Riding with a racer, A crash, and damn broken spokes again

This past weekend saw some absolutely beautiful weather for riding and what did I go and do? I drank too much on Friday night so my attempt at a 30 mile ride on Saturday was riddled with a throbbing headache and all around soreness. I did make the ride anyways and felt good afterward. My band played the night before and apparently I just needed to get it out...........bad news for training. On to Sunday, I didn't drink too much Saturday and figured I'd get a ride in early afternoon but my buddy Bri who actually races road bikes called me early to do a "short" little ride. I realized that my gearing is not ideal for riding hard and fast..........ugh, we were doing about 22mph the whole time, which is about 4mph faster than what I average........good for the heart, bad for my stamina. 4 miles into what amounted to a 20 mile ride for me a car pulled left in front of us, Bri broke hard left and braked, I did the same only clipped his rear wheel and went down hard.....I bruised my poor little bottom but felt ok..........4 miles later my headache from the day before was back...........ugh, I went as far as I could but had to turn around..........I do believe I'm going to get a road bike as well..........I'm going to do the Aidsride on my fixed gear but I want to haul ass on a road bike too. Oh and yesterday I heard a pop and lost 2 spokes on my rear wheel again.........it's getting too expensive to keep fixing so I think I'm going to look into some new wheels.............damn bikes are expensive!! .........

-Duggy V.

Time to start fundraising

As daunting as the idea of riding all those 545 miles is, the harder part is thinking about Danny and I having to raise 6000 dollars........Ughhh......it is for such a great cause that I don't feel bad, I mean I'm not trying to sell candy bars to fund a trip to basketball camp (not that that's bad either, but I think the concept of the ride and the way it funds aids research is bigger) so I feel like I can really sell it, but again, asking/begging for money is tough. So, I'll be sending out my emails, and working the angles, and hopefully we can concentrate on training and our friends, colleagues, and family will help with the money side of things!

- DUG