racing ranting & rowdy randomness recorded

My racing season for 2010 is over before it even really began. In February I raced a super d out at Cahuilla Creek with Racers and Chasers. My first race as a Cat 2/Sport. I was in the hospital for 14 days before, getting out on Thursday and racing on Saturday!! On someone else's bike as well! I had two big over the bar crashes and ended up just phoning my race runs in. Race two was at Elfin Forrest again with Racers and Chasers this time in June. Only this time I did the World Championships of BJJ on Friday and then raced the super d on Saturday. Aaaaannnnnddd then was in the hospital bright and early Monday morning for a week.....

ARGH! I specifically sold my old bike and bought this super expensive one just for this kind of racing this year. I wanted to win overall in my age group in the two different series. Nope, not to be! AND I finally got some low level sponsorship from Kenda in the form of 10 free sets of tires and parts at cost from Trek.

Racers and Chasers is really growing their XC racing business in San Diego and the venues just aren't amenable to super d racing. Where last year they had a true summer series they don't this year.

I went to the So-Cal Stage Race super d today up at Rim Nordic near Big Bear to start their super d series. The one I took second in my age group overall in the Open class last year. Well I misread the freaking website and showed up 4 hours late!!! Totally missed my race. And from looking at the times I would have podiumed! Cuss it!!

So I review their Super D series schedule and find that I am only able to race one out of five. What?!?!?! You have to race at least two to qualify for the series points. I will be in Italy, a project with a friend from out of town, a Ginastica Natural seminar in LA and out of town again to miss 4 out of the 5 races!!! Cuss it!

So unless I figure out a different series that races Super D in So-Cal on a Saturday I have no races this summer. And that makes me sad!

So since I missed my freaking race I decided to go ride up the fire road on the east side of Cowles Mountain. I set a PR and was up from the street to the very top in 22:50. And I then set a PR for the downhill and was back at the street in 5:20.

I definitely wish I had a bigger free-ride style bike now if all I am gonna do is just shuttle and play around. I don't need a lightweight trail weapon now. This bike is THE perfect super d weapon, but if I'm not racing... why not get a big bike?

Anyways....... my race season is now shot. And NO, I will not race cross country instead.




I always get the funniest looks riding around on the scooter. So I thought I would try and take some pictures while I was riding it home from jiu jitsu the other morning and see just what I looked like from the outside. I don't see it.... All I see is something that tops out at 40mph, has decent underseat storage and gets 110mpg!!!!




The number one guilty pleasure right now, fancy shaving stuff. A handmade badger hair brush, all natural ingredient pre-shave oil and cream. This stuff lathers on sooo well, rinses well, never clogs pores or makes me break out and has a good neutral manly smell. I love it! No way will I ever go back to crap from the grocery store again! (the Art of Shaving store can be found in the Fashion Valley mall. It ain't cheap but is is worth it for the best shave ever!!)