Spinning faster...

So this guy uses a three sided teeter totter to represent the balance in his life. Keeping with the playground theme - I like to think of the merry-go-round. You know the one that as a kid you would hold on as tight as you could while your friends ramped the speed up as fast as they could trying to rip you off or make you puke. The merry-go-round would gain speed then your friends would get tired right at that puke/fall off moment and they would let it slow back down, then in your dizzy nauseous state you begged for another turn. Everything speeds up and gradually slows again much like that merry-go-round ride - base training to specialization, summer craziness at the bike shop to fall lazy days, summer off school to LeBam's first year of all day school. Yep that's it my merry-go-round has slowed down and I am spinning it back up as fast as I can for another fast and furious fall. Weeeeeeeeeeee.......


...cross season is racing ever closer.

Registered for the first Wisconsin race, we have gone big time. Weekly cross practice started last night. Only three of us showed but it was a blast - Cool rain falling down, a few warm up laps then the chase was on. Chasing each other all over the park getting turn practice at speed. Wet grass + friends = good times.


So the race rig is coming along nice. Still need the last ingredient to awesomeness! I am still undecided on race wheels for the year, what to do - get with the crustyes and carbon up or play it safe and go with a couple of sets of aluminium hooped wheels. I made yet another change to the components this week. They are VERY nice and don't go to eleven.

Back to wheels. Options, options, and options. Balance of cost, desire, functionality, and brand support. I like my Record hub/Velocity tubies from last year - fantastic hubs and okay rims, but after rolling the bosses carbon clincher Reynolds for the last couple of weeks I have been seduced by carbon's sweetness. In the grand scheme does it really matter, but after all that is part of what makes THE season so rad!

...Cross Geeks Unite THE season is upon us!