JB's Adventure Blog: 3/13/05

This is a little more like it.
An awesome am ride with Steve Hoover, Chris Eatough and XXX Todd. The riding alone was good enough for me to consider this a place for a winter home after I win some money at the reservation casino.

During our ride we saw people high on a butte giving Indian cries to pay homage to the vortex.

A vortex is a spiritual place of the Indians; they have since become a major tourism draw to this surreal landscape. Sedona is wedged between the high country snow and the deserts heat making it a place of good energy, I was stoked up.

We finished up our first round of photo shoots and headed for a shop visit to bike and bean. Wow what a great combo.

An early departure got our Wednesday going as we scurried to our next location Fountain Hills, site of the NOVA NMBS stage race.

We got lathered up with sunscreen and took a look at the course.
I felt stagnant and could not handle the pace that Brian Smith and Nick Martin (Trek Rocky Mountiain Team) where setting. So I backed it down a bit and met up with Sue. I started feeling a bit better and ramped it up to a stiff tempo and Sue was ripping it. I think she has a shot at the win this week.

Off to see the wizard………
So our hotel is like halfway to Tucson. A good hotel though, equipped with a ping pong table and wireless that has more than made the drive worth it though.

Yesterday I rode the course in a brisk 31:20 so I think I can pull back 3 mins from that with some sticky tires and land a top 3 we will see. It is a super twisty course with a lot of rocks and cacti so precision is everything.

Now to the TT for another pre ride to get it dialed!!

Keep your fingers crossed.

Jeremiah Bishop

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 2:30 PM 0 comments

SNOW IN SEDONA!

Hey folks,

I am feeling much better from my cold. You would love to see this it's dumb. It was snowing cats and doggies! . I'm not sure what the race weather will be like but it has got to be good.

I rode an hour on the road today with the trekies here for training camp including; Steve Hoover, Andy Mills, Todd Helmick, Chris Eatough, Jenny Smith (happy birthday), Nick Martin and Brian Smith. A really awesome group I get to hang with. I am feeling slow as a salted slug at the moment though, (usually a good omen for the weekend). Ha ha.

Me Andy Chris Zap XXX Todd and John Laptop (the photographer) went up the canyon this afternoon to scope some photos for our rider cards. So we where outside in the brief moment of sunshine with awesome red rocks in the back round, I am going to get Andy mills to send me some of his photos for my site. The shoot was mostly a wash because this black evil snow cloud blew in. Blocking the sun we were freezing. Oh well.

We are about to go out to dinner UHG. Mexican again, NO MORE BEANS. How does Wells live on this crap.

Well dinner was pretty good after all, polio burrito.

Erin is keeping industrious and working on the house. It will be fun to go to Sea Otter together. Good stuff, the world premier for Off Road to Athens, Aquarium (Jonny Mac would be proud) and the races of course.

Zap wants me to pass on the marathon and focus on the
Cross-country.

Oh well. I guess I will have some pent up energy to release on the short stages.

See ya at the races:
Jeremiah

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 11:51 PM 0 comments

Like the monkeys of Sputnick.

Yo,

Hoover called me on being deleiquent on my web entries. So here goes my first web entry of the week.

Another travel day is well under way. Erin was nice enough to drop me off witch worked out really well for Duech E Taco (our buddy who needed a ride back from NOVA). I got on the plane and prompty put my back pack on top of some ones new suit oops.

Later I rendezvoused in Chicago with Steve Hoover one of my original supporters from back in the day and my team mate Chris E.

I am now sitting in a packed SUV on our way out of the Phoenix airport en route to Sedona AZ for a team camp. A bike box next to my head and one false move and I will have a black eye. Like the monkeys of Sputnik we are packed to the hilt. Chris and Zap have the Tetris skills fortunately. Never a dull moment on these road trips.

So who knows what will happen this week. Texas was washed out by the time we left. I am just hoping for some sun and to stay clear of the Cacti!
Stay tuned boys and girls.

Hi Erin!

Peace: Jeremiah Bishop

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 12:37 AM 0 comments

AZ. Sun and single track.

SNOW IN SEDONA!

Like the monkeys of Sputnick.

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