April
5	CRIT	Evergreen Park Criterium	Sheboygan, WI
13	CRIT	Great Dane #1	Madison, WI
19	CRIT	Brown Deer Criterium	Milwaukee, WI
20	CRIT	Great Dane #2	Madison, WI
26	CRIT	Whitnall Park Criterium	Hales Corners, WI
May
3	ROAD	Baraboo Road Race	Baraboo, WI
4	CRIT	Wheel & Sprocket Crit	Neenah, WI
4	MTN	Iola Bump & Jump	Iola, WI
10	CRIT	Muskego Park Criterium	Muskego, WI
17	GP	Leland Grand Prix	Leland, WI
18	CRIT (?)	Wheels on Willy	Madison, WI
18	MTN	Treadfest	Lake Geneva, WI
24	WEMS	12 Hours of GEARS	Kewaskum WI
31	STATE TT	State Championship Time Trial	Brighton, WI
June
1	CRIT	Sussex Criterium	Sussex, WI
1	MTN	Big Ring Classic	Wausau, WI
8	STATE ROAD	Spring Prairie Road Race State Road Championship	Spring Prairie , WI
14	STATE CRIT	State Criterium Championship	Elkhorn, WI
14	MTN	Subaru Cup	Nordic Mountain (?)
15	MTN	Subaru Cup	Nordic Mountain (?)
15	CRIT	Fond du Lac Criterium	Fond du Lac, WI
21	CRIT	Grafton Criterium	Grafton, WI
22	MTN	Reforestation Ramble	Suamico, WI
22	CRIT	Sheboygan Criterium	Sheboygan, WI
28	WEMS	Levis / Trow 100	Hatfield WI
July
5	ROAD	UWW Road Race	Whitewater, WI
6	CRIT	UWW Crit	Whitewater, WI
6	MTN	Chippewa Valley Firecracker	Eau Claire, WI
12	WEMS	12 Hours of Blue Mound	Blue Mounds WI
19	WEMS	Metro Challenge	Franklin WI
27	MTN	Alterra Coffee Bean Classic	Franklin, WI
28	CRIT	Elm Grove Criterium	Elm Grove, WI
August
2	US 24	USA Cycling 24-Hour Mountain Bike National Championships (24-9)	Wausau, Wis.
10	MTN	Sunburst Showdow	Kewaskum, WI
16	WEMS	Blufflands Epic Enduro Race	LaCrosse WI
23	CRIT	Chiropractic Criterium	Brookfield, WI
24	TT	Chiropractic Partners Time Trial	Dousman, WI
24	MTN	Border Battle	River Falls, WI
30	WEMS	Stump Farm 12	Green Bay WI
September
7	MTN	Smokin Spoke	Rhinelander, WI
27	WEMS	Thunderdown in the Underdown	Merrill WI
28	MTN	Wolf River Rendezvous	Shawano, WI
October
4	WEMS	12 Hours at John Muir	La Grange WI
12	MTN	Wigwam MTB Challenge	Sheboygan, WI
18	WEMS	RAIN DATE for WEMS	RAIN DATE
http://www.wors.org/news/
http://www.wicycling.org/index.htm
http://www.wemseries.com/

I hope that is easier to read.

WI CUP, WORS, and WEMS

Here is a compiling of WORS, WEMS and the WI Cup schedule. If you use it somewhere else, just let me know. If you find errors, i will correct them, if you tell me.

Cold Riding

The list of Clothes i wore today while riding in 7 degree with a wind chill of -25
Helmet (duh)
Black hood sock
Under Armour Hood
Oakley Goggles
Planet Bike winter gloves
Under Armour mock turtle neck
Twinkies cycling jersey
KR bike club vest
Nike Cycling jacket, windproof
Under Armour leggings
Team Discovery cycling bibs
Trek summer leggings
Twinkies socks, to match the jersey
Under Armour cold gear socks

(not pictured, Lake boots, and old Trek 1000)

I rode, I read

So i got up Saturday, rode in the very crazy unshoved roads around my house. I did about 10 miles, but it felt like 50 with all the snow on the ground. I should have used a mountain bike, it would have been safer. But i ended up getting a fever and sleeping most of the evening. too bad too, i really wanted to go see Rambo with my friend Ross. (only friend from high school) O well, it happens, i guess i will have to see it next weekend. It will at least give me something to do while i am watching the dogs for my parents. They are going to MN to visit my sister. I would love to go, but I promised my team, Half Acre Cycling, I would make all the team meetings, since i am currently the only nonflatlander on the team. (GO WISCONSIN) But i guess that means i can do whatever i want on Friday night, since everyone will be gone. (that should read, I will spend the night at home in front of the TV and/or the computer, seeing as i have no life.)

