The Tristan Uhl Show

mjc

2010-05-31T22:27:00.003-05:00

The Mellow Johnny Classic is over.
I would say it was a good weekend for us Smithville folks.

Kara won her race in style.

Kailey did the same in her race.

I didn't crash, managed to fight heat stroke off until after the race, came in 12th.

I started the race on Sunday but decided to pull the plug after i started cramping on mile 2.

we have some pretty cool pictures from the start of the pro xct race, waiting to start behind all the super fast guys, i don't know how to get them from the camera to my computer. maybe someday.

Thanks everybody for all the support

2010-05-09T14:00:00.002-05:00

So Ive been doing a little bike racing lately. when i last posted i had just done fort davis, after that was the Solavaca Cat Claw Clasic, my first mountain bike race since turned my spine into a pretzel. it went well, i liked the trail it was twisty and relatively smooth so my back felt fine. i had a pretty bad start but moved up Thru the first lap to 5th and pretty much rode in that spot until the end.
The next weekend was two races that Sun and Ski gives a lot of support to the Coldsprings road race on Saturday and The big Ring Challenge on Sunday both out in the Houston area so i decided to do both.
the road race was nice, i like the loop it goes on it has some pretty nice little hills, i found myself in a chase group pretty out numbed on the last lap and had to kill myself to try and keep the leaders in sight, the sprint did not go well. i got 13th.
i defied conformity the next day at the big ring challenge by riding the whole race in the middle ring, also i crashed three times. i rode fast tho and got 2nd place.
Rocky hill comes next then Mellow Johny's
i just hit my funny bone on the chair im sitting in. its never funny

FortDavis

2010-04-18T22:43:00.002-05:00

I raced the Fort Davis stage race last weekend. The race went better than i had anticipated, i think i got 14th in the hill climb, slow in the TT and 10th in the road race; which put me at 11th in the GC. it was cool to get to see the old crowd again, it feels like its been a long time since i did a road race like this where you get to see people and socialize. much fun.

I was lacking a team issue clown suit for the time trial so i rocked one i had from back in tha day.

the one picture i could find from the weekend is me getting passed, at least I'm smiling.

Theummahh

2010-03-24T21:15:00.003-05:00

I'm registered for my first bike race since i broke myself, its a road race in manor i think.
My goal is to finish the race and win the hairy leg competition.
I would shave the leg warmers off but i cant bent that far yet so don't be so judgmental, gosh.

2010-02-12T11:23:00.002-06:00

The winter Olympics start today. i was disappointed to see the Jamaican bobsled team didn't qualify this year. I guess theirs always 2014.

....

2010-01-22T12:57:00.002-06:00

Alright so i was planning on racing the comfort marathon and a few road races as training for the Tmbra spring series BUT...

I was the driver of this ohhh so f'd up truck. my body made it out in better condition than the truck with only a fractured vertebrae, 2 sprained ankles and a cut on my neck from the seat belt.

I spent a weekend on the 9th floor of Breckenridge hospital hanging out with the nursing staff, defiantly the best looking group of nurses Ive ever seen, and now Ive got a month of movie watching, no heavy lifting or bending of the back and after that i should be able to ride a bike again.

EE

2010-01-07T17:41:00.002-06:00

I feel like an ice cube, my fingers don't want to type but I'm telling them that they must. it was cold today and for some reason i rode my bike in the coldness, I'll live i think.
i raced the excruciation exam last Saturday. it was fun. iiii got second, 12 minutes behind the winner, ouch. i rode the last 50 mile solo that was cool, made me feel like a bad ass.

Merry Christmas

2009-12-26T23:10:00.002-06:00

Merry Christmas! I'm late but its the thought that counts right? I'm sitting on the computer down in Corpus Cristi at my grandmothers house, I'm not super into the movie their watching so i decided to type some words. uhh.. i did i ride on the beach yesterday that was nice, its like reflex training when you have to dodge all the jelly fish corpse's in the sand. I've decided to race the Excruciation Exam and i think it may kill me but who knows maybe ill do good.

MJ race

2009-11-24T08:07:00.002-06:00

Soooo. I did the Mellow Johnny's race. I'm slowly starting to remember how to ride a bike. i ended up in 12th place at the end of the day.

Thanks Sun and Ski Sports for hooking me up with an awesome bike and some flashy new clothes.

fall

2009-09-22T10:32:00.002-05:00

Its the first day of fall and its 60 degrees outside and raining!
I slammed my finger in a door the other day, haven't done that since i was about 5 years old.
Ok time to go ride in the rain.

race

2009-09-19T11:32:00.005-05:00

If you thought Lance's comeback was impressive get ready to be amazed. OK that was a joke but i did race camp eagle a few weeks back.
I forgot how hard racing bikes is.
Somehow i got second.

I also did the super d race.
got 1st.
super d state champ.
yay.
check out the bike, its dads.
how bout that sweet blue jersey? nice huh?

;l

2009-08-08T18:10:00.003-05:00

Well it's been a little while but hey it could be worse I could have a twitter account that I never update.
I figured I should let everyone know that im alive and doing well... ok see you around

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T13:57:00.002-06:00

I made this picture to help spread some holiday cheer, whatever that means.

Merry Christmas!

Love T

uhhh

2008-12-18T21:21:00.002-06:00

Haven't paid to much attention to the site lately so here's a random post for all the bored people out there, i call it 3 things awesome about Smithville

1) The movie Hope Floats was filmed in Smithville, and was released at theaters across the nation on May 29, 1998. I still haven't watched this but it must have been good.

2) On December 2ND 2006, at the annual Festival of Lights, Smithville broke the Guinness Book of world records, record for the biggest gingerbread man ever, measuring over 26 feet. Cause everyone loves big food.

3) The late DJ Screw, Pioneer of Screw music, the style of dirty south hip hop known for its pitched-down lyrics and chopped-up beats was Born in Smithville. I'm working on getting the name Smithville officially changed to Screwville.

