Day 3 Finally Through Texas

So we slept in Frisco, Texas in this RV place. We spent most of the morning there, Taking showers, Cleaning clothes , and I Shaved Andrew's , Tony's , and Eric's head! I've gotta say that i'm pretty good at it. If bike racing doesn't work out i could always be a barber! x) But we left and then went to check out the Velodrome that we are going to race on at track Nat's. It's a nice track but it's going to be really hot and really windy! We didn't get to see the track up close because all the gates where locked! But from where we could see it looked like a nice track, similar to ADT but out door. But after we walked around the hole arena place we went back into the Motor Home and left. I didn't have to make Lunch today because Eric decided he wanted to actually do something and not sit around and complain! and so we just drove and drove , the scenery started to change , the towns got bigger and bigger until we got Louisiana where we stopped in Shreveport, to go for a ride. It was a really cool place to ride. We where riding on this bike path that was right next to the Red River , there was cool river boats and old bridges ! but Tony Crashed . AGAIN.... in Big Springs he crashed turning around in gravel , today he crashed because he went off the pathway into the grass and when he tried to get back on he crashed on the little lip of the pathway. His new name is Sir Fed! haha hope he reads this. We got back and I made Chicken Alfredo, it turned out really good, probably the best stuff I've ever made! I'm going to warm some up right now but where somewhere in Louisiana right now ,I think where going get to Mississippi and i'm tired and hungry so goodnight!(:

  

Day 2 Texas is a BIG state!

Woke up right inside of Texas and where still driving through it! We where trying to get the Velodrome in Frisco because their is Friday Night Racing there and we wanted to get a chance to ride there but we couldn't make it in time, thanks to our rear left side tire blowing out -_- But we ended up going for a ride while the motor home was getting fixed. We where stopped in this little town called Big Springs and this place was HOT! (Fact , NOT complaint) We looked at the weather and it said it was 104 degrees but that was at 12 and it just got hotter and hotter! Their was this slight breeze that would gust pretty hard every now and then , but the problem with the wind was that it was hot , not refreshing wind. Kind of like when someone is breathing on you. But we went for our ride around town, it was really neat ,abandoned gas stations , ancient  brick school houses. We would get these looks from people like "WTF" . Like they have never seen a cyclist before, or maybe they where just flabbergasted that anyone would be out in the heat.  Eric got a flat going over this sewer drain thing and he had a saddle bag with 3 tubes (:.... that all had holes in them-_- so Tony and I rode back to the Motor home and got some tubes . Eric patched his tube and we rode back to the motor home and got on the road again!
I started to get dinner ready , I made Nachos! Got 4 pounds of ground turkey and cooked it. I pored beans in the bowl and put it back in the oven and continued to cook it until all the meat turned brown.  I put chips on a plate then added the meat with beans , put cheese on it and put the plate in the microwave to melt the cheese real quick. So it's now 11:13 here and we are 50 miles away from Frisco,Texas. I think we are going to sleep somewhere around here, and then go check out the Velodrome in the morning.
I don't think anyone has gotten to that point where there super bored but i can feel that , that time is coming haha! So thanks for reading , I've taken a bunch of picture so as soon as i learn how to post them I will. BYE

We Blew a Tire

So we were innocently driving down highway 20 when we start to hear this really loud FLAPPING kind of sound. We take the next off ramp which was conveniently right in front of us. We were pretty lucky because where we're driving their are little towns every 20 or 30 miles, and so were stopped at this abandoned Gas station in Big Spring ,Texas, it's actually pretty neat! It's about 1000 degrees outside. @Mahali: Fact , not complaint(: and I'm sweating just sitting outside. Bye hope everything goes well. It's actually 104 degrees.

First Full Day on the Road.

