Back from New York

Ashley and I got back yesterday about 6 pm. After it took us 12+ hours to get up to Binghamton, it only took 10 to get back. That's with stopping for a set down dinner. I've made the trip in a little over 9 hours before, but was just fortunate that I didn't get arrested.

We had a good time. We didn't really do anything in particular, rather than eat, lay around, and catch up with Ben and Hill. On Friday we did run up to Syracuse for a day around the four story mall they have. I'm not personally a big fan of shopping, but this mall was impressive. I picked up a new pair of jeans, on sale for $25 bucks, and a book written by Joe Parkin titled 'A Dog in a Hat'. I've only got to make it through about 4 chapters, but so far its one of the best books I've ever read. It probably wont get any major book prizes, whatever they are, but he wrote the book as I imagine I would've. Only no misspellings or improper grammar. Its a book that I think even people that don't like cycling would read. That good...

Thanks to Ben and Hill for keeping us up for the last 5 days. Usually we only get to see them once a year for around a week. But we got to see them twice in '08. Thanks guys.

Today should see some training. However, as the day went on yesterday my voice kept getting worse and worse. Got home from New York and saw I had blisters in my throat. I started some antibiotics last night, and they seem to be hurting my stomach, but hopefully I'll feel alright by this evening for a bit of intervals.

I thought about changing up my intervals at the first of the year, but I like what I'm doing. I might add some more intense intervals towards the middle of Feb or first of March. This will be an attempt to peak for Jeff Cup.

One more thing. While in New York I dropped off a few spare parts I had laying around to Beng-i-man. In return he gave me a older set of rims he had used for track racing. He said he thought they were sub-300g rims....well he was right. 280g's each is what the scale said when I got home. Now I wouldn't ride these on the road, I have to be realistic as I weigh 185 lbs, but can you say track wheelset? I'll lace these bad boys up to a set of 36 hole track hubs, and be on the way to building up a track bike.