Wow when i put it all together it makes me think maybe this place isn't that bad after all

2008-12-10T16:58:00.002-06:00

One thing i have noticed since I've been back in Smithville is the insane amount of no trespassing signs i see while riding my bike out in the sticks. i can understand not wanting anyone to come on you land but don't you think the 6 no trespassing, 3 private property, and 2 beware of dog signs might be a bit of overkill? i think some of the people out here just need to relax a little no ones coming to dig up your guns.

off

2008-11-26T20:38:00.003-06:00

Whats Up with Tristan?
Well right now I'm in the final leg of my off season, usually during my off season i try not to touch a bike for about 2 weeks but that all went out the window when my car was rammed by a teenage driver. now i have a black eye but thats from a non car crash related freak head butting accident.
More latter when I'm doing interesting things.

Q & A

2008-11-07T20:02:00.003-06:00

Q: isn't that a picture of that guy who won that race in France like 12 times or something?

A: ya, something like that.

Q: isn't he coming out of retirement so he can win it a few more times?

A: no, actually he's coming out of retirement so he can race out at rockin' hill on Sunday.

2008-10-28T14:54:00.002-05:00

My boy Tristan Cowie is tearing it up right now i just read on cyclingnews that he won both the short track and XC at collegiate nationals last weekend, its good to have another Tristan around to pick up my slack. im thinking i may do the dirt dirby tonight, we'll see.

picturegraph

2008-10-14T17:28:00.002-05:00

I must not be very photogenic because it seems like every time i look at pictures from races i can find pictures of everyone but myself, its sad. i started the race this weekend with the idea that it would be smart to get into the single track first and it paid off, people were forced to take my picture.

People probably don't take my picture because they know I'm just gonna steal um like i did with this picture taken by Rudy, i cant stop.

?

2008-10-12T16:07:00.002-05:00

its weird but the only logical way that i can come up with for the reason the trails out at lake Bryan were made the way they were is, the people making the trail decided it would be a cool and easy idea to just dump a bucket of paint on a cow and let it walk around running into trees and thus marking the trees for where the trail would go. normally this would work just fine people make trails that follow cow paths all the time but what i think happened that ruined everything is somehow the cow got into their alcohol supply before he was sent out, so he was completely sloshed the whole time he was making the future race course. Its just a guess but it explains everything so wonderfully

nomas

2008-10-05T21:42:00.004-05:00

State road race is over and you know what that means, no more road racing for a few months! its only exciting for like the first month then i get bored and start counting down to the next race. i still have a few more mountain bike races to do before I'm completely done for the year but only one of them is over an hours drive from My house so I'm not stressing to much.

Thanks to Kathy J. for sending me this picture of some pure sufferage during the palo duro hill climb

2008-09-27T01:48:00.002-05:00

i haven't been posting to much lately so to make up for it here you go, a beautiful picture of me sleeping amongst the stars, or they could be star shaped fireflies I'm not really sure.

Enjoy.

2008-09-25T20:21:00.003-05:00

So theirs been a whole lot of nothing going on in this blog thing, I've been riding a little and racing a little but not to much else. I'm doin' a little more racing this weekend, maybe I'll come out of it with a story to tell.

TXTOUGHCRITTHURSDAYWOW

2008-09-09T21:06:00.002-05:00

TX TOUGH Grand Prix This Thursday!

Watch riders reach speeds up to 50 mph as they fly through the streets of Dallas.

Its Gonna Be wild.

Be There or be square.

CampEagle

2008-09-01T19:36:00.003-05:00

I think i have the fast starting and finishing thing down, now i just have to learn how to not slow down in that part that comes in between those two.

This picture taken by Kathy Johnson at the camp eagle mtb race this weekend, i ended up 2nd while rocking my moms bike.

names

2008-08-21T17:18:00.003-05:00

Did you know that there is at least 3 other Tristan Uhl's in the USA, 2 from Texas 1 from Washington and me. who'd of guessed?

2008-08-21T11:39:00.002-05:00

how is the TV schedule for the Olympics is chosen? i just watched 2 hours of water polo and now rhythmic gymnastics is on. i love in rhythmic gymnastics how they call the rope, the ribbon and the hoop apparatus.

2008-08-12T00:02:00.002-05:00

Add another 2 hours onto that cause the flight was just delayed again, i could drive home and get back before this flight even leaves. i probably could have driven from California and made it back before this and id have my bike and all of my clothes.

flyin'

2008-08-11T23:28:00.002-05:00

This has been by far the worse travelling day i have ever had, I've been in the airport for 16hrs and i still have 2 more to go. i was on track to make it home at around 2 in the afternoon but when my plane landed in Phoenix for my transfer they couldn't get the door thing to work so everyone was stuck in the plane for about an hour after we landed so i missed my connecting flight then i didn't get on my standby flight that left 6 hours later. i was told that there was no more flights to Austin tonight so i asked if i could fly to Houston then Austin and they said it was cool now the flight from Houston to Austin is delayed 2 more hours, i should be getting in some time around 2. Good thing i have awesome friends who are willing to stay up late to come pick me up. now i just have to figure out where im sleeping tonight.

2008-08-08T11:54:00.002-05:00

I was so close to making it this whole trip without crashing, just 4 more days. it was a pretty cool crash though. I'm not quite sure what happened but here's what it looked like from my view point. Start of 1 lap to go somewhere top 15ish. one of the Garmin chipotle guys pulled off to the right out of there lead out train and pushed the guy directly in front of me into the barriers, i think his hood caught the barrier and the front part of his bike unattached its self from the rear part of the bike, i run over his body and get launched onto my chest, i belly slide and hit my chin on the ground a little but not to bad, people pile up in a heap behind me. i got out of it with a few little scratches but nothing bad, i think the guy that ran into my bike broke his arm so i guess i should be happy but its disappointing to be marked as a DNF in what was the easiest crit Ive done in a while, i hope the road race is that slow just a little less sketchy

2008-08-07T00:08:00.003-05:00

"Go Tristan"

I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.

Nationals start tomorrow, to bad we left the cheering squad in Wisconsin

2008-08-05T00:50:00.003-05:00

To Much Game

2008-08-01T23:33:00.002-05:00

Its the first of 3 night that I'm going to be spending at Barry's sisters house out here in between Nederland and Boulder. Barry fell asleep at 8 and has been snoring since. it 11:30 now and i know he's gonna wake me up when he gets up at 4 or 5, i will of course fall back asleep but he's persistant and no doubt i'll be awake before 9, this worries me.

