GOOD RIDE

Saturday I got in a good ride. Started out from the house a little after 0600 and headed up Kunia Road. I got to Schofield and didn't see the rest of the HACCers, so headed up Kolekole solo. After a quick break at the top, I headed back down and saw Kelly, Tony, and Jason starting the climb. I turned around and headed back up. After coming down and doing a loop through the base, we decided to do Kolekole one more time. After that and a quick stop for a coffee break, I headed back home. Ended up with just over 50 miles...good ride!

SATURDAY RIDE

Haven't posted in a while...

Started training back up....been riding, running and swimming. Even got in a Saturday ride. Thanks Ben, Steve and Kelly.

DICK EVANS MEMORIAL ROAD RACE

Yesterday day I rode in the Dick Evans Memorial Road Race, a 112 mile bike ride around the island of Oahu. Things were going pretty good. I believe I was in the second group back from the lead group. After clearing Kunia Road, I hooked up with Brian Denaro and a pretty big group and we were hammering away. Then I got a flat. I got a new tube in and found out my CO2 cartridge wasn't working. Luckily, one of the support vehicles had just pulled over and had a floor pump. I got back on and hammered away until I caught two guys who wanted to work together. As soon as we started to get organized, I got another flat. This one was worse. I was changing things out when the support vehicle pulled over. We found a cut in my tire and the tube was showing through a little. Luckily (again), one of the guys offered me a new tire and it just happened to be the same kind I had on. This evolution took about 30 minutes and by this time almost everyone had blown by me. I hammered it out as long as I could and passed several people. My goal this year was to better my time from last year. With the two flats, that didn't happen. I know I would have done well if I hadn't gotten the flats and had been able to stay with a group because despite having done the race solo from the North Shore, I felt pretty good. Oh, well...there's always next year.

TANTALUS - HACC PHOTO RIDE

Saturday I got out for a ride with HACC. This was to be a ride up Tantalus for a group photo with a stop at the Yard House for beer/food after the ride. Tantalus is a great place to ride...lots of climbing and great scenery.

Heading up Tantalus.


John and Debi took the tandem up.

Jason and I stop for a photo...Daimond Head in the background.

Steve and Kelly Becker did a great job of coordinating this ride and snapping photos!

Diamond Head.

This is a cool shot of us heading up the road.

Our group shot. Fun ride.

I had to depart early so didnt' get to stick around for the Yard House festivities.

PARTY!

Last night Goy and I went out to our friend's bar to celebrate the bar's three year anniversary and our friend, Willy's birthday.

PLOTTING NEXT YEAR'S REVENGE?

BACK ON THE BIKE

After two weeks off due to surgery, it was good to get back on the bike yesterday...well, sort of. I probably picked the best or worst day as a first day back...depends on how you look at it. I went out for the HACC Hammerfest yesterday and it was brutal. We were rolling along and I was feeling pretty good. When a car passed the group on the left, I saw an opportunity to get in its slipstream and take a flyer off the front. I got a good lead on the group and was hitting it hard. Just as we were getting out to the beach, the lead group caught me. I tried to hang on but didn't have the steam...they were cooking it! I dropped back to the second group and got in with them to finish up the ride. Kelly and I had a nice little sprint at the end...fun! I was spent after the ride but it felt good. This morning I started back my riding to work and had a great ride in. Next move is to decide on whether I'm going to ride Dick Evans in September.

DAVE Z. SHOWS PROPER DESCENDING TECHNIQUE

Here is a great shot of Dave Zabriskie showing us his descending technique.

MORE FROM ASG - PINEAPPLE HILL ROAD RACE

Having some fun at the starting line.


Pre-race brief.


And we're off.

At the front...temporarily.

ALOHA STATE GAMES - TOUR OF WAHIAWA

This weekend, a few of us HACCers participated in the Aloha State Games - Tour of Wahiawa which consisted of a Time Trial and Crit on Saturday and a Road Race on Sunday. It was a great weekend of racing with three awesome races!

Getting things set up to race.


Ready to go!


Jeff ready to attack Kolekole!


Steve at the line, assisted by Bennie, while Casey waits for his turn.

Ben stylin' on his Transition...the look of SPEED!

John is ready to go!


At the top of Kolekole...that wasn't so bad!

Kelly reaches the top! Awesome!

Some of the HACC pose for a photo.

Everyone anxiously awaiting the results of the Time Trial.


HACC Daddy..."and the winner is..."!

COMMAND PICNIC

On Friday, our command had a Command Picnic. It was fun...good food, friends, and lots of activities.

Goy and Breanna hamming it up.

Damien and the Merino twins in action.


He is The Warrior!

Damien ready to get wet.

He got it!

Sexy boy...like his Daddy!


Damien loved the dunk tank!

The Chiefs played the E-6 and below in a practice volley tournament. The real tournament is scheduled for next Friday.

Who is that sexy guy in yellow?

Ready for the action.

The junior guys played well. It was a great game.

AIEA HEIGHTS ON A 23

This morning as I was getting ready for my bike commute to work, I noticed my rear tire was flat. I was in a hurry and need to get to work so threw on a different set of wheels. The wheels I took off had an 12-27 cassette and the other wheelset had a 12-23 cassette. No big deal for the commute and even for doing the AMR ride at lunch. However, when I met everyone for the lunch time ride the plan changed. Everyone wanted to ride up Aiea Heights Drive...first thing I thought was, this is going to hurt...and it did. The heat didn't help much either but I got through it and actually didn't do too bad.

JUMPING ON THE BANDWAGON

Yes I'm jumping on the bandwagon. It looks like the thing to do is post stats for May...so here are mine.

MILES: 642
AVERAGE MPH: 17.07
MAX MPH: 44.90

All done on my Trek..."The Griffen" has been feeling neglected, may have to take her out for a spin one day.

MY BEST BUDDY IN THE WHOLE WORLD!

Damien playing video game with Lucky.

Best buddies.

COFFEE RIDE

On Tuesday a group of us met for a nice ride out to Kaimuki. Our first stop was in Waikiki for some coffee and a couple of photos. We then headed out to Kaimuki for a quick stop for a bite to eat. Along the way, John pointed out a hill that looked like it would be a pretty challenging climb...I'll have to check that out later. On the way back, we stopped at a cool little place called the Kalihi Bike Exchange. I had never seen this place and thought it was pretty cool. I'll have to drop off some old bike parts to them and see if they have anything for the fixed gear/single speed project I've been contemplating. We made it back in time for the HACC Hammerfest which was brutal as usual. After finishing up with my commute home, I ended up riding about 82 miles...on a Tuesday...not bad considering I was supposed to be at work.





We stopped for a pit stop and I noticed something...John, were you trying to tell us something? Just kidding!!!

ANOTHER LATE POST

Forgot to post a picture of Damien after he FINALLY got a haircut about a week ago.

HACC BBQ - LATE POST

Forgot to post this...last Tuesday HACC had a BBQ at Hickam Beach to say goodbye to some of our riders that are leaving in the next few months. We have a lot of families leaving the island and Kelly coordinated a great cookout to send them off.