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

new blog http://bigjasallen.blogspot.com/

jas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:31:27 +0000

decided to shift things to a new blog as this one has sucked for a long time

http://bigjasallen.blogspot.com/

midnight trash run

jas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:08:52 +0000

so a couple of days ago our neighbours here on Banderas street decided that they didnt like their rubbish, and couldnt be bothered dealing with it, so they pulled up in front of our house, across the road, popped open the boot, and dumped trash out of the back of their car, then drove into the drive way a few doors down.

so last night at about midnight myself and uncle rico went out, picked up all their trash, and redistributed it all over their front lawn. being that lazy that you dump your trash infront of somebody else’s house really pissed me off, safe to say the next morning they had cleaned it up off their lawn and put it in their bins like they should’ve in the first place.

having a nice and relaxing day today, watching the first mountain stage of the tour, have to say its a yawn fest, i think contador showed lance he was the stronger climber, be interesting to be on that team bus tonight thats for sure!!!!

interesting stuff

jas — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:14:12 +0000

while kicking around on the net today i found these pretty interesting pictures, chernobyl was a pretty big cock up and these are photos of all the vehicles they used to try clean up the mess that are completely full of radiation and parked up in a massive paddock near the reactor, would hate to think what happened to the drivers of these things

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2343

quick news

jas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:12:13 +0000

so the track meeting actually ended up ok, me and hash ended up on the podium a few times, took out a thrilling madison, and ended up driving a hell of alot of km’s, the full race report written by me ca be found at http://subwaycycling.co.nz/
i was pretty happy with where my form is at at the moment, now its time to knuckle down and really get stuck into some solid work of km’s, km’s, and some more km’s
havnt got any racing coming up this weekend, there’s a party round here at the rico’s for july the 4th, so im hoping there will be epic fireworks, bbq’ing, and circus animals and some sort of trapeze set up, they’ve got two days to get it sorted so here’s hoping!!!!
im currently being very motivated and stretching, something i struggle with alot, so far ive managed a solid three weeks of it, and its making a distance, plus core work, so chappy would be proud of me

few photos from san jose

jas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:29:09 +0000

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

guard dog on maximum protection level

jas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:57:03 +0000

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

guard dog

jas — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:48:51 +0000

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

san jose

jas — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:51 +0000

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

gotta love blenheim

jas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:22:39 +0000

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

san pedro gp

jas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:07:17 +0000

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!