http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxuUj6vFa4

Well i might get crap for this but watch this video its bullshit. Time for change? 

Chicago proposes new Olympic cycling venues

Two Wisconsin cities, Madison and Mt. Horeb, are the newly proposed road cycling and mountain biking venues for the Chicago 2016 Olympic Games bid expected to be submitted to the International Olympic Committee on February 12 according to the Chicago Tribune. The International Cycling Union (UCI) had previously advised those preparing the bid that their first choices for courses were too flat.

In the revised proposal presented at a press conference on Friday, Madison would host the road and time trial courses with the road race consisting of three loops within the city and five outside of it near Blue Mound. The time trial would stay within Madison, and Mt. Horeb's Tyrol Basin ski area would host the mountain bike events. Madison would serve as the Olympic outdoor cycling center, featuring an Olympic village for approximately 320 cyclists at some University of Wisconsin dormitories expected to be built by 2014.

The announcement confirmed rumors from December that the courses would be relocated to an area near Madison. Previously both the road and mountain bike courses were proposed for the host city of Chicago.

Madison and its surrounding comprise a popular cycling area. According to US Census data cited by the Tribune, Madison has the highest number of bicycle commuters per capita for any US city with more than 100,000 workers.

UCI President Pat McQuaid had not yet received formal notification of the proposed course changes, but said that having cycling venues outside of the host city would not be a negative when evaluating the bid. "Sites always are spread out," McQuaid said. "In China, the equestrian (Hong Kong) and sailing (Qingdao) were both far outside Beijing. The most important thing is to have a good course that gives a good race for television and promotes our sport in the region and the area."

The International Olympic Committee will choose the city to host the 2016 Olympic Games on October 2. Chicago is competing with Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the privilege of hosting.

This weekend was the Bike swap in Madison. I gave all my stuff to JLS becasue i coundn't get there that early and he sold most of it right off the bat, which was nice. So made some money there. It seemed like not alot of people were moving anything and people were hagguling over the price of stuff like crazy. For example: brand new crank set for $10 and the guy wanted only to pay $8 for it and it was like its only two bucks man. Other then that not too much went on. Did a 4 hour trainer ride saturday. 

Sunday went to nordic to go ski and it was amazing. I have never been there to ski before only to run and hike but it was really nice. Great day with the sun out for a little bit and mild temps it was a great day. 

Whats in store for this week: Really cold temps, more trainer time, and thats about it. My life is super exciting right now. 

BMS

This made my day. 

So its been two weeks since i skied. Not to happy about that but getting a decent amount of riding in other wise. currently its 32 degrees and raining which does not help the fact that i really want to ski. Anyways away from the skiing rant build 1 training is going really well. Had a good long ride today and the motivation is so for not a problem on those over 3 hour trainer rides.

With some other news we got our puppy this week. I drove down to the P's to pick her up.

Josie is my name, don't wear it out.

Finding out that owning a 7 week old dog is very time consuming. with the early morning trips outside and the constant attention, its like having a kid but they don't want a car when they get older. I'm sure i will have tons of updates with her in them.

BMS

My view

While on the trainer i watched Warren Miller's IMPACT, it really got me in the mood to go snowboarding but really out west. But there is only one problem with going out west right now, MONEY. Until i get that so called MONEY, the mountains might have to wait. Well its snowing again, which is great, but the only problem is the ski trails. I haven't skied on trails that that were packed and groomed for awhile. they can't keep up with grooming so i think the city just stopped for now. It reminds me when t_bender and i went out to Montana a while ago when they got a crap load of snow when we got there and every thing seemed to be closed because of all the snow and the avalanche warnings. well anyways while i ride the trainer and dream of groomed trails have a good Christmas.

BMS

Let see all i have done lately is shovel snow. That can be said for almost everyone in the midwest. I have been riding the trainer a decent amount especially yesterday, 3' 15". Other then that i rode the old fisher with studded snow tires on one of the trails in Oregon and had some fun. It was upper cold at the time but still fun. Got alot of big plans for this week; painting, skiing, riding, watching movies. Yes i know thats alot to do in one week but i will try to do my best.

