It's been a while since I last posted. Not sure why I stopped updating, but after not posting for a few weeks it was easy to forget about my blog and now it's been four months, so I'm going to try and update it as much as I can while racing now. Also I told a few people I'd get back to it, since I know there will be atleast two people reading, that's enough motivation for me to write.

I'm back in Quebec for my 5th Tour de Beauce. Last week was Philly week, didn't ride as well as I had hoped, so I'm hoping to get some results this week. Today was stage 1, it was hilly and tough as always. The upside though, they fixed a lot of the roads so it was probably only 90% horrible roads. That 10% of new pavement was nice, I've never ridden such nice pavement in Quebexico before. I didn't feel great at the end of the race, which was a poor time to feel bad because at 5km to go we hit a wall of a climb, same one as always on this stage, I didn't have it and was gaped off the front group a bit. Not sure by how much yet, haven't seen the results yet.

Ok that's all for now, I don't want to overload myself after my vacation from updating ;)

Well another race season is about to kick off. I'm not actually going to be racing until March 1st, but I consider our first training camp/team get together as the start to the 2008 season, and therefore calls for a blog update. Tomorrow (bright and early) I head to the airport for my flight to Greenville, SC where I'll be for the next 10 days with the entire team putting in some solid rides and getting to know the new guys. I've been ready to head to warmer climates since the fall. but this past week has be especially brutal. Temps dipped to the -20's, which meant I was riding the rollers inside all week. Needless to say riding outside in spring like weather will be a very welcome, and necessary change. Another sweet thing about this trip besides the weather will be getting new stuff. Our race bikes will be there so we'll be able to log some miles on those and dial them in. This year we are riding Argon 18, they make some pretty sweet rides, especially their TT bike.

After the camp I come back home for a couple weeks, and then it's off to Europe to start bike racing. Our first race (I think) is a one day UCI race in Belgium on March 1st.

I won't have my laptop at the camp because it decided to break a couple weeks ago, but luckily I still have a couple months left on the warranty so I should have it back soon. I will have my camera so I'll try and post some pics, but I will have to jack someones comp when their not looking.

Since this is the off season, and this is my race blog, I haven't had much to write about. I could post about my daily school activities but I know nobody wants to read about that. The only thing I'll say about this semester of school is that it's kicking my ass. I'm trying to cram in all my fourth year english classes to get them out of the way to leave me with easy classes to finish my degree, but I didn't think about the stupid amount of term papers I'd have to write this fall. Some off season eh.

Besides school I have been having a little fun. I did some surfing last weekend, something I plan on doing a lot more of in the future. The surf season works in well with the race season since the best waves are found in the fall in Nova Scotia. Also I've been getting in some night mountain bike rides. Riding at night is way more fun then riding in the daytime. Tomorrow is the start of the cyclocross series in Halifax, I had my cross bike out of a rip yesterday, and with the forcasted tropical storm tonight and tomorrow morning, the cross race should be an interested afair.

Here are some pics from my fall so far

Night riding with the Halifax crew.

Out of my comfort zone in the woods. It's amazing how much techincal skill you lose by not mountain biking in a couple years. I feel like a beginnner in the woods now.

Waiting for the big waves. Or the waves were big and I was waiting for them to get smaller. The more salt water you drink the better it tastes.

I've decided to join the blogging world and stop using my website www.dustinmacburnie.com. It came time to renew and pay for my domian name again so I decided that I'd give free blogging a try. The website was a pain to update. This seems much easier.
So what's been happening since I stopped posting in the middle of the summer? Did a bunch of racing, got married....yes married, and now I'm back in school for the fall semester. I decided not to do a full school year this time around. Last year going until April took a huge chunk out of my race season. Speaking of RACE. I'm back with Team RACE again for 2008. It's going to be a big year for us and I'm really looking forward to it.

That's all I have for now....