?????????????

2008-07-31T20:23:00.008-05:00

I've decided that the movie "Men in Black" was based on truth and the majority of the alien population on earth lives here in boulder.

Not in a bad way or anything just a whole lot of odd people around here, it kinda reminds me of an even weirder version Austin.

driving

2008-07-30T09:49:00.002-05:00

I'm almost to Colorado. we stopped last night in some town 50 miles from the Kansas Colorado border so i should be in boulder this afternoon, no more driving.

My large forehead is very noticeable in this picture.

taken by Kevin Schaefer

2008-07-28T10:42:00.002-05:00

Its over! now i head to Colorado to chill out and rest before nationals.

Thinkingoutloud

2008-07-27T01:32:00.002-05:00

I've had a lot of free time on my hands lately so I've been doing a ton of blog browsing and I've gotta say its quite depressing. i read these blogs from all the MTBrs that i used to race with and i have to say i get jealous, these guys are all in different countries racing and I'm here in Milwaukee doing the crash fest that is super week, somehow its just not the same.
Just thought I'd share that.

tuesDay

2008-07-22T23:30:00.003-05:00

Today's race was in Cedarburg which is where we happen to be staying so its kind of like we had home field advantage plus all of our host families and some of my real family came out to watch us so there was some extra pressure. the race went pretty good it was the first day since we've been here that i felt like a bike racer, everyone worked well and Carlos managed to get 12Th even though he wasn't feeling like his usual self. i pulled out with 5 laps to go to avoid all of that fighting for the sprint which i wasn't going to contest.

Day ?

2008-07-21T22:04:00.002-05:00

What is this day 10? its something like that. today was the first road race, it didn't go to well. i started with the plan of riding a few laps maybe trying to help then pulling out and going to the feed zone to feed the rest of the boys. i ended up doing 3 laps then pulling it but that was about the only thing that whet according to plan, c-los's bike wouldn't shift so he had to trade with Barry, Tyler got a flat tyre and wasn't allowed to pace back up to the group and jt's headset was loose and his bars ended up jumping around. Carlos finished on his borrowed bike but was just out of the points for the overall.

Day 3 & 4

2008-07-14T23:07:00.003-05:00

Days 3 and 4. day 3 almost didn't happen, something about the course being to short and tricky the officials were talking about cancelling the race because it was very likely that there would be tons of crashes. the race ended up happening but was shortened to 40 miles and was fairly crash free until 15 laps to go when someone went down and they had to stop the race for 20 minutes so an ambulance could get on the road and pick up the victims. i ended up pulling out with 10 laps to go because i didn't want to die but everyone else stayed in and all ended up finishing fairly high up. Day 4 was today Carlos won the most aggressive riders jersey or he would have had that been a competition.

Day 2

2008-07-12T22:22:00.003-05:00

day 2 is over. today's race was a flat 1 mile loop with 4 turns and it was fast the whole time. i tried to just hang in there and help when i could. the last five laps were super sketchy there was at least one crash for each of them. Carlos almost got taken down on the last lap and didn't finish, the rest of the team made it to the finish line alright but I'm not sure what our positions were. Rahsaan Bahati won all of the intermediate sprints and the stage, that guy is quick he would take the last turn 10 guys back and be at the front before we crossed the line.

Day 1

2008-07-11T23:21:00.002-05:00

super week day one is over, it was quite fast. there was a hill and some turns but i think the hardest part of the course was the long straight through the start finish where people wouldn't be able to hold wheels so you were always closing gaps. a break of 10 got away halfway through the race and ended up lapping the field, Carlos was in a chase group of 10 and ended up somewhere in the top 20. I'm not sure where i was probably somewhere in the 40s

super week

2008-07-11T01:55:00.001-05:00

i am now in Chicago. we spent the last 2 days driving and we have now arrived. super week starts tomorrow evening i will put up some race reports or something.

cut

2008-06-28T14:22:00.002-05:00

Sometimes you've just got to switch up your style.

For me personally its hard because I'm not fashion savvy, that's why i asked an expert.

AT&T

2008-06-24T22:01:00.000-05:00

AT&T Crit is over everyone can stop riding now.

winghaven

2008-06-08T18:34:00.002-05:00

here's a quick race report. Carlos got in a break 3 laps into our 25 lap race and ended up lapping the Field(not easy on a 3 mile loop) he just got nipped on the line, he ended up second. Barry was in the only chase group that didn't get lapped by the leaders and got 12Th. Tyler won the sprint in the 3rd chase group for 13Th and i rolled in in the 4Th group for 21st. there was about 110 starters in our race and i think at least 40 DNF'ed, it was hot and windy. now we start the drive home.

Tour De

2008-06-08T12:17:00.002-05:00

where am i? its a new weekend and a new state, Missouri this weekend. Barry, Tyler, C-los and me are doing the tour DE winghavin. the name is deceiving it makes you think that your doing a stage race but its actually just a one day race. we spent the last day and a half driving up from Texas so hopefully my legs don't feel to horrible.

Tulsa

2008-06-02T14:37:00.003-05:00

Tulsa tough is over, we got back to the home front this morning at around 3. Carlos had the best result of the team this weekend on Sunday where he pulled off 11th or something in the sprint. now i get to hang out until Saturday when we head out of town again.

2008-05-31T23:07:00.002-05:00

i don't know whats been going on lately that has made it impossible for me to blog its probably just my laziness here's a recap. last weekend was state crit weekend Tyler got 2nd. this weekend is Tulsa tough last night was the first of 3 crits, we didn't to much. today was the second crit, the team looked good covering moves and stuff like that but a break of 4 Toyota united guys got away and stayed there. Carlos soloed for the last 6 laps only to be caught with 200 meters to go. i got taken into a fence with 4 turns to go. threes another race tomorrow and another chance to try and make some money.

Racewalking

2008-05-20T22:35:00.002-05:00

How come i never see any of these race walkers out training?

