calm like a bomb

wed nite bike series starts today...i am going to ride out to BHP but will not race for i need a better gear. but anyone want to ride out, i can give you the tour of the pits and show you a wicked 30 foot jump off a ramp.

there is also WBMA race


April 20 @2:00 Global Gutz (race starts at 3pm @ St. Vital Park (duck pond)
May 24 Truth or Dare @ 7pm @ Central Park
June 28 The Race of Champions @ 7pm Under the Provencher Bridge
July 19 Partners Race @ 7pm @ The Forks' Skating rink
Aug 15 Bike Shops Race @ 9pm @ Bikes and Beyond Parking Lot

AND

Bike polo every friday @ Old Market Square starting April 25th

I don't know what FGBC (http://www.bikeclub2003.blogspot.com/) have planned but there is also their their rides. ( i know some of their rides are only YY friendly) but it is worth checking out some times.

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c.u. at the starting gates.

the bible...and running on thurs?

so put your hand up if you would rather have mtns then this freaken horrible wind?!

dang!

okay so thurs? anyone going running? (i will be there at 4:30, ready to rock the boat before going to the dump)

and next sunday. how about we all do a trip out to grand beach and those of us who want to mtn bike race on the 27 (check the bible http://www.cycling.mb.ca/race_calendars.htm can ride the course..the others can do loops)

any takers?

if your not driving your car this weekend...

thurs = run run run

so after driving something like 34 hours. i finally get here and it is like 6 C, where in winnipeg it is 11C...who is a sucka? me obviously....oh well.

THURS , is running with (Ellen?). BE THERE! (cause i would be if i could)

if you want to know more talk to her or Aaron.

and for base training heard there is a mustache/skirt ride going down this weekend. (i think you can buy them or at least cut some of your locks off for the ride)



i think there is a poster floating around on myspace. but you know... it is time we all bonded over shaving our legs and arms and face, you know to build team spirit.

have fun shaving, but remeber, shaving may lead to doping that may lead you to getting kicked out of races...remeber THE BALCO CASE (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/27/BAP4VR1RP.DTL)

sunday aptril 6th (bring gears!)

the following is a picture of gears...if you don't know what gears are. or forgot over the long winter.




it's that time of the year again, we start thinking giddy thoughts, cause halloween is over and there are rotten pumpkins every where ...no not christmas, thought it felt like we went back in time last night with the snowing...i don't lie but it is almost spring time kiddies!

so be at the home house at 11am. to catch a ride out to BHP for riding at 12pm. ya want to ride out t here and meet up? let your partner know. (as long as you are there by the down time)

till then if you can, try to catch Tour of Flander.

no not ned flanders, the bike race.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcJWZyZ_Bo

news for the news types

BHP next sunday. benjamin and myself are going to bring our vans so we can all pile in with our bikes and go ride some loops. so be prepared to ride outside (unless it is raining)

thanx to team jonny for reg the team.

c.u. all on sunday!!!

Maybe we should send this to city council?

I peed my pants reading this one.... thanks bikesnob dude!
(You should have heard the fit of cackling that resulted from my sore throat and the line "People Who Don’t Go When The Light Turns Green Because They’re Too Busy Texting, Flavoring Their Coffee, or Checking Themselves for Pubic Lice")


TREATY
Between Cyclists and Drivers

It is hereby agreed as follows:

Division of the Roadways

Drivers can have all highways, freeways, expressways, and interstates. Cyclists keep everything else. Motor vehicles shall not be allowed on local roads, and bicycles shall not be allowed on highways. The exception to this will be the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly the Interboro Parkway) between Brooklyn and Queens in New York. This shall be renamed in honor of professional cyclist and alleged sex symbol Mario Cipollini, and it shall be used exclusively for high-speed hair product testing. (First to be tested will be Mario’s new combination hair gel/chamois cream, which not only prevents crotchal chafing but can also keep a coiffure stationary at speeds in excess of 200mph. Will be marketed under the brand name “Taint Movin’.”)

Exchange of Prisoners

Cyclists will return to drivers all German automobile-driving Blackberry users in exchange for the return of their CSC kit-wearing, mountain bike shoe-wearing Cervelo riders. As it happens, most of the former are also the latter, so they should all be relieved to be reunited with their respective bicycles/automobiles and to make their garages whole again. Cyclists will also return all UPS, FedEx, and DHL (the Nashbar of courier companies) truck drivers in exchange for all bicycle messengers and cycle-rickshaw drivers captured in battle. There have been some lonely bongs in the cyclists’ ranks, and cyclists can expect the celebratory sound of gurgling water to ring out well into the night upon the prisoners’ return.

