Sunday, February 24, 2008

Spencers-for Steaks and Chops!!!

Friday March 28th 7:00pm

I'll be doing a Wine and Tapa's event with the chef.

If you like red wine, red meat and have $65.00 to spare you will not leave hungry or thirsty. You may even taste a few new wines from Spain I've been talking about.

Hope to see you!!!

Spencer's San Jose
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110
408-437-2170

Friday, February 22, 2008

Yhea...Amgen coverage with Frankie!!!!




OK, enough pissin and moaning, my friend Philippe called me with the good word on the Amgen TOC site.

Great coverage, best I've seen so far in any race...better then Eurosport!!!!

Thanks Philippe!

Looks like there is a ray or two of that big yellow thing in the sky, gotta get a quick ride in.

TOC...VS...Snelling

Ok yesterdays stage was brutal. 135 miles of rain and headwind down HWY 1 sucks! I would never want to have their job on a day like they had yesterday!

Versus just plain sucks! Granted there wasn't a whole lot of interesting parts to the HWY 1 stage to SLO, but come on...wtf?? I resisted watching the stage on cycling news so I could see it on TV. There were more commercials then a half time show for the Superbowl..

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It pissed me off more then when I went to see the finish of the TOC in San Jose. All you could hear 15 minutes before the finish was the announcer for the BMX whatever yelling out the names of the tricks they were doing for the crowd of 3. Who gives a rats ass about the BMX??? I would have much rather heard what was going on with Mt Hamilton and Sierra from Dave Towle.

I mean really, how many people are going to move for frickin Modesto city of 200,000 people know for its wonderful history, great industry and agriculture???? No I don't want any Bank of America ads either, of bankruptcy help, etc. There was all of about 5 minutes of coverage for the hr. What a waste~!!!!!

Tour of Snelling, CA weather report!!!

Sat, February 23

11am Few Showers 53°F wind SSE 18mph.

Looks like we are in for a treat!

Bring the leg salsa!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Velo Classic tours



Well today feels like a Monday and after a sunny weekend of riding and playing around with the Tour of California, it just hit me that we have our very own Spring Classic's coming up starting with Snelling this weekend. Yahoo!!! I pray for driving rain and gale force winds so we can have a tough guys race. Racing and riding in Northern California makes you soft this time of year. Don't get me wrong, but after spending some time with some east coasters yesterday it always makes me realize how easy it is to ride around here all year. Someone asked me yesterday, how many months of the year can you ride around here...I was stumped...."12 I think I did touch the trainer once or twice last year. " I said.
I had a great day riding to watch the TOC with my friends Peter and Lisa who own and operate Velo Classic tours. Clint and I went on the "Spring Classics" two years ago and had such a great time. If you have ever been thinking of going to watch some of the Classics, stay in wonderful hotels, get treated like royalty, and oh yhea and ride your bike 3-5 hrs per day depending on your fitness/desire check them out.

Saltzman went on the trip to Italy with Velo Classic and had a blast riding up all the climbs that make the for epic stages in the Giro.


When we were riding up HWY 1 yesterday I had a smile on my face when I saw the familar site of Lisa's idea of a feed zone. We offered some to Jackson, but he was busy eating up all the KOM and sprinter's points. Great ride Jackson!

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Tour of CA...



Once in a lifetime day.

Highlights included, meeting Nelson Vails in the starting gate, lots of friends coming out to cheer and my very own podium girl Tracey. Mick Hellman is such a class act! We both had a great ride!

Friday, February 15, 2008

3k to go....I'm in




Just hope riding mucho K's with Quick Step didn't do to much damage.

Hope to see you at the race Sunday!!!!!