Eric Day's Sacred 8speed Scroll

"For me its always that day when everyone has been so busy that you somehow run out of 5m ferrules and everyone gets really quiet until someone poses the question, "so we aren't a bike shop anymore?" This is when you should panic, but you dont. You realize youve been panicking ever since that day two weeks ago when the star racer your shop ... Read Moresponsors decided to install his new pedals one hour before the big crit without the mechanical insight of the Wright Bros. Somehow you managed to install a new crankset in time for him to make the start. Youre pretty sure that you didnt forget anything and dont want to double check the torque specs because youre not-so-confident that you know them by heart. In hindsight, maybe you shouldn't have pushed yourself so hard for stupid rich people that break their bikes when they really should know better. Maybe you should get some kind of prize for working so hard at a seasonal job. Decent lights, ventilation, a window? Healthcare?"

making the leap

i think i am going to make the leap

i am feeling the most pressure right now

no, i am not referring to moving to sram because contador pwned the field today

i think i might get on facebook because mayhew invited me and myspace is shitting the bed

What else could i do to better stalk Adam Myerson. What else could i do to see my peers power number and how many rice cakes they ate for lunch. All i know is, that i have messages on myspace (that probably arent that important) and i can't read them. I havnt had a valid friend request in a long time. Even though escorts are human beings, i will not be friends with them on the internet!

Tastyland

Yesterday, we rode to tastyland in greensburg for ice cream. I ate a blueberry cheesecake soft serve cone.


I have ridden 190miles this week. I rode poorly at the ACA picnic, but i feel like my legs are coming back. Cross season might be more than me just getting drunk at every race. At this rate tho, i will have a lower tolerance for alcohol, and a higher chance of throwing up.

Great news for everyone except for the Mayhew clan and the Mayhew Volvo

Attn: ED KRALL

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/horner-reveals-logic-behind-astana-tour-selection

If EKR hits USGP, i know a mechanic that has experience pitting for cyclocross.....

When it almost seemed like it wouldnt happen

I shit solid today. It took a fucking week! So lets recap
Friday night loose bowels, threw up all fucking night. On the hour, set you watch to it. Blech

Saturday- No poo, no vomit. I drink gatorade, water, and eat some corn chips. Horrendous abdominal pain, and general body discomfort. Stay home from work

Sunday- Go to work, still no poo no vom. I eat a little bit of pizza crust and munch on corn chips. Go out to Red Robin with my dad for fathers day. Eat half of a whiskey river burger and a handful of fries. Stomach pains increase. No vom. 915 the poo hits. On the hour all goddamn night. A lot of bathroom time compared to the past 24 hours.

Monday poo fountain continues until i take 2 immodium. At this time I recouped and stayed home from work AGAIN. I eat the brat diet and try to drink fluids. I am losing it at this point. I have tried to catch up on news, bike news, movies, et al. I need to get out of the house.

Tuesday, i go back to work. No poo. Very little appetite, i eat a samosa and 1.5 cuts of pizza. drink some soda, drink some gatorade, drink some ginger ale.

Wednesday Feeling weak but on the mend sorta. I play a show with da band and feel great for the first 3 songs. I slowly degrade through the last 6. Feel whiped out afterwards.

Thursday- poo fountain returns. Missy Wright, sufferer of stomach flu this year, tells me to stop eating until the poo stops, then hit brat diet. I started feeling like i was going to pass out. I was weak, my head was caving in. I needed caffiene, food, probably ice cream. I nibbled on some pizza but kept it cool. I was breaking the rules.

Friday poo stopped around noontime thursday, today i felt A.O.K. and took a solid shit for the first time in one week at 4.35 PM.

I should start labeling blogs (sick) because not only have i noticed my self being really really sick this year, but it is a time that i blog alot.

Hmmm

I would like to thank my lovey Carolyne for taking care of me. I would like to thank Missy for the leadout even though i ate a doughnut last night, and all of the Pro Bikes customers who listened to me audibly fart and curse or waited for the end of poo fountain.

Whoops!

Aaron Shelmire let me know that both races i was talking a out were this weekend at the same time

Without a time rift or space continuum i would have missed one rather than pooping my brains out and missing both!

Bananas, Rice, applesauce, toast

goal blogging

i blog alot of goals on here, that way when i go back in time to see how funny i am, i see that i had set goals for myself that i didnt come close to reaching. This year i dont believe that i layed it out there as much in hopes to save my self future anguish. For example, one goal i had for myself was to go back to races that i did poorly at and do better, AKA finish. Appalachian classic and Ft. Cherry Road Race.

Ft cherry was this weekend. I was, and still am sick with a stomach flu. Friday night i couldnt stop throwing up, saturday i was in bed all day. Sunday i worked and went out for fathers day, and sunday night and today i payed for that decision by not being able to get off the toilet.

the classic, the race where i dropped out to spend some quality time in a west virginia bathroom with a skinsuit around my ankles, is coming up and i don't think i'll have the gusto to get down there or the fitness cause i havnt really been riding as much as i would like. Bummer Summer.

I can always project and try and get to the NJ state fair cyclocross at the end of July, that whole thing was a hoot two years ago.

my most recent goal has been to do all of the ride out of Oscar Swans "Bike rides out of pittsburgh" book. It is going to take me forever, but it has been really fun so far.