Red Wing

First day, hung over. 55 miles with a 20mph head wind. Down and out by 8:45. Day two, 33miles and a little skate park action. Hills,there are a lot of them in red wing. Around here you have to ride 20mlies to get to a decent hill. The ragnarok is going to be a hilly bitch. And dont trust me with a knife with a half jag on.
I made it. And Matt did not. Day two was a different. It was a lot softer, and I had to do some walking myself.Letting some air out. This was quite fun.
I for got how bad it sucks to buy gas. Its been a month and a half

Weekend

Heading to Red Wing MN this weekend. I am going to see a friend, and do some training for the Ragnarok. I took off Monday of work, so we could get are training in and still enjoy some drinks. Which we plan to hold off until Sunday night, I hope. I will have a full report on Monday. have a good one.

BITTER

I broke it, fucking electronics. At least I can us the battery for on of my lights.

TODAY

So, this morning I was checking out from the grocery store, and it was about 6:45am. This old lady comes storming in, and asked the cashier if they had any Marshfield papers yet. The cashier said "no." Then, she stormed out and mumbled something rude and inappropriate. So, I was thinking to myself, it's not the cashiers fault there were no papers yet. What a bitter old bitch! On the way to my bob trailer, a smile came on my face. I was thinking that I can't wait to be old and bitter. Anyway, I had Easter at the Nigon's. I was gonna ride over there, but about 9 miles into the ride, my chain ring was hitting my derailier. What the hell? My crank arm is falling off. Multi-tool, yes at home. I was lucky enough that Brenda had just left Marshfield, and she picked me up. That's ok I was tired from my 92 mile gravel road ride from yesterday. I think the GXP crank and BB is the dumbest, fucking design ever. So, I took it off. It is now on E bay. The Hoosiers.I installed a carbon fiber Bontrager fork yesterday on my MTB. This knocked off 3lbs on my bike, so towing it will be a little bit easier. I am going to buy this for my bob trailer, and I will have a picture of this set up as soon as everything comes together.

gravel

I went for a 92mile gravel road ride today. It was only supposed to be a 75mile route but I did a little exploring . Ever thing was good until mile 75. I did not bring enough food. So the last 17miles sucked ass. Oh well, it still was a good time.
This guy was the nicest dog I encountered on my ride. He ran beside me for 2miles. I did encounter two german shepaeds on two different occasions. after sprinting all out for 1/4mile, I had to check my lycra to see if I made any poopie. Them bastards were mean.



Next time I am going to put on the front finder.

Spring

Fattes do fit fine

What a fun set up. Went out for a 1hr 45min. Had a smile on my face the whole time. For the most part the gravel was firm with some soft spots. The bike did just fine in both. I am going to keep it the same for rognarok. It looks like they got into some of the same shit as I did. Now I am ready for a bloody mary and sitting around the rest of the day. All I have to look forward to this week is wading though the mud. Oh well better than the cold and snow. Check this out it is pretty cool. I am thinking about growing out my hair long enough to donate it to locks of love. Leave your comment and let me now what you think.

On The Road Agian

Well I picked up a new bike this week. It has all kinds of gears. I guess some time you need them. Any way the bike, it will be my sixth bike(awesome). It is a Lemond Poprad cross bike. I oppted for this option because I like the versatility of a cross bike. I put a compact crank on it so I could run the road with it. Swapped out the stem and seat post and put on some Thomson. And I put some Salsa bell lap handlebars. So today I put on some road tires and went for a 3hr20min ride. The seat sucks it has a small hump and it hits the no mans land spot. Have to do some thing about that.


Fatties do fit fine. This is my Ragnatok rig. If the gravel roads are shit. Otherwise I will run 700/34 these are 700/45(29/1.8). And my gearing is 44/18. I will run taller, if I run the 700/34. I am going to have to take this set up down to Levis.
We picked up guitar hero III legends of rock for the wii. My brain dose not do this game very well. My brain to fingers messaging is grip hammer, pick up pins, and hit brake levers. So this game does not apply to me.

Weekend

Same old shit going on this week ed. Ride, drink some beer, ride. So today I was siting around waiting for it to warm up. And then a knock on the door. What the hell, my sister is home. After the loss to Purdue the couch gave them a week off. Jamie Braun, second team All-Big Ten Honors.

the old

The old me at 240 pounds

3/4/08

I am getting sick of the cold.

March

36 days to my first race. Started some thing new on flicker so check out my pictures. Jamie Braun