Epic Weekend

what can i say. i needed a mental break from mankato. thursday morning i loaded up the car, two bikes, gear, gas, coffee. check. lets roll. headed to madison to see my brother.

i set out on hwy 14 heading east. swung through rochester and hooked up with drew wilson we took the singles out to the secret location and rode for a solid 2 hrs of climbs and decents. finishing the ride off with a run through the dirty dozen. back on the road i cruised out 90 to 94 and shot down into madison. get into town. beer check. herb why not, drunken night ride through the city, fuck yea. friday morning wake up. peters at work, head down to machinery row and get some parts, start tinkering with peters beater bike. pete comes home, grab the dog and head to blule mounds to do some hiking. wish we woulda brought the bikes, epic single track. hike for a while then head back to madison. what does the night have for us. more beer and riding.

wake up saturday morning. peters at a workshop all day, do some physics then head out with the banshee. road through town to quary park and promplty destoryed my self. road the pump track, drops, jumps, skinnys to the best of my abilities for an hour then headed to lunch. got lunch, came back, and rode with some more locals for a few hours, had  a great time. went home and had dinner with peter and sara.

sunday wake up, eggs, coffee, fix the beater bike then head to lacrosse to ride hpt. hpt is fucking killer rode roughly 20miles and could hardly stand. thanks to Jen and Crew from the bike shop for showing me around. drive back to mankato,hmm theres a package for me. what could it be? my Time Attacks! fucking great end to a great weekend.

quary park mad town wiscompton

just got done spending a day at quary park in madison wi. holy crap am i destroyed. the trail is close to theo length but soley made up of gap jumps, step ups, step downs, pump track, log rides, skinneys, etc.

if your ever in madison you need to check this place out. plus the locals there are super cool. met a lot of really rad people, and learned alot about bike handling. you could really mess yourself up here if your not careful. unfortunately i didnt have my camera with, so no pics.

i hate decisions

so i love the concept of 650b and would love to make this my race rig for the 2010 mnscs series
Haro Beasly SS 650b yo! 4130 cromo goodness.

However i would really love a cross bike that i could build up a nice road wheel set for, that way i would have two bikes in one road/cross and would be able to get out for some rides when trails are wet.

Masi Speciale CX

i can only afford one. what should i do.

cheating death

26.2 the sequel

so today i ran my second marathon. not gonna lie, this one was a lot harder than my last even though it was on the same course. simply put i spent way too much time on my bicycle this summer and not enough time running. then about a month out from the race i started having ridiculous leg pain when i ran. i could hardly even complete a single mile. i ordered up some new shoes and it  took care of the problem, except for the part were i was sicker than a dog right up till race day. so i hardly even ran in the month leading up to the race.

the race came, and went. the weather was beautiful, and i flew threw the first ten miles. i felt wonderful, at mile 13. my left knee started to hurt so bad i wanted to cry, but i pushed through. i was on pace for a 3:45 marathon at mile 20. then i completely hit the wall. i struggled through the last 6.2 miles, but was still able to finish with 3:54.58, or roughly about 18 min faster than last years race. so for being  ill prepared, i think i did pretty dam well.

high lights included Mara Larson from the mountain bike patrol telling me that she was feeling better than i would tomorrow. and Dave Brunning my BCR teammate have a icy cold PBR for me at just before the 26th mile. i crossed the line pounding a beer. fuck yea.

any way results can be found here you'll want to enter my first name, last name and bib number. ie. tim werts 2210 in the corresponding spots.