Just got back from Hobby Park. The race was ok, nothing great except for Julia's 3rd and Jenna's 1st and K-Wood's 2nd. A good solid start to the season.

Here's some pictures from the racing scene.






I'll do a write up tomorrow.
Where ever you are, run it wide open.
T

Early Morning

So, there I was just sleeping peacefully. I was bothering nothing and no one. And the dump trucks decided to finish filling in the gym's old pool. They are making it another weight room after filling the pool. For some ungodly reason they wanted to do it at 7:30 in the morning. I know what you people are thinking, oh 7:30 isn't early but for me it is. Kind of.

Anyway, whatever. It got me up and writing a blog so that hopefully makes you guys happy. I was specifically going to write this blog about something but I kind of forgot so I'll just wing it for a bit and I might remember.

A good thing that happened this week: I found my old Rage Against the Machine CD in my car. I was soooo stoked. Almost stoked to the point that I skipped riding to listen in. Ha! Just kidding. I did skip some ice cream at lunch to listen to it though.

I'm trying not to complain, but this pretty much is. I'm really starting to get tired of the cold early mornings. I get up and it's just cold enough to ware pants but by mid day I need to ware shorts. Anyway, not a big deal but it is kind of annoying. Before you know it, I'll be complaining about the hot weather. That's the fault of the human race isn't it? I mean we are never satisfied, that can be a good thing and also a bad one. That was you daily psychology lesson from T. Cowie.

Speaking of which I'm about to go to psy class. And I'm super stoked about it because I really don't have to do anything, I just sit in class playing on my computer. Parents, you were totally not supposed to read that last bit.

Well since this was a pretty lame post (although I might add more later today) I need to find something that will make it better. I'll be back in a bit.

Here are some vintage pictures back from when I was super cereal. You might have seen them before, perhaps not. Anyway enjoy.

More Rain

So, another weekend of racing has gone by. It was raining again, both days in fact. I'm pretty sure I drank my body weight in water both days. Along with all that water, I probably drank bits of road kill, oil, gasoline, manure, little rocks, and who knows what else. I hope I don't catch some horrible disease from road racing. Wait, that might be a good thing. Haha, just kidding Marshal.

Anyway, Saturday wend pretty bad, we missed the early break again, then like 2 or 3 laps before the finish we brought back the break and then we(well I, since I was in the perfect spot)missed the second break. In the bunch sprint I got like somewhere in the top ten and the Saint was just behind me.

After trying to dry out my clothes and chilling at the hotel we went out to eat at this sketchy Caribbean restaurant, but it actually turned out to be really good. And they had fried PB and J sandwiches. I love living in the South sometimes. Anyway props to Park for picking a good eatery place. After eating we hung out at the hotel and watched six episodes of Pimp My Ride....way, way too much. This was kind of how it looked except wayyy better and more powdered sugar...just the way I like it. And not soap like this is.


Sunday started at 6 when I walked over to the local IHOP and dug in. It was awesome because I love IHOP and I had some chocolate pancakes. However, the coffee sucks so I had to drink like 5 cups before I got the shakes. It rained the entire morning and I didn't even bother putting on extra clothes because they would be soaken in like five seconds just like Mike's gram cracker.

We missed the break again, surprise, surprise. The break went on like the first lap so we half chased, half rode really slow, half tried to not run into the back of the dude in front. It was pretty much just like this picture


Anyway, I somehow jumped on Craig from Furman and we traded off for the rest of the race. We ended up catching the break and I got dropped but ended up second. That's how road racing is, one day your off the back and the next your off the front. Weird. I hate road racing.

So, instead of road racing I might just show up to Hobby Park this weekend. Or I might go do five hours of base to get ready for nationals.

Here are some pictures from the race and the drive back since I was bored.

Another

So, I never really got around to writing a blog for the race so I'll move on to the next one. I pretty much told the story in the first one.
Although this time I will actually post some pictures.

I've just been chilaxing in GA with the Manamial. Nothing too interesting happing, we did the Reality Bikes Worlds ride last night, good ride with some fast guys. I think the Manamial got the KOM sprint and I got third in the final sprint so we pulled our weight. Probably never go back for a while since racing started and everything. It was a good time and we had some good fun.

Me and the guy from PA have been riding and working on some serious hang out time in the GA. Saturday morning we are driving down to the ATL to go race. The Manamial has been killing me on some hilly rides around the county.

