Too Vanilla For You

Close to 5 months since the last post. Let's see...
My car won't pass DEQ, so I don't drive anymore.
Tony Blair retiring from being prime minister of UK.
Mikkel Bossen quits bike racing.
Trek adds another "S" to our bikes (now, the SSL).
And...Ping Pong goes to nationals? WTF? Apparently he's in Kansas this weekend for collegiate nationals. Prepare for some hurt.
More to come.

Peace, you bitches

Click on this link:

Cats are hilarious!

It's really funny.

Oh, in other news, I got a new mountain bike. Pictures will be up soon. Got rid of the 29er, I'm going "old school" this year (is that what the kids call it?) with 26 inch wheels, flat bar, rigid fork, and the longest, flattest stem I could find.

Oh yeah, Jonathan Page got 2nd in some big bike race over in Europe. That's pretty cool. Good job, along with Rhonda, Erik, and the twin towers.

Peace out.

SS

See how that cat's riding an invisible bike? Well, I've been writing invisible blog posts. And apparently getting lots of invisible blog readers.

Anyhow, on to more important things, like riding: I've been riding my car into work, riding the weight machines at the gym, riding the couch in front of the TV. In between all that, I have found some time to ride my bike. Yesterday, I rode with the 2 Portland pros, along with some elite amateurs, and one or two cat. 3s. Since this time of year, I really like to do some long 3 hr rides, a couple of guys ended up being intimidated by the distance and turned off early to take the long way home.

Also, on Tuesday, I did a nice long snow ride with Slaven. He's training to do his longest ride ever. An official announcement is coming later.

Countdown to Lost: 2 more weeks? Something like that.

Peace out.

Shannon

So this isn't what Ping Pong and I originally planned, but I figured it was good enough to warrant the 100th post. Some of you guys might have seen it already, but it's hilarious. And I'll update more.





We'll still do what we had planned, but it was probably time to start blogging again.

Peace out.

Shannon

Nearing the hundred mark. Last weekend didn't go as planned. At least it didn't go according to my plan. I'm sure Decker planned on winning. Not 20 seconds into the race, I had some bad luck that put me probably 20 riders back. I spent the next few laps working my way back up, but by the time I caught Tonkin, Decker was long gone. Hopefully I got the bad luck out of my system for this weekend.

I'm thinking about doing 3 races this weekend: the elite race and master's race up in Seattle, then Hillsboro here on Sunday. That's a lot of givin'er though. We'll see.

So what's been up with the weather? It was finally nice today. I went for a 2 week stretch without riding my bike outside. In fact, the other day, I actually had to do a bike change in the middle of my trainer ride. Somehow I snapped my saddle in half while riding indoors. Can you believe that?

I'll have to think of something clever to do for the hundredth post. Ping Pong promised to post an interview with Mr. Too Burrito For You himself, Kevin Hulick, so I guess that will be number 99. How about something like a mustache-off?

Peace out.

Shannon

So tomorrow's the deal maker or deal breaker. If I win, I win the overall. If Decker wins, he wins the overall. If I get second and Decker gets 3rd, I win the overall. If Decker gets 2nd and I get 3rd he wins. But if I get 3rd and Decker gets 4th, he wins. Ya follow?

I need to summon the eye of the donkey to slay the Panda. Hopefully he'll wear his Panda suit, it seemed to slow him down.

I hope tomorrow doesn't last as long as last Sunday did. Last week I got to the race around 10:30 or 11, got home, sprayed down 3 bikes, all the shoes, all the clothes, and by that time it was about 7:30. I ate a little, watched a little TV, then went downstairs to finish up the drying and the lubing of the bikes. So by that time it was about 8, and I'm downstairs, and all of a sudden I hear a waterfall against the window. Turns out the gutters are clogged, so there I am at 8 at night, after a long day of racing, on the roof, fisting the downspout of my gutters. Then I had to do it again on monday.

So what is up with Lost? Taking a break until February 2007? They film in Hawaii, is it really that hard to work a little more? I work in Portland, where it rains an inch a day, and I still have to go to work. I have to know what happens to Jack and Sawyer and Kate and Henry.

Ok, so predictions for tomorrow:

1. Decker does not wear a panda suit
2. Neither does Tonkin
3. Can Solomon finish it off in the single speed category? Was that a prediction?
4. Too Vanilla for you reaches landmark 100th post after 3 more posts.

Peace out.

Shannon

updating my blog. Oh yeah, and finally won a race too. What took me so long? Seriously. I guess I have two race updates to do. Here we go.

Horning's hideout-
Stupid Decker. 2nd place.

Flying M Ranch-
Stupid drunk people, 1st place.

So pomegranates are back in season. I like to sit down with one every Wednesday to watch Lost. That way I can keep myself entertained during the commercials. I also like to act out any action scenes by using pomegranate juice as fake blood, if necessary.

Apparently cross nationals is on record pace for their registration. I heard something like 600 people signed up in the first 10 minutes. I hope they're not all doing the elite race! Although I should get a callup, either based on my win last year or hopefully with some points from USGP, or maybe I'll just show the officials my blog and they'll all be wowed.

Next time you don't get your way at the callup try using this line: "Do you know who I am?" It always works. Trust me.

And for my weekly installment of picture stolen from bikeportland.org, here's a picture of my new teammate Elliot's special friend.