So I woke up this morning(thursday,June 16), all sore cause I fell asleep on the tile floor of the motorhome -_- but other then that I had a goodnights sleep. I woke up and had some of the greatest cereal ever, Cinnamon Toast Crunch!(: and the day was pretty uneventful, slept watched movies and just chilled. But we stopped by this Triathlon shop called Tri Sports to redeem some gift certificates that my brother , Eric and I got when we won the G.C. for the Tucson Bicycle Classic. We got some Pre Race Stuff, Gu's, Electrolyte drink and some Other food. We had heard about this climb that's really popular in Tucson called Mt. Lemmon, it's like 25 miles with and average of 6%-7% grade. We where looking for a place to ride to get the blood flowing, raise our heart rate a little. So we thought it would be a good place to ride so we drove to the base of it and got the bikes out and just headed off. It was a long run up to the start of the climb with a tailwind so it got really hot! We where only planning on going for like an hour ride and so I though I'd only need one bottle but my dad said I'd probably want both of them and he was right it was hot and dry so your mouth would dry up really fast! But any way Eric and I where riding at a pretty good pace and we realized only Courtney, a 12 year old girl on our team, was left with us and so I came to the conclusion that we couldn't leave Courtney by her self so me and Eric would take turns going off the front for short little efforts an turn around an let the other one go. So we ended up not getting to the top but maybe like 3 or 4 miles into the climb. But anyway it was a really cool ride , I'd like to come back at a more bearable time of year because it's a really beautiful area with canyons ,smooth roads And little traffic(: we got back from our ride packed up and started on the road.
I'm not sure who volunteered me but I got the job of "team house wife" as Eric called it. So I make everybody food ,clean up ,and wash dishes. But I made this casserole type thing with ground turkey, pasta, and red tomato sauce. It turned out really good ,surprisingly haha. It's now 1:37 in the morning, that's only one hour ahead of where I'm from . Where somewhere in Texas and I'm going to go to bed.

Day 1/ My story up to today

I'm not really sure how these things work but im just gonna go with the flow and see how it turns out.
Hi my name is Justin Oien I'm 16 years old. I race bikes competitively, not motorcycles or bmx, but road bikes. The ones with gears and the ram horn handle bars. Yeah you know the ones, they take more space than provided on the road, the ones with the skin tight spandex, yeah I'm one of those people.
I did my first race in may of 2010 and let's just say that I thought I was better then I was, it was a big blow to my ego and I never wanted to touch the bike again. I remember seeing this girl in my race and thinking to myself if I get beat by a girl then I'm done, well I did get beat by her. Her name was Jennifer Valente, I later found out that she went on to win every event in junior track nat's, I've also seen her win Woman Pro races, so I wasn't that heart broken after finding that out.
But anyways I didn't want to race again until my little brother went into a race and dust get droped, so my competitive brotherly drive kicked in and I went into another race. I didn't really think of it at the time but I had been training , not really dedicated training ,but still training. I had bought a fixie and started riding it to school 8 miles both ways. My jump was developing becuase I would race cars from traffic light to traffic light, my spin was developing as well because of the bike being fixed. So I went into the racing thinking that I just don't want to get droped, and I didn't and so that was just a big encouragement.
My Dad started taking my brothers and I down to the weekly youth velodrome classes , we enjoyed them and we progressed from the beginning classes to the more advanced classes. I remember that when the classes ended for the winter I was told that if I trained over winter then I could come into the races the next year and be one of "those fast kids", and so I trained with the goal in mind.
A few weeks before the races started their was this SCNCA Junior camp I attended the camp wondering how I would stack up against these kids who have been racing for years. We would go on group rides and do mini races and I would be at the front end of the pack and so i left that camp feeling confident about the races to come.
The first race was A road race (Poor College Kids RR)A pretty flat out and back course in the Santa Barbra area. I stayed safe the hole race not doing much work and just sitting in, the finish came relatively fast but I was prepared I was blocked but then I saw a little opening and shot through so I was like 3rd wheel and then the sprint started and I just pedaled hard and I got across the line in third place! That was a bog improvement from getting 36th place. I was so happy, my dad even cried. I still had two races the next day but that finish gave me a new found confidence that would help me the next day. The next days races where crits, I did the cat 5 race in the pouring rain, but finished 5th . We went back to te hotel to dry our sopping wet cloths. My junior race was later in the day so I got warm and rested. We went to my race the weather seemed to have cleared up but their was a massive head wind in the long straight. As soon as the race started Doug Hall attacked and took everybody by suprise after about a lap I went to close the gap and get in the break with him. I caught him not knowing if I was going to be able to stay with it. I did end up being able to stay with him and won my first race.
That's when I got the idea about going to nationals and then found out that I had to be cat 3. There where slot of people who didn't believe I could do it in that shot of a time , but that only have me more reason to try harder and prove those people wrong. Yeah so I have made 3 and I'm half way to my cat 2 upgrade! How you like them apples!?!?
Yeah and so my team and I (San Diego Bicycle Club)are now on our way to Road nat's and track nat's. I'm really excited and also alitle afraid because people have high expectations for me and I don't way to let them down, I also have high expectations for myself and I'm my biggest critic and so we'll See how it goes. We just crossed into Arizona , I'm saying goodbye to amazing Southern California weather and hello to HOT and DRY Arizona weather. I don't know if anybody is acctually going to read this but thanks If you do(: Bye

























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