matts cycling blog

Friday, April 20, 2007

Sea otter 2.0

Friday, December 08, 2006

Pretty solid week, lifted 3 times so far, probably go again today. Riding has been good I've put a good 12 hours in so far, and still have a few rides planned for the weekend.
Averaged 280 watts for spin class this week no idea if thats good or not.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

bad luck

Hello all,
First off I would like to thank Jeremey and Team Wisconsin for all there support in my trip to Rhode Island. Now to the bad news, the chain stay on my cross bike is pretty much cracked in half. I'm not sure how it happened maybe when I crashed at montrose? I could deffinatly tell something was not feeling right though on my ride today. The trip is almost for sure not going to happen.....

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

cx nats

I decided last minute to make the trip out to Rhode Island for cyclo cross nats. I've been running alot and i'm still quick on the bike. So hopefully I will do well.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Ouch!

Hi Matt,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the fine reports from the Tour de l’Abitibi have finally caught up with you. I see here that the exalted chief commissaire, Claude Deschaseaux fined you 30 Swiss Francs during the event. We have paid the UCI on your behalf and now need to be reimbursed. That amounts to $27 in American dollars. Please contact me about paying this. Thanks.

Shawn Farrell

Technical Director

Monday, November 21, 2005

Our fearless leader

Double Weekend

The chicago cross race on saturday was rough. I only raced b's, because I had to get back for the wca banquet. Aaron slipped off the front and no one chased. So, it was a win for team wisconsin. I ended sprinting for 2nd with a Joe farris never heard of him. I got cocky and went to early into the win and he nipped me at the line.
Sunday was the wisconsin state title race. I had the jrs race first. Which was a little bit harder then it normally is. I went hard from the start trying to gap everyone and then ease up and rest for the senoirs race. I ended up getting a 30 second lead and held it there for the rest of the race. Another State jersey YEAH! The B race was Extremely tough. There was an alan guy from out of state who pushed the pace super hard from the start. Jack Hirt and myself were the only ones who got lucky and were able to bridge up. By Mid race we had a 45 second gap. I was hanging on for dear life. Not wanting jack to win the overall or the state title. Gasping for air I finally popped with half a lap to go.... Jack won the jersey, but all was not lost. I stopped a foot before the line so tom got 3rd and myself 4th. So Tom should win the overall by 5 points. I got an earfull from some of jacks friends his "goons" as I call them now haha. They weren't to happy about the move I pulled stopping before the line, but thats team work you gotta do what you gotta do to win.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Super IQ

So... Way to cold to ride today. It was snowing on my way home from school, scary. I got bored, and took the super IQ test and got a 100 so that sucks. Jeremey is 31 points ahead of me. Anyway last night I went for my first run of the year, ran out to pets and back. All together about 6 miles, my knees didn't hurt so that was cool. Might go do it again tonite since im to lazy to ride.