"A Brilliant Display of walking" That's gotta be the quote of the century.

hotness

2008-05-20T20:23:00.003-05:00

I somehow managed to survive the day 2 ride in my private Smithville training camp but i don't think I've ever been this dehydrated. i think summer has arrived, the temperature got up to 98 today and being behind a truck sucking up all those sweet smelling exhaust fumes probably cranked up the temp a few extra degrees. i think the heat is also cracking the windshield on my car, it started out as two small cracks but it's been growing daily and pretty soon the two cracks are gonna meet and i don't know what happens then.

indaville

2008-05-19T18:15:00.002-05:00

i ended up going to the Houston grand crit this weekend just because i didn't have anything else to do. the race went good Carlos got 2ND and Tyler got 3rd some orven guy jumped early and took a few people to the curb but everyone stayed upright and he ended up wining. I'm in the trillville doing some not so secret secret training which consists manly of motor pacing in an attempt to make myself a little better at these crit things that I'm going to be doing for the rest of the year.

asddf

2008-05-16T19:14:00.002-05:00

wow I've been stuck in Arkansas without any source of Internet so i wasn't able to post all of the happenings in the TX tough camp. C-los won the GC at Joe martin, Andrew and him got into a break that contained the top 6 guys on the GC except for the leader. they ended up gaining around a minute before the finish to take the overall win and 3rd place on the stage. after all that excitement we rolled to our host housing for tour of Arkansas. i think somewhere in the few days off that we had between Joe martin and Arkansas we may have rode a little to much and we showed up to the first stage tired, it showed when all of us but Andrew didn't make it to the finish. so we headed home to rest up and get ready for state crit and Tulsa tough.

Stage 3

2008-05-10T15:32:00.002-05:00

Stage 3. this was another road stage, 12 miles out then 3 loops of 24 miles with lots of hills then 12 miles back to a downhill finish. we rolled the first 12 miles pretty easy and when we hit the first of 3 loops a group of 4 containing Tyler got away. they got a good gap over the next lap or so but eventually some of the GC riders started to get anxious and we caught the break with a lap and a half to go. starting the last lap Tyler was once again in a group of 5 up the road Carlos told me to bridge if i felt good so i went for it, i made it to the front group after a few minutes of chasing and rode up the climbs pretty good but the main group decided to chase us and caught us at the top of the climbing section. at the top of the climb going into a pretty hard head wind Carlos attacked hard and got a good gap, it looked like a velosimo rider may bridge to him but he could never quite make the connection. the top 3 or 4 guys in the GC called there whole teams up to the front to bring c-Los back but the gap was coming down slow. with 5 miles left Carlos had a 20 second gap and it looked like he was about to be caught but he kept going and the gap started to go up again. we rode the last few miles fast but not fast enough to catch the los man he finished 15 seconds up on the Field. the whole team made it to the finish and we were all somewhere around top 15 on the stage. in the GC C-los should be 2nd and i should be around 8th

Joe Martin

2008-05-09T19:49:00.002-05:00

we're hanging out in our hotel in Arkansas at the Joe martin stage race. yesterday we did the uphill time trial which was pretty tough race. Carlos was 5Th i ended up 7Th, around 30 seconds off of the leader. today we did the first road race it was a 110 mile loop with a big climb thrown in about 30 miles from the finish. Me and Carlos made it over the top of the climb with the lead group of about 15 and raced to the finish. two guys broke away before the climb and one of them managed to stay away the whole time, he rode in a minute ahead of our group which grew to about 30. Carlos got 4Th i was 6Th or 7Th.

roadracing

2008-05-04T17:40:00.002-05:00

Road racing. Crits and road races for the next few months. i raced the cold spring road race for the first time this weekend, its a fun course kind of hilly with a good hill up to the finish unfortunately me and Carlos got tangled up in the sprint and neither of us were able to go for the win. Carlos was 4th and i was 6th. today was a crit, i need to do some more of these cause for the first 30 minutes i was suffering, after that i started to feel OK. wenger didn't surprise anyone when he attacked with a lap and half to go but no one went with him, he was super strong and held it all the way to the line. Carlos was 3rd and Tyler was 5th. we head to Joe martin on Wednesday

mtb

2008-04-26T16:52:00.002-05:00

the town of Borne must have some anti-wireless laws going on or something because i had to drive around for and hour to find a place that i could steel from, its so much easier at home. I'm doing some mtbing this weekend in comfort Tejas. today we had a hill climb that i managed to win by a mere 3 seconds over b-fawley. hopefully tomorrow i have better legs than today because I'm quite sure that if the climb would have been any longer i wouldn't have made it.

Mississippi

2008-04-21T23:43:00.003-05:00

Were back from Mississippi! the crit and time trial went pretty good, not for me but for the team. in the tt i couldn't seem to get into any sort of rhythm until the last half but i still managed to get 13Th i think. C-Los was 6Th and Tyler was 12Th. the Crit or circuit race was tough, it seemed fast from start to finish but that could have just been because i havent done a crit since valley of the sun. anytime an attack was launched it would be brought back so the race came down to a field sprint, Tyler was 3rd c-Los 4Th and Barry 5Th. Carlos was second in the GC and the team was 2ND in the team standings.

rr

2008-04-19T21:49:00.002-05:00

The crit was canceled due to bad weather, i think their was a tornado or something like that headed toward us and everybody got scared, i was ready to race but that's just me. the road race today was good it all stayed together until the 2ND of 3 laps when c-Los and Wenger got away and no one chased. they got a gap of around 3 minutes before the finish and c-Los took the sprint. in the Field sprint health coach lined up all 9 of there composite squad and rolled us through the last 5k but when we hit the finishing hill there lead out train kind of crumbled i jumped with 200 meters to go and held of all but 1 of them. so on the day c-Los 1st me 5Th Andrew 6Th Barry 12Th. Tyler flatted with 1k to go.

rainin

2008-04-18T16:20:00.002-05:00

We just rolled up to our hotel in Mississippi after about 8ish hours of driving. Its dumping rain. The crit tonight is going to be exciting.

o

2008-04-14T11:53:00.003-05:00

oww, here's a picture of Travis and Stefan popping me in the hill climb.

Here's me crawling the last 100 meters to the finish line, that hurts.

