Home Again

So after 22 days on the road and couches/air mattresses, I have finally come home, and to amazing weather no less.

I managed to get back to some singletrack, which was cool:

Jack rabbit trails are pretty rad, not too technical, super flowy, my kind of trails. (read: I don't turn well)
More info and a cool video I found, here: http://ngeorgiacycling.com/JackRabbit.html

Which brings me to next point, http://ngeorgiacycling.com/ is growing pretty quickly, started to get cool.  I made a facebook group, which is linked on the front page of the website, and that is growing well too.

Sorry if you are viewing this via North Georgia Cycling, that would be redundant.

Anywho, next up is Chattanooga, probobly Arkansas, then I guess France.  Game on.

GMR

So after being humbled in spectacular fashion at San Dimas, I found myself with an unexpected day off.  Of course I had to go find the top of Glendora Mountain Road, and almost 2 hours later, I decided it was worthy of a picture, or in this case, 5.  The view is that big.

Glendora

So I got to ride without leg warmers today.  In fact, it was in the mid 80s, not a cloud in the sky, and downright pleasant.  The ride for the day was to wander up the Glendora mountain road for a while, then either find another way back or turn around.  It ended up being over 90 mins of steady climbing in some of the most spectacular terrain I have ever ridden, followed by some solid descending and a leisurely ride home.  Pretty awesome, I highly reccomend it.

I really like roads where you can turn around and see where you came from, and this is no exception.  This is about 4 miles in the 18 miles that I managed to knock out, and you can see all the way to the beginning, in the top left.

Next up?  I guess I have to race at some point, but exploring new roads is also tempting. 

Websites

So the team went down to Rouge Roubiax last weekend.  It was about as expected, dirt, sketchy, fast, dissapointing.

I ended up feeling pretty bad at the start but right as the legs were coming around, my day was ended by the worst timed flat in this history of time.  Olheiser went on to do his thing and ride to a strong 5th, despite some bad luck.  It was definitely a cool race though, I will definitely go back next year, if for nothing else than to hang out with our awesome hosts.

Here is me, probably getting dropped.  That dirt was really loose and sketchy, not my kind of thing, I am top heavy.

This weekend I will have another shot at faux-roubaix glory in Perry, Georgia, before flying out to San Dimas

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Yeah, that place is gonna be awesome.

In recent news, I also have been continuing to help out Christian with his new website, www.christianparrett.com. He has had some big news, so check it out.

Also, I am working on a new site, www.ngeorgiacycling.com, which is still growing and being built so bear with me for a while, but it will serve as a way to share my knowledge of the roads in this oasis I call home.

Whoa

So... kind of fell off the bandwagon here.

I've been doing the usual, avoiding snow, riding bikes, sleeping on couches.  No real awesome bike races, but some ok rides.

Next weekend I am headed to Louisiana via Huntsville for Rouge Roubiax, and that should be a cool race.  I keep hearing how ridiculous it is, so hopefully it lives up to its infamy.

I probably have some good pictures to post, but for now they are trapped on my phone due to no service.  One of these days I will get around to posting them.

On the side I've been working on a few projects, ChristianParrett.com, a cyclocross team for 2010, and some stock pickin'.  For Christian's website and the team, I am pretty much on an endless quest for sponsor money, we will see how that goes.  As for the stock pickin', well, I guess it's better than the gambling problem I developed in the Bahamas.

My body thermometer is so confused right now.

So alot has been going on.  Went to tour of the Bahamas, got a tan, beat of former tour de france winner, and pretty much no one else.  We ate well, but mostly badly, almost got killed trying to remember to ride on the left side of the road and generally had a great time.

I got to come home to some god awful weather, and have pledged to murder mother nature at some point.  She better watch out.

Now we are moving on to the new venture.  Cross team.  Makin' it happen.  We are looking to get some money,  wander the country and ride bikes in circles running away from hypothermia.  I'll keep you posted.

Cars and Beaches

This is awesome.

Tour of the Bahamas in 6 days, get excited.