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• lizzy dog is snoring in the office right now. I think I should curl up next to her and take a siesta #
• @KatStatman rip it tomorrow !! in reply to KatStatman #
• Quick ride done. Now time to grill some steaks!! #
• Tomorrow on tap: big day in the saddle looking for a 500 TSS ride!! Cdga lake bopple/gannet highlander climbs!! #
• @JHilimire ouch that sucks, see ya tomorrow night in reply to JHilimire #
• mmm…black angus steaks, grilled veggies w/pecans, taters, biscuits and pale ale. think I’ve consumed enough for my 9 hour ride tommorrow #
• @sonyalooney been looking at that picture for 5 minutes, still haven’t seen a bike in reply to sonyalooney #
• nice! forgot I downloaded new games for the iphone! time to get my gaming on #
• @KatStatman holding off on the ice cream at least for 5 more minutes! in reply to KatStatman #
• Strapping in for a big ride. See ya in 8-9 hours. #
• fell short on my tss goal had to cut short today but not short on the fatigue factor my legs are hosed Big steep climbs, few >23% #
• http://bit.ly/LUrsx today’s route. don’t let mapmyride fool ya, those grades are waay steeper, bopple is >23% and sliter is up around 21% #
• Heading to peytons 1st birthday party!! #
• Happy birthday Peyton!! http://twitpic.com/8otv8 #
• Rocking the new iPhone 3gs. Waay faster! #
• @RobbieVentura gotta get mobileme for sure!! sux that someone took your iphone in reply to RobbieVentura #
• @UltraRob got new iphone 3gs yesterday, then had to go to att store for account issue, & att store was all same people that just @ apple! in reply to UltraRob #
• Downpouring, guess no lawn mowing or bike ride tonight… #
• sun is shining and skies are clear, roads are dry, might get that ride in afterall! #
• @mattmccourtney it’s always crappy here, rain/snow or gloom. 2nd in US for least amount of sunny days around here!! in reply to mattmccourtney #
• … and now back to our regularly scheduled rainstorm #
• todays weather is manic, sun is back out again… #
• Short ride, hard efforts. Rain finally gave up. #
• Golfing today for bachelor party, will soon find out why I chose again to ride bikes and not swing sticks #
• Totally in love with my fiancé! How could I not be #
• Great 4hr ride with mj around cdga lake. Legs are ready and dialed for the hardcore 24 #

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Firstly, nevermind all the bike riding and whatnot, my nephew turned 1 year old this past week and Sunday was his birthday party!! So Happy Birthday to my lil bubber Peyton Thomas!!

onto the bike riding

Not much to say about the weekend, did a big solo 6 hour ride on Sunday down in Naples, hitting up as much of the Highlander route as possible and burning out a few ultra steep climbs and suffering in the sun. A perfect day of riding and the last big push prior to the hardcore 24.

Fitness is super high and now it’s time for my taper!

Enjoy the Pics!

I love riding here for the views

That’d be a house for boats and not people

Wine & Water

This little guy was overly curious

Old & New on Strong Hill

Windmill Farm in Naples

Big wedding here the next few days so I’ll be offline (but grab me on twitter)

You can follow me on twitter @jasonhilimire, I update and post quite a bit there.