Fort Davis

2008-04-12T20:05:00.002-05:00

Fort Davis. this race is one of those races that you look forward to for the whole year then when it rolls around and you have to do all the hard racing you forget why you were so excited. we did the tt and hill climb, the tt went pretty well considering my past tt record i felt good and ended up 12Th about 2 minutes down on the winner Wenger, c-Los was 8Th. the hill climb went good to but not as good is we had hoped, rolling up to the big finally climb there was still a group of about 15 people. with 2k to go Boyd lifted the pace and me and Travis jumped on his wheel, we got a gap but when Boyd lifted the pace again i popped hard and crawled to the finish for 4Th. i should be somewhere in the top 10 in the GC so we will see how the road race goes tomorrow.

kjhgfdsa

2008-04-08T21:31:00.002-05:00

I'm back in Austin after a big weekend of racing that I'm gonna try and say i was using for training because i got pretty much no results. as a team the weekend went awesome, Tyler got 3rd on Sunday c-los was 6Th Barry was 10thish and i was 14Th which coupled with the 1,2,3 the day before ended up moving the team up to the lead of the txbra team competition. i got my sweet new Cr1 frame built up today and did my first ride on it and Ive got to say it feels 100% faster than the speedster, ill try and put a picture of the bike up on here but Ive been having trouble getting picture to work but I'm gonna try because its so sweet.

Possum valley

2008-04-05T15:48:00.004-05:00

possum valley or i think that was the name of the race was today. . it was a cool race, 3 laps with a OK sized climb that would usually split things up a little about 8 mile from the finish. Bret, Andrew and C-Los got in a good sized break on the first lap and managed to stay away the whole time. Barry was in a chase group that was away for most of the last lap and i ended up bridging up to his group with Wenger and Travis about 1k from the finish but i was to tired to do anything in the sprint for 7Th and ended up 12Th Barry was 9Th i think. Bret and C-Los soloed in about 45 seconds ahead of Andrew and the rest of the break, 1,2,3 baby! next up is Mineral Wells tomorrow

tired

2008-04-02T18:09:00.002-05:00

ronde ven mazda or whatever that race was called didn't go to well, it started off rainy and crappy and didn't get much better. i dropped out after 2 laps of 6. today i rode with the family to go do some of the local mountains, it was hard and now I'm tired.

Beltera

2008-03-29T19:42:00.003-05:00

the Beltera race was today, it was a 4 mile crit loop? here's a little report. race starts and goes up a hill and the pack splits but comes back together on the flat top half of the loop we ride the rest of the lap. lap 2, pack splits up on the climb then comes back together on the flat. this goes on for a while with a few moves staying away for longer. 5 laps to go i follow a wheel to the top of the climb and end up in a break with Stefan and Willis. we work together for a lap and a half until Willis has a mechanical. Willis stops Stefan and i keep going. Stefan puts me in the hurt locker. 1 1/2 laps to go we get caught. last mile or so I'm on the front for a small bit chasing down Scott to bring the pack back together for the sprint. i pop. Tyler gets squeezed out in the sprint and finishes 4Th, not bad for having just taken 2 weeks off due to deer related injuries. c-los 5Th Will 6Th

nadda

2008-03-28T15:20:00.002-05:00

I'm sitting outside the team house steeling wireless from our neighbors, i probably look like a crazy person because i have to keep moving closer to there house to get a signal, soon im gonna be in there yard. i did the crit last night i used it as a moter pace kind of thing while Barry used it as hour long tt practice. I've got 2 races this weekend it should be fun and interesting to see how I'm riding after not racing for 3 weeks.

back

2008-03-23T21:35:00.003-05:00

I'm back, I'm riding like I'm health again. now I'm gonna try to start blogging like I'm healthy again. its been pretty busy around here, me and Andrew just got back from picking up the ping pong table from my casa so now were gonna have a new toy to play with. i started work last week I've been delivering Chinese food and i get to eat for free so its pretty much the most awesome thing ever.

Sick

2008-03-18T15:51:00.002-05:00

I've been out of it lately, i didn't race Fayettville because i came down with a mystery illness that felt like it would kill me but after 2 days of solid sleep im feeling better. Here's my race report from lago day 2

Lago Vista Day 2
The team decided before the race that we were going to go to the front at the start of the race and drill it for the first time up the climb and try and make something happen. We tried this little trick but it didn’t work quite as well as we had hoped so we rode around for the next few laps waiting for the big break to go. With 10 laps to go a break rolled away and stayed about a minute ahead of the main pack for the next 5 laps. With 4 laps to go, going down the big decent a deer ran out in the road and took out one of my tx tough teammates Tyler, we slowed down so we could tell the people at the finish line what had happened and by the time we picked up the pace again the break was long gone. A few people tried to bridge up but nothing seemed to be working so the team got ready to try and win the field sprint. On the last lap with 1k to go Barry was on the front of the pack drilling it with Dan the man on his wheel and me in 3rd, Barry drilled it for a while then Dan took over and got me to the base of the finishing hill then I sprinted but got nipped on the line and ended up 13th.

2008-03-11T13:27:00.000-05:00

For your reading pleasure my lago vista day 1 race report.

Lago Vista Day 1
The race was a hilly circuit race that we completed 12 times.
In the start I was stuck on the back of the pack of around 100+ riders so I spent the first few laps of the race moving up to the front. When I finally made it to the front of the pack on lap 5 or 6 a big group of riders had already gotten away but was still visible up the road so I decided that I would try and find someone to tow me up to the break because TX tough already had 4 riders in it. Stefan attacked and I was one of about 6 riders trying to get on his wheel but I was too far back in that line and the person in front of me couldn’t hold the wheel and sat up and after that gap was opened there was no chance of me getting back up to them. I rode around for the next few laps covering moves and trying to get in one that would make it up to the break but nothing seemed to be sticking. Finally with 5 laps to go I got in a break with 5 other rider including 1 more TX tough rider and we seemed to be working good together. 4 laps to go the break was in sight going up the start finish climb and it looked like we would make the bridge on the stair step climb that lap but when we got about 10 seconds behind the break our group stopped working and started attacking each other, when we finally made it to the group we looked up and saw that it had split and there was now a new break of about 11 riders and now all of the riders in my chase were to tired from trying to bridge solo to chase anymore so I decided to give it a go. I attacked on the last climb of lap 4 and a trek rider was the only person to come with me, we worked good together for the next 2 laps and seemed to be getting closer but with one lap to go we still hadn’t made it to the break and the trek rider wasn’t able to work with me any more so I dropped him on the begin of the climb and soloed in for 12th.

rockin'

2008-03-10T15:49:00.002-05:00

I'm back from a big weekend of racing in college station and baton rouge, i managed to win the Tunis roubaix race and i got like 10Th on rouge roubaix. Ive been making race reports for the last month of racing and I'm gonna be putting those on this blog some way or another. here is the report from Tunis.

