Dude so like in the past week, I've had several very, very close encounters with cars. And they have not been really cool at all. Like I probably would have been saying "later nerds" as I floated away.
Anyway, for everybody out there, just freaking take your time getting around anything in the road much less cyclists. I'm not usually sketched out about that stuff but it's been getting to me.
Anyway, off that note. I got my glasses today and I'm stoked. I didn't tell my parents but I totally lost my old glasses over Christmas break and I haven't been able to see for(how much is that?) that length of time. It has not been very cool at all by the way.
Hitting up the Icycle this weekend. It's going to be AWESOME,I'm probably not going to race but just go and work on some hang out time. So if your around and need someone to hang out with, just hit me up and we'll chill.
So, my hands are wallered from typing so I'm going to peace out.
Later nerds
Monday, January 26, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
So I finally got all the people out of my room and took some sick pictures.
Well they're not that cool but here's the new place.
And for those of you who are laughing at our dorm room, let me just say that we have a carpet, a counter top for the sink, and tons of space for ACTIVITIES!!! Yip-yeee!!
Oh and there's a picture of Chaput when we went sledding in the 828 with our awesome 1/4 inch of snow. Brapppppp!!!!
Well they're not that cool but here's the new place.
And for those of you who are laughing at our dorm room, let me just say that we have a carpet, a counter top for the sink, and tons of space for ACTIVITIES!!! Yip-yeee!!
Oh and there's a picture of Chaput when we went sledding in the 828 with our awesome 1/4 inch of snow. Brapppppp!!!!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Digging a new hole
I'm back for a bit, well for a while probably. I'm not very good at writing short blogs. But I'm working on it. Some good news, for you people that (hopefully) read my blog all the time and don't have google accounts you can now post comments. AWESOME! So I'm hoping I can bring my total readers from three up to five-ish, that would be sweet.
So like I was going to take some pictures of my new room, which is probably the coolest thing that has happened since we got back to school, but our room kind of got out hand this weekend so we need to clean it out. I'm going to try to post up some pictures tonight after we get everything cleaned up.
For those of you who are interested my racing, I'll give you an update. The new year started off bad because I lost one of my big sponsors and although I'm still waiting on some others I'm not really sure what will happen with the recession and everything. So I can't really say anything just yet because I'm still looking for more support. I'll for sure do the collegiate road racing schedule which I'll post later and of course the mountain races in the fall but over the summer is still up in the air.
Right now I'm just chilaxing and stuff and still riding but not really training super hard. With that said, I can still pinnit so don't think that racing is going to be easy.
I'm off to help Chaput let Timmay's dog out so I'll see if I can post some pictures so our awesome dorm room when I get back.
So like I was going to take some pictures of my new room, which is probably the coolest thing that has happened since we got back to school, but our room kind of got out hand this weekend so we need to clean it out. I'm going to try to post up some pictures tonight after we get everything cleaned up.
For those of you who are interested my racing, I'll give you an update. The new year started off bad because I lost one of my big sponsors and although I'm still waiting on some others I'm not really sure what will happen with the recession and everything. So I can't really say anything just yet because I'm still looking for more support. I'll for sure do the collegiate road racing schedule which I'll post later and of course the mountain races in the fall but over the summer is still up in the air.
Right now I'm just chilaxing and stuff and still riding but not really training super hard. With that said, I can still pinnit so don't think that racing is going to be easy.
I'm off to help Chaput let Timmay's dog out so I'll see if I can post some pictures so our awesome dorm room when I get back.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Obigilitory New Years Post
Uh....so I forgot to post one for the new year and follow up on my adventures in the ATL. Oops.
Last week was pretty fun, we hit up some Fort Yargo did the urban ride and rode a little at the horse park. Sorry P. Ennis, I would have invited you but it was spur of the moment. Yargo is pretty much perfect right now, it was blown off and a little tacky when we rode it. ATL was fun too, the guys showed me a sweeeeetttt hip under the Georgia Dome. I was finally getting comfortable hitting it when we moved on to sprinting down main street in the pitch dark, avoiding cars and pedestrians. There was more riding than jumping so no pictures, sorry people maybe next time.
Conyers was good too, it was cold and wet when we rode it so it did not remind me of the collegiate race there. Where the dusty, dry conditions we so much fun.