Speaking of no life, directly yet more indirectly related, I have found a new blog. I relate to this blog more than words can express. I want to share the link, but i also don't want too. It's one of those, do i accept that i so closely relate to this blog, or do i attempt to hide from this. I have been hiding for a while, and doing a fairly good job, if you ask me. I have even been debating weather i should email this blogger, and let them know they aren't the only person like this in the world. (pee break) Or maybe i will email this blogger a link to my page. That way when they read this they will understand, and anything else in the email would just be wrong. Yeah that is what i might do, be as indirect as humanly possible. I think i would get along with this person extremely well, but i but that will never happen. O will, i guess that is life, you lose some, and then you lose some more.

Peace out you extremely few readers, if there are any.

quick up date

so here is why i haven't been posting. the nights are dark, and i find myself mid evening dreaming (like day dreaming but in the mid evening) about stress free rides on a open road with no potholes, and a long hard hill i cant seem to top. during the day i work, well get a workoutish. I mean i deliver packages at work. they range from 1oz to a couple hundred pounds that require a forklift. But basically anything under 150 i carry. My average delivery amount for a day is about 70-90 packages/chemicals. Its a chemical company so they unbox the chemicals and log them before i can deliver them. I should note that my deliveries span 2 city blocks, and its all by foot and all in 4 1/2 hours or less. I am also trained on 3 of the 4 mail runs (so i know about 150ish mail stations by heart over a 4 box campus), the receiving dock (and all the deliveries they do(less than i do) but they get to drive the fun fork trucks, i don't :( ), and other basic mail room related things. I make crap for money, but i like the job because I NEVER have work to do at home. once 3ish hits i am GONE! in the summer its nice, but winter am indifferent. i walk an average of about 5-7 miles a day at work, and for a lot of it, i am either carrying something or dragging a overly loaded cart around. Yeah fun.

As soon as the morning temp is around +5 i will be riding again. I cant justify riding in sub zero degrees because i have that much better of a chance to get sick and screw my spring training over. O i am also on a low cal(ish), no taste diet. It sucks, but its saving me money. I now make my lunch instead of buying an overly price greasy lunch at work.

so that is my life as it stands. I am going riding Saturday reguardless the weather. I also really wanna try the Tour of Chicago, but i can't (for certian unsaid reasons) skip church again. no i am not worried that my soul will burn forever if i miss church (i miss enough that if that was true i am ROYALLY SCREWED!!!!), its very different reasons. Maybe if all works out i can explain it to you very few who read this later.

Night all YOU few who read this, or is it good day. I guess it depends on when you read it.

WTB: Camera

So i am looking for a camera. Not just an ordinary camera, i have a digital rebel with tons of lense already. what i am looking for is a small camera that is durable. I want to be able to carry it in the back of my jersey while i ride. I want to be able to crash or drop it, and not worry that i just just lost a lot of money. i want it to be digital, i want it to be simple, and i want it to be cheap. any ideas?

After seeing the pictures that Jill puts up, i know i can't compete, but it would make this dull blog more interesting.

Long Over Due 1

I hope you are ready for another rambling post; because here it goes.

I made the first Half Acre Cycling team ride in Chicago. O yeah, drum roll please...... I AM ON HALF ACRE CYCLING!!! wooooooooooot I am finally officially on a team. WOOT WOOT!!!

ok back to the team ride, we had 4 total flats, i only had 1. It was a dirty, wet, flithy ride. Basically it was a what a typical January ride is ment to be, minus the snow. It was fun, annoying, and i can't wait until i can do it again. (thanks to kevin for a place to shower and chill after the ride)

next was a mountain bike ride with my friend chris at pets in Kenosha. it was raining the whole time, and since we had a tornado the day before, it was a very interesting ride. We were either riding on left over ice, mud, or though rivers that used to be trails. it was a kick ass ride with a friend i don't really get to see enough. and again i choose the WRONG GLOVE!!! GRRR that is twice in 1 months i have screwed up my glove choice.

the last ride of this post is a ben popper special. Its called, or i am calling it, the popper ride of pain. I believe he wanted to see how much pain he could inflect before we called uncle. it involved 13+ stories of climbing, and a lot of riding straight into a head wind. this was another ride in Chicago, but there was no flats (as in tires), WOOT! and for once, i choose the right gloves WOOT WOOT!!

anyways, i will soon be dieting or attempting, drinking better ie more water, and riding more. Most of my ride this time of year will be solo since all my group ride have been in chicago. the winter riding scene in WI isn't too big, so solo i will go.

that is it for now. I ride, i try (to get a date), and i survive.