Tunis Roubaix
I had heard a lot about this race, lots of gravel roads and lots of flat tires. The course was a 14 mile loop done 6 times with about 4 miles of gravel road per loop.
The whole team lined up at the front at the start line because the first gravel section was only a half a mile from the start. We started fast and hit the dirt road going a very uncomfortable pace so by the time we had gotten through the dirt section about half the field had already been dropped. TX tough had 4 guys in the lead group of about 15 so we were pretty happy. Carlos spent pretty much the whole day off the front, he would attack and ride solo for a lap then we would catch him and sit up and he would attack again. The lead group cruised for a while until we would get back to the gravel section then Stefan Rothe would attack and either Dan or I would cover it. By the start of lap 4 because of flats and attacks there was only 8 people left in the front group and c-lose up the road. A break went with Stefan and Willis in it and I tried hard to jump up to them but wasn’t able to so I dropped back to the pack. Bryan and Dan were chasing, we caught the break on lap 5 which had bridged up to c-los when we caught the break carols attacked again. The last lap was pretty nervous, tx tough had 3 guys in the lead group and carols up the road, the race stayed together for the first half of the lap then Stefan started to get nervous that we may not catch c-lose so he went to the front and wasted himself for about 5 miles and brought him back while at the same time dropping a few more guys. With 1 mile to go it was all back together and we were going pretty slow waiting to see who would go first, Dan jumped and Stefan got on his wheel and every one left got on Stefan’s, then Willis jumped with about 500 meters and Bryan and me were the only ones able to jump up to him Bryan sprinted to the left of Willis and I went to the right when we got to the finish line I was the first one across.

2008-03-07T14:18:00.002-06:00

what to write? well i made the trip back to smithville yesterday so that i could drive papa to the airport today (he gets to go to Europe while I'm stuck in Texas)and now I'm back at the team house all by myself. i have gotten a few good rides in the last few days; on Wednesday Barry and me rode with Tilford, Adam and Stefan, i got to see some roads that i never would have thought to ride just because you have to jump fences and sneak around gates. I've been working on building up my cross bike i just need a set of pedals and it will be ready to ride again which is good because I'm gonna be using it to deliver Chinese food.

lalalaalal

2008-03-04T15:38:00.002-06:00

Not to much has been going on in the last few days, what is it Tuesday? ya i think so, anyway i pretty much slept all day yesterday i did manage to get in a small ride but that was about all i could get done. today has been a bit better i got some good hours on the bike and now i think I'm going to go to work fixing up C-los's room so he doesn't try to steal mine when he moves in. i saw Tyler today, hes pretty messed up he's got road rash all over, a cracked elbow and bruised back. I've been trying to find pictures of the race last weekend but i look very slow and uncool in all the photos.

Tonight we hunt!

2008-03-02T19:58:00.003-06:00

Yes that's right get out your bows and arrows because we've got a score to settle with the deer of lago vista. The deer had it out for TX tough this weekend both Andrew and Tyler got taken down by suicide bomber deer. Andrew is OK but he's got to take 2 weeks off the bike and let his knee heal, Tyler i think is OK he was on the way to get looked at but everyone is walking. as for the race i might post a race report later but Bryan got 4Th on Saturday and then the other Brian got 5Th on Sunday. i think i was 13 and 14Th.

cruisin'

2008-02-29T16:32:00.002-06:00

since i have moved to Austin my riding has been a bit different like for example if i want to go out and ride 3hrs then i just go out and get lost for around 3 hrs because i don't know any roads to ride yet. i cruised up to mt. bannel or something like that with Dustin and Wyatt yesterday that was pretty cool i got to here some good stories about guys on fixies falling to there deaths going back down the mountain road.

tigers

2008-02-27T15:08:00.002-06:00

Wow its been hectic this last few days with all the bike fixing, house moving, bike riding and sleeping i haven't been able to do much else. i have finally moved into Austin, living in the team house which right now is just me and Barry but everyone else promised me they would move in soon so i wouldn't be scared all by myself. you may be asking yourself what there is to be scared of at this house well for one thing its about 300 years old and haunted and there are mice that would scare away a tiger. we killed one but that's probably just going to anger the pack.

bikin'

2008-02-25T21:37:00.002-06:00

I'm back from the big weekend of racing, probably my worst weekend of racing ever. on Saturday i felt like a pile of trash so i did like 60 miles then dropped out, some crazy fast Mexican team came to the race and showed us all how slow we are they went 1,2,3 and 6 or something like that. Sunday i felt a lot better but i couldn't figure out how to stay on my bike, they say its good to stay near the front of a race because theres less crashes there but i got ran into from behind while on the front of the pack so that's not completely true. so i was involved in 2 crashes on Sunday and i managed to stay upright both times but the second time really screwed up my bike, it dented and cracked the frame threw the derailleur hanger in my rear spokes flatted my front tire and got my new white hoods dirty.

Drivin'

2008-02-22T12:01:00.002-06:00

I think in the last week i have spent more time in a car than out of one. after vos we drove straight back to Tejas, had a day or rest on Tuesday, headed for Dallas on Wednesday then drove home from d-town on Thursday. its Friday now and I'm getting ready to hop in the car and drive to Austin to help with packet pickup for the pace bend road race on Sunday. its not all bad, the reason we drove to Dallas was for this big important team meeting where we all signed our million dollar contracts then we got to go watch a Dallas stars hockey game.