After I got back, I almost got sick again and I've just been hanging around the house working on my trails. I added a new section today, it's got three different jumps off of one booter. You can double two rollers, use the booter to jump out to a lander or hip it off to the left. But I need to cut down a tree for the hip.
I'm going back to school Monday morning so I'm going to hit up that trail on the way up there before meeting up with Chaput and moving into our new dorm room.
So just keeping it real in Ga.
T
Last week was pretty fun, we hit up some Fort Yargo did the urban ride and rode a little at the horse park. Sorry P. Ennis, I would have invited you but it was spur of the moment. Yargo is pretty much perfect right now, it was blown off and a little tacky when we rode it. ATL was fun too, the guys showed me a sweeeeetttt hip under the Georgia Dome. I was finally getting comfortable hitting it when we moved on to sprinting down main street in the pitch dark, avoiding cars and pedestrians. There was more riding than jumping so no pictures, sorry people maybe next time.
Conyers was good too, it was cold and wet when we rode it so it did not remind me of the collegiate race there. Where the dusty, dry conditions we so much fun.
After I got back, I almost got sick again and I've just been hanging around the house working on my trails. I added a new section today, it's got three different jumps off of one booter. You can double two rollers, use the booter to jump out to a lander or hip it off to the left. But I need to cut down a tree for the hip.
I'm going back to school Monday morning so I'm going to hit up that trail on the way up there before meeting up with Chaput and moving into our new dorm room.
So just keeping it real in Ga.
T
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
At Long Last
Finally, after like three days on the phone and several attempts we have fixed the home wireless system so I can surf from my room instead of walking up all those freaking stairs and getting on the home computer. I am very happy.
I'm so happy that I posted two blogs today. Not really though. The first blog is from a few days ago when I couldn't post it, but if you had read that one then you would know that wouldn't you.
Well, I have some bad news for my friends in the awesome 828, I will not be participating in the Molester this year. I was hoping to but I had an offer that I could not refuse. Sorry bros, nothing personal.
So what is this alternative action? Why a New Year midnight urban ride in the ATL. Yes, me and the infamous Michael Cummings are going to celebrating the new year in downtown. It will be sick. I did get a new camera (I might have already mentioned this but) so I should be taking some pictures and posting them. Theoretically, that is.
I almost forgot to tell you about my awesome ride today. Since I did a good three hour ride yesterday (and found a new gravel climb) I was going to do a easy two hour spin to loosen the legs a bit. I rode out about ten minuets down the road and met up with a dog running beside me. Always one to race, I dropped a few gears and sped up. The dog was doing pretty good and kept up until for some reason it decided that it would be much better to run on the road instead of the soft, grassy shoulder. In the process that figured out how to change its trajectory it must have forgotten that I was in the middle of the road. The dog turned right into my front wheel causing me to go from 25mph to 0 in the span of five feet. As the dog ran off, I almost got run over by a car who didn't bother to stop or slow down as it whizzed by inches from my head.
So after some guys across the road came over to help me out I rode back to my house with some difficulty. The end result is a trashed right shifter, some road rash, a busted gel in my pocket, and some seriously bruised ego. I will never, ever race a dog on the side of the road again.
Everything is good now, but I'll definitely feel it tomorrow on a wicked long ride tomorrow at Fort Yargo.
Well, I'm signing off for now, but watch out for those sneaky dogs and those clever Brevard area senior citizens, and eat lots of ketchup. It's good for you.
Late.
I'm so happy that I posted two blogs today. Not really though. The first blog is from a few days ago when I couldn't post it, but if you had read that one then you would know that wouldn't you.
Well, I have some bad news for my friends in the awesome 828, I will not be participating in the Molester this year. I was hoping to but I had an offer that I could not refuse. Sorry bros, nothing personal.
So what is this alternative action? Why a New Year midnight urban ride in the ATL. Yes, me and the infamous Michael Cummings are going to celebrating the new year in downtown. It will be sick. I did get a new camera (I might have already mentioned this but) so I should be taking some pictures and posting them. Theoretically, that is.
