haha awesomeness.

Thick as Blood.

Thanks joey, i like this one.

the Internets been giving me some issues lately, hence the previous post of just a map with a magic blue line connecting the two promised lands together. let me explain this.

so christmas, hannukah, kwanza, whatever you celebrate is coming up soon which means i have to make my annual pilgrimage down to the flatstate and drink many many brews with old friends. last year i braved the open road in my trusty old truck, it made it fine. while the clampet does lots of things like start (sometimes) and stop (sometimes), i'm just not sure shes up to the task of 7 pinned hours home anymore. i looked up plane tickets, but quickly realized that was the world of the rich kids.

so whats a poor kid to do?

well, i got a road bike a little bit ago that still needs to be broken in... and it is all downhill home...

google maps let me know that it would be a 387 mile cannonshot through georgia to get home and that i could probably do it in 3 days if i put my mind to it.

looks like im getting my base training done in 3 days this year. fuck yes.

florida folk, i'll see you soon.

HUCKLEBOOYAH,

Dano out.

in all seriousness

this one might not be what your looking for if you drop by to giggle at what the kid with the jew fro and flower tattoo has been getting into lately. I've been thinking a little lately and yes, it hurts a bit. its like pulling that SS out of the garage after riding your squishy/shifty all year and climbing black mountain trail (which just got a cool writeup in bike mag, NC woot! woot!). anyhow, back to the thinking. i riding up to Avery creek last Saturday afternoon with every ones favorite national champ and we were talking about races, goals, and how hard it is to focus on one aspect of bike racing cause its all pretty fucking rad, except for maybe time trials, cause that shit is gay gay gay. but hey if your David zabriskie maybe its fun. i doubt it though somehow...
off track again sorry, so we're talking about what i want to focus on next year, and how dh is cool but so is xc, and how slalom is rad but so is short track. haha just kidding short track can S on my D. balls deep!! so with out further bullshit i present the GOALS OF 2009 (a.k.a. things I'll probably have forgotten about by the time i go to the bar again.)

1. Omnium Jersey.

I'm going for it. what does this mean? XC racing and lots of it, i gotta pick up the pace if i wanna get this shit done. I feel like the entire last season i was running at roughly 3/4 speed to what i was racing the year before. why? right after spring break i got bronchitis also known as the DEATH RATTLE. the death rattle will put it to you and mess your shit up.so basically instead of racing all spring and into the summer i went into June with one two races under my belt. June is when my camp job starts and there is no racing until the fall once its underway. sacrifices. this year is different. i won't be at the camp nearly as much, which means I'm racing the whole summer. I'm also chilling with the sycamore crew, and those are some racin' MFers. its a good thing for me. I'm getting this shit done.

2. To not let the young guns off easy.

If all goes to coach squirrels plan, we're gonna have some serious guns at Brevard this year. I've met most of these kids and their all good dudes, but i'm gonna make em work to beat me. not saying they won't just wipe the floor with my old ass, but i'm hoping to at least give em a little fight, like when Old Man Balls hung on the T.Cowie V. Alber big dick contest at the 12 of Tsali a few years ago. we'll see how this one goes.

3. 12 Hrs of Tsali and the TDS.

The shit has been flying since January and this damn race isn't until the end of may. It isnt even a very big event. but theres pride and bragging rights in this on, this is the race we'll talk about all next winter while we sit at the shop looking at our powercrap readouts. (i'll be looking at Monkey Sex.) Even though when the shit talk started i said i wasn't getting involved, i've been slinging it with the best of em already. Basically, we gotta win this one, hell, we gotta beat most of the open money field, or we'll never hear the end of it.

so we'll keep it short and simple right now, 3 goals. i may have more later or i may forget this shit and keep on keepin on, you never know...

Dano out.

"one by one we'll slowly fade away, one by one we'll fade away!! But in the end we'll see if what we did was wrong, and we'll see what made us strong!!!!!!" -Casey Jones

Someones spyin'...

Intercepted this morning: Pirate Doug taking spy photos of the Brevard cycling team at weightlifting practice. Here's one he got of Matt wells.

fortunately he was apprehended before he could make it back to banner elk in the SHRTHRD mobile.

dano out.

buy the ticket, take the ride.

Its been a bit chilly lately. I took a few days off the bottle, not that im drinking a lot, but its always good to take a break. of course this clean living got me sick as hell, or maybe it was that 1 am swim in the french broad sat night that did it. who knows and whatever. can't be changed now. I've got my winter training plan pretty much worked out at this point-very scientific i know! let me through it out there for ya so we can go ride sometime.

mon.- this day is bad, i always feel terrible and stressed about the weeks shit that i gotta get done. no bicycle magic today, its all about homework and real work. bummer.

tues.- Hopefully i've been good and done some work so today i can go ride bikes. usually a good mtb ride in the pisgah and maybe some cross racing at brevard to wrap up the day. Or i just watch movies and eat bbq. you never know.

weds.- all about the pumptrack at eddies. its got lights and is pretty damn fun. good times.

thurs.- lets take it to the slalom track and then over to sycamore for their night ride. awesome.

fri.- out at 1130 and hopefully on my bike for a long ride. afterwards its probably party time.

sat- i party. and ride. scientifically.

sun- more of the same.



jesus is my homeboy,

dano out.