• Hanging with my lil buddy for the night. http://twitpic.com/7uu17 #
• Fire in the hole!! http://twitpic.com/7uu30 #
• Blah. Looks like I’ll be riding in the rain tomorrow all day #
• It’s not raining? maybe I can get my ride in and be dry? btw, something real cool is in the pipeline, stay tuned! #
• 110k, 2800kj’s all in the pouring rain the entire time. Completely waterlogged and tired. #
• @nataliewstevens it’s not too bad I rode my bike 4 hours in the rain today in reply to nataliewstevens #
• @jeffkerkove been raining here for weeks…. in reply to jeffkerkove #
• @JHilimire i’m just ahead of the curve! in reply to JHilimire #
• crap, I have to be up in 6 hours to ride my bike 2x that tomorrow, I’m not even sleepy….. #
• Just realized I have to be up at 3am and not 4. Time for bed!! #
• Up essay to early. Why am o doing this again? #
• Up to early to even spell properly apparently #
• 155 miles today. That’s a SOULstice ride. Awesome day. Felt great!! #
• @JHilimire thanks sis, you’ll be home soon enough don’t worry !! in reply to JHilimire #
• Thanks Everyone for the birthday wishes!! #
• @KatStatman No problems man, thanks for the wishes. You see World Cup at Windham!! in reply to KatStatman #
• @jhilimire mall Friday after pickup?? I’m going to get the new iPhone!! #
• @erica43006 woo!!! awesome Congrats #
• pumped cause I’m going to get the new iphone 3GS! #
• no Park Ave race for me tonight, staying low key after a long weekend, but good luck to those racing #
• @MRKRAZY1870 will pick up the new 3GS phone this friday most likely, gotta figure out how to add my fiance to my plan though… in reply to MRKRAZY1870 #
• I don’t feel so old anymore, I think I just got hit on by hs girls? #
• @SlowPoke2320 “that’s what I like about hs girls, I keep getting older, they keep staying the same dang age” (via a facebook post on topic) in reply to SlowPoke2320 #
• @teamOUCH DUDES! that ain’t the right link!! NSFW!!!!!!!!!! in reply to teamOUCH #
• Wondered why my easy ride was so hard, then realized brakes were on. Doh! #
• @FasCat that’s a long trip to the office today, eh? in reply to FasCat #
• Dreaming of my ride in afternoon Stid Hill>OCP>Cutler>Bristol Mt>Snowmobile trail. Will be nice to ride the Superfly! 35mi, 5000vert +/- #
• @JHilimire by far one of the best ever. Can’t wait to see you soon in reply to JHilimire #
• @sufferfest at least the rumors about him being naked were correct, just wrong place…. in reply to sufferfest #
• Time to get dirty! Jonesin to ride the superfly. Glad to have bonty acx tires back on!! #
• Legs are thrashed after 50k in the Bristol hills. Loads of climbing. Checked out hardcore course gonna be brutal #
• @jeffkerkove we got gps at FasCat now! in reply to jeffkerkove #
• @lusecannon ask and you shall receive in reply to lusecannon #
• amazed what a lil fresh air and small amt of caffeine can do to stop afternoon crashing #
• Tstorms never came. Sun and no wind, but too late made plans to see transformers2 with lake already #
• Time for my weekly cappuccino. Hoping the rain clears up. Time to get out in the boat tonite #
• @TheFinkelstein one of the best films ever!! in reply to TheFinkelstein #
• Looking forward to hanging out with my lil sis @jhilimire and my bro for the weekend. Lil Peyton is 1yr old!!! #
• forget all the stress of trying to make plans with everyone, I’m going for a bike ride instead, alone #

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Here’s the pictures from this past weekends 155 mile Summer Soulstice ride. Another incredible journey down, this time shared with a great number of friends. An Epic day for sure.

21 of us took off at dawn, in the fog and drizzly skies and made our way through the Southern tier and into Northern PA. Crazy weather patterns, fog, rain, sunshine, downpours and epic views greeted us all along the way. We even got to do a little dirt-road drifting on our road bikes as always, it’s not a Hollow ride unless we are ripping up the dirt roads. 45 mph descents on seasonal roads on road bikes, yup that’s fun. Captain Conte yelling at us cause we rode 2.5 miles past the turn cause we were ripping up the descent, priceless.

7 flats total on the ride, 2 by myself! I felt great by the end of the ride and the prep for the 24 hour solo is coming along great. Perhaps it was the massive calorie intake I had during the ride; oatmeal creme pies, pizza slices, snickers bars, red bulls, pringles, orange cupcakes. How can you go wrong with all that tasty food

I’m pretty sure that it’s never going to stop raining here in upstate NY. Seems that my shoes are never going to try out. Today was no exception. The rain was predicted as usual, but it was surprisingly dry and not raining. It didn’t stay that way through my coffee. By the time I was kitted up it was raining steadily.

On tap was a few hours of steady tempo. All I could do was put my head down and roll on in the rain. 4 hours later I was back home, drenched and looking like a drowned rat. Glad though that I had gotten a solid ride in.

On the bright side, this used to be the Hardcore 24 weekend and it’s an exact repeat of last years soggy weekend. Hopefully we’ll get good weather in july!

Below is what sat over me all day during my ride. Tomorrow will be the soul-stice ride. Looking to get wet again!

