cold foraging

things have been pretty slow around here. i've been a crazed maniac, a willy wonka meets hunter s. thompson flurry of activity, in my obsession with high end light bike parts.

i have two new bikes which i will unveil with photos on here soon... for now i will only say that even Murphy was impressed when I took my new Epic Marathon out of the box at just over 25 lbs and had it down to 23.5 in about an hour... the kicker is that i have some wheels and rotors on the way that are going to bring it down to 22 lbs. fo' real.

next up is a tarmac pro. i put my cosmic carbones with some conti sprinters on there and am going to ride it this morning... it's tough. i also put a pair of ksyrium es's on my S-works cx bike to train on and will be racing on the Carbones with some Dugasts that Sven sent me next fall... life is swell in my little world.

lastly, i have been cold foraging lately. i put in 17 hours last week and am working on 18 this week, all outside. while some folks call winter training cold forging, i call it cold foraging. i basically ride around freezing my ass off for hours thinking about food. the only problem is the cold weather has slowed my brain so much that by the time i get home and try to bring the feast all together i leave out crucial elements. for example... i made chili for jen and i to have for lunch on wed morning, so after 4.5 hrs of pedaling i wanted some bad-ass nachos. i went to schnucks to buy sour cream and tortillas and came home with 2 bottles of wine, 2 cartons of silk chocolate soy milk (mix that with chocolate endurox and you recover like rehab), some nachos and some brussell sprouts that looked tasty. i totally forgot the sour cream, a must have. so i pull a cork and start to make my nachos. at this point i'm starved and piling it on. tortillas, chili, cheese... it looks grand but wtf, where's the sour cream? while looking in the fridge i see the big jar of jalapenos staring back at me which really pissed me off...

Brokeback Brady??? My hero likes goats?? EVEN BETTER! Bahhaahhaaaa