pursuit of…um..pain

Well I have been training for Points Race as many of you may know…as a result this is my face after a pursuit…for the love…that hurt. but the time was ok. Close to my PB’s and with not real work on it…but let me tell you I am opened up now…I just love this picture…I think Andrea pretty much got what pursuiting at this level is all about…the best part is every guy that does one will have this look in his eye at one point. Andrea is one of my roomates back in Burnaby…and let me tell you she is pretty good with the old camera as well…this could be a pain poster…or something…So yeah check out her other pictures on canadian cyclist or her web site.

Points race tomorrow…time to feel the burn.
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Up up and a way…

So here I am about 24 hours from departure to the world track championships. It feels pretty good to be representing Canada again. I know that there are all kinds of people that make this possible every year. I also know i will need even more support as I head into the next season. See this is competition is the RESET button. After this everything counts to the olympic games. I remember speaking with my coach just after the start of the athens games… and hearing “you better start thinking about Beijing”. and now it is almost on top of us.

So back to the Worlds. They are in Mallorca spain on a brand new track. Gina and I have been trying to optimize our situation day to day as we head into worlds. All little things but it feels like it is making the difference. She put up a cold emersion pool in the garage…it is made of a garbage can. I gotta say this has been a great off season in terms of training and general effectivness. Now it is just a matter of turning that into somthing. Wish me luck…if you haven;t allready…thanks to to all those who have allready written in with good luck wishes. When you have so much support you have to ride for the country…cause it feels like the country is really behind you.

Oh and the contest will end April 30th…if there are even any entries.

Off to Worlds…wish me luck.

AXE WEILDING

WellI have done some big weeks over tha last little while…and it might be making me wig out a little…I produced this little video of what people in the business would call .
skills with the axe

I did all the playing in the movie…which is the main reason I put it up. I know it isn’t a very complex thing…but I am not a very complex guy. I had more to say…but I don’t recall???

Apparently I am not the only one with the base mile blues…Ryan seems like he might be in a desperate situation…more even than me. Geeze man have a taco ro somsing…
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Christmas in JANUARY

So, I have most recently acquired the coolest and most swankadelic stuff in the last 3 weeks…some of it you may have seen already…some you may not have. Anyway these things are sure to raise my stature among the monocle wearing, ear waxed mustache, “hum hum” members of society. So check out these newfound symbols of stature with which I am much pleased.

1. Medium National Champs skin suit.

- This item was first seen at the LA world cup but let me explain some of the more exciting features…as you can see on the back is the word Bell…this of course is meant as a commissarial message. In the points race this is to encourage the officials to give me the bell each time I come around…unfortunately it only seems to work about 10% of the time…I have my best font scientists working on improving this feature but at the moment we seem to be lacking the impact we are looking for.
-It may appear to be read but don’t be fooled this is a hyper colour skin suit…for some reason it turns pink when you have it on…it all has to do with fit… I am not fit, or it doesn’t fit, or “that bloke looks FIT”… something like that…

2. The 1998 CIVIC HB, Deep PURPLE edition

- Now this was not so much a gift as a necessary evil. But it has to be, don’t it look mean. >:(
- As you can clearly see this bad boy is a tribute to the magical guitar riffs of DEEP PURPLE…I did not just go out an buy a purple car people…come on now.
- It has 90 shetlands under the hood…and maybe a few garden knombs, a wishing well, and one half eaten package of double mint gum from the era when the still put the twins in there commercials. Now I to will be able to pretend I am fast and or furious…
- Oh and it is a standard…now I know you are all thinking…”come now zebidia, your pre-technology attitudes have rendered you incapable of operating such an evil and devilish contraption.” Well this is just not true…I have been rolling this baby backwards and stalling it in traffic like no bodies businASS…or maybe it is no one is getting to business…cause I am “staled in the right hand lane”. I think global has assigned there traffic copter to follow me 24/7

3. The Cream DE LA…the cats PJs…the pantaloon restraint I have been searching for low these long years…

- This purchase and in fact the one above was made possible by the educational styling of one Groovy chick who shall remain nameless (secret identity and all that)…needless to say she has educated me on the manual transmission and the automatic purchasing power of E BAY.
- Yanick Morin this ones for you…my very own YUKON JACK belt buckle…who needs dog tags or bling bling when you can by a belt buckle like this from a guy who wore it 3 YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN in Tennessee. Look at it and all its majesty…creepy borderline sourdough hermit on meditating quality among his woodland friends. It is the Yukon captured in a boo CLAY. No less then an explosion of waistband history, sure to draw the eyes of the world to the top of my pants as I roam through the crowded markets of the VAN city.

High society here I come…I am going to put on my skin suit…put on a belt and roll down to Glen Eagles Golf and Country club in my Purple Haze, Jimmy Hendrix edition C VAC. Maybe play a few rounds with Tony Parsons, he could get a lift in the G-1 traffic copter right?

Rethink your mental space…

“Success at any endevour, on any scale, is enlightenment…”
- IronMIike - From a man who understands the true meaning of success better than anyone I know.

Congrats are in order…

Well I am over her in the land of Aus and the world seems to be spinning all around me…and as a track cyclist it should be the other way around…I just heard that my man Ryan Mckenzie just got hitched to his hip and GROOOOVY broad Laura…Well dang yo…god on you and a big shout out of congratulations. I would say I hope you are very happy together…but I know you are so no need for hope.

As for the rest of you out there in blog world. Well I am busy planning some interesting things…I may have a guest blogger join the Z-Rail feed on a some what permamnet basis…to bring a little edge to line. I will also have some interesting pics and fottage once I return from the world cup. It is the first time I haven’t had to Race Pack Fly on sunday…so I will have some free time to wonder the beach or check out the nitty gritty of one of the worlds most famed citys…