2009 Warm Up

It's been a great start already to 2009 with lots going on. The girls are all busy and doing lots of riding on the side. Cynergy helped Kelli and I out by putting together our Specialized Tarmacs and I must say, it is an amazing climbing bike. I'll get a picture up soon.
On the track side Becky had sustained a pretty bad crash back in December when a top road rider but a novice to the track crashed in the warm up and Becky was unable to avoid her. Becky had a severe concussion and lost her site for an hour. With a pretty bad hip and some awful head aches, she went back to PA to recover while being with family over the holidays. Becky is back on the bike and feeling pretty good now which is a relief.
SBW has been having practices at ADT on Sunday and we have 40 racers show up. Roger Young does an excellent job in handling the large group and I got to do sprints with Tara, Gordon, Bobby, and Tom this week. Tara is a sprinter so she kept us all honest.
I was pretty fortunate to have a trip to Kona last week and got to ride the Queen K with Lance who extended his stay for another 10 days to do his camp for Tour of Oz there. Lance wasn't the only super star out on the Queen K- Yvonne Van Vlerken has been there for 6 weeks training for her Ironman season- Yvonne holds the bike course record for Kona while placing 2nd at World Champs and winning the European Champs and breaking the course record. I had a chance to test my legs out against her a few days back-and after the fact, she let me know that it is a rare day when anybody- male or female passes and drops her- so my form seems to be coming on strong which is confidence I needed with a huge race only 6 weeks out.
I head back to Kona with Dicky on the 19th and we then head over to Maui where I will attempt some part of the Oceanfront Maui Marathon. Then I'll spend another 8 brutal days racking up the miles and hopefully will head to Malaysia around the 17th for a 10 day taper.
Becky heads to Copenhagen the 8th and I haven't decided if I will join her- Copenhagen and Malaysia are on opposite ends of the world so I don't see that being beneficial to racing in Malaysia but it is still open for debate.
Since racing starts at the end of the month we'll start blogging more. Aloha. Neva