so

so since i dont really like recapping races i'll give you a quick rundown on whats been happnin and then go on to somethinginteresting. state rr was pretty good, got 3rd. joe martin was ok got 13th in the rr, nothing really in the tt or crit. tulsa was ugh, it was hot and i crashed and the last day got cancelled. winghaven was hot, and i have never wanted to lay down and curl up in a ball more during a race.

As most of you know who read this blog, i am a person who cares about appearance. I like to look fresh both on and off the bike. on the bike one of the most important elements of image is one's sunglasses. I like to observe the newly formed trend of "radarspotting". this involves spotting the new trend of wearing eyewear that is crazy colored and doesnt necessarily match one's kit. I also like to see some sweet oakley radars that pro's get to have but no one else can get near. Think of the inevitable vino turned millar retina burns before they were released to the masses, only to be quickly spotted on the dome of justin macsilfiijspofnaokovich, and then keaton.













we'll start off with one that anyone who payed any attention to the spring classics will recognize. here is fabian cancellara's orange beauties. they would complement the mesa kit perfectly.












next we'll go with an offering that some may have seen, definatly if they belong to OREC, but these radars only appeared to be pro only. they are actually womens. they were only really spotted this year, but the picture i have is from last year, when t mobile still existed.









now we have an interesting pair. the gold radars, or used to be m frames. glasses that can only be obtained by winning a tour stage.











Now on to one that i have only seen once, these almost "thinglike" radars modeled by valverde.
















One trend that oakley had back in the 80's and 90's was the splatter frame. it has seen somewhat of a revival but only in the pro peleton.
here we have fabian with world champion colors splattered on white frames.

here is hincapie wearing possibly some national champ splatters

and finally here is mcewen with the australian flag colors arranged in splatter
















here are a few ones that have popped up very recently. first is the new celeste colored radars, first shown to me by adam leibovitz in some pictures he took in europe, with mr phinney modeling them smugly.

next we have Florian Vogel from the recent world cup mtb race wearing the same.


and finally from that same day mr geoff kabush modeling a sweeeeet purple pair, ey.















the final pair i would like to show, i cannot. It was a pair i have only seen once. displayed by dave zabriskie in the prologue of the 2007 tour. they appeared to be blinged out with rhinestones. if ANYONE has the 12hour dvd collection and would let me borrow the first disc to confirm or deny my suspicion that would be ideal. i will leave you with a long distance picture of him, which only confirms that they are sparkly and silver.

yea.

So. I dont really feel like talking about the far past. I'll go back to tour of stl. It was pretty fun. We pretty much took it by storm. Chief Wallace took the Carondelet crit, 5th at fopo, 3rd? in the tt, and 1st overall. Graham took 3rd at Carondelet 2nd? in the tt and 2nd or 3rd overall. Adam took 1st in the tt and 1st in the fopo crit and 3rd or 4th overall. Pretty killer. Fopo was a blast. I went down to New Orleans friday and saturday to visit Loyola New Orleans. I didnt really like the school but the city was awesome. I sampled lots of southern delicacies. Such as praline bacon, boudin balls, beerbq shrimp, fried oysters w/ bleu cheese, collared greens and the best omelet ive ever had. I raced washington on sunday. It was a pretty fun but hard course. Two killer hills. There was a nasty crash, and they neutralized us with 5 to go. So we started and raced 5 laps, getting back up to speed pretty quick. I was able to come around and take the final corner fast and first, and sprint to victory. my first 3's victory. I heard from Jon Gohl that i had 5 bike lengths by the time i crossed the line. I dual posted it, but of course, no one got any pictures.

sprinting

before the dual post i guess.

it's not february.

Thanks austin for reminding me. Life is going well. Froze toes went well, with Chief Wallace taking the 3/4 race. I went to mesa today and got re-fit, got some Speedplay zero stainless. Dropped my stem down, so it doesnt look like a boner anymore. It's good now. Glad to see that you're reading my blog Katie. How is Philly?

its february

just trying to keep this thing up to date. no one else really cares....Training is going well. I'm excited for the season. Life is good.

funny

this blog has been cracking me up lately. i really like the thing about the guy doing bike fits. funny shit.

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007/12/worst-of-nyc-craigslist-38-41.html

more bad

yeah i forgot another bad thing. I totalled my car the first day of winter break. My beloved subie has hit the dust. She had a good life. It was fitting that she went out to the point where she is undriveable. I could never actually see getting rid of her. I was backing out of my friend caitlin's driveway and got trucked by a H1. I was given a "failure to yield" ticket, but thats still pending. I have another court date so we'll see.

so blogger is being stupid... but i can beat you blogger....

http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001597&l=5f076&id=1307790285

so yea. put on my members only jacket yesterday, handfulls of glass in the pockets. it was in the trunk when the accident happened. but i found a possible replacement the other day. A 2002 honda civic si hatchback. sick nast. i hope i get it.

oh and i got my braces off. my teeth are alot bigger than i remember...i feel like michael boogerd.