(As discussed during last week’s secret summit, since cyclists don’t want the recumbent riders and triathletes back, and since drivers don’t want the operators of forest-green minivans and Lincoln Town Cars back, we’ll just drop them all off on Bikini Atoll. War is hell, but at least something good has come out of it for both sides.)

The Wilderness Theater

While a truce may have been struck on the roads, apparently the war rages on in the woods as the ATV riders and mountain bikers continue to fight. How many paintballs need to be fired, and how many suits of body-armor splattered, before this madness ends? Probably a lot. So let’s just agree to look the other way and let them burn themselves out in there. They’ll all get tired eventually.

Slurs

Drivers agree to stop calling all cyclists “Lance Armstrong.” It’s enough already. If a driver absolutely must call a cyclist something, the driver may call him “Wim van Est,” or else “Heidi Van de Vijver” if the cyclist is a woman or person of indeterminate gender. In exchange, cyclists agree not to get all self-righteous and “green” during altercations with drivers. This includes: demanding that the driver stop driving; lecturing the driver on his or her vehicle’s gas mileage; and blaming the driver for yesterday’s unseasonable cold spell or for global warming-related polar bear drowning deaths.

The Forming of an Ineffectual Body to Enforce These Provisions

To ensure that cyclists and drivers continue to live side by side in peace and mutual respect as they undoubtedly will, a weak and indecisive group will be formed to oversee and enforce the provisions contained herein. This group will consist of representatives from the various Cyclist and Driver subgroups. The following subgroups of cyclists have been identified and acknowledged to date: Roadies; Randonneurs; XC Mountain Bikers; Downhillers; Freeriders; Messengers; Fixed-Gear Freestylers; Commuters; That Guy At Work Who Has A Bike He Never Rides But Is Always Asking About Yours; Cyclocrossers; and BMXers. The following driver subgroups have also been identified: Idiots; Idiots from Jersey; Women Who Are Dwarfed By Their SUVs; People Who Don’t Go When The Light Turns Green Because They’re Too Busy Texting, Flavoring Their Coffee, or Checking Themselves for Pubic Lice; Delivery People; Lost Idiots from Jersey; and Taxi Drivers.

More subgroups will be added as they are identified.

Signed this Twenty-Fifth Day of March, 2008,



__________________
Cyclists


__________________
Drivers

post easter bunny

so i screwed up. with my lack of religion in my life i failed to realize that last sunday was easter (i guess having a friday off was a big clue)

i propose instead if it is nice that we all go for a slow but long road ride next sunday.

any takers?

training tomorrow?

question. is there training tomorrow.

my answer. yes.

but i guess we will see.....

until then

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=toVIKUDGd3Y&eurl=http://www.meandmybicycle.com/

another training day gone

Sunday at 12pm is the next training session. we had one today...but i again showed up after the fact..so can not really comment.

in other news. We got some people going to Toronto for CMWC.

and some of our racers did darn well in the alley cat on saturday. (if you missed that one because A. you were smart and did not want to keep your hip bones and not fall or B. you did not want to dance with a cop (was it 1:5 or 1:3 were cop cars last night?) then look out for global gutz on april 20th.

so, good job to all of you and the rest of you (like ohh..i don't know...lets pick... shona) get your butt outside or on a bike seat and feel that lactic acid floooow baby!





Nutrient-rich shake

3 cups water (or 2 cups water and 1½ cups ice)
1 banana – electrolytes
½ cup blueberries – antioxidants
½ pear – natural sugar, fibre
1 tbsp hemp oil – essential fatty acids (3-6)
1 tbsp ground flax seeds – omega 3, fibre
2 tbsp hemp protein – complete protein
1 tsp (2.5 grams) maca, powdered form – sterols, alkaloids glucosinolates
1 tsp (2.5 grams) chlorella, powdered form – vitamin b12, chlorophyll, nucleic acids

Blend together until smooth.



Chocolate recovery pudding

¼ pound medium firm tofu – protein, calcium
1 banana – electrolytes
½ pear – natural sugar
½ tbsp hemp oil – essential fatty acids (3-6)
½ tbsp cocoa powder – natural flavour
sprinkle sea salt – sodium (lost in sweat)

Blend all ingredients together until reaching a consistent texture. I recommend a food processor.

new team manager

just finished suiting up to ride for work today and thought before i leave would just say to everyone be safe and tell jon that we all are thinking of him. and if he wanted to be the kewel european guy who drives the little eco-car and yell things at us when we are riding he could have just asked and not gone to all this trouble of the hospitable. so i propose that jon is our manager until further notice. get better chief jon! and the rest of you lowly athletes, keep up the good work!