I've been trying to work on my "plans" for the summer. No, I don't have a set schedule of races this season so I'm just going with the flow and picking some good races and trying to run it wide at those few.

For sure, I'm going the 12Hrs of Tsali, Bump, the SERC race at Tsali, and the first Kenda Cup race at Ducktown. Then I'm not really sure, just see if I have enough money to go to each race.

Anyway, I'm watching Marshal talk to some people over Skype and it's totally distracting me so I'm going to cut out. I'll see if I can type a more interesting blog tomorrow. Now for what you've been waiting for PICTURES!!!







Well good night everybody I'm signing off. Time to go do work!
Do a couple of these before bed time:




Later nerds!

Talladega Days (Racing in South Kack)

Well, I'm trying to pack, work on my bike, write a blog, pack, go ride, and hang out today. So I don't have a whole lot of time to write. But I won't leave you guys in the dark any longer.

The road race on Saturday was good, for the first ten minutes that is. Marshal broke a spoke about that much into the race so I gave him my wheel and got dropped. I rode to the feed and hung out with T-had for a bit and then did another lap to get some extra training in.

The Team Time Trial went better than the first one, we worked together better and I think we posted a decent time, not great but better than getting smoked in the first TTT.

The crit was on Sunday in Greenville at a car race track. It was fun too, but not very selective and it showed with not very many people getting dropped and a big sprint at the end. I put in a digger with 3 or 4 to go and held it until the last lap and finished in the top back half of the bunch.

Nothing exciting but nothing too bad. I think everybody got in some good training and we'll be ready to come back out and fight this weekend in Georgia Tech. Two road races back to back. I'm not really sure what everybody is complaining about, the guys in the Tour do twice as long for three weeks back to back. But we'll see what happens.

I'll probably post some pictures tonight once I get home and everything.
Late

Nothing

I'm sure that you non moto people are getting tired of my pictures and movies but I found one that was too good to pass up. How does he clean that triple? I don't know.

Snow?/Georgia?/March?

Dude man dude,
Awesome time this weekend. The B-Boys competed in our first road race this year. No not these B-Boys. Us, duh.

The TTT went great. That is the Team Time Trial for those of you who don’t know. We got third. Yay! Out of three. Oh my! We done good. Nah it was cool, I think we started a little too fast out of the gate but we got it under control pretty quick so that was good. After the TTT we just went back and started the hang out time at the Cowie house hold.

The good times didn’t stop there, the next day we woke to 30 degree weather and pouring rain. AWEsome!! It was super cold at the start and things kicked into gear very fast. The Saint and I covered move after move with the Manamial hitting out a few times. At the end of the first lap me and the Tamer got popped on the last climb and tried chasing but once the break got into gear they straight checked out. The remnants of the peloton formed together and we rode another lap back to the feed. T-had was there and as we were pulling the plug (it had started really raining at this point) the Manamial rolls up in a car we find out that we broke his wheel trying to follow an attack. So I think we did pretty good for the first race, we definitely left some doors open and neither the Saint or I were there when Marshal needed a wheel but we’ll work on it.

Anyway, on to the trip back. So we had a truck, a van, and a trailer. Throw in some snow on top of that. Maybe a little rain too. Just to spice things up. We start the three hour drive back and it starts snowing/sleeting/raining on us. Everything is good until the snow starts packing up on Chaput's windshield. We call Coach and we pull over and scrape everything off and conveniently we stopped at a Starbucks (I wonder who thought of that) so we also had to get some coffee.

We get going again and then like not even a mile down the road Chaput’s driver’s wiper checks out and I find Chaput sitting in my lap trying to look out the passenger’s side widow. So we call Thad again and he comes back and picks us up in the van and then we spend the next four hours of travel time packed in the back seat. Good times, as always.

So to make the story a little bit better, yesterday we had to go down and pick up Chaput’s truck because he got a call from the 5-0. Nothing super exciting happened but we almost died several times, ate a ton of candy, went muddin and almost destroyed my rim on a pot hole on the way back.

It's a good thing we're still mountain bikers.

So it’s been a long weekend. And it’s going to be an even longer week. Dude you know, I totally forgot that this weekend is the start of spring break. Wow, that came up fast. Anyway, if anyone wants to come down to GA and hang out just holla at me.

T

Oh yeah, did I mention that I totally called that nasty weather this weekend?
Thanks, I already knew I was amazing.