// October 30th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
Amy’s Cake
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SERIOUSLY PEOPLE!!!!!
This is the real deal!
Another regular here in the coffee shop just went and bought them out of the cinnamon rolls then brought them back to the coffee shop, but at the same time I was buying one to share with one of my new bestest good friends Kelly Herman. Awwwwwwww cinnamon goodness!
// October 30th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
Amy’s Cakes and The Coffee Ethic go hand in hand here in downtown Springfield, MO.
I think I have had a sample of each of these fine establishments more times than I can count on one hand just this week. Luckily I have several other fat kids to share these amazing cinnamon creations with. I mean walking in to a bakery and having a still warm cinnamon roll handed to you is a rare treat that should be maintained like clockwork. I mean is it glutiness if I find out what time they come out of the oven so that I can make sure I get the warmest, most gooiest, sweetest center of the batch cinnamon roll each day I am able?
Good God this stuff is GOOD! Damn good!
I remember back in high school we were served cinnamon rolls with chili. Let me tell you that combo is awesome! Try dipping your cinnamon roll in your chili sometime. You know you like it.
// October 26th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
So while J-Pow is out rocking the cross world I am sitting on my bubble butt and not doing a darn thing. I am so excited about doing nothing and not having to even think about pedaling a bicycle for a while. To the amazement of several friends nothing shall be done in the form of exercise for the next 4 to 5 weeks. Complete sedentary lifestyle….or completely normal american lifestyle is being lived whole heartedly.
oh and a little input in regards to the fantasy camp…..this is the REAL DEAL treatment that we pro’s do not even get at times. It will be totally worth it! Everything goes!
// October 21st, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Uncategorized
Missing Saddle is proud to announce its first edition of their Fantasy Cycling Camp to be held in Tucson, Arizona from January 14th through the 17th at The Westin La Paloma resort and spa. This unique fantasy camp will provide attendees a realistic pro cycling team camp experience. Pro cycling celebrity hosts include Danny Pate (Garmin-Slipstream), Mike Friedman (Garmin-Slipstream), Ted King (Cervelo Test Team), Brad Huff (Jelly Belly Cycling Team) as well as Danny Van Haute, Director Sportif (Jelly Belly Cycling Team).
For four (4) days and three (3) nights attendees will ride with the fantasy camp pro cycling hosts and take part in team meetings run by Van Haute. Full technical, medical, food and beverage support from fantasy camp staff and fantasy camp sponsors will be provided from Thursday through Sunday. The Westin La Paloma, the Southwest’s premier resort destination will provide luxury accommodations starting with the picturesque setting of the resort itself to the meals created specifically for elite cyclists and after ride spa treatments at the Red Door Spa.
Additional highlights and amenities of the MissingSaddle.com Fantasy Cycling Camp include but not limited to: “Team” Cycling Kits, “Team and individual pictures as well a personalized DVD highlight film for each attendee, sponsor provided gift packages, multiple receptions and special “cycling film” night with cocktails and a rider to attendee ratio never to exceed 8 to 1 at all times.
On-line registration is now open. For more information or to register go to www.fantasycyclingcamp.com, email info@missingsaddle.com
Also to note Mike Friedman will be performing his world record attempt at stuffing marshmellows in his mouth! The current record is 149, but through out Mike’s childhood/adulthood he would regularly stuff 100 in at a time and sing his favorite Alvin and the Chipmunks songs! Please come see this special historical moment frozen in time in your brain for years to come!
// September 18th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
I averaged 10 mph. I got home and immediately feel asleep like I had just done a death stage of the Tour of Missouri again. Blown
// September 14th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // Uncategorized
I held on for dear life as many days as I could in the Tour of Missouri, only to have the load be to great on the final day. I had no idea how I would fair coming in to this huge race as my training was a little limited by an angry intercostal separation or two. This race was NO joke and coming in to it with sub par training and health is not the way one should start a 2.HC stage race. As I clung to life each day it was very apparent that I would no be seeing much of the real race, but more so staring desperately towards the front of the race praying for them to slow down.
I wish I could have performed better, but I could have wished for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and had a better chance of getting what I wanted.
Thank God I survived…sort of.
// September 1st, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Uncategorized
Its time has come and the Tour of Missouri will begin in less than a week. The build up for this insane race has been good but not optimal considering my ribs are a little slow to heal from my high speed get off….well not so high speed considering we were all holding our breath through every corner in downers grove a few weeks ago.
I had the funniest thing happen on a ride the other day, but I think that it would be mean to post. OK OK it is actually not funny at all, but scary and painful.
Lets just say all out intervals up a 200 meter hill, I’m talking two fat guys going as hard as they can up a hill, then one of them blowing out an O because of the intense pressure. Weird, bizarre, painful, deep sorrow, and hilarious. I am sorry it was.
// August 18th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized
Rain racing is not my bag I have to say. Criterium Nationals this year was a full on rain race. The best criterium riders amassed on the Downers Grove course to through the dice at a 100km race with way too many high speed turns in the rain ahead of them. As a professional race should be, it was very controlled and very safe….for the first 40 laps. Then all hell broke loose. Riders were crashing left and right as the speed slowly crept faster and faster as the end approached. I was one of the many that crashed hard in turn 7 and had to limp back to the pit. This marked the 2nd time I have had to take off my shoes in order to get back to the pit or finish line in as my bike had taken the worst of the crash. Luckily I was not hurt, but many others were not so lucky on this day. I think worst of all was Frank Pipp, who will be walking very gently for a while I think?
Uggg I hate crit racing in the rain. Especially when I am riding like a Honda Civic stuck in 3rd gear. Great weekend, great!
I will say that my Jelly Belly team members fully picked up the/my slack and performed very well, the highlight of the weekend was Jeremy Powers taking 3rd in the ProAm the night before!
// August 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Tour of Missouri is going to be totally insane from all aspects of the sport.
From the starts to the finishes to the towns in between. I have been able to take part in a few days of media tour this week and I have to say that the local communities backing each stage of the Tour of Missouri is going to be amazing.
I HIGHLY recommend that people come from all around to enjoy this event as this is not some local fishing contest! This is the real deal brother!
But maybe Pro Bass……..I mean Bass Pro won’t take offense to me down playing spinner bait? I mean those large mouth sure do kick hard. Although unless you have seen the final kilometers of a bike race ripping in to town you don’t understand the difference!
// August 5th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Uncategorized
http://www.tourofelkgrove.com/cm/PDFs/TOEG09coursesmap.pdf
seriously I have never done a race like that before, I think the total count of corners was each lap was around 27 or 83? I really cant remember because I cant remember any of the course but the smell of brake pads and the feel of burn in my legs as we sprinted out of every corner? We didn’t just do 1 lap either, we did 10 laps of the Road Race course and 55 laps of the crit course (which only had 5 corners). The whole weekend was full of 15 second intervals, which to me was more like a training race than anything else as everyone was just doing his best to keep up with the blistering pace that various teams were setting on the front of the race each day. With the main team controlling the race being Ouch. They did a great job, but got a little too ahead of themselves in the criterium as they fatigued a little early as a whole. Although they had me and everyone else on the ropes also, so what they were doing was working well.
Hopefully the intervals set me up well for the coming two weekends of racing?
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