I almost forgot to tell you about my awesome ride today. Since I did a good three hour ride yesterday (and found a new gravel climb) I was going to do a easy two hour spin to loosen the legs a bit. I rode out about ten minuets down the road and met up with a dog running beside me. Always one to race, I dropped a few gears and sped up. The dog was doing pretty good and kept up until for some reason it decided that it would be much better to run on the road instead of the soft, grassy shoulder. In the process that figured out how to change its trajectory it must have forgotten that I was in the middle of the road. The dog turned right into my front wheel causing me to go from 25mph to 0 in the span of five feet. As the dog ran off, I almost got run over by a car who didn't bother to stop or slow down as it whizzed by inches from my head.
So after some guys across the road came over to help me out I rode back to my house with some difficulty. The end result is a trashed right shifter, some road rash, a busted gel in my pocket, and some seriously bruised ego. I will never, ever race a dog on the side of the road again.
Everything is good now, but I'll definitely feel it tomorrow on a wicked long ride tomorrow at Fort Yargo.
Well, I'm signing off for now, but watch out for those sneaky dogs and those clever Brevard area senior citizens, and eat lots of ketchup. It's good for you.
Late.
Speed Up to Catch Up
So, it’s been a while since we’ve met.
Well, not really. Considering that I can’t see you or that you can see me but you understand. Much of interest has happened in the time from my last post. I went home. That was a task in itself because the roads were very, very wet. And uh…I’ve been hanging out with the parents for the past few days. Somewhere along the way I managed to pick up some virus and it held me up for a couple of days. I didn’t really get sick but it was other “stuff”. We’ll leave it at that. Nasty.
In the meantime, I washed my bikes and rode them a bit here and there. I was hoping to be pumping out miles and hours on the road bike but I’m stuck taking care of Mom after she recovers from her foot surgery. Yes, she has these things called bunions and they are not cool because they make the ball of your foot swell up and stick out. Mom is now bunion free.
I’m writing this on Christmas day, rather the night after Christmas. I probably won’t be able to post this for a while because I haven’t got the home wireless working yet so this blog (on my laptop) will be posted when I get service on this thing. I got some good stuff for Christmas, nothing too big except for a new camera that I didn’t really ask for but got so I guess I’ll have to start putting it to good use.
In my spare time I’ve been thinking about the upcoming year. Trying to figure out how to pay for all this travel and racing that I’m planning to do and all the stuff I still need to do.
Well that’s all I can think of right now, I’ll probably write more after this weekend. It should be good.
T
Well, not really. Considering that I can’t see you or that you can see me but you understand. Much of interest has happened in the time from my last post. I went home. That was a task in itself because the roads were very, very wet. And uh…I’ve been hanging out with the parents for the past few days. Somewhere along the way I managed to pick up some virus and it held me up for a couple of days. I didn’t really get sick but it was other “stuff”. We’ll leave it at that. Nasty.
In the meantime, I washed my bikes and rode them a bit here and there. I was hoping to be pumping out miles and hours on the road bike but I’m stuck taking care of Mom after she recovers from her foot surgery. Yes, she has these things called bunions and they are not cool because they make the ball of your foot swell up and stick out. Mom is now bunion free.
I’m writing this on Christmas day, rather the night after Christmas. I probably won’t be able to post this for a while because I haven’t got the home wireless working yet so this blog (on my laptop) will be posted when I get service on this thing. I got some good stuff for Christmas, nothing too big except for a new camera that I didn’t really ask for but got so I guess I’ll have to start putting it to good use.
In my spare time I’ve been thinking about the upcoming year. Trying to figure out how to pay for all this travel and racing that I’m planning to do and all the stuff I still need to do.
Well that’s all I can think of right now, I’ll probably write more after this weekend. It should be good.
T
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The News
To make up for the last blog, I’ve got some good news.
I’m announcing the formation of my new team. This is not the actually the team I’m going to be racing for but more the one I’m going to be leading. Tristan Cowie Racing (T. C. R.) is a small group of hand selected riders than will use exclusive equipment from sponsors that are yet to be announced.
I will announce the team riders at a later date. And final info and race dates will be announced as soon as I can get some more time on my hands.
We have T-shirts.
We rule.
I’m announcing the formation of my new team. This is not the actually the team I’m going to be racing for but more the one I’m going to be leading. Tristan Cowie Racing (T. C. R.) is a small group of hand selected riders than will use exclusive equipment from sponsors that are yet to be announced.
I will announce the team riders at a later date. And final info and race dates will be announced as soon as I can get some more time on my hands.
We have T-shirts.
We rule.
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