• grabbing some new tunes for the rides this weekend. Loving the Los Campesinos! album, snagged new placebo and new Dinosaur Jr. #
• Crankskins.com. Go get some them go ride!! http://twitpic.com/78g6d #
• @irmigrrr nice job heather!!! Congrats in reply to irmigrrr #
• Time to wakey-wakey big road ride on tap for today!! #
• Geneva-Naples. 180k on the roadie on tap. Perfect day. Look for loads of pics tonite #
• 155k in the hills. Felt real good finally #
• Another big one today. 180k on tap with some friends. Seneca-Cayuga lakes. First though some pancakes with Lake!! #
• 180k on the road today. Now timefir beers and burgers! #
• @srlooney it would worth driving out there for those cookies alone in reply to srlooney #
• After a 13 hour weekend on the bike feel like I need to eat food every 20 minutes! #
• @srlooney guess I better start packing my bags. Road trip! ;). Maybe a fall visit I’m hoping for… in reply to srlooney #
• @SlowPoke2320 oh it definitely is! till you run out of food in reply to SlowPoke2320 #
• @TheFinkelstein I could imagine you would be even moreso, as you were racing! in reply to TheFinkelstein #
• @SlowPoke2320 woo!! Great job! Reward yourself!! (I’d go with ice cream!!) in reply to SlowPoke2320 #
• WAtching Lake play on the slip n slide!! http://twitpic.com/7hve1 #
• 90 min. Of bike practice done. Beautiful morning, great ride along the lake front enjoykng the sunshine! #
• @KatStatman Super Flagstaff!!? then up 4 mile onto the dirt to Gold Hill and down Sunshine!! that sounds like fun to me in reply to KatStatman #
• @KatStatman ah why not that sounds like a great plan!! in reply to KatStatman #
• @mackyfranklin I think I’ll be at Wyndham, but probably not Snow. All depends… no solid plans at the moment! in reply to mackyfranklin #
• Watching tropic thunder. Love this movie! #
• hoping the rain stays away today….. #
• my sister is now on twitter @jhilimire!! if you want to know what the hipsters in NYC are up to you can follow her… #
• somedays you’re the dog, somedays you’re the bone #
• bummer, looks like I’m not going to make the Lumberjack 100 Wish I could sell my spot, but too late #
• Rain rain go away… #
• @jeffkerkove it’s perfect to put on when you need to take a nap, just like Nascar! in reply to jeffkerkove #
• Future mtb star?? http://twitpic.com/7r4d6 #
• @JHilimire when are you not lazy??? in reply to JHilimire #
• @JHilimire use the @ and my name to reply to people… buy me a good present! in reply to JHilimire #
• Quick morning spin along the lakefront. Love the early am solitude #
• @SlowPoke2320 you’re gonna kill it! in reply to SlowPoke2320 #
• @taylorphinney agreed not liking the new layout at all in reply to taylorphinney #
• @JHilimire you getting your iphone today????? in reply to JHilimire #
• Finally the local coffee is open before 9am! think they realized people like coffee before work + my early am rides will end much nicer now #
• @bikeradar would you still keep your job if you used coke and boss knew 2x??? Most likely not. I say no way. in reply to bikeradar #
• @sufferfest jealous… I’m stuck with a plain ol 3G! in reply to sufferfest #
• @minervadesign lift eyes up from phone to stop twittering try this http://www.9to5mac.com/email-n-walk in reply to minervadesign #
• http://bit.ly/ZLJCt This is gonna be so awesome!!! World Cup XC in NY next year!!. Course is only a few hrs away #

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Another big day in the book on Sunday. 112 miles with Mark and Suzanne.
Headed south down the west side of Seneca Lake, once we hit Watkins Glen turned east over to Ithaca and came North up 89.

Had an awesome day, sunshine and great friends. Couldn’t really ask for more. Days like this are the reason I ride a bike in the first place. There’s no reason to do all the intervals, racing, suffering, etc if you can’t spend a day just riding your bike with your friends.

Legs felt surprisingly good all weekend. Form is on the up and up. I’m also loving the new road bike, I think Sunday it finally was fully dialed in.

I think I like Red bull’s and oatmeal creme pies as my favorite endurance foods. If you’ve ridden with me on a long ride, then you know my cravings for Little Debbie snack food products, they are so delicious!

The title refers to a term in the software business, where after a bit of programming, bug fixes and tweaks, said software has the potential to be the final version unless major bugs are found.

Feels to me like the last few weeks have been spent working the bugs out of my system (hopefully). Because today, I felt like gold. Finally, feels like I’ve shaken whatever bad luck I’ve had and got me some good legs.

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My planned route was cut short by a smidge as I decided to hang around the house this morning and have breakfast with Lake and Bridget rather than rushing out the door to fit the ride in. Gave me a chance to spend some extra time with them before I’d be gone the next 6+ hours.

I started from the Geneva Bicycle Center and made my way south into Penn Yan, rolling along the ridge line enjoying some nice lake side views and having some great sensations in the legs. I made good time and made the turn west towards Naples and the southern end of Canadaigua Lake.

Decided to climb up Underwood Hill, only ever been up it on a mountain bike and I can remember grinding up a paved road in my granny gear. Today, though the 39×25 was tolerable even on the ultra-steep grade up the hill. It did seem like the hill went on forever. I was rewarded with a nice descent down South Hill road, and surprised to find that in the super steep part, it was actually paved!!

