Nemours Team is now REAL!!

So yesterday I rode to work in the new jerseys and shorts that came in on Thursday! They are amazing! V-Gear did an awesome job!! I rode in at 22 miles solo Google Route. At lunch I rode 10 miles with Jim Ride GPS Map. So that was 32 miles for yesterday.
This weekend me and Dana went to Disney and just went to the Hotel and had a great time just laying around.
Jim got a new bike this weekend and I can’t wait to get out and see how Jim does on the new bike. I think he is going to be a beast!

Beautiful Morning! Beautiful Moon!

Rode this morning and met Jim at the back of his sub division. It was a beautiful morning. The moon and and the stars were still bright and the morning dew was calming! I really enjoyed it!
Rode 24 Miles
16.5 MPH AVG
26 MPH Max
1 Hour & 15 Minutes.

Updated the Odometer reading so it reads all the miles I have put on the bike since I started riding again.

Google Route

Solo 22 Mile Work Ride

Rode in this morning solo. Went to Long Leaf pine and then back to work.
22.3 Miles
26.2 MPH Max
17 MPH AVG
1 Hour 18 Minutes
Google Route
Went to Espeto Brazilian Steakhouse tonight with Dana. It was amazing! Working at Shooters in the morning. Then a nice weekend! Scale still at 313lbs.

First fall of the year!

Went to Graham Swamp last night with Neal, Kevin, Kenny, Jim & Aaron. Had a blast! We did the full loop which I rode 7.1 miles. Went over the bars when some sticky mud caught the front tire about 1/4 of the way up! No pain just really muddy! This was the first time that I have done the entire loop and it was awesome! I will always finish now! The end is much faster and a lot of fun! Kevin had another flat that make about 12!! I took the Remedy to the shop for the 100 mile tune up, so that will be a few days, and I weighed it while I was there and it weighs 30.7lbs!
I updated the blog template some and I like it a lot better! I am still working on it so we will see where it goes from here!

16.5 Mile into work

Rode to work solo this morning.

16.5 Miles
25.4 MPH Max
17 MPH AVG
58 Minutes
186 Odometer

Nice ride, very cool, rode a nice 4 miles @ 24 mph, and was hurting pretty bad still from the 54 Mile ride.
I made some google maps routes that I will figure out how to share later. Headding to Graham Swamp tomorrow with a large group!
Google Route

And then there was 54!!

So this morning I got up and met Jim at his house at 6:15am. We then proceeded to ride to Neal's house and ride to the beach. That’s about 16.5 miles one way. Once we got there Jim turned around and went back because he had to go to his kid’s soccer game. I rode with Neal down A1A to St. Augustine and then up US1 back to 210. Total round trip was 54 miles. That is my farthest ride to date!!! Neal was a big inspiration!
Here is the route and stats GPS punked out about half way through. The odometer is now at 170.
Ride Map

Solo 30 mile ride this morning!

This morning Kevin didn’t make the ride because of extenuating circumstances that I will not get into ;)!! But I rode 30 miles solo! It was a good ride with a new route. I am not sure I will go that way again for now due to some construction and lack of bike lanes but we’ll see. The stats were:
30.1 Miles
17.3 MPH AVG
27.5 MPH Max
1 Hour 45 Minutes
Odometer is now @ 115 miles

Scale this morning post ride said 313lbs.

I didn't get to ride the bridges on Tuesday due to weather. And tonight at Hanna Park doesn’t look promising either but we will see!
GPS Maps of the ride are below!
Ride GPS Map
Google GPS Map

Beautiful morning on the road bike!

This morning I rode out to the back entrance to Jim's neighborhood and met him there, that’s almost to 2209 about a 5 mile trip from my house. So i added 10 miles on the ride to work.
Stats:
24 miles
16.5 MPH AVG
25.4 MPH Max
1 hour & 26 minutes
I am now at 85 Miles on the odometer, since the new tires on 7/20/09, thats 42 miles per week average!!! I wanna get that higher though!!.
The scale this morning after the ride said 316 lbs!! That's 84 lbs. now.
Jim did really well he kept up the whole time and didn’t hold me back too much! Tonight I am going to do the bridges with Neal in Nocatee. That should be another 20 miles.
Had a great weekend with Dana we sat around and did nothing but spend some really good quality time together. It was awesome! We got the house and animals all clean and looking good.
GPS Maps of the ride are below!
Ride GPS Map
Google GPS Map

Daddy Day Care!?

