A good day of pedaling

Man, I’ve been sick for like 2 and half weeks. First one of my nasty knee cuts got infected and turned into a fever and I felt awful, then Austin’s winter pollens took their toll on me and I had gnarly allergies that kept me on the couch for a solid week. I know you’d think with all that free time I would have been keeping up on the blogging, but its was a pretty for real kind of sick. I felt completely empty and didn’t really think much beyond sleeping and trying to stay warm.

Finally feeling better now, but all of Austin’s allergen counts are at record levels and I can definitely feel it. Got out and did some BMX yesterday though and it sure was nice. Beautiful day and it felt so good to be out pedaling around. I wish I had a camera. Ran into Sergio Layos at Empire, a truck load of french dudes and about 30 other people at 9th street, and later I stopped off and rode T1- with Ian Morris, Corey Martinez, Nathan WIlliam, Alex from France, James Cox and Dave Parrick at T-1. Oh, Danny Hickerson showed up too and Joe Rich is back home from Spain. This place is just crazy this time of year. So many riders wandering in and out.

This week my cousin in Austin is getting married and so my entire family is coming down to Austin too. I think there’s like 7 of them staying with me in my little house. SXSW is coming after that and things are going to be even crazier here. The Snake Trap just got accepted into the Dickies Battle of the Band with a winner take all $10,000 purse. Not sure how that will work out, but one of the judges is Gza which should be interesting.