BMS

M. Hooker looking beautiful.
So this weekend Maggie and i went down to p-ville to go to one of our good friends graduation party at the Elks Lodge.
Before we went and started playing flippy cup we stopped by Tim, Momentum Bikes, at the shop to see what was up. Tims doing good and he has been re-organizing the shop and it looks good. Then took a little detour to badger brothers coffee for a latte, did you know they put the Latte in Platteville!!
Well from there we headed to Suzi's house to drop the car off and chill with her for a while. Then we went down to the party.



This was my first game of flippy cup and i wasn't to bad at it. Not sure how much longer i could have gone but it was good while it lasted. We didn't end up leaving there to go down town until 11. Then from there it was the usual platteville bar scene.


Saw this wondering through the bar. Imagine that coming at you through the woods.
So after doing the old college drinking act we came home to rain, wonderful rain. Now all the snow should be gone by tomorrow and make skiing awesome this week. You know whats crazy is that it was in the 40s today and then tomorrow they are saying its going to be a high of 10 or so what the F***. OOHhh well its sort of a repeat of last year. Hope everyones weekend was just as crazy as mine.

BMS

That time of the year

First day on the xc skis and it hurt. I am so out of shape for skiing but waht do you expect for not doing it in 10 months. Not to much going on just riding the trainer. I did get my new cyclops trainer this week and so far i like it alot. Haven't done intervals on it or really given it hell yet but i really like it, check it out 

SkI CoNdItIoNs

Elver Park

Date	Condition	Style	By
Dec 01, 2008	Fair	Skate	Tim Guy
	I was surprised to find Elver groomed. Although there were leaves and a few sticks the skiing was surprisingly good. Bring rock skis for sure, but definitely worth the trip, at least in the west side trees.

I think it might be a ski day saturday or sunday if we get just a little more tomorrow because i don't have rock skis. 

Can't wait

BMS

Back to the grind

well back to work today after a great long weekend. Started off by driving to Ohio to see the famliy and ate way to much. chilled down there friday and drove back to the P's (lake villa) saturday. Maggie and i went to McDonald woods for a nice run sunday morning before we went and saw more family. 

The real story was driving back to Oregon on sunday night in the snow. It seemed like Whitewater Kettel area got the most snow and was the worst driving. And of course i have these nice snow tires and wheels sitting in my garage and not on the car, so that made it a little interesting. got home ok and put the winter wheels on right away. 

Went to go find a chrismas tree farm near us but missed it by 15mins which sucked but we are going to go and support our local boy scouts to night by buying one from them. 

Other then that starting the training season this week, which i have been looking forward to. Also can't wait to start skiing, with how the weather is going we could almost ski this weekend. Check out Madnorski.org for trail conditions. 

Have fun in the snow,

BMS

that would be great

Hey all i was thinking about getting a cross team together next year and doing some more UCI stuff. And i will be in shape for it this year. So does anyone want to sponsor a lonely road that races cross?

So pretty excited about doing some more mtb next year and trying to give those guys a run for their money. Ok well going to go eat to much food have a good thanksgiving. 

BMS

End of the season......Finally

I have been hearing end of the season finally from alot of people. Only bad thing is now its trainer time but at least i have skiing to look forward to. Anyways sunday at WI state cross i sucked, had some chest problems but had fun, Lyle got the big silver medal for state nice job. Marko just walked away from us right from the start, i think there was a gap before the first corner. The run up sucked, it was like putting mud on ice and trying to run up hill on it. The course was fast and fun. Any ways this week i am taking off the bike, might go out on my new signle speed to tool around but other then that its recover and get my head in the game for trainer work. 

Have a good Thanksgiving,

BMS

Viking Cross

Ajers new car. The MINI is cool. Left hand drive and Sunday loves it, cause she thinks she is in the drivers seat. 

Lyle in the wet and fast sand and taking the big W. Nice job Lyle. I ended up 2nd mostly cause Jordan rolled his rear tire three times, sorry man. 

Well this last weekend worked out pretty well for doing a race at the last minute in the freezing cold. 

I have a good feeling that this weekend will be as cold and more muddy. 

Milwaukee Land of the good people

Little motivation on the run up that totally sucked but was a good change. It just took a toll on my for sundays race. 

This last weekend i race in the land of the good people and did ok, 10th and 11th. i really like that spot i think cause the last two years i have been in that placing alot. Anyways had a good time and ready for a low key race this weekend in my neighborhood. Can't figure out what i want to do on saturday, mtb or ride the state train on my CX. time will tell

BMS

Wash park

Well this last weekend was one of my better skills cross race this year. Kyle got the big W, nice job and Jordan also looked good wearing Rachel's clothes. I ended up 6th in between Lyle and Jordan in no mans land, seems like i end up there alot. well double up this weekend should be fun. 

