Burn you like the mid day sun.............

IT IS SO FRICKIN' HOT OUT THERE YOU GOTTA PISS EXCELLENCE AND BE ENDOWED WITH BALLS OF IRON TO RACE TONIGHT IN THIS HEAT............................

  

if Farrah says its hot, then it's hot.  

In this kind of heatwave you have to really think about your race preparation carefully.  You don't want to head out with insufficient water.  For god's sake look what happened to Evan Tanner.  Poor guy.  But aside from the obvious, you want to wear your coolest socks (mine are Assos Skin Web), and if can get away with it and break up your team kit you wear a lighter set of bib shorts (again, Assos).   If it's crazy hot I like to wear different, lighter shoes.

Last week I saw 2 guys crash at the same time, on the same corner.  Both had tires blow off.  I can't see that glass would have done that to 2 different guys.  I bet it was over-inflated tires in concert with the intense heat outside, and the heat of the brakes on that corner.  So I am keeping my tires at 110psi tonight so I don't eat pavement.

I like to throw my 2 race water bottles in the freezer for a while before I head out. I don't want them frozen, but a little slushy or frosty is good.  It really sucks when you are in the final third of the race and your water is hot.

I normally don't like wearing gloves.....but I know I'll be sweating like an Arch Bishop at Sunday school class if I don't......... and if I get to wet I can't hold onto my bars.

There's also a lot of accouterments that you also need to sort through prior to leaving to race.  I like to use chapstick so when I start getting dehydrated I can't really taste and feel the salts forming on my lips. I need to apply my skin conditioner/chamois cream at the last moment.  The last thing I want is to get more saddle sores.  Those little non-STD related bastards have ruined more than 1 race for me.

I like to also make sure I have the proper liquid chilled to perfection waiting for me as soon as I get home.  I don't think I've ever raced, or ridden for that matter, and not finished with a cold bier.

My only weakness

King for a day

Most of the time I ride at night.  Usually 9:30-11:00ish. If I am not doing a Spinervals or Carmichael DVD I do one of  my interval rides and I watch CP24.  It's good because it has a big clock that shows minutes and seconds so I can easily tell how long to do each set.  I also get to read the news.  Although, I am almost always listening to some sort of intense CD (see February's blog titles) and  I watch whichever news anchor is on.  Occasionally it's Gurdeep Ahluwalia, but most of the time, and if I am lucky its Farrah Nasser.  She loves her job.  She tells the news with a zeal and passion that few other anchorpersons have.  But  mostly she is just smokin' hot.  She is easily the best looking woman on CTV/CP24 but probably Canadian news in general.  I don't even need to hear her tell me what's up.  I can just tell if it's good news or bad.  But mostly, again, she is just really hot and I don't care what she is saying.  I wish she would come and cover one of our races.  I would make sure I somehow won/or crashed in that race  just so I could speak with her.   Afterall, I blew my chance with Dina a couple of years ago when I was at Breakfast Television.  Damnit.

                                      You're a dirty slut and I'm going to punch you in the ovaries.......

Tonight I am taking a night off.  For Christ's sake this blog is called Strong Beer, Strong Legs I can't just quit drinking just like that. I already eat way less food.  Dropped white bread and rice.  Eat almost no processed foods.   Tons less meat.  It makes me realize how shitty I was eating, even though it wasn't that bad.......I do start everyday with about 7 servings of fruit.  Tonight, however, I am having about 3 servings of beer.  Keller.  Not bad.  No Devil of a beer, but not bad.

Today Rob D'Amico came in to the store.  He tells me that Z-Team and Wheels of Bloor have merged.   I don't know whether to be upset and disheartened or just stay the course and hope that they incur some infighting and blow a team gasket.  Who the hell will be their team leader?!?!?!  Rob is probably the best (read: smartest) racer but Ian  and/or Bruce are strong as hell, and that's just the tip of the Iceberg.  They have Radek, Mike Peshco, Vic Pwu...........Christ they don't have any weak riders.  All these fucking guys just came back from Cuba and were flying down there.  Hell, Vic is going to Tenerife soon.

At least Marc and I are racing in Florida next month.  Oh, and Marco got hurt last night.  So he may be out for the season.  Crap.

I won't sleep well tonight.  Especially if I think about Farrah.