Greetings From Japan!!!

Went to a baseball game this afternoon. The local team is the Nagoya Dragons. The game was pretty crazy. VERY LOUD to be exact. Check out the video. Later

2010 Road Season Wrap Up

Greetings race fans. It has been a very long time since I posted on here. I have enjoyed reading others blogs and race recaps. I can't believe the 2010 Road/Crit season is over. For most of the readers here if any, you probably already know of any success or failures that I may have had this season. The single most thing I will take away from this year is I LOVE THE TRACK!! Big thanks to Robert for really putting the word out there about the track. If it weren't for his enthusiasm I may not have ever even tried it out. For those that don't know I did pretty well on the track, so much that I bought a premo bike. Another thanks goes out to Devin for letting me borrow his brand new bike to ride on the track for pretty much 5 weeks straight. I'm also greatful for the new faces I met out on the track to name a few Joe, PJ, Ruben, Devlin, and so many more that I look forward to seeing next year. What did I learn out on the track? Well I can sprint and sprint I did!! I really enjoy how quickly we get to the sprint unlike in criterium racing. I can see now I really like crits with lots of turns to keep my mind busy versus just the 4 corner crits that I am now bored with. My focus next year will be on the track and criteriums. Initially I was thinking I would try to vastly improve my road racing palmeres but that won't be an A priorty now. So back to this season though, I'm pretty pleased with the way this season has gone for me. In pretty much all the crits I lined up for I was competitive in. My goals coming into the season were Tulsa Tough, Webster Crit, and Gateway Cup. Webster is the only crit I wasn't pleased with at all because I flatted in the last few laps. Other than that I went to Tulsa and placed top 15 two of three days there and Gateway Cup I placed in the money 3 of 4 days. I do feel for Gateway I could have been top 10 every race but that is racing for you. The biggest issue to me at the Cat 3 level is you have a larger percentage of guys that can go out and win so tactics and luck on your side are a bigger part of the equation. I didn't have good luck the first 3 days of GWC but at the Benton Park Crit things worked out well for me. What else from this year...........well Mid Town Alley Crit I was able to give Devin a leadout which is alot easier said than done. He finished 2nd in that race, it is a great feeling to help a teammate to a good finish. Racing with Devin is such an honor, not sure I have ever met I more humble champion than himself. This blogging is pretty hard to stay focused at! I have just taken several phone calls and seemed to have forgotten my thoughts for this posting. In the coming months I plan to pick up the blog more often. For now its about a month lay off from any cycling due to my travels for work. I'm going to Korea for a week and then to Japan for 3 weeks. I leave this Saturday and return October 7. Next up is also the rebirth of my cyclocross career. This year I feel hungrier, in past seasons I have been burnt out heading into the off season for the road bike. I still won't enjoy riding in the cold but I'm really hoping to turn a good result on the cyclocross bike. I picked up a TCX frame/fork off the message board for a pretty good deal. I would like to make a short film next year as well using a macbook I plan on purchasing when I get from my trip. The film will be about the local cycling scene. I figure it will give me something to do with the new laptop and iphone i have!