Since I have been in CehNehDeh I am understanding French more and more, however for the most part I actually don’t understand it at all. Although some words are similar to English words, most are not at all.

Being a world renounced educator I am going to share with you how English and French are related according to today’s events.

So today it is the national TT championships for all Canadians who race a TT bike. Here in CehNehDeh the women are called Femme and the men are called Homme… Now from this example it is easy to see how the French and English languages are similar in the same sort of way…

In English women, chicks, babes, or hotties are sometimes called Females, which looks a lot like Femme… the french way of saying women, chicks, babes or hotties. This really makes it much easier to learn the language and understand what it going on in the world up north of the boarder below this boarder…

Now the men, dudes, bros, or hotties are sometimes called Males in English, which looks nothing like Homme… the French way of saying men, dudes, bros, or hotties BUT you and I both know guys like to call each other their hommies, which in turn looks a lot like Homme. Walla… lesson numero 1 for today.

Now for the rest of the day after the guys are done figuring out which cassette goes with which wheel (I think they need my help) I am going out to practice bull riding on the streets of Quebec.

I just got the GO TIME for riding so I am out of here for now and until later,

Don’t forget to practice your French… any kind

:)Chrissy

First I am happy to announce to the general public that I have recovered from bunny hopping curb jumping and secondly I have retired from bunny hopping curb jumping due to the extent of my injuries…. My shin was a touch black and blue and my arms are sore from trying to stop myself from face planting into the ground. Don’t worry though, I will still be holding classes… this will in fact be more beneficial because I will be able to give all my students the full attention they deserve while attending 101 extreme bunny hopping curb jumping…

I think along with the cource on bunny hopping curb jumping I will be holding meetings on eating, drinking (both kinds), bike manuevering, and photo taking… all important elements of bike racing.

But for today I did some motor chasing… which consisted of me chasing Phil in a car for a good distance trying to stay as close as I could to the bumper without actually landing on the car. BUT here in Quebec half the battle is staying on your seat… and if you can do that it is a successful day of riding.

AND because I have been training so much in Quebec I am planning on joining the rodeo soon because I am sure I will not come off a bull after riding on the streets here. Oh yes, other then the one curb little flu flaw I have managed to stay on my bike… and lucky for me there are no curbs in rodeos so lookout folks the next bull riding champion coming your way!!!

Last week in Quebec…

1) and 2)… Oh yes… dancing with a disco ball ( Shake it, shake it)

3) and 4)… Phil cooking and looking cuter then cute

5)… Riding across the highest bridge ever trying not to get blown off while taking a picture of Phil and Dave

6) and the rest except number the last one)… in the city with a wall and the view outside of it…

the last one)… Guess who’s house we got to stay at?? and you will surely get to see fireworks if you go watch them soon!!!

That is all for now… and I still don’t know how to actually put the captions with the pictures so am working on your memory skills

Good luck with your memory,

:)Me

ps… as Phil says “Those who can’t do, teach…” and this is why I am holding curb jumping bunny hopping classes

Well there are a few things that are official… for one I am still the worlds greatest worst speller and secondly I am still the worlds greatest worst singer.

Other then that… I confirmed yesterday that I am NOT a rabbit therefore cannot bunny hop my bike over curbs onto sidewalks. Really I knew this all along, but for some odd reason Phil thought a was a rabbit and was convinced it would be a great idea to take a short cut over the curb.

Alright, alright (this is what I finally thought after he convinced me I can hope over things)… so if I am going to do this I figured I better stake the place out… After circling the curb three times I thought I was ready for the hop, jump and maybe a skip.

But first I must visualize for full preparation… So ready for action I visualized myself clearing the curb, landing on the other side, and riding off into the sun and wind with Phil holding hands and maybe skipping along

BUT nope, instead BAM>> CA-BOOM>> I hit the curb with my front wheel and proceeded to think it was a good idea to continue to hop my rear wheel over the curb even though I hadn’t yet cleared the curb with my front wheel. SO I then did a summer salt landing halfway on the curb and halfway on the street… taking most of the fall with my shin, elbow, and well that is about all… Yep exactly what I was thinking… I know who to impress the man of my dreams

And because of this I am holding classes on 101 extreme bunny hopping soon. Space is limited so please let me know as soon as possible that you will be coming. The classes will be held near curbs. Water will be provided from drinking fossits. That is about all because EATING is Cheating. And you have to be lighter then light to clear the curbs…

Trust me on this one… I think if I would have been a few grams lighter I would have had no problem clearing the curb. Next time I will leave my sunglasses at home and wam-bam … no problemo.

SO hope to see you in class soon,

Oh and I have learned a few words in French… salad is salad in French only said a little differently. That is all for now…. I don’t want to over load you with my French knowledge.

I have to go tune Phils bike so he is super fast… and by tune I mean just make sure it sounds like carbon still and not aluminum.

