Hmmmm

Now that the local mountain bike race is behind us (way to represent 4/8ths of the main team!) it's time for the real season to re-kick off....

Free and fun SPH races!!!!

Firstly... the next SSSS has to happen, and soon! This week... check your calendars... tentatively Friday but heck... tomorrow works for me! We'll be at the standard drag strip... 5 rounds of pain.

Secondly... a few of us have mentioned a Duathlon... well... let's do it! Again... date to be determined... along with the logistics... but we'll try and do a lap of the bluff on the bikes.... a lap "running" (running is in the quotation marks as I don't officially run... but more waddle and walk)... and then another lap on the bike. Maybe 10 miles biking roughly, 5k running?

Thirdly... Remember for the early fall Goodhue County SingleSpeed Championships... Jake won last year, but is this the year that Matty Ice steals the crown?

And now.... for the good stuff...

Ahoy!

Well... somehow it's almost July... lots or maybe not lots of things have been happening since the last post... in order of no order...

1) Blackbeard is now Mr. Blackbeard as Carly and I got married a few days over a month ago.

2) We went on a long honeymoon to Maui.

3) Marcus is dominating. We need to make sure to be nice to him so he'll talk to us when he's all famous and winning Expert races.

4) Memorial is this weekend!

5) Our kit is awesome, but still sort of hard to pick out of a crowd. Hmmmmmm.

6) Eric the Red, Captain of the Hildr (or whatever his signoff on emails is), broke his freaking collarbone. OUCH!

Now.... we got all of that out of the way...

1/2 the kit is IN!!!

AGH!!! All of the bottoms have been delivered... hoping and hoping that the tops come in... the skinsuit that I got is amazing and I know that the jersey will be even better (the narwhal isn't lined up on the back of the skinsuit....

Mmmmmm tasty

Can't wait to eat all sort of beef jerky while on the roads of Ill-i-no-is!!

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I hope it's not just a bunch of hipsters...

SPH - Wheelhouse Cycles team ready for the season to begin

(AP, Red Wing, MN)

As the Sandwich 50 draws near, final preparations of bikes, nutrition, and bodies are underway for the SPH - Wheelhouse Cycles team. There is an air of confidence and excitement amongst the group. While the first race may also be the biggest of the year for those in the contest this weekend, there is contentment with whatever the results may be and wonderment with how the bodies will respond to such a test.

"We've created a great atmosphere on the team. The guys are all tight and Larry (Warrington) and Isaac (Giesen) have managed to transmit motivation and tranquillity to the entire group," explained directeur sportif Andrew Petersen. "We're setting off knowing that we've prepared very well for the race, which is a very important objective for us."

Both team leaders were aware of the difficult task ahead, but not without confidence. "It's going to be quite a hard Sandwich 50, from the first lap to the last. I think it'll be the most challenging out of all the ones I've faced so far," said Isaac Giesen.

It's almost go time

Like the sweet spinning backhand at a ping pong table the racing season is finally upon us....

Carbo loading has commenced by eating hot wings, little pork tacos, some Chipotle remains, and sample wedding cakes... tomorrow the plan is to drink lots and lots of water

My saddle has been swapped out to something that isn't worn out... and then swapped back to the old stand by. The gearing has been swapped from a real man's gear 36-18... to the more reasonable 32-18...

Let's rock!

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