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The First Half of the First Trip of the Season

Since I am not one to play catch up this will only be a quick recap of the first week of our four week trip. There will be much better coverage of the events as they unfold for the rest of the season. After driving for 26 hours straight through, from Colorado Springs, CO to Trexlertown, Pa, Kevin “Pit Bull” Selker. Ryan “Frankenstein” Luttrell, Mike “Toolbox” Hall, and I arrived for our first weekend of racing in the National Track Calendar for the 2006 Season. Our races were scheduled for Saturday June 3 and the following Friday June 10th. Not much to speak of. We are still getting our track legs under us, and the fields where stacked with European racers, which made for very fast racing. And unfortunately Ryan and I rode quite possible the toughest Madison of our lives simply because of our lack of positioning through the entire race. We ended up racing from the back and riding above the blue line for most of the race meaning that we ended up riding about 33% farther than the...

Welcome!

So after sitting in Topton, Pa for the last week, I decided that I needed to start a blog for a couple of reasons. First off, I am sure everyone is wondering how the racing is going. Secondly, I have managed to find quite a few interesting things on the internet in the past week. Maybe because I have searched the internet for almost 30 hours this week, since it is the only thing to entertain oneself in this town of less than 2000 people. And lastly because of the amount of free time I have found myself with while traveling as a rider on the SPiKE Professional Cycling Team. Unfortunately we do not currently have a website but I am sure they are working on that for next season. I will post in the coming weeks more about the team. Therefore welcome to my little place on the web and a start of my new hobby while I travel, adn please bare with me as it will take a few days for this thing to get up an running, but I have many ideas to make this not just your boring cycling web blog.