Jeff and Josh "easy days" vs. Jeremy "easy days"

So I am out cruising on a nice ride today just enjoying the great weather and I run into Jeff Hamilton. So I pull a U-turn and we proceed to ride for a while, and I immediately ask if he is going hard today. he says, "no just an easy spin." Now for those of you who do not know there are two people in Kalamazoo whose "easy days" are not so easy afterall. Josh Tarrant and Jeff Hamilton are just on another level, so their easy days are more of a decent tempo day. Back to the ride, after a bit I see this menacing hill in front of us and Jeff picks the pace up, and the climb was a stair stepper, up-false flat-up-false flat-up some more. Needless to say Jeff had to sit up for a minute and wait for me, but I had already ridden nearly 4 hours on the day. Anyhow I just wanted to clarify what easy to me and to others may be. I decided to ride until dark and get in a good 5 and a half hours today. So all in all twas a good day.

Are you feeling it evil???

Today was the first day in very long that I was feeling it!!! Just effortless! Enough said. Other than that I have been working a lot and skipping out on morning rides, which must change soon. Last night I had an adventure that consisted of gluing a tubular on and it went well until I realized I forgot to place the nipple for the valve on first, but I took care of that. I probably looked like a jobber riding my Zipps at a group ride, but I had to see if my glue job worked. All systems go for Kensington now, but this is still a building race for me and I will be working for whoever is the strongest right now on the team, but I know I will soon be where I expect myself to be. 3 more weeks and I should be rolling HARD! Over and out dudes!

deposit

Got a good workout in today. Went out and did the Wednesday night ride and missed the hammerhead festival by 5 minutes. I ran into Tony on the way out and a minute later he flatted so I decided to wait with him and we did the "B" ride. Wow I haven't been in a field of sketch balls like that in a long time and I really missed riding with guys who know what a paceline really is. Anyhow it was a good ride and I ended up adding an hour and a half after. Winona Lakes this past weekend was a disappointment as I only lasted about 20 minutes. I heard the announcer say we were going 40 MPH down the backstretch though, I just could not close any gaps and my acceleration is awful right now. It will all come back soon though. Dave did fairly well though just barely missing getting some cash. Thats it for now. Later dudes!!

#200

Well this is post #200 as the title reads. Wow, today was a ripper. I have been riding really hard everyday to get into shape and I payed for it today. Not to mention the lack of calories in my body to try to lose weight. We started the Wednesday night ride and it started fast. About 15-20 guys got dropped in the first 20 minutes. It ended up slowing down a bit and then came the two decent hills on the course and the first one was no problem, then Josh, Jeff, and Zach went to the front on the second one and it blew up. At that point Taylors dad flatted and I didnt know whether to wait for him or try to bridge up to the few guys in front. Then the stars appeared and it was lights out. I never remember a Wednesday night ride being that hard, but I am also not in shape at all. Its so fucking frustrating seeing where I was last year and where I am now. I just have to keep riding and relax, it will all come. All I can say is that Josh is a goddamn cyborg this year and I see why he is winning races. It is all effortless for him it seems. Anyhow thats about it for today. Night night kiddies!!!