Sunday, December 21, 2008

Colavita Website

Colavita Florida now has it's own website! It is still under construction but it is up on the web. Hopefully soon it will be full of all of our team's information, calender, racer bios, etc. There is also some talk of a Colavita Racing Blog but I don't think it has been made yet.
http://www.colavitaracing.com/

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Happy Holidays


I was having a little too much fun with paint. Anyways, Merry Christmas! And please don't kill me for this!

P.S. If you're reading this on facebook, you probably can't see the picture to go along with this post. Go to my blog to see it or I might up load it to my photos.

Addition:
So you peoples won't be to mad it me, I made one for myself. To make ether bigger, just click on them.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

B3



Man, I have been meaning to do this for like months and now someone's beaten me to it. But there's no such thing as too much support and publicity.
Bikes, Beans and Bordeaux is a small, local restaurant in Orlando and a great place to eat. Their menu consists all of healthy sandwiches (examples: the "Lance-wich" or the "Tour de Tuna) , salads, soups, etc, that taste even better after a long ride. The atmosphere is very friendly and they don't care if you come in wearing sweaty ride clothes. Besides the menu, there are a few other subtle hints relating to cycling, but I'm sure even you non-cycling friends would enjoy dinning there.
It was e-mailed to me, a link to the team armada site which had a video posted about Bikes, Beans and Bordeaux. (the reason why I am finally writing this...) Here is a link to the Team Armada site with the post I got the video from.
http://team-armada.blogspot.com/
I've also added to this post a couple photos of my own that I took.
The B3 Café is located at 3022 Corrine Drive, Orlando. For a map and directions, click here.

Bikes Beans and Bordeaux from Chad Taylor on Vimeo.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Tallahassee Cyclocross

I can't really come up with any interesting way to explain the weekend so I guess it's just going to be a summary.
Saturday:
  • The course was around a high school campus and consisted of a ton of steep run ups and downhills (which were also very steep). Each lap you went over two barriers, around a running track, and down both long jumps and through the sand pits at each end.
  • I got 1st place in womens B, out of a pack of 1. Also, I won a nice pair of sunglasses with 4 different pairs of lenses. Casey and James also did well, 1st and 2nd in the 10-14 field
  • My camera caught a great video of Jos crashing into the barriers on one lap and it is already on youtube.
  • I did not crash at all during the race but managed to go over the handle bars while playing around afterward. Luckily, nobody saw it ☺.
Sunday:
  • The course was about the same as saturday, just going in the opposite direction. All of the down hills of the day before were now excruciating run ups and vice versa. They did add in a voodoo spiral ( or death spiral, everyone had different names for it). Basically, you went around in circles, getting closer and closer and then all of a sudden, you do this quick little turn in the middle and ride out, not once crossing your path. It's really weird at first but cool.
  • On sunday I actually had some competition but I still beat her by a good distance at the end of the race and won myself a nice Rudy Project (pronounced Pro-jé in my world) helmet. There was also another junior 10-14 who got second, Casey won 1st and James in 3rd.
  • Brent did an amazing crash, landed on his head and cracked his helmet. He said he was somewhat dizzy but shaped right up when we told him that JP could drive him home.
  • That night we went to the Dixie Grill for a great dinner, consisting mostly of their famous fried chicken. Jos made everything complicated by asking for an extra chicken tender so the waitress said that he could look off the kiddie menu instead and she even brought him one of the those playschool toys that you get with a happy meal. He was ecstatic.
It was a pretty fun weekend, we didn't fall down too much and even got some more people hooked on the sport of cyclocross.