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No fish updates for awhile. Someone broke into my GTI last night and stole my 2 fly rods, my all my tackle, and my GPS. The one night I forget to lock my car. Now I am out $900 because the Insurance deductable is $1000 bucks. Try to find some cash so I can get back out to the lakes and creeks. I guess it is cross season so cross posts it will be...Leave you with a picture of a big Bluegill I caught Monday night before all my gear was yanked.

Weekly Fishin' update

Recently I have gotten back into fly fishing. I have discovered some sweet fishing around Bloomington. It has been great to take my mind of things. I really need to start riding more though and fishing less. One thing leads to another and I am gone fishing for 4 hours. Ooops. Looking forward to cross worlds again tonight. Thank got it is not as hot as last week.

Rock Bass

Not sure what kind of fish, but caught it at Cascades

Cascades Bass

Cascades Sunfish

Another sunfish

Griffy Sunfish

Griffy Bass

Another Griffy Bass

Clear Creek

Clear Creek

Fishing at Clear Creek

Pony Stable

Cross is here!!!

All 3 together

From the front

Pam's

Pink

More Pink

White Seat/Tape

Black Seat/Tape

Gold

More Gold!!

Hump Day

Yesterday instead of doing the Forest TT Pam and I did some fishing. We hit up a few of the local creeks around Bloomingon. We managed to catch a ton of sunfish. Sunfish+fly rod= A Blast!

Today I headed up to Chicago to see my mom and get the cross bikes. I got started on building them. They came out pretty cool. Little bummed they did not come with matching white forks but they still look sick. Here is a pic of Pam's so far:



We also hit up the Farmers Market of Saturday and got some fresh veggies.

Is it over yet.....

Wow a lot has happened and I have not been documenting it at all on this blog. I keep saying that I will post more and still don't. Hopefully cross motivates me to start posting. So what has happened.

Elk Grove: Had a great race on Saturday finishing up 3rd in the field sprint which placed me 8th. Legs were feeling great that weekend. Sunday was however crappy for me. Missed the split, Will clipped a pedal and went down with only a few to go and Bret rode himself out of out of the break. By this time I was too far back and could not make the bridge. Oh well. Will made some sweet cash with his sprinting skills.

Warsaw Crit: Had 12 out of the 30 guys there. Got in a break with Will and some Roadhouse/ Nuvo guys. Will helped out a ton covering moves by Nuvo and Roadhouse. Managed to win the sprint and take home my second "W" for the year.

Glencoe Crit: Wet and Hot. Sounds like some porn, not a bike race. Luca, Will, and I headed up to Glencoe after Warsaw for another shot at some cash. Will got in a late break that I thought was going to stick but was brought back on the last lap. I ended up 4th in the sprint with Will only a few spots behind me. Ended up being a great pay day. Very cool venue. Those Subway guys can really sprint!

Downers Grove: More rain and crashes. What a crazy race. I think that was the hardest rain I have ever riden in or let alone race in. I managed to stay upright even though there were some close calls. I felt really bad during the race, I kept drifting to the back and wanting to quit. Having so many people there cheering for me really helped me stick with it. Ended up 19th, not bad for feeling so poor.

Is my season over.....not sure. I need to decide soon if I am going to do Marion. Heading back up to Chicago to tomorrow to spend a week with my mom. Cross frames are in too so I get to get cracking on building those up. Only waiting on pedals and seats now.

Vacation

After Kim and Chris's wedding I headed up to the Chicago Crit with Isaac. The race was very cool with tons of sweet riders there. Race was going well then I broke a spoke in my rear wheel. Headed over to the SRAM tent and they hooked me up with a 404. Thanks guys! I got back in with 11 laps to go feeling great even though I spent the previous night drinking and dancing. Last lap I was sitting about 10-15th wheel, thinking this is going to be a sweet result. However on the 2nd corner people decided to slide out right infront of me and I was off into the hay bails. All that work just to get taken out on the last lap. Very Frustrating! I guess thats bike racing.

Pam came up Sunday and we headed up to Wisconsin for some well needed vacation. Here are some photos of the week:

Biggest Northern I have ever caught

Rock Bass

Pama


Nice Largemouth

More Bass

First fish of the trip

Great Sunset

Trout on the fly rod

Last Night


First hole

Pam with a Largemouth


another Pike

Pam learning to fly fish

Rainbow

another

Doc's Pond

Another


Pam's new car

Stalking the trout

Sad to leave Wisconsin but it is time to get back to Chicago for some crit action at Elk Grove.