BMS

Blockhouse

Blockhouse was this weekend and i had a really good time. Not a whole lot of people there but there was two other things going on this weekend, WCA Cross and 12 hours of John Muir. Well i went there just to ride and have a good time. On the parade lap i was with the lead group and just sitting there and enjoying the ride and how i was feeling pretty good until middle of the 1st real lap and crasehed three times in a row sitting 5th and dropped to who nows were. It took a long time till i could bend both of my knees so i lost alot of time there. then i got into the mind set of lets just finish ride and have fun. well i started to gain on some people so my racing personality kick started and i ended up 7th not bad. Only thing that sucked is that the first time in 7 years they didn't pay 10 deep only 5, so once again i was out of the money and that ment no beer money for the night out on the town. 

That night we went to the pint in p-ville and then went and hung out with the newly wedds, pud and amber, and then go down town. Fun was had by all. Sorry Carlos for the mess pud made!!!

Well its TdC this weekend and the last WORS race, my second mtb race this year. 

BMS

1 out of 2 UCI

Last time that bike was ridden. Not the best ride either. 

RIP redline conqest pro. 

Well raced sunday but not saturday. sunday was fun but how i did was not. ooohhh well, now i know what i need to work on. 

Blockhouse this weekend, going down there tonight to ride the course and remember all the pain that is going to happen. 

BMS

RIP

From the Wausau Paper:

Bicycling was front and center Monday evening at the funeral of Gregg Bednorski.

There were pictures of a muddy Bednorski after mountain- and road-bike races. There was a large bouquet of flowers from the Madison-based Great Velo Cycling Club, a team on which Bednorski rode for years, and one of his bicycles was placed at the front of the room at Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home in Wausau.

Bednorski died participating in the sport he loved after crashing Thursday night into a parked car on Highway KK, not far from this town of Mosinee home.

His death sent shockwaves through the biking community because Bednorski was among the state's top mountain- and road-bike racers. He was known as a driven, dogged competitor.

People talked Monday about his zest for life, his willingness to share his knowledge and zeal and, most of all, his overriding love for his wife, Tammy, and his children, Isabelle and Adam.

"He was a wonderful father," said Bednorski's mother, Jean Kluball, 69, of Tomahawk.

Bednorski was only 41 years old, Kluball said, "but he lived a fuller life than most. Ever since he was a little kid, he never sat. ... He didn't waste a minute."

Ted Hayes, 47, of the town of Mosinee, was Bednorski's neighbor, and he spent time with Bednorski on hunting trips.

"Talk was always about family," Hayes said. "And raising kids. His kids were my kids, and my kids were his kids."

Bednorski always was quick to lend a hand, using his four-wheeler to clear out Hayes' driveway in the winter or to drop off some freshly-caught fish.

Like with many others, the bond of friendship between Bednorski and Jim Frame, 37, of Weston was forged riding bikes together. Bednorski helped Frame get started as a bike racer.

Bednorski "had a quiet confidence. He was comfortable and confident in his abilities," Frame said. "I think he wanted the competition. He wanted to be pushed."

Hayes wasn't surprised to see hundreds of people come to pay their respects to Bednorski and his family.

"Gregg touched a lot of people in a lot of different activities," he said.

Wisport Rumble

Yes, some of on the team did a Wisport race this last saturday, Jason S., Frankie, Dan, Tim, Scottie, and myself. It was alot of fun because all we wanted to do is sort of beat up on the group and thats what we did. And with really no pressure of doing good made it easier.  

Here is Tim, the reason why we won the race. Nice job Frankie

Great part about this pic is that dan got 2nd, he much have been really happy. 

I had a little problem at the end of the last lap my valve extender on my rear wheel came loose so i lost about half the air pressure in my rear tire but still have able to get 8th, not bad. 

Jason and i rode back to my house in Oregon and had 35 miles of head wind. Was a good day in all. 

This weekend i am heading down to Platteville to be in one of my good friends weddings Saturday and going to try to do some MTB riding at the farm to get ready for Blockhouse in a couple of weeks, want to do better then 4th. 

Have a good weekend

BMS