2nd week gone and so is the 3rd

well starting work right with my training starting has cause an interesting shift in my energy level and motivation. i simply cannot get up in the morning and do my workouts, so i talked it over with Kathy (my coach) and she said it would be fine for now to just lump them all after work...whoopee ha, so i am getting my work done, i havent lost any fingers or toes yet due to the sub-freezing temps outside, tho i have lost my mind due to all the invoicing that i do at work... it's strange loosing track of time and the days and all that. i've had a couple really good workouts and a couple good nights out. 

i'm still getting ridiculed for my workouts due to other peoples lack of knowledge of the purpose of the workouts...i find it funny that they're telling me to watch out or i'll get burnt out when they havent finished a season healthy ever. oh well i just love to show you i can when you say i can't.

on the sponsorship front...i have signed some new sponsors!

i'm VERY EXCITED to announce SKINS as a sponsor! I bought my fist pair of skins just before my first NAtional Championship last year. I had a 12 hour drive and i read everything i could about compression technology and i discovered that Skins was the best so i bought a pair of their tights. made the 12 hour drive to richmond, got funny looks at all the gas stations and andwhere i stopped, which i'm used to actually as many triathlete/duathletes are, especially the guys (men with shaved leggs wearing tight lyrca walking carefull so you dont slip in your cleats usually draw all kinds of attention...) anyways, my legs were so fresh the next day it was like i didnt even drive the 12 hours the day before, the things are great! oh i also went on to win my age group there at Nationals. so from then on i was hooked, i bought another pair knowing i would be road tripping out west all summer. i wear them before every race and any trip over 3 hours, i wore them to italy, i warmed up in them at the world championships, i wore then at the sprint tri National championships, heck i even wore then while i was driving down to georgia a couple of weeks ago when i didnt even have a reason other than knowing i wouldnt feel like crap the next day. heck i even have a picture of myself on the podium at the sprint Nationals wearing them.

Also I am sooooooper excited about adding Isaac Bikes as a sponsor. i will be riding the isaac Impulse and the Isaac Joule Aerotic this year. Both amazing bikes, with a bunch of science behind them (which i love!) the word is that Isaac is named after Sir Isaac Newton, you know the guy with the apple and the equal and opposit reaction...well SIN (hmmm, maybe i should make his name an acronym...) studied nature and found it has laws, that it doesnt just randomly chaoticly all work together(tho sometimes i have my doubts on this) Well this inspired the fellas enough to base their bikes off the laws of nature and the forms of nature. things like the headtube is shaped like an egg...sounds weak, but have you ever tried to crush an egg in one hand, if you havent i highly encourage it, newton theorised that the egg was the strongest lightest natural form (i would think he's right) next there are no joints in the bike, it's all one flowing piece, much like everything else in nature there are no joints because they promote weakness, and where there is a joint(you DO NOT SMOKE IT) it is reinforced (think Bamboo) and then you have the stearer tube, it's modeled after a tree, thicker on the base than at the top, this is because more foce is put on the base of the stearer than at the top (back to the reinforcing thing right?)...i mean really the list goes on, they are fantastic bikes not to mention beautiful, and hey it never hurts if guy's in OREC approve.

and while i'm at it i'd like to exted a thank you to the guys at FLUID who were there for me last year and who stand with me this year. you make a great product and one that truely works. 

i'm in talks with a couple others, i am just waiting to sign one, and trying to understand another (stinkin legal mumbo-jumbo)...but i'll keep all 3 of you who read this updated. thanks for stopping by i'm fixin to go swim...after i run or ride...

oH one last think, i like swimming and i'm getting better...watch out now!

also! i lied this is the last thing, if you want to buy a hat kinda like the one you see in my picture let me know i make em, prices range from 20-50 just shoot me an email...