Nuun nutrition

I've aquired a health supply of new sports nutrition by Nuun. I will be adding it to my gatorade drink mix to add in vitamins and minerals that can be easily lost thru sweat.
Stay tuned as I review how well the product works in my training.

Vive Cadel Evans!

What an incredible month of July. The Tour de France was amazing this year. First of all, Congratulations to the Aussies and Cadel Evans of Team BMC. Cadel did an amazing job in covering attacks and holding his own.


My team Garmin-Cervelo was incredible. 7 days in yellow by Thor Hushovd
-Stage 2 Team time trial win and gaining the Yellow Jersey
-Stage 3 win sprint finish with Tyler Farrar dedicating his win to Wouter Weylandt on the 4th of July
-Stage 13 win by Thor Hushovd uphill sprint
-Stage 16 win by Thor Hushovd on mountain stage with Ryder Hesjedal 3rd
Other highlights:
-1st Tour de France stage win
-top 10 finish on nearly every stage
-team competition winner


Congratulations to Team Europcar and Thomas Voeckler. He held yellow for 11 days including Bastille Day. Amazing team support.


Also Congratulation to Team Leopard-Trek and the Schleck. Unfortunately this 3rd time finishing second. Andy showed amazing strength and whit, but in the end, this achilles heal- time trial teased out his weakness. Andy will have his time.

Finally, best of luck and speedy recovery to all those that were involved in crashes- serious display of courage from both Johnny Hoogerland and Juan Antonia Flecha. The 1st 9 days proved to be difficult to keep the 'rubber side down.'

Until next year for another of amazing cycling.

we're famous

not really...
However we have made it onto the Disney Wedding Blog via our photographers.
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and it's set

This evening, we booked out honeymoon. We'll be enjoying a week in Costa Rica. Flying from Orlando International and into San Jose. Our hotel is Le Mansion Inn in Manuel Antonio.
Can't wait!!!

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color on the wall

Sunday and Monday was a busy day of painting. Desiree and I decided to do the master bedroom and then move to the living room. Colours selected were a charcoal gray and khaki respectively.

After 15-17 hours, we finially finished and everything looks great.
Next up will be Desiree's sewing room with 'purplicious.'
Paint was purchased at Lowes- Valspar. great quality.
pictures: click here

Vive le Tour!

On Saturday, I had a great ride for a tribute to the start of the 2011 Tour de France. I was in the saddle for over 3 hours with a good amount of pace making riding with Jose and Curtis. Afterwards, I was time to get ready for the Tour kick-off BBQ. Desiree baked the cake and I was grill master. 2 birds- beer can chicken.
Everything turned out great and we had a good turnout ~10-12 people.
Up coming month with be a little more couch and tv time because of VS daily tour coverage.

Busy past month

Over the past months things have really been busy. A few projects have included heading up to Atlanta to help my mom move, re-sodding my front lawn, watching friends kids, universals summer concert- Third eye blind, my first race of the season, fathers day and purchasing a new vehicle.
The next thing on the list is le Tour de France BBQ.
Also Desiree and I bought paint supplies. Our next project will be undertaken on Sunday to paint the master bedroom, living room, and to create desiree's sewing room.
Fun but another busy weekend.

Training has been going well. I have continued with my 3hour rides on Saturday and Sundays and focused training during the week. I started to add body strength training and am swimming 2-3x/week.