yesterdays post

Well I can really say that this week is/has been pretty hard. Not to bore you with too many details but a few close to 3 hour trainer rides, one 5 hour ride yesterday in -6 weather and a few hours today, and a monster day tomorrow. Thank the lord we will be racing next weekend!

Yesterday's ride....I just don't even know what to say about that. I never really thought I was that tough, until now. I could have kept riding, but I would have needed another coke. But something really funny happened. I saw a red Horse! Picture me riding in Belgium, the roads are bare, the fields frosted in snow. I haven't shaved in a week or so and I have snot boogers all over my gloves, jacket sleeve and encrusted in my goatee. My water bottle is frozen solid, but I just have to get a good ride in. So I just start crushing it, my plan was to do the workout, then just ride for a bit until was 1.5 hours from home then turnaround and hope to find my way home.

So I'm out in the middle of nowhere..and I mean nowhere, when I crest an escapement and I see a magnificent Stallion standing on a hill on top of the snow covered field. I can see the horse is cold as vapour is coming out of his nose in puffs and looks like tobacco smoke. He is bright red and the eyn uur (1 oclock) sun is beaming off of him. As I get closer he looks a fantastic fluorescent red, he is a huge red horse, a Clydesdale, or even bigger, the biggest horse I've ever seen and he is standing in a field covered in snow, it was breath taking he actually looked like the bull on the Red Bull can, bright red almost on fire, crazy! Until I lifted my Rudy Project sun glasses, it was the reflection off the snow and the sun that made him look so red, he was brown...I put my shades back on cause he looked wickeder in RED...just about that time I decided that I was also going to need a coke, cause my MP3 wasn't working for quite some time and the sound of the wind and brain and the sight of the horse, I just started laughing....yup time for a coke.

I found my way home, just about 2 km away from the house I had to sip the last drop ok coke I put in my bottle as my handlebars felt like they were melting into the ground and all of a sudden the roads with about 2% gradient seemed like huge hills....thank god I made it home!

Funny enough, I wasn't really that cold, but I did have wool socks x 2 pair, thermal booties, leg warmers, thermal tights and 5 layers on top. When my hands would get cold, I would just do a sprint to keep the blood flowing, crazy.

I did get the comments bout Legendary Cross riders(Moose Story), yes how could I forget Mr Cross, Peter Wedge, definitely one of the most underrated Canadian Cyclists ever. I didn't really forget him, I just have never really met him so I don't really know him, so I don't have any stories about him. All the other guys I know...so it's easier to talk about them.

Oh yah shout out to Octto Dave who is sending us some gear from Taiwan, this guy is awesome, his company is great I would highly recommend supporting his products, even if it's just the bar tape, or a pair of carbon bars, or seat post.

Also a huge thanks to Vince and Peter for helping us out with our awesome Stevens Cross bikes this year and for helping us out straight through until Worlds.

Final shout out to Natasha for being nominated and winning Ottawa's Cyclist of the year. We're trying to hook Vince up with the tickets to represent Natasha at the awards banquet, it's supposed to be a pretty posh affair.

DSJ