Good couple days of riding in triple digit weather.

Golf tourney this weekend in lexington...maybe picking one of these up soon http://vassagocycles.com/jabberwocky.html If there good enough for http://duckmansworld.blogspot.com/ there good enough for me.

Not been training much lately..work--work--travel--work..got out last night and did a 2:30 hour mtb ride with defur and mark.straped the lights on for a while. I relized i am just a lil out of shape. but hopefully this will re-kindle my ass. We are going to do 1 or 2 adv races later in the year and 12 hours of haw ridge. I think i took off about 2-3 weeks, this heat just sucks.

Posted some pics from the Old time fiddlers convention a few weeks back. Tas and rod performed a couple of times. They did really good. Tiffers , kim also performed with them and in the folk solo division. Great weekend!!

Benn doing alot of training lately. The boys and myself raced in the Poker Run adv race in greenville,sc a few weekends ago. We actually were in position for the overall win but missed a CP in the orienteering. Overall we raced very well. The race started off with a run, swim, run, special test, bike, swim, bike,run (orienteering) bike, special test, bike. Alot of change was good. We had the second overall fastest time, i think we ended 7th overall. This was our first race with Mills, stover and myself. I am pretty satisfied with how we worked together during the race. Since then training has picked up. Alot of running!!! I've got my eye on a few trail runs and maybe a ultra this fall. But well see how the foot does. On sunday stover, dewey and myself did a paddle, bike and run. We got in about 3.5 hours of training which felt real good. I think dewey has got the AR bug....Today defur and I knocked off a 1:40 min run at haw ridge. We did most of the ultra course. Defur is going to step up and do the 55K, i'm not sure yet, maybe the stump jump 50K in october. We've got a few more Adv Races lined up this year. So it should be a busy fall, then top it all off with the 12 hours of hill of truth. I need to get in some longer rides if going solo. Maybe I will take this race seriuos this year and not start drinking before the race....Damn you J murray!!!

Good weekend of training...friday night got in 1 hour 30 mins on the road with Parker. Rode some great roads in Blount county. Saturday morning Mills, Stover and myself went to N boudary for some brick workouts. 9.5 mile run and 15 mile mtb..overall around 3 hours of training. My foot felt good all day, rode the chameleon for the first time in a long time. We put gears and re-built the bike this week and it was perfect. Stover really did a great job. Today no training, had to go to Georgia to pick up the mom in law. My legs are a lil tired but no bad. Sitting in a car for 6 hours will do this to you. Tommorow planning on a swim, bike and weights.

i am back

not that anybody cares...but been on vacation for week and half. got back to work and have been covered up to my eyeballs. got a adv race next weekend in SC. I am the co-director of the trailblazer adv racing club here in knoxvegas now. I will be doing meetings and training events. I am pretty excited about this, a good chance to introduce this grat sport to alot of people. Post and pics coiming later.
Drew

good rides

LOVIN the new ride..very good climbing gear so far. Hit up the Blvd a few times, climbed all over the area. Droped a few bikers on the bottom blvd, I love flying by the tri guys all tucked in with their areo bars and slick wheels. Baggy shorts, flaming skull socks and old ugly steel SS bike crushing the shaved leg crew!!! Rode this morning in Oak Ridge, hooked up with a group of 3 guys. We rode hwy 58 and 95 and some sweet back roads. The SS was rockin!!
I now own more SS's than geared bikes. 1 SS santa cruz chameleon-1 SS 29er Surly , 1 SS roadie...1 geared santa cruz superlight-1 geared giant carbon TCR
I am going to try and post pics of the stable this week.
Drew

long time no post...

New SS roadie 53x21 gearing..good climbing gear..lil slow on some flats..

new lawn tractor...got a lil burned out after PMBAR, took a few days a messed around on the bike. Ran a lil..rode very little. But the new steed has renergized me. Been riding the Surly 29er alot, been on the new SS roadie the last 3 days and getting ready to take off again. Good day on the Big Ove's dad's boat yesterday..lot of jet skiing..i got that beast up to 58 mph...very fast. Gotta run..going for a ride to a cookout...