Time Trial

I have my bike all clean and ready to go. The wheel set i am going to be using is 808's I would like to have put a disk on that back but i just don't have enough miles with a disk well i have actually never even ridden a disk so i will save trying the disk for another time. Since i grew out of my old tt suit i will be wearing a tri suit with a compression top under it. They have a rule in cycling that you must have your shoulder covered so a tri suit on its own is not allowed. I think its kinda dumb but they want a clean look just like triathlon with the rear zipper thing. Here is a picture of my set up (Mothers and there cameras)

Stuff

So school is in full swing now and it really blows! I have started cross country so there is something to look forward to. I have been really unmotivated in the past week or so. I am trying to get pumped up on any little thing I can. I have TT provincials this weekend so maybe that will get me fired up leading into that. Cross country as been going pretty good, I am some how dragging my butt out of bed to ride 8km to school for cross country. I have been running anywhere from 10-7km. On of the workouts was 12x of a 1:20 loop. with a 2km warm up and cool down. I am also working 4 days a week now at the Outback to make some money. I work Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

I will try to post more

Karsten Madsen

Guelph Lake 2

The last Tri of the year is now done. I came home from Pentiction on Tuesday morning that week so me being really tired played a bigger factor then i would have liked. The swim wasn't good at all, as I said I was tired but I did wake up at the 500M. I got on my bike and rode tempo for the first 4 mins then i really started to push and quickly went from about 7 in the race to 3rd. I came off the bike in 3rd and had a lead on 4th and 5th but in the run i gave alot on the bike and as i said i was tired from the travel i jsut died in the last 2km of the race. I ended up 5th over all and 1st in 19 and under.

Looking ahead to tt provincials I think i will be a factor for an overall win if things go my way! Guelph i wanted to have the fastest bike split but i have to keep in mind i am only 16 and i still have a ways to go before i see my best riding.

I will update Tri Dakota and some other stuff in the next few days

Karsten Madsen