Until Later, Later

:)Chrissy

pss… team statis Victory Brewing

Lauren was 2nd at Rochester and is now in Asheville

The Canadians (Leigh, Laura Y., Tara, Kisten) are getting ready for nationals and will be kicking butt there soon Laura B. is recovering from a head bang at Rochester Brenda is circle racing in Ohio kicking butt
Katharine is in Cali, California riding, racing, and buying some stuff

Mike is in Asheville hanging out, but not really hanging out because he is one busy busy guy

Kate is in Texas riding here and there all in her cowgirl boots

Rachel is over the salty sea racing nationals… or raced nationals where she was 10th

Kim is riding around in circles kicking butt on the track

and I am bunny hoping in CehNehDeh

Here we are at the Rochester in the crown plaza hotel… ANd in store for today we (being Laura, Lauren, Laura, Tara, and maawaah) have some circular racing for an hour, give or take a bit of time. Lucky for us we don’t race until 7pm so we can get some quality training in for the event later…. For preparation we are laying around on our sides, both sides, because we will be taking right hand and left hand corners in the crit. This is important and recommended for crit riding…

This will help you get the feeling of really laying out your bike and you will be able to take corners at speeds faster then mock speeds. No matter how good you are at circular riding you will become faster if you do this one easy step…

How long really depends on how many right hand corners there are vs. left hand corners. More right hand corners… well lay on your right hand side for a longer period of time. The ratio really varies from course to course.

Good luck with training…

And also here at the hotel I have noticed that when entering an elevator it is important not to completely smile, but almost smile and don’t make eye contact for goodness sakes… this is for sure. Someone in fact may say Hi to you and then what are you to do… Just kidding, don’t do this (most people do not bite)

Camera statis: Still on vacation… last I heard it was in PA with Kirstin. I hope it is having fun because I sure miss the little guy.

BUT:

For now have a cookie and when we get to Starbucks, after looking for stars and money, I will probably put up pictures from last weeks adventures of this and that all of which occured up north of the boarder…

Until Later Have fun hiking, reading, talking, singing, cleaning, making a mess, and most importantly laying on your side!!!!

:)Chrissy

ps… WARNING #1…. Results of side laying vary from person to person. If one of your arms falls asleep while preforming this flip over as fast as you can!!!

psss…. Warning: I am not a state of the art genious… although close. There may in fact be a few spelling and grammer errors (if you sound out most words you can figure out what I am saying (thanks)

Most of the information is in fact true: just some of the names, places, dates, and ideas have been modified

´BECAUSE I have never…

After spending not one but two weeks up North of the boarder I am headed back down across the boarder to race around in circles in New York. And you know racing around in circles really isn`t any different then racing on the road. You see the same thing no matter where you are racing…. Wheels, more wheels, and the buns (really rear ends) of the girls or guys around you. Who`s bun really depends on which race you are in… just another reason to race with the boys.

Just kidding, the only one I want to look at is Phils.

I am learning some more french… I mean words in french. Some of the week was a little of kajfidjao(that) and aklrjaio (this) which means I really didn`t understand that or this part of the language being french.

Alright, pictures sooner then later but later then now…

K, later

:) Bloggin Out Chrissy

ps… Mike, you guys aren`t married yet

pss… Kele, yes I am a blogger, note the lingo used in the sign out

A full week of spandix racing up North of the boarder only means one thing… it is time to scrub a dub dub. Now don’t get me wrong even if you didn’t race in spandix I would suggest also scrubing every so often just to make sure people will continue to hang out with you.

It was hotter then hot today… and since things are done in C’s instead of F’s I am not so sure how hot it really was. All I can say is hot hot hot. Hotter then hot! I am talking weather not the racers… but don’t get me wrong they are hot too.
And today is Father’s Day so I would like to wish the greatest Dad on earth who lives in Bend, OR and has the last name Ruiter (same as mine, sounding like Rider not Rooter) a Happy Happy Happy Fathers Day!!!!!!!!!

Here is a picture of my Dad…

Just kidding!!! My Dad doesn’t have that much hair

So I didn’t finish racing, but the strongest of the strongest dudes (like chicks, but men) fineato a hard week of racing in CehDehNeh, which only means they finished and it was neato.

And here is what occured here and there…

I cannot figure how to put captions with each picture so in order of pictures on the right hand side is what is going on…

1) After turning on the AC a tornado hit our room

2) A backward from behind view of Phil TTing faster then fast

3) Laura Yoisten the faster car driver to a tire change ever!! Actually wheel change… it would have taken to long to change the tire
4) The panoramic view from the caravan and if you squint really hard while getting as close as you can to the computer I am sure you can see the men in spandex flying down the hill in front of us

5) Men in Spandix hanging out

6) Another picture of men in Spandix hanging out

7) The Navigator helper getting in line for an autograph

8) The real Louis Garneau, Phil, and Jamie

9) Laura Bowles getting ready to negotiate for water bottle she left behind

10) Laura Yoisten holding the detachable wheel soon to be used in the mavic car

11 and 12) The men racing and the cars racing…

Other pictures after awhile…

Until Then HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD RUITER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)Chrissy

I have been a total and complete, not just sort-of, slacker on the updates lately mainly because I have been cheering here in Quebec at the Tour de Bosse (not spelled like that at all) and that can be a hard thing. Because I ride my bike a lot I don’t use my arms very often and those pom poms get heavy. And when you have tired arms it is sure hard to think about typing this and that.

