That is the story of the life of the now defunct “KrughBlog.” Figured out I had some domain redirecting setup wrong and you couldn’t see my postings at either site – perfect. And now the true last post on this site – I’m starting up http://krughphoto.wordpress.com. Adios
Yes, it’s been fun – we’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship though. There are times when I don’t think about you at all, for weeks on end. Who can blame me? You can be boring and often don’t contribute anything. I’m going to see what else there is to do with the spare time that I’ve spent with you. Who knows, maybe down the road…well I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but for now – goodbye.
This blog will self destruct in a couple weeks. I’m having an affair on the RioGrande Team Blog…
Yup, that’s the most popular search term used to find my blog – day after day. Not sure what that means, but I thought I’d use that for the title of this much-anticipated post. Maybe I’ll get even more click-throughs and an even higher number of visits on my blog? That is the whole point of this thing, isn’t it? “Hey Ryan, check out how many more hits I have than you.” “Ya, but I have more incoming visitors from Corey’s site than you do.” “Whatever, people come across my blog searching for interracial love more often than yours!” …er, something like that.
I prefer to leave about 2 months between blog posts. Just keeps people guessing and waiting. On the plus side, it does allow you to realize who you’re biggest fans are – ie. mine is Seth Rubin. This guy is a force of nature on the bike. They have yet to manufacture a scale able to record his mass nor is there a powermeter with a display wide enough to show all the 0’s of his power output on the bike. Don’t get me wrong, he is not a chunky human, I just worry he might eat me when he passes me during a time trial.
Usually we are racing TT’s out in the middle of nowhere, say the outskirts of DIA – with burnt out jets, cars and the like – and I’m thinking to myself, “What if he did eat me? There is no one – nobody – around to stop him.” The only evidence would be a few splinters of carbon that his palette didn’t approve of. And even if there was someone to stop him, they couldn’t. Unless it was Ryan Belew – and that’s a whole other scenario. (Picture a…hmm…A T-Rex and a double-sized stegosaurus fighting over a Eoraptor)
To help with this experience, I’ve provided some images courtesy of Wikipedia.
Approx. size for Seth
Approx. size for Ryan B (x2)
Approx. size of me, Eoraptor (the dino, not the human)
So you take the two big ones, make ‘em fight, and have the little one being pulled by the teeth of each one, or maybe the stubby arms of the T-Rex. Today, I’m just going to get outside and try not to be eaten.
Yup, got myself all moved into the remodel on 6th st. Pretty great. My summer roommate Rachael has been enjoying (from what she tells me) so far and I even have Kevin Suhr staying here for a week in Brandon Weil’s future bedroom. Looks like it’s going to be a high school reunion come fall when Brandon and CP Martinez move in – funny how things workout 6 years down the road.
Got a grill, put it together, and grilled some massive steak on it all within a few hours to fuel up for mowing the lawn today. I’m using one of those push mowers w/no engine to help save the planet and my upper body. It’s actually pretty fun, I just need to stay on top of it so I’m not doing repeats on the “dog-friendly” areas of the lawn that grow at 4x their brothers’ pace.
Team Rio Grande threw down at the Colorado Springs Classic held at the Air Force Academy last weekend. They grouped all the P, 1, 2 and 3’s in the same category which gave us a solid field of 85 or so. Big crash after the start on a long decent into a right hand turn. Fortunately, Dan Porter, Joe Saperstein and myself were in front of it – and Ryan Hamity, who decided to skip off to the bathroom before the start, was taking a nature break in the superbowl while the field rolled out. He chased back on and rode through the carnage back into the field and I believe almost immediately out the front as well. All 4 of us rode well – Hamity and Porter were taking turns being active at the front and Joe was biding his time in the field. Strong headwinds on the climbs kept it mostly together until the last 2 laps. In the end, Hamity’s numerous breaks proved fruitful and he stayed away until near the finish with a Toyota-United rider and some others who had bridged up. Joe and Dan got up the road somewhere in the shuffle and I was in the last group still together of about 10 riders.
I finished up 16th, climbing much better than I had in previous seasons (even with poor nutrition/hydration throughout the race) and the best part was that Dan, Joe and Ryan all finished in the top 10. So with a team of 4 in a field of 85, we put 3 riders in the top ten and I was 16th. Not bad, not bad at all.
Now we get ready to leave for the Gila on Monday – driving the Rio Rocket with the RockyMounts trailer in tow (thanks in advance Bobby). Bringing down 9 guys and 17 bikes, should be a good time.
Oh and Corey has to wear 3/4 zip jerseys because the full-zip irritates his stomach-skin, rumor has it…
