PeterHaile

I am in New York City for Thanksgiving break.

Here is a blast from the past, Wild West Relay 198 miles with the Whipper Snappers. The rest of the pictures are from the Swank 65 Mountain Bike Race or the Virginia Tech Rogues Racing Cyclocross weekend.

I am now a Cat 2 in cross, which is right below Cat 1. Mad counting skills.
Hopefully I’ll be a Cat 1 for next year, I’ll probably get my Pro license for Mountain Bike racing in 2009.
I need to sell my Redling Conquest Pro and Salsa Campeon on ebay, because the Yipsan is here; it will get its own post soon. I need to take pictures of those bikes now. I think I’ll bring the whirlaway back here and build it up with my severley used and abused ultegra stuff, because I have a tendency to crash a lot on the roadbike.

Peter Haile

I had a big weekend, a bunch of us went to race in Blacksburg for a race VT was putting on.
There was a night race on saturday, it was awesome ,but it was the first time I’d ridden the new bike, and I was a little sketchy at first, then I adapted and started moving. I ended up getting 6th in the Collegiat A’s in the night race and 4th in the day race on Sunday.
I am really really hoping to make the Cyclocross Nationals Team, but there are a lot of fast guys here. We have an extremely good chance of winning. It looks like the squad will be something like this.
1. Brad Perley
2.Eric Thompson
3.Aaron Bradford
4.Scott Stewart
5. Nic Dale
Then if Scott “Busted Face” Jackson decides to race there are only 2 spots between.
Cruise Bogedin, Chris Pikerel, and Myself.
If he dosn’t race I’ll definitely be there.
Then I went with Nic Dale to his home in Raleigh to pick up his new Giant Anthen and see his dog that is actually a cat. We stopped to watch the new Bond in Durham, which we thouroughly enjoyed. Then we woke up at 5 to drive back to the B-Easy in time for caf breakfast.
I have to put my redline on Ebay right now.
I’ll post pictures of the yet to be named bike soon.

Adios

Peter Haile

My phone fell out of my pocket and was ran over by a car. I think I can transfer the card to a new phone, but there are no T-Mobile stores within my reach.

Also I did an big endurance race today, it’s called the Swank 65 and had a blast. I didn’t know how much faster I had become here so I this race as a gauge.
I got 8th overall !! Out of roughly 130 guys.
I felt super strong, and the course was super technical. Farlow Gap trail is like the hardest section of Young’s Gulch, covered in 3 inches of leaves, for a good 3 or 4 miles. I felt like I was “Shredding the Gnar”, so to speak. The course was Taylor Made for me, absurdly long hard fire road climbs and crazy technical downhills.
I was hoping to recoup my entry fee, but I just won some cool sunglasses, which is good because mine are very scratched. The only thing that could have been better was if I had more food, the aid stations were not equipped sufficiently. They were supposed to have HEED and food. But I did the whole race on 1 gatorade bottle, 3 waterbottles, a gel, and a soy bean brick. Yuck. I was luck the race was relatively short because I was about to hit the wall HARD.
Also my wisdom teeth are coming in so I should get them out when I am home for x-mass.
 Also I need to research LASIK, or get a new eye exam and new glasses. They are getting so scratched that I can’t see anything when the sun is facing my eyes. Its just a ball of blur, of orange and yellow, it’s beautiful.

Yarrghhhh, daylight savings is for the birds.

I haven’t been keeping up with my duties on the blog front.
Here are some pictures from Saturday’s Crack Loop.Great……Sideways
And here we have my friends Nate, Jake, and Joseph.If your wondering why they are so excited ,they are thinking about the hour long dirt climb.
In other news my bike is finished.My brother Mark and my Dad went to the Rocky Mountain Handmade Bicycle Show to check it out. Mark was gracious enough to model. I think it turned out well. I think it will look very classy with my parts.
Yesterday I went downhilling in Wilson’s Creek, there was to much standing around. I was convinced that I should ride flats like everyone else, so I did. I am just as fast downhill, but way sketchier in really rough zones.

 I miss Fort Collins a whole lot, the school is getting under my skin.

I talked with Nathan and Bryan a week ago , it was hard to talk to them because I wanted to be home. They are really good friends, and we’ve not been keeping up. Friendships like that take a long time to develop and I don’t want to lose it. And I feel like I am losing it here at LMC. I am getting faster, and I have learned more from observing my teammates then I have learned in my classes. However, I have also learned that you don’t have to have a square head on your shoulders to be fast. I still hold speed and endurance as fine qualities to have, but who you are is much more important. I now have to write an annotated bibliography. Barf