So this morning I drove to Kevin’s house and we rode from there because he rode my road bike last night to see if he liked it and did 30 miles!! So he just kept it at his house and I went there in my car. We rode all the way to his daughters daycare and then to work. We rode:

28 miles
16 MPH AVG
27.5 MPH Max
1 hour and 44 min

I now have 61 miles on the new tires and 40 on the new shoes. I am not 100% sure but I think that the new shoes has helped a lot with the calf cramps??? Not sure about that yet though. Registered for the Endless Summer Watermelon Ride yesterday and hopefully will register for the MS 150 today. Scale still at 325lbs.
Ride Map

Graham Swamp & Ride to work!

Well last night I rode at Graham Swamp with Jim & Kevin O’.  I bought some new Bontrager Race Mountain Bike Shoes today!! We rode about 1.5 miles in the trails while flirting with rain. Never did rain really but I broke my chain in half!!! $!#$$^@%$&^@$&*$&((!!!!@!!!!!! So anyway we walked back to the trail head and I left my Remedy 7 and me and Jim took turns riding my Kona which I brought for him to ride. Well a few minutes later another rider came to the trail head and said he could fix it for my so I got my bike and broke chain and he showed me how to do it and did it for me. So not only did he help me fix it but he taught me how to do it for next time!!!! I owe him that was a long drive for nothing! So back on the trail we went about 3 miles this time and then the lightening came and we dropped Kevin because he went back to the trail head by taking a shortcut he found. So we finally made it back still skirting the horrible rain by about ½ a mile and headed home. Loved the new shoes!!!!!
This morning I rode to work alone no one else could make it! I made record time! I am getting faster and faster this morning I did

11 Miles
18.6 AVG MPH
34 Minutes
28.6 MPH MAX

Scale this morning said 325 again after my food fest last weekend at Texas De Brazil & Chevy’s.
Me and Dana went to Typhoon Lagoon last weekend with Kevin O’ & Riley!! Had a blast got there at like 11:30am and didn’t leave until 7:00pm. I was WTFO!!! We did all the slides and also had a great time with Riley. We stayed at the Mona Lisa Suites Hotel!! Dana did a great job on the hotel! It was beautiful!

Graham Swamp!!!

Graham Swamp was awesome!! Me, Kevin, & Mark Peck went. It was only like a 45 minutes drive and all 3 bikes did great on my bike rack! It was with out a doubt more extreme than hanna Park but at the same time alot slower due to alot of up hills. There was some soft sand but alot less roots. The big down hills were awesome! There were 2 down hills i wouldnt do and alot of ramp/jumps i wouldnt touch. Alot of it is also very technical. I will go back and often it was a nice place not too far away that can be done after work!

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Bridges

Did another bridge attack! 5 full trips again! That’s 10 up and 10 down. Hit 38.1 last night on the way down. Rode a total of 20 miles. Still had some leg cramp issues but I am working on that. I love the new tires! I will post pics later. I got the red walled Bontrager RL. They are 700x23 instead of 25 but I liked them a lot and they worked well. Me, Neal, And the 2 Scotts came out. Kenny was on his mountain bike with mountain tires but he hung!!! Hitting Graham Swamp today with Kevin and Mark Peck. We’ll see how that goes. We have been getting a little trash talk in the email so we will hear some call outs in the swamp!!
Ride GPS Map

Scale @ 325lbs.

Hanna Park last night. Ride to work this morning.

Last night me, and Kevin went to Hanna Park and rode the north loop and a few other random trails, about 3/4 of hte way through Kenny showed up and rode for a bit. Kevin had a rough night! First he tried to Football block a large tree that had fallen and his shoulder lost. Second he wiped out and took a bad spill over the handle bars when his handle bars hit a tree on a narrow pass. Then he got a flat. So yeah he had it rough!!
Headded home and me and Dana had dinner with my buddy Tommy and his G/F at Chillis.
This morning i rode to work. Did it a little differently though i left the house and headded for Kevins and Jims road 210. so i rode 5.5 miles until i met up with them and turned around and headded back. Jim and Kevin kept up really well with me being on a road bike! I went 22.2 miles, 28mph max, 17.3 mph avg. tot time 1 hour 17minutes. Ride GPS Map
Scale this morning at work said 325lbs.

