 98 pounder is going to wrestle one of the Olson twins at MGM in Vegas. In the post above there is a pic of him resting up for the event and recovering from training.

Never mind, that is a photo of him after spending the night with Rich.

Speaking of lost!

Lost Puppy

For those of you who know T-Rent, please encourage him to tear it up in '07. I can't stand the thought of him riding around looking lost like this anymore.

January

Since Rich has a blog, I figure that I should too. I am going to work on getting some pictures uploaded and write goofy stories about training rides and racing.

I will also use this as a tool to trash talk to T-Rent.