Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

heres a few borrowed photos from san jose, ill write up a report tomorrow

watch out, she’ll get ya, just ready to pounce

this is petuna, the guard dog at the holloways place we are staying at up here in san jose,watch out, she is vicious haha

off up to San Jose today for the AVC up there, two days of track racing and then driving back down saturday night for the manhatten beach gp on sunday, so should be a very tired muppet come sunday night!
legs are feeling ok, knocked out a mint ride yesterday up a climb over 1000m which had a magic view of a big lake etc, ill take my camera up there next week im definately going to head back up there.
not much else to report really, here’s hoping we make a bit of tin this weekend

and at four o’clock in the avo as well, musta been having to many jars at the woodbourne tavern

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2526883/Drunk-truck-driver-in-bizarre-milk-spill

raced at the san pedro gp yesterday here in LA, right by the port, was pretty cool.
it was really hot and had a major false flat leading up to the finish line with a block head wind which made it interesting to say the least.
hash and me were up against it with rock racing having 6 guys, plus alot of local teams really well represented.
without going into great detail it all came down to a big bunch sprint, with me leading out into the false flat headwind in the 11 and drilling it with hash on my wheel, i dropped him off about 75 meters from the line with everyone completely strung out and……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………hash had one of the biggest brain melts i have ever witnessed, and forgot to sprint. he kinda coasted past me thinking he had it won and rahsaan rolled him on the line, so the chocolate rocket got the win.
looking back on it its quite funny now, but safe to say i wasnt to pleased after the finish hahaha, almost pulled out a wrestling move and dived off the top tube of my bike at him and clotheslined him but after a wee roll down it was all sweet.
training went well today, knocked out a decent five hours with a 1000m climb in it that we found out the back of some canyon, so that was awesome! then hash witnessed some guys actually being arsonists and starting a fire in a gully then all the fire department turning up asap, its really dry here so fire danger must be really high, apparently the helicopter turned up straight away with a monsoon bucket. serious stuff!
got track racing end of this week so hopefully be flying at that and in the money! 

got dished out some new team kit the other day which is all spiffing and new, gordy&pammys company NFS/ creative energy have come on board to hook us up all our race and recovery products, hats off to them i say!

i quite like the red on the top, breaks it up a bit, also got some kick ass speed suits too which look mint,
just a standard day training here, got a race tomorrow so probably knock out three hours easy today

things have just been ticking along over here, got a race coming up on sunday in san pedro, which should be good, go a bit of money up for it as well so wll hopefully be sticking my nose in there to pick up a bit of that!
weather is finally improving, just training in shorts and top which is mint, especially after spending all last year in the winter its finally nice to be able to train without arm or leg warmers on!! speaking of new kit got the new subway/avanti team tops over here now, with a flash new sponsor on them, ill take a photo tonight and chuck it on here.
watching mtv cribs at the moment, some people just have way way too much money hahaha, one guy has 500 pairs of shoes in a specially made shoe wardrobe, i think ive got about 6 pairs of shoes all up, so ive got a long long way to go

today i got into it and really mixed it up with mother nature
i just about ran this sucker over

hes a rather large tarantula, or she even, i didnt even know what the hell it was until we turned around. and let me tell you it was bloody massive. its the biggest spider i have ever seen in my life, would be at least half the size of my hand. then to top it all off, i was decending down a hill, and ran over a bloody snake!! just about dropped it as a) it was rather big and it just about took my front wheel out and b) as soon as i realised what i hit i proceeded to pack myself.
interesting day at the office to say the least.

i decided to get up this morning and go to a race, it was a little bit of a gamble as it was 36 bucks to enter, so had to back myself to get somewhat of a result. everything went really well, was a nice 4 corner crit, 90 min long, and my legs finally felt good. long story short i punctured right in the first lap which sucked balls, luckily the tire self sealed itself, and i was able to organise another wheel from the boys from Belize and got back up and running straight away.
ended up 8th in the kick, which wasnt to bad, it was hard trying to match everybody that had teams there in the leadout, i was surfing the back of a couple of teams and avoided the 4 crashes in the last two laps which was mint, staying upright it always a bonus, and finished in the money, so a good day all out.
just sat down with a beer to watch the NBA finals, hopefully LA will finish off the magic tonight!