Let the o-ten begin

By o-ten, i of course am reffering to the confusing new challenge we have when stating the year 2010. After 9 years of adding an "o" to the front of the year number, we now have to pull ourselves away from the conditioning and calmly say "ten".

I digress. The 2010 training season has begun here in Las Cruces NM. I didnt know what to expect coming here aside that i knew matt busche is a great guy to ride with. On our first ride i saw a dog run across the street and yelled "wild dog!" which it was not. All in all, aside from being completly green as far as my readyness to ride a bike, things have gone well in these first two weeks. The house is good, we went to Tucson/Pheonix to pick up chad hartley last week, so theres surely no shortage of dude in this house.

The diet has changed, which i was pretty cool with, but last night i remember dreaming about a ton of melted cheese mixed in with what can only be described as a bowl of "hot awful". I woke up and kind of shrugged it off, but now i am just a bit uneasy with the entire situation. Interesting, eh?

In other news, Kenda released the new jersey which is pretty exciting, cant wait to get a box full of new things to wear:

Thats sweet id say. Today we get to ride and then head back to tucson for the weekend for some Mt. Lemmon action. I am personally looking to redeem myself after spending at least an hour yesterday cutting the bead off my old tires and placing them in my new tires, only to find you are NOT supposed to cut them to make them smaller. That was a total bummer.

Well thats a good update for now. Tough life man, tough. life.

Halloween and New Mexico

Halloween. Some see it as an oppertunity for being naked in public. Some see it as a chance to paint something on their body to make it look better. Some make it look worse. And others spend 2 hours at home depot, 3 seconds at target, and 5 hours in their basement to create this:

As you can see, not only was it genious, but also effective. Noone was even trying to get close to me in that thing... oh yes, i am in there. If i retracted my arms and face into the cone, it did a great job of holding my place in line at bar louie. I really dont need to write about it, i need to put more pictures up.

So yes, that happened. I tried to win a costume contest by standing next to it even knowing i hadn't entered it (JJ was there too) and i hear over the loudspeaker "would pooh bear and the traffic cone please leave the stage, you cant win." Oh well, i am convinced i would have won. Annie was a gangster and however overshadowed she felt by both my excitement about the cone and its actual looming presense in a room, it was still a good costume. So holloween was interesting. Its tough to move around in a bar dressed as a huge traffic cone.

In other recent news, I moved to New Mexico yesterday. The drive was a bit tough (not as hard as the leaving) but thats ok. The Matrix lost a hub cap (which is apparently called a "wheel cover"), making my car look super ghetto and making me super upset.

So it was clearly a big week. Had my first ride today. Found some food, met up with Mathew Buche and hit the wal-mart which was enormous (the store, not the meeting up), and things are going pretty well. The most horrifying moment so far was shaving my legs and finding out that all the fat i accumulated in my long offseason went right to my ankles, or what used to be ankles and now just look like a continuation of my leg. gonna have to work that issue out pronto... im spanish!

enjoy your time doing what it is your doing, my free time is phenominal so if you need some busy work done, send it on over, 10 bucks an hour, it will get done. i might even spill some wal-mart style salsa on it, which is awesome.

adios