The wind beneath my bib shorts

Go team Windbreaker! Well we finally have a name, I'll consider that an accomplishment. After an hour of breaking the wind (or blowing air from a couple of fans) along with the spinervals dvd my legs are spent and Im feeling great. I hope Aaron and Mark dont mind the litres of sweat I left behind in their living room... luckily the rug was beneath me to soak it all up. My favourite part of the training came right at the end when some dude came to pay Lep a visit, and was surprised to find me doing the "Squats" portion of the spinervals dvd in my bib shorts.

Hope there will be more participation next week! Either way, good on everybody for getting out of bed and making it down... I know for some folks rising before 2 pm on a Sunday is quite a feat in itself. Train hard everybody!!

oh, and here's an idea for the jerseys... (at the very least a can of baked beans somewhere on the jersey would be sweet... maybe we can get sponsorship from heinz??)

training vs daylight savings time

so at 12pm today the first training went down. looked awsome though i did not partake in it. hopefully one of the folk who actually got their shabang together will give the low down and maybe some photos????

good job to all who rode. the rest of us will have some catching up next sunday at 12.

p.s. don't forget alley cat on the 15th at west broadway community center. be there!

stand up and shout if you have a trainer

if you have a trainer, pick up the phone or grab a computer or use your jedi mind tricks to contact Benjamin before sunday.

and it is snowing so if you want to you can practise some trials or bmx moves inside for your bike handling skills (cause i heard the bmx and trials tracks might be up for racing this summer. )

frozen lungs. good to know if training outside

from the conversation the other day on training in the cold vs training indoors: (http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-267-269-7442-0,00.html)

The human body is adapted, after surviving five major ice ages, to heat air quickly as it passes through the nose and mouth. In fact, the one legitimate lung condition that troubles runners in cold air doesn't come from the cold. In his 10 years of working with Nordic skiers at the U.S. Olympic Committee training facility in Lake Placid, New York, exercise physiologist Ken Rundell, Ph.D., found that as many as 50 percent would develop "skier's hack"--a transient cough--during or after training.

In subsequent research at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Rundell proved that the dryness of cold air causes the "airway narrowing," a term he prefers to the more common "exercise-induced asthma." To diminish this problem, Rundell suggests using a scarf that will trap your natural water vapor when you exhale, and then allow you to "recycle" it when you inhale.

I have just about given up on my quest when I receive an e-mail from one of Steve Bainbridge's running partners in Fairbanks. Owen Hanley, M.D., is a pulmonary specialist, so he knows lungs, and he has seen the frozen variety. "It's easy to develop frozen lungs," Hanley says. "You simply have to die in the icy outdoors, and then your lungs will freeze along with the rest of you."

So, it is possible for your lungs to freeze. Only not while you're alive and running.

next topic, team initiation and jerseys

meeting #1 minutes (finally, what the hell took her so long?!!??!)

Once upon a time there was a group of people who were tired of being leaderless and having to pay money to be walking ads. They finally decided to come together, for that is what bike people do, even though bikes usually take one or two people at max. This led to ideas, (...oh yap did i mention a drunken duck..who is the leader and mascot is Lucy..t..but back to the ideas..)here they are...

1. Pick a name (names have been listed, so pick on on sunday)

2. Sunday at 11:00 am will be training with the trainers in Mark's house (the Home house) It will smell but the team is willing to risk it for bonding time and really kewel bike spin videos.

3.Sponsors (by people like MEC OP, your mum and dad and Vegan) and Reg team name ($25 total ) will come after the name.

4 . To make sure you will get your lazy butts out, and follow through on some of that..."but why do i belong to a team if there is no team aspects to it"...you get a buddy. So in case the one time smell and pain fest was not enough, you get to have someone naggng your butt to make sure you are following your individual plan.

Buddy List

Ainsley and Ja
Shona and Team Jonny
Mark and Benjamin
Ellen and Erin
Jon and Susan

(you can change the teams around if you and your partner are not working out...just remeber there is a secret prize for the best team plus you will get better at the racing thing if you follow through with your plans...go figure eh?!)

that is about it. Big Thank you to Benjamin and Ainsley for letting us party it up at their house on Monday and get this ball rolling. c.u. all on Sunday. till then ride hard and i will be yelling something in german and looking like the following so i suggest this video might help you (along get you prepped for toronto this summer) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfWDi3QX8Y

doh! (training on sunday)

minutes to come later. for now the deal is that you have to pick a name.

they are (if you think of more then just add them on)
1.prairie wind
2. the cutters
3. the outsiders
4.liquor and pills
5. white assed racers
6. yaweride
7. gear grinders
8. prairie velo

be at mark's house at 11:00 on sunday with your bike and your trainer (bring a fan if you can, please)

pray (to the bike gods) for benjamins bike

and i expect something like this from those of you coming on sunday (with bikes and the trainers)