VOS

2008-02-18T18:18:00.002-06:00

Im back from AZ, the team had a great weekend of racing. We didn’t have anyone in the top 20 in the GC because none of us have learned how to time trail yet (except maybe Tyler but we didn’t get to find out because he flatted about halfway through) but we got a stage win and a 4th place then quite a few top 25s. Below is my race report.

Valley O Sun

The Valley of the sun stage race consisted of 3 stages, the first stage was a flat 22k individual time trail, Second a 90 mile road race and Third a 70 minute crit.

TT
The team rolled up to the venue of the TT in our super fly team Texas tough truck and trailer a full hour before our first rider had to take off which is highly unlike us. We picked up our packets then started to warm up, my warm-up consisted of me riding around on my loaner TT bike which I was riding for only the second time ever and trying to get used to the 650 wheels that my baby bike had on it. Time trails are hard, I learned this again on Friday, im pretty sure I was riding as hard as I could and I did manage to complete my goal of holding off my 30 second man until the turn around but not much longer than that. I road a steady ride it felt like what I assume a good time trial should feel like which is very painful but it was still only good for 57th place.

RR
After a restless night of thinking about how important time trailing is to being a complete bike racer we headed out to the road race hoping to be able to pull something off to make up for our lack of tt skills. The road course was a 13 mile loop that we did 5 ½ times, it started with a flat 5 mile stretch then turned onto a 3 mile gentile climb through the finish then descended back to where we started. I spent the first lap trying to remember how to ride in a big pack; after I got my grove back I just chilled in the pack waiting for the climb to see if the race would split up. On the second lap a group of 14 got away on the decent after the climb and by the time we had done another lap they had put almost 3 minutes into the main pack. The jittery joes team which was leading the GC had missed the break and was forced to chase so all of us TT/THSJ boys sat in, waited and hoped that it would all come back together. The race all came back together on the first decent of the last lap which set up the race for a showdown on the final climb. With half a lap to go my teammate Andrew “state champ” dahleim came up to me and asked me how I was feeling, I told him pretty good so he told me to get my self up to the front and find a skinny rock racing rider and follow him To the top. We hit the bottom of the climb all together and with 5 THSJ guys in the lead group I did my best to stay near the front but it was pretty tough because people kept swarming us from all sides. About half way up the climb a group of 8 or so attacked and got a small gap on the pack and it looked like it was going to stay away so I decided that the next person to jump and try to bridge up I was going with, so with about I don’t know 700 meters David clinger jumped and I jumped on his wheel and he towed me up to and right past the lead group of riders without even looking back to see if he had anyone on his wheel, with 100 meters to go I jumped and managed to come around him for my first P12 win. No joke I won, I didn’t believe it either until 6 hours later when they posted results but its true.

Crit
The crit was sure to be a sketchy affair, there was almost 100 riders left in the race and a lot of them were doing their first crit of the year. The race started off fast and continued on like that for the whole day. I tried to be at the front of the pack as much as possible but that wasn’t very much at all. With 5 laps to go I bridged up to 2 riders that were up the road looking to win a prim but after I missed out on that we decided to keep going and see if we could hold off the rock racing lead out train, we stayed away for 2 laps before they caught us then it was just hold on for dear life. I railed the last 2 laps trying to get back up to the front of the race to try and help lead out Will or Tyler but I couldn’t quite make it up far enough and I sprinted for 13th place. Will had a super sprint to grab our 2nd top 5 of the week with a fourth place, Andy had a good ride to ending up 10th in the sprint, TJ was 20th and drew was 24th, pretty freaking awesome if you ask me.

Barry Lee is my hero for getting everything together, getting us all to the races on time, keeping us feed and watered then driving us home. Thanks BRo

Bye Bye Beard

2008-02-10T21:19:00.000-06:00

Before

After

im pretty sure if i would have left my face looking like this i would have been forced to register as a sex offender

Since im putting up pictures heres one of lance at comfort

Race

2008-02-10T19:13:00.000-06:00

This weekend was pretty intense, crit on Saturday road race on Sunday. The crit was fast I mean the kind of fast where even when I was on the back of the group my heart rate was up around the bpm of a field mouse. A break got away 15 minutes into the 75 minute race without any San Jose peeps so we were forced to chase the whole rest of the race which split up so much by the end there was only about 20 of us in the chase group. We chased hard but the combo of Willis, Wenger and super cyclist Kremke proved to be too much for us, Andrew and Andy sprinted for 4th and 5th. Road race was hard, I sat in for the first lap and a half then tried to help out, Dan got into a break with like 5 miles to go so all the boys got to sit on and cover moves until the almost mile long finishing climb where it pretty much just ripped apart, Dan got 2nd I got 7th Andrew 8th and Tyler got 11th. We head out to VOS on wendsday so I think i'm going to shave the beard or as Bergeron would say “kill the bear” tonight, I will be sure to get a before and after picture up on here.

t u cuhl

2008-02-07T15:27:00.000-06:00

okkk. i had a race last weekend, feels like it was just yesterday but time flys when your not blogging, anyway i didnt do so hot but i think the team worked pretty good together and we got some pretty fantastic results with tyler winning on saturday and dan coming in 4th sunday. up next is the heart of alsatian crit and road race in castroville this weekend then im of to AZ for the valley of the sun stage race.

ha

2008-02-05T13:19:00.000-06:00

i have been slacking with this blog and its going to continue until i have a computer that works and i dont have to come to the library to check my e-mail.

dis comfort

2008-01-28T14:54:00.000-06:00

miles of dis comfort was a good name for the race i did this weekend. i was quite uncomfortable for a lot of the race. lance did decide to show up but didn't finish. i rode pretty good, ended up 2ND. i will go more into detail some other time.

it has begun

2008-01-25T15:28:00.000-06:00

I guess the racing season has started or it feels that way at least. i had my first road race of the year last weekend and on Saturday I'm heading out to comfort for the miles of discomfort marathon race (which should be perty interesting since there is talk of some 7 time tour winner racing, whatever) then i think i have a race every weekend for the next month or more. I'm not sure how this race is gonna go since I've been stuck inside for the last few days on the trainer and haven't gotten on my mountain bike since i was demoralized at the last marathon i did. we shale see

