Jefferson Cup-A perfect day!

Yeah Mike! Keep your hands on the bars dude; it's no time to play around! Is that a smile?

Bill-always attacking.

D-Bo! Love the new wheels!

On my cloud.


A well deserved meal after a great day. Chipotle: the best place ever! Take a close look at the light. How cool is that?

And check this out...I was just at the race to have fun, see some friends, and support, however, I still get my photo taken. I was on my bike racing against Jess in her car(I did beat her once) and apparently I had my photo taken. That's how I train...I race cars. Try it, it works! Here's the picture. Splendid! Take pictures of the racers, not me!

Grand Prix de Santa Ana

In order to check out the progress of the Grand Prix de Santa Ana, I had to dig up some Español skills that I haven't used in forever. What are you looking for? STT(Schick Target Training)! Root for them! Their clothing is made by Champion Systems; same people we're getting our clothing from-awesome stuff. Good ol' Charlie does not recommend the white shorts-what a bummer! I think my rump would look spectacular in white cycling shorts Charlie! A bit late in the game, but i'll have to design something else. The cyclocross skinsuits...they're gonna be on fire! Check out all the links!

Finally, Manimal action.

Here are some pictures from the race! It's about time I start racing! I'm kinda like Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting; he's a math genius but doesn't apply himself-I was the same way with riding and racing. Not any more!

We have a kick-ass team! We all had a great performance. My director sportif and coach, Rob, decided to join the race and was involved in a crash. I dedicate my win to Rob! Also, I dont have to hear Andy yell at me anymore. Everytime I see him, the first thing he says is "you better win!"(EVERYONE tells me that; it's a lot of pressure guys! ok, not really.) I swear, I heard that so much from him, I'm surprided that I haven't seen a billboard on the road saying "you better win!" with Andy's face beside it. Or on TV- "pardon the interruption, but Andy wants to tell Steven that 'he better win!' Ok, now back to the program..." Jess was in town and had to leave before the race, but she decided to delay her departure so she could be my #1 motivator, supporter, podium girl....etc. Her mom and pops even joined her to come support me. Awesome!



For the win!
Podium girls: Jess and Susan!

Oh baby, oh baby

So today i decided to go to Afton, Va and do more hill riding. It took me 2 hours to get out of Chesapeake because of traffic(cars suck!). I didn't know what was holding traffic up and I didn't want to find out-I just found an alternate way to get off my island. Check out the wierd truck I saw. It looks like a small truck in the bed of a larger truck? I've never seen a truck like it before-kinda wierd I think. I'm not always the smartest guy, but i had to take a picture of that. It's a bit difficult trying to take a picture of the car in front while using the zoom feature! Yeah...the zoom really screws up your perception when you're looking at the camera display and driving. It's like driving with binoculars-it seems like the car is 5 feet away but it's really half a mile up the road. Freaky! Oh right, I finally started my ride at 12:30. whew! After my long day of driving and riding, I found out that my new TT helmet came in. It's sick! It even matches "the shark!" Even though it may look like it, i'm not wearing it around my house-it's back in the box. Come to think of it, I don't know why women like men who are cyclist; we're always trying to get a faster time. Sorry, random thoughts popping out. Later!

Is that crazy looking or what? Or do I just have mental problems?

You see, thats the damn zoom! Try to picture going 70mph and looking at that through a screen and the car is actually way up the road.

Even I'd have to say thats pretty gay.

More blogity blog bike stuff

Any ideas on what this is?

Almost there...The new shop is kicks-ass! I know someone who has hand towels in her bathroom with the same colors. Wierd coincidence when i saw that.

Gucci build of the day. Roi bicycles-first time i've seen/heard of these guys. Just another carbon bike really.

This is a don't! That applies to Rob's stylish fashon and posing like that next to another guy. Not a good image.

I don't know about other people, but cutting up a carbon bike ALWAYS makes my day better.

Where's my parachute?

I'm out riding the shark! (Should have used the carbon wheels, they would have helped out) That was actually in the parking lot of a Food Lion(start of the DDTT) that just so happens to be the explanation for the Food Lion nickname of "Ghetto Cat." Yeah...we were potiential targets for robbery-driving around with bikes on the roof and wearing spandex. later on, After my hard day of riding, I almost busted my chin open for a 4th, 5th and 6th time trying to walk up stairs. Yeah, I fell 3 times going up and down stairs. My legs were noodles. My time trial needs imporvements, so it's time to start the "ride til you puke" program.

Some things bother me

There isn't much to say about this one because it's oh, so obvious! I dont know what anyone else thinks about this, but I like to think that i'm normal, and seeing "industrial strength" on a can on pasta sauce raises some questions in my mind; questions that i'm not too comfortable with. Whatever it is that crazy, old Newman is up to, it's definitely in the wrong direction.