After that I rolled into Naples and decided to climb up and over Griesa Hill. It’s a really cool climb. great views of the valley, and some crazy cool old barns that date back a long time. Kinda euro-esque I’d say. Someday I’ll roll up the hill and just get some good pics of the barns!

After a quick refuel and water top off it was time to head up Gannet Hill. 10k of climbing at about 5% avg grade. I was nicely rewarded with a few tri-geeks to gobble up on the climb. They had about a 1k start on me and I quickly dispatched them en route to the top (they’ll never climb to the top cause, a: they can’t climb and b: the descent off is far too steep for their bikes with the aero position).

After that it was time to roll along the Canadaigua Lake front and enjoy the multi-million dollar homes. Some crazy sick houses along the route, can’t imagine what some of them spend just on groundskeeping!!

All in all ended the day nicely: 93.7 miles 5.7 hours, 366 TSS, 4,027 kilojoules.

Tomorrow, will break the century barrier as I’ll be heading around another one of the Finger Lakes with Mark and Suzanne Hartman. Maybe the legs will be ready and I can send the “gold master” to production just in time for the Lumberjack 100!

As I mentioned in my previous post, I gots me a new road bike. I’ve been spending a bit of time on her lately. Tuesday was all about dialing the bike in and making sure everything worked smoothly and she fit properly,

Yesterday though, was time to get back at it. Finally a non-race week to focus on some training. With the upcoming Lumberjack 100, the calendar called for some heavy Sweet Spot work. 3 x 20 minute efforts to be exact. Man felt like it had been a long time since I went out and did some real intervals!

It took me a few minutes to settle into the groove, but once I got there it was nice and comfy. Can actually see that the last few minutes of each effort, I was really giving her, even pushing past threshold into zone 5 territory near the end. All together, I felt really great on the bike and was very happy to get a solid workout in.

Today, I headed out with no set plan in order. Originally was going to hit up the shop group ride, but with the rain, I knew no one would be around.

By chance that someone might be riding, I hit the route in reverse to catch up. No dice though, and then the rain came…

At first I was a little bit frustrated, but then I simply got comfortable with the rain and just settled into riding some tempo for the duration of my ride. It was plenty warm out and the rain was nice and soothing. It was amazing how quiet it was out though!

The one thing that got me though; is on my route I cross a steel deck bridge. Steel + water + road tires = not good. Took me a few minutes to walk across that one. I’d rather walk it than ‘man-up’ and lose a knee-cap if I fell over!

Tomorrow will be a nice relaxing day in anticipation of a massive weekend of riding. Mid 70’s and sun; should be perfect for a few epics!!

There’s nothing like a brand new bike to get you excited and ready to ride some more. The added incentive is especially needed after a few weekends of trouble racing. I wouldn’t say that thing are down, it’s just that it’s incredibly hard to race without proper sleep or a functioning vehicle. I’ve had some issues sleeping and a few bike part malfunctions (but that’s racing). Hopefully things will come together here soon.

I must say the NYC race was kinda crazy cool. It was short lived for myself, but the course was pretty awesome. Started out at the park and up a lil paver, then ran you along the Hudson for a bit, 5 flight stair descent with corners and then under the overpass. That was kinda weird, felt like this post-apocalyptice experience, plus you’re riding with a roof over you head. I even think the filmed the Bone Collector under said overpass. After a bit more of some paver climbs it was into the singletrack. The singletrack was greasy, rocky and very technical. The giant rocks were the kind of granite that the tires never can hook up on and with the added moisture weren’t hooking up. Combine that with me running a conti mountain king (BTW, might be the worst tire ever, but was only decent choice as shop was out of Bonty ACX) and I wasn’t hooking up with the supposed 2.2 (more like a 1.8) tire on the trails all that well. Unfortunately right at the end of the prologue lap, I shredded my spokes on the rocks and I stuck out another full lap, but the mojo just was not there (I slept about 90 minutes the night prior).

But enough of that, I’m done with my bad run of a few races, got me some sleeping pills and ready to rock at Lumberjack next weekend.

This next few days though will be all about spending some time on my new road bike!!

The great folks at Geneva Bikes hooked me up with a closeout deal on an older model trek 5200. Full carbon OCLV frame and 10spd Ultegra. Since I’m running the powertap on the rear and have a few wheelsets, I sold back the wheelset to get the price even lower. I took her out for her maiden voyage this afternoon. After some heavy position tinkering (I should probably get a pro fit), it felt comfy and nice. The full carbon frame is very stiff and responsive. I think I’m going to like riding my road bike again
I think a big road epic is due for this weekend!