CC

2008-01-22T11:49:00.000-06:00

The first race of the year is over and done. i wasn't planing on racing coppers cove but i figured it would be a lot funner than riding the 4 hours by myself. team San Jose showed up a record 1 hour before the start of the race but our procrastinating led us to almost missing the start because we didn't get registered until 20 minutes before the word go. for the first lap and a half i wasn't feeling to hot so i just rode around in the middle of the pack trying to stay out o trouble. with about 20 mile to go i Begin to fell a little better so i went to the front to try and help the team get some thing going. 15 miles to go Dan opdyke rolled of the front with whatever his name is other guy and they got a good gap. the pack seemed to just roll for a while with no one really serious about chasing until like 7 miles to go when Ryan rothe attacked on one of the little lumps in the road on the way back to town. i jumped on his wheel and 2 other people were on mine we got a gap on the main Field and Begin working together until the finish where i got stomped in the downhill sprint but i ended up 5Th and sanjose took home the "W"

Cold

2008-01-15T14:26:00.000-06:00

The weather today wasn’t perfect it was cold and rainy, that’s not ideal for bicycle riding but after State Champ Andrew challenged me to a trainathone yesterday I had to be sure to get out there and get in some good hours. Tomorrow is going to be a true test of my willpower its supposed to be even nastier than today.

dfvd

2008-01-13T13:04:00.000-06:00

i did a good amount of riding over the weekend in an attempt to fight the sickness out of my body and i think it may have worked. i no longer feel like crap but now I'm hacking up chunks of my lungs (i never knew they were that color) but at least i can ride.

blahhh

2008-01-11T15:04:00.000-06:00

this ceder fever nonsense is killing me. the day started out OK i woke up and headed out for my ride but about half way through my head was killing me and my whole body hurt, i made it home and popped some allergy meds but they are not working as well as i would like because i still feel like trash.

exam

2008-01-06T13:12:00.000-06:00

i did the excruciation exam yesterday, that thing was freaking hard. i was in the lead until we got to rocking hill where i got a 15 minute time penalty for losing my map then my legs popped and i just had to cruise for a while and recover because i knew i still had like 40 miles left in the race. heading back to warda Bennett caught up to me and we worked together till the end. the end.

I gotta say thanks to my pit crew, you guys were awesome.

Papa took a little video of the run to the bike, i do a pretty sweet jump over someones bike.

Whole new year

2008-01-02T16:56:00.000-06:00

Happy New Year! it like a whole new year has just begun. i celebrated the new year with some of my peeps in Austin, there was a dance off and we counted down to the new year from like 5 minuets out on top of the roof of the apartment building we were at. i gots a few funny pictures to.

this here is me and Justin

i don't even know what to say about this picture other than its awesome

Clayton and Dustin

Christmas

2007-12-30T15:34:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas! a little late but that's because Ive been so busy with all this Christmas nonsense. i had 3 separate Christmases this year the last one is just now wrapping up. i went down to corpus for a few days to hang out with some of my moms family, the coolest thing happened while we were down there i got to see a truck driving down the road on fire. the truck stopped then caught the grass next to it on fire and they had to evacuate everyone in the RV park we were staying at, it was sweet.

2007-12-23T15:59:00.000-06:00

Extreme scooting!

Jealous much?

Tis the Season

2007-12-22T15:15:00.000-06:00

Tis the season for rednecks and the white trash from all around the world to come together in Texas and sit on their trucks in front of their trailer houses, drink beer and harass cyclist. to all you cyclist harassing hicks i say go inside arnt you missing a nascar race? Also i hope the keystone and Busch breweries burn to the ground then you'll all die of thirst.

blahh

2007-12-20T16:47:00.000-06:00

i don't know what to call the ride i did today, I'm not sure i would consider it epic because the weather was far to good and it wasn't long enough at only 6 hour to be a monster ride but it was defiantly the kind of ride that you want to avoid. i got a flat at the 30 mile point and that was the point where the ride turned from good to crappy, i had a tube but the only way to air it up was with this little hand held pump that barley worked but i did manage to get about 20 pounds of pressure in before i set off again. i didn't flat again but the riding on almost no air and having a head wind the last 60 miles of my ride made it pretty horrible.

team stuff

2007-12-15T20:39:00.000-06:00

team San Jose had its first training camp this weekend and it was absurdly hard, for some reason San Jose rides always turn into death marches. i only started training like 2 weeks ago so i hadn't yet reached the part of my training where i ride fast but i was forced to jump right into that on Thursday, we did a 4 hour ride but in the middle of the ride we were drilling it so hard my legs almost fell off. Friday we headed out to leaky vanderpool to do a nasty cold and wet ride, Barry showed us all how slow we are by continuously soloing away. today we did a group ride with a bunch of the club riders and my legs were so shot from the last few days that if there had been a follow car like there was the day before i definitely would have jumped off my bike and hopped in.

2007-12-12T17:15:00.000-06:00

today's ride was pretty epic, it was about 5 hours long and it was cold and raining (well kind of raining more like a heavy mist). i guess people around here aren't use to other people riding bike unless there going to work or something of that nature so when they see me riding in the cold rain they automatically think that there is something wrong (like maybe my car broke down so i decided to ride from town to town looking for the best repair shop or i escaped from the insane asylum and the only vehicle i could find to steel was a bike) anyway i had 2 people pull over and ask me if i needed a ride to wherever it was that i was going, I'll take that over a honk and the bird any day.

2007-12-09T16:34:00.000-06:00

it December and the high temperature for today was somewhere around 90 is that not crazy? I'm not complaining because i know its supposed to rain all next week and its probably going to be a lot cooler but 90 that's insane, i haven't even had to wear arm warmers on a ride yet. i did a ride today that normally takes me about 3 hours but somehow i managed to have a tail wind the whole way and i ended up getting home 45 minutes early, that's a good way to trick yourself into thinking your in good shape.

Good day

2007-12-07T18:37:00.001-06:00

I had a good ride today it was long enough and sunny enough to get my nose back to its usual tint of red. I got chased by a few dogs, had a couple of cans thrown at me and got a flat tire at the end of the ride but none of that could get me down because i got to take a swim break in this sweet pond.

on the road again

2007-12-05T13:12:00.000-06:00

I'm officially back on the bike.