The team is looking very good. I am excited to be racing all this season with a very solid group of guys!. The camp started with a meeting on Friday,. Pretty much introducing every rider to the team at Stuart's Press house, and meet everyone on the Elite Squad. We all spoke about what brought us to this team, and what we are hoping to do this season, etc, etc... My main goal for this season is to work well with everyone... Then I am sure the results will just come by themselves, whether is for a teammate, team, or myself... Either way, the key is team work, and if we do that with this team, wow!!... can't wait to see!!!

We all have been racing against each other for quite a bit, and every time I show up to a race in California, these guys are usually the guys I watch out for. So now that they are my teammates, it really feels like a big relief to not have to worry about any of them!. As any other team though, we had our good hang outs this weekend, maybe a couple of good beers together, but all and all, it was mostly riding hard in the mountains on Saturday around beautiful Santa Monica, and then doing the famous Nickle training ride on Sunday. We completed about 4 hours on Saturday, and 5 today. Nice nice..

Now we are just watching some football, and getting ready to wrap things up. Our first team race should be later in February, but a lot of us we will start racing next weekend.. Enjoy the Pictures! I just have a few for now...

Que mejor manera que comenzar la temporada bien motivado para competir.. Cuando no hay motivacion, el trabajo se hace sin gusto, y los resultados lo demuestran... Pero cuando andas motivado, lo primero que quieres hacer en cuanto comienze el dia es subirte ala bicicleta y poner esos kilometros muy buen trabajados cada dia. Y asi ando.. Me siento muy bien. No eh echo todavia la intensidad que acostumbro a estas alturas del invierno, ni eh estado entrenando en grupo, ni reventando mis piernas con mis colegas. No eh gastado energias, y ya no puedo aguantar a competir en mi primer competencia el 25 de Enero!!!

Despues de esa correre el 31 en Imperial, Ca. Luego el 7-8 de Febrero las dos clasicas Red Trolley y la legendaria Boulevard... Les digo a todos.. Si quieres hacer bien en Boulevard, enfocate en Red Trolley, y entre menos la tengas en mente mejor, porque esa carrera es maldita!! JAAA!! Los que la han corrido me entenderan... Bueno, terminando me ire a correr un par mas por Arizona, o Los Angeles el 14-16 de Febrero, y concluire el mes con un viaje a Mexico, ala concentracion del equipo Tequila Afamado para la Vuelta a Mexico que sera del 01-08 de Marzo!.

Asi que.... Ya veremos como corren las proximas semanas. Mi equipo se ve muy bien. Tenemos una junta el viernes, y dos dias de entrenamiento para ver como andamos esta semana. Les dare mas detalles del programa que tendremos ya que regrese la sig semana... Necesito tomar fotos!!! Adonde voy escribiendo un Blog sin fotos verdad??? Lo siento, pero esque si me da mucha flojera... Pero ya me esforzare mas!

Cold's suck... But this one didn't. It was a good week even though it was also a sick one. literally... So yeah, back to Monday when the Cold felt the roughest.. I put myself on rest. Told myself to forget of the bike, and look forward positive to whatever days I have ahead sick. First things that came to mind were: nutella, computer, coffee, movies, nutella.. sleep??.. Things that would help me kill time, and make this cold somewhat an enjoyable process of refreshing my last couple of weeks of training.

Buuhh, so hands to work, and I was off to Tijuana to take care of some things first. Man, that city is crazy!  What impresses me a lot is how normal people take it, and as soon as you go to the other side of the border (USA) everything just chances completely, and I am not saying is better, but it's definitely a special transition. You just don't see fake cops anymore going around with huge machine guns getting ready to kill someone in the streets... Good thing I only went to the dentist, and had good news. No surgery.. Nice! All I need to know.. Off I go back to Cholo Vista to rent some movies which concluded my highly recommend it, and fucking amazing movie! KUNG FU PANDA! That movie is the most awesome thing! I laughed so HARD, and having a couple of beers with it made me almost choke to death!. Seriously!!!

