Sérgio Marques Blog

this video is just hilarious
by the way, i have been resting the whole week and am actually going for a ride next to this post. Im starting to get crazy with no activity at all and yesterday i felt ok during the day.

is this Las cruces?

 

yesterday night i got home and the bad days continue.

where to start, delayed first flight to Dallas, delayed flight to paris, missed flight to lisbon, paris airport evacuation (security issue but dont know what), new flight 5h later, flight left on time arrived on time but waited 30 min for luggage to come out, 2 checked bags in Phoenix, no bags in lisbon (my duffel and my bike box), waited 30 min to make a claim. Started raining very hard when i left the airport not to mention its cold, rain make traffic even worse, got home 7h after my initial travel plan, all this with about 1h of sleep (at paris-lisbon flight) and a huge Headache all the way.

im fine thanks….

actually, at least im feeling better after a 10h sleep, most of my hillness syntoms are gone but im not well yet. hopefully it will happen soon

“montly tranfeer limit exceeded”

just like me…

well, yesterday was just a consequence of the past 10 days. i really dont know what happened but my imune system just cracked after i came back from california, and was neverabble to recover. I had someone asking me to not race but i gave it a shot and i lasted around 3.5h.

It sucks to have one of the best winter training ever and not being abble to see what was the result of it. Tough!!
today im having a hard time with my health, a result of trying to race yesterday of course. so i apologize to my friends (from portugal)for not being there for their slot takeover and the awards banquet.

I was there till the everyone was finished, they all did well, at lest better than me

-Sergio Dias looked very good at the end, finished 4th in the age group and has a kona slot
-Helder finished around 15 min behind, 6th in the age group and with slot, im happy fo him as he is the guy that wanted it most
-Hugo was 8th i think of the 40-44 age group and i think he has the slot too. I also lost my bet with him (i needed to beat him by 1:30h so i guess i lost it)
-Codinha didnt look good going out to the last loop of the run and finished at around 10:50 witch is not bad but its not enough for the kona Slot

Also my friends and direct competitors (:D) on the race, Jordan did Awesome, im happy for him 3rd overall, and very close to win it, you rock. Jonnhy, my training buddy for the last month and probably the guy that suffered the most with my cursing during last days had some bad luck during the ride but kept it together for a 6th place finish, that is great given the circunstances.

well thats it, not always the race day is the cherry in top of the cake, for me it was the other way around

very short run, press conference, a few interviews,pro meeting , lunch at YC’s and chill out, that was my day today.

here are some photos

me and Jonny relaxing before press conference

Me talking

the Pro Panel

Me and michael Lovato after the press conference

YC’s……

looks awesome doesnt it!!!

im not into posting much before races, but i had to post this photo

Im still not feeling great right now but hopefully i will sunday! yesterday i met all the portuguese friends coming to the race and that was certainly “refreshing”. I have been trying to log the normal training but i have been skiping most of the fast pace stuff, other than that its all about relaxing and doing nothing.

Today i went for the first time to the race site, to swim, register, meet some friends and hang around for a little bit, it was fast and didnt spend to much time there. Lunch and after this i will build my trek to go for a spin, then its more rest for me and i need as much as i can

so here is the photo of someone that decided to show up at the race expo, my felow team mate Erin kummer

she looks happy (not)to see us

LOL

some, lots of people have requested photos of my bike race ready…

well its not race ready, needs a bit more work to have a clean look (and im not talking about the training dirtiness), but throw a pair of bontrager race wheels and a few other modifications and its pretty much ready.

regarding “me” well, im in a complicated relationship to say the least… a facebook quote.

here are the bike photos (no comments on the mess in hte carpet please :P)

and me working on the bike, paying homage to Mr Jose Julio that is taking care of the lusobike Store, you Rock :P

i got this from Andrews blog

CNN article about online social network sites

i think its freaking hilarios although there is truth in there…

Now, to be perfectly clear, Andrew as indeed a Photo of both of us with 2 (3)bikes and matching Kits in his blog. We are friends, thats all. he is a nice guy and thats about it….. FRIEEEEEENDS. dont go look for my profiles to see my “status”, its not worth it

Grumpy sergio OUT..