Harry Potter and the Gym...

Went to the gym today. Got a pretty good workout but other than that no other real exercise. After work though me and Dana went to see the New Harry Potter movie. It was awesome!!! After that grabbed some sushi and a sub. Today the sample jersey came in and we all picked out our sizes. I started working on some potential designs for the uniforms. So we should have a final version soon!! I am stoked!!!

Bridges...

Me, Kevin, Neal, and Scott rode the Nocatee bridge today. Me and Neal
rode from the gate at US1 and Palm Valley, and Kevin and Scott drove
to the bridge. I rode a total of 20.5 miles and did 10 climbs up the
bridge. That's a total of 5 round trips. I was able to stand up and
power up the bridge once and boy did my quads burn. The ride back I
started getting bad cramps in my left calf. Maybe some more nutrients
next time.

Ichetucknee Springs

So we went campng and tubing!!!! Had a blast! Got there Saturday
morning rode the river from the south entrance to the end because the
first entrance had met capacity already. That night we cooked
hamburgers and hotdogs and mac n cheese. Had an awesome camp fire, and
made smores. Weather was awesome! We camped in a nice tent and could
see the stars I will be doing that again soon!! We got up Sunday
morning and rode the river from the north entrance and got big
inflatiable boats this time instead of tubes. I swam about a third of
the way and Riley even got in the water with me for a while. Me and
Dana really enjoyed camping with Kevin and Riley. We got some good sun
also which makes Dana happy!!
Found my bike rack at my moms and am getting my hitch installed in the
morning at 7am!!!!

Wet n' Muddy Hanna!!

Thursday we went to Hanna park. Kevin, Jim, Todd, Me, Neal, & Scott
went. We had an awesome times man it was so nasty but it was so
awesome!! We did 1.5 loops of the easy side and tore it up fast!!
Good news we got approved for the Nemours Cycling Team the company is
goin to buy us jerseys and shorts and put us in races!! We are stoked!
The samples will be here soon for fitting. Primtek is going great!
Website is up and incorporation is next weekend! Me and Dana have been
doing great lately, things are awesome and I love being with her more
and more all the time. I'm down to 331lbs. Almost time for that WII Fit!
Ichnatucknee tomorrow me, Dana, Kevin & Riley. Fun fun.

No swimming here!

We'll we tried to go to Typhoon Lagoon and it was closed due to
capacity. So we drove to Blizzard Beach guess what they were also
closed due to capacity. We went to Disney's Yacht & Beach Club to swim
at their pool since it is suspossed to be the best. It was! Awesome
layout and was huge! The bottom of some of the pools are sand so that
is neat also.
Went to the gym this morning that's the second time since we've been
here. I also went on Thursday morning had a good workout. They still
haven't fixed the safety issue with the lateral pull down machine I
think because of that this will be our last trip to the buena vista
palace. Sad.

Last Night @ Disney's Quest

Well last night we went to Disney's Quest. It was just OK. It was like a giant Dave n' Buster's or a giant game room but all the games were free. It was OK but i really wasn't in the mood to play games so it was just kinda whatever. I could be fun though. Its alot cheaper than going to a real game room. We got in for free because of our annual passes but otherwise its $40. We then ordered in so pizza and wings and a sub from a delivery place that is open until 4am. Yeah it Sucked hard core!!! they didn't even bring it to our room. We had to go down and get it. We got a 2 litre of sprite and ended up with Coke. Food was cold. Wont order there again. Going to get some food in a few then we are going to Typhoon Lagoon.

In Disney World

Went to the movies at Pleasure Island aka. Downtown Disney. Saw
Transformers 2 it was awesome!! The sound screwed up for about half of
it so we got free tickets to see another movie. So then we went to see
my sisters keeper and they started playing Transformers again lol. So
we got 2 more free tickets, we have 4 now :). We can see the fireworks
from our room it's really cool. Dana is awesome for always thinking
about little things like that she rocks and is the best ever. Tonight
I think we are going to Disney Quest.