Best ride EVER....

I road with the team at the conte's ride today it was really fun. I ended up riding about 50 miles and I shattered ALL of my previous peak power records and I didn't even go 90%. I'm really happy with my training. Looks like weather is going to be pretty bad next week not to happy about hitting the trainer. I can't even describe how sweet it's gonna be to go to Florida this year with the Atlantic Velo, Seigler, and the Le Blue guys. Jimmy D. is going down next week and he said he is just as stoked for the summer-like sun and temps. Mid-terms are next week and that shouldn't be to bad. I feel very prepared for all my exams and I either get out at 9:20 or 11:25 all week so I will try and plan my rides around the weather. Napping has ben causing me to stay up a little later the normal sadly. I took some pics on the ride today and I will post later.

L

Coming soon..... Road season 2009.

Just sold my kestrel evoke from a few years ago on eBay. I figure if I don't have money from a job I'll start clearing out all the stuff I don't need.

L

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Race report from Saturday

Saturday's race was AWESOME Zach and I braved the cold to some good finishes. No one else signed up for the Jr race and instead of paying out 20 bucks a pop to race each other. He did the C race and I did the B race for the first time. Zach got the hole shot and was never less then 3rd spot. After what I have heard was some slipping in a frozen/mud covered corner not far from the finish the leader gaped him and one other and went on to finish by himself while the other racer in his group of 3 nipped him in the sprint and Zach finished a great 3rd. I had a bad first lap. Someone ran into me and I had to hop off my bike a couple of different times to fix my derailleur. But despite coming out of the first lap last I chased and caught many people and got 4Th. It was FREEZING around 20 degrees. Props to T. for winning.

L

Long Time No Talk....

Sorry for the lack of post my life's been a bit all over the place in the past few months. As TKarnes would say settle in for a long one.

I think when we had last left off Barack Obama had been elected president. Since then in my life we have expanded the Seigler Sports Jr Team. The new editions are Mark Edwards and Zach Kyler.Pic taken at last years VA state crit Mark E. in front and Zach K. in the black sitting 3rd.

I have to say with the new editions to the team were looking good for next year. Also joining on as a mentor to the team and will be racing with the Seigler Sports Masters squad is Gene Rutledge. The last person we have added into our growing family is Mickala Rosen a now 11 year old who some of you might have seen racing for fat frogs. Her father, Chris, is a known TT ace around the VB area. I think we are meeting our mission of helping to expand and teach local Jr racers and I know were gonna have a great season and only build on the successes we had last year.First cross race

I've now competed in three cross races with mixed results. My first race I hate to say wasn't my best showing ever but it was a great race to start with because I don't think conditions could get much worse then the mud fest we had at the Trashmore Cross. I finished last in the Jr's and didn't make it very far in the men's Cs sadly I was just feeling terrible. A week later I went with Elliott and Uncle Keith down to NC for some good ol' fashion cross fun. We helped set up the coarse on Saturday road around for a bit then went and hung out with the Shield Twins (teammates of Keith) at there house who they are nice enough to let many many cyclist use all season long. The Shield's are cross fanatics we watched the Jr World Cross race from a few years back when Carrie (the twins father) went to go watch, we ate till we were full, played ping-pong, and just got to goof around with some very nice cross crazed cyclist. The race was Sunday and I had better luck this time after having getting some pointers from John Hamblen, Carrie, and the girls. I finished mid-pack this time while Elliott got 2Nd, kids pretty good at cross. Today was the last cross race before my road season picks up and after having to figure out my license situation I ended up having to race the B's but, it was no big deal. I ended up 4Th after getting stuck behind Tkarnes after he slid out and someone smashed there bike into the back of me and I had to get off my bike and fix my derailleur a few times. I'm happy with this result. I really think my training is working really well.NC Cross

I'll have much more time to train now because I quit my job at the TJ due to lack of sleep. Waking up at 6 after working till 10 or 11 doesn't work when you have to train for three hours that day. Mid terms are coming up then it's the highlight of my winter, a week in sunny Florida with all the SR, Atlantic Velo, and a few other jokers A.K.A. Wes Seigler himself.


I made this blog one of my new years resolutions so lets hope I can follow through.

L

A NIGHT OFF!!

Something I drew in a little bit of spare time:
I've finaly gotten a night off from work. Wes Seigler came into town today so we could all sit down and have a chat about what is gonna happen with the SeiglerSports.com team next year and it sounds like it's gonna be pretty cool. Were adding a few riders but, were still not exactly sure what the roster will read exactly so I won't spout my mouth off about that. Were gonna add some of the local kids though and that's what I'm most excited about. Most of my time has been taken up by work/school/training A.K.A. my life :). Over the long 4 day weekend I got to ride with the Tri-Power guys and thats always alot of fun. They have really turned something like cycling into a lifestyle. All of there riders are there just for fun and I hope I can still be in love with cycling like they are when I get older. We elected a new president Tuesday and I'm not trying to start a political fight but, I could not be happier with the choice. After months of hearing about the election I made my own desicion while either candidate would do a fine job I belive President Barack Obama will do a better job then Senator McCain. Here are a couple pics from the ride saturday:

Whats been going on and whats going through my head

Been a while since I posted. When I started this blog I wanted to make sure to keep updating it and I have kinda failed at that but, now I'll redeem myself. Since my last post my life has been consiting of the same four things as it has for a while school, work, riding, and girls in order of time consumption. Last week Wes Seigler himself came to ride(and fall off his bike) with me and E. We got to talking about where we wanna take this team and if we wanna add more guys and I'm pretty happy about what were planning. It really got me pumped for next year I'm already praying for Feb. to roll around. To ease my nonracing pains I'm slowly building a cross bike for the winter. I have to give a shoutout to Carrie(I think thats how he spells it) Shields from carolina masters for hooking me up with his old Trek cross frame that should be here in the mail soon. I also have to say thanks for Dan who after breaking his new Ti Litespeed and almost borrowing my carbon seigler is offering to help build my cross rig. Congrats on the team also Dan.
School has been pretty good this year im pretty sure I have all A's and for the last day of the first quarter of my senior year my Leadership Skills class is holding a mock presidential election. I'll post the results once we find it all out. We managed a way to poll every kid in Ocean Lakes High School. It's a really fun project!
As Halloween rolls around and all the decorations at TJ-Maxx(where I work) get cut in price and walked out the door by managers for cheap, I can't help but think about the fast approching holidays. I always like to try and guess the big "gift of the year" Leave a comment with your idea if you wanna try and guess along. My guesses have to be the new Ipod Nano or the Wii yet again. As far as bike stuff goes I think the thing topping most cyclist X-mas list will be the usual things: exspencive glasses, winter clothes, race tech for the coming season, and shoes.

Luke

Sorry for the break in updates

So the road rash that I got on my hip got infected and made me really sick Thursday night after work.  In the matter of about a hour I went from getting ready to Greenville to shaking on my couch with a 102.5 fever.  After that my weekend went downhill pretty fast no racing and riding for a few days the doc gave me some pills to fight the infection and it all fells better but, looks disgusting. im hoping to get back to riding earl this week.  Wes has already given me the beginning of my winter training plan and it looks like fun. I think starting work has really helped my focus on training because I'm not thinking about the bike all the time.  When I'm on the bike I get my workouts done and the after I now have school and work to focus on.

Just Some Food for Thought

Luke