Lucky for me I rode in the car today so I just yelled out the car window.

But I am happy to announce I made it through Jungle Racing in Philly without a ka-boom last weekend. I am not sure if there were banana peels cause most of the field crashed in the first lap…. before the hill. Oh yes…
Then we, being Laura, Laura, and I travel almost the whole east coast in the yellow Mavic carevan to St. George to watch men in Spandix for a whole week. While a few of the Victory girls traveled to MN to race here and there.

I have been taking a lot of pictures and really the only reason I am not puting up pictures is because

1. I forgot my camera in PA and hopefully Kirsten is taking a lot of pictures with it
2. I cannot find Phil’s camera because a tornado went through my stuff

But if I did have a camera you would see

The cutest of cutest with the greatest visor on earth… please tune back for this one.

Laura Yoisten as a Mavic driver.. oh yes she is the fastest driver to a wheel change around.

Laura Bowles as the best caravan driver of Fiordifrutta (thank goodness for copy and paste)… trust me on this one I was in the car with her yesterday and we were flying between the break and pack. Wooh… look out Nascar, I’m telling you

The land of Beauce… one beautiful place for sure.

AND Men taking a pee stop in the middle of the race…. now I am not so sure I actually got the shot to back this up but I was sure trying really hard. I have to find the camera and look at the pictures to see… but this did in fact occur today during the race. This was after they were traveling at 60K a hour… and if I were going that fast on the flats I would want to take a stop to, but really the leader had a “mechanical” (sure, good one, good one). Just kidding I am sure he had a “mechanical”.
Alright I am going to clean up my tornado and hopefully find Phil’s camera and then put pictures up of this and that later.

But first I must mention…. Rachel, Katharine, Kisten, Kate, Tara, Lauren, Leigh are at Nature Valley racing super duper fast and hopefully not getting any more food poisioning.

Until later,

Have a good night if it is about that time and if it is morning have a good morning… otherwise have a good afternoon

:) Chrissy

ps… Where in the World is my Camera??

pss… Warning: I am not a state of the art genious… although close. There may in fact be a few spelling and grammer errors (if you sound out most words you can figure out what I am saying (thanks)

Most of the information is in fact true: just some of the names, places, dates, and ideas have been modified

I said we were leaving the jungle of PA today, but really we made it from one jungle to the next…. Now they are two completely different jungles. One jungle has lots of green trees, bushes, deers, and chipmunks and the other has lots of buildings, people, and possibly chipmunks.

And we, being Lauren, Rachel, Laura Y., Leigh, Brenda, Kim, Kate, me, and about 180 other women, are about to enter a jungle within a jungle tomorrow… but I have already told you about that.

Yep, that is right the race of races is in Philly tomorrow. Helicopters and all… I am pretty sure that is why so many people come to the race…. no not the helicopter, but because of the mock speeds traveled up a super super steep hill.

Tonight we are at a sweet host house but tomorrow we will be heading to the race hotel, the Sheraton. We already stopped by there today to have our super secret team meeting about the race tomorrow AND there are so many pillows on the bed there is a possibility of getting lost in bed.

So be careful if you are sleeping there tonight. That would be a bummer if you missed the race because you were lost in bed.

It is an early morning and a late night tomorrow and then off to CehNehDeh Monday.

See you sooner then later if I see you and I hope to see you,

:) Me

ps… I will probably put up pictures next week, but right now I have to pin numbers onto my back for tomorrows race.

Look at that…. I wished someone, being anyone, a happy birthday yesterday and low and behold… It is Kate Sherwins birthday today

And I would like to sing… in 1 and 2 and 3
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday Dear Kate
Happy birthday to you

We are still in the jungle of PA until tomorrow. In the jungle we have been mostly riding our bikes getting ready for the race this weekend. And really, what better way to prepare for the Philly race then ride in the jungle because I can garantee you one thing… it is going to be a jungle out there.

Oh yes, we figure if we can ride our bikes with all the monkeys here in the jungle we will be fine for the race. I am not saying there will be monkeys in the race… no really, that isn’t what I am saying. In fact, talking about monkeys, I have been looking all week and I still haven’t seen one. So I guess that only means one thing…

I have to go lay a bunch of banana peals along the driveway and see if I can miss them… or if I happen to hit one see if I can hold it up. If I can do either of these things I will be set for the race. Yeah true there is a hill and a steep one at that, but you have to get to the hill first.

Alright I am off to banana train,

:) Maawaa

PS…

Warning: I am not a state of the art genious… although close. There may in fact be a few spelling and grammer errors (if you sound out most words you can figure out what I am saying (thanks)

Most of the information is in fact true: just some of the names, places, dates, and ideas have been modified

PSS… I am still trying to figure out the picture section so when I do I have a lot more pictures for you to look at cause pictures are the most important part

As a skilled computer person I didn’t mean to post a blog, but since I did Hello Hope you have a good night if its night and morning if its morning…

AND always remember to keep your shoes next to your bed in case you have bed bugs to hit them with a shoe until they are black and blue

AND if it is your birthday…