And BOOM! two days passed of watching KUNG FU PANDA!, and now I was starting to feel depressed, bored, and feeling like a pig. All that nutella, NO riding, and movies were starting to kick in. And here I was wondering again what I could do now to forget how shitty I was feeling. Then one thing came to mind!. FACEBOOK!!!! YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! KABOOM!!!!! 10 HOURS then went by in a heart beat after reactivating my old facebook account I deleted back in August!!!, and dammm I'll tell you one thing FACEBOOK has really highlighted my week, and made awful Wednesday go by fast!!!! I also did some packing around my house, because I just got a new place at Otay Ranch which helped kill more time too! haaa!

Here I am Thursday.. Sleeping and waking up to my facebook notifications. Very excited about being Dominque's Rollin new facebook friend, and having 40+ other new notifications reassuring me all the thing's I've been missing over the net this past 4 months! Too many!! Not going away from facebook ever again!! hahaha !! Nothing beats the feeling of being with all your friends at the same time hahaha! ! OH YEAH, and packing was done by now.. Another day went by with the help of Facebook and Nutella...

Friday came, and I was feeling better!. I was ready for Donny's Coffee. Got out! YEAH!!. Went straight to my friend Donny's Cafe!, and met up with some buds from Dewalt. Victor, and Angel. The most fun guys to hang out at coffee shops! haaa!!! Being done with the packing, now it was time to think how I was going to move my things from one place to another having only a small stupid yellow car.. Victor had the answer. He hooked me up with his 50+ grand truck with killing sound system, and he let me had it for the day. It was awesome how I was just able to set everything up in the truck, and then just went to my new place, unloaded once.. That was it... Bed, Couch, Table, Cabinets,Office?.. Done! coool!

Now again, Friday.. Hasn't finished yet... Still chatting hours in FACEBOOK, but thinking about riding now!. First sign of cold being almost gone, but now starting to get comfortable with it!.. Too soon to ride maybe I said.. Trainer?? Then Facebook??? yess!!.. Rode an hour on the TT bike! watching myself on the mirror all along, and looking how fucked up my position looks right now but whatever.. And listening to amazing Andrea Bocelli MAX VOLUME! forgetting about everything else but the music, and the motion of turning the pedals. Sweating then started to come out. Good feelings!. I am back!!! Done with antibiotics too :). Went out to see Will Smith's new movie SEVEN POUNDS to finish off my comeback day, and  wasn't disappointed!. Good one! Well, when it comes to Will Smith, there isn't one single movie I don't like from him. I like them all!

Happy Saturday came by, and I remembered almost a whole week went by without touching the bike, but here I was motivated and happy to head for a nice ride along the coast to Coronado. Beautiful sunny day!. shorts, and jersey. All it took...And there I was about to ride back from my ride, and only had about 10 more kilometers to get home, when I came across to my friend Glen on the road.. And I said.. "Where you going man" He said: "Coronado".. I said: "I'll go with you!" Turned around, and did it again! Nice good cruising hours, just feeling like a cyclist again, and enjoying the day!.

The night came, and too many friends wanted to hang out, so we did! Hookah bar, then clubbing, then trying to find our way home!! hahaha!! Just use your imagination, and it's exactly what happened.. Anyway.. I ended up waking up at 1 pm on Sunday not feeling too well, and doing my training throughout the afternoon feeling a little better.. So here I was closing up the week with a good afternoon ride of about 4 hours, and having Jose Blanco, and Carlos Leyva visiting to enjoy my 24th movie rental this week!...

And now I am just wondering why I woke up at 5:00 am today.. It's funny how it works I guess. A little bit different from yesterday's... Anyway, here I am bloging this thing. Been here for a while wondering what will be today's adventure... I've always tried to live as if I could write a book about every single day of my life. You?? Not sure why I am writing this much, or this at all.. But, If you read it all. I feel sorry for you for wasting your time. haaaaaaa!

Until next one..

I just realized my life feels incomplete without facebook... Now that I am just plain sick, and bored, facebook has been totally become the best cure to kill time meanwhile I heal. But you know what!? Facebook is just too fucking awesome, and I will keep having it !!! I recommend it if you have nothing better to do in your life like myself, but chat with everybody and talk trash 24/7 whenever you feel like it! heeeeeee!! yeahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

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