Typically this is the time of year everyone who races bikes (myself included) starts getting excited about the upcoming season, so I'll start there. My motivation for racing bikes pretty much got really low as the season progressed earlier this year. I had been thinking about it off and on for the last couple years, so after the Tulsa Tough in June, I decided I was going to leave the Evoke/Undiscovered team that I had been on the last 5 years or so. There's really no one big reason, more like a lot of little nagging issues that kept adding up and eventually, personally for me, made it not any fun anymore.
Anyway, next year I'm going to be racing on the DNA Racing Team. More on this later, but needless to say, I'm back to being excited for next year. So I got my training plan all lined out and started into the preparation phase, got a week into it, and then last week I got the worst case of the flu that I think I've ever had. I haven't done any exercise or riden my bike in over a week, but I should be good to ease back into it in a couple of days.
Another big "going on" so to speak, I started building my first bike frame from scratch in May and finally got it completed in September. It was a pretty fun project and I hope to do another one at some point soon. It's basically my commuter bike that I ride to work now and due to the fact that I've had to sell most of my other bikes to pay for the Trek Emonda I rode last season, It's currently my only bike.
I've got a 12 video series of the process on my youtube channel, but here's a quick video I made that skims through the whole thing-
Well, that's it for now. I think I can try a little harder to do more than 6 posts a year..
