jpmurph

So yesterday I went out for a ride in the midst of a pretty hard training block.  Yeah, I know, nobody wants to hear about training and that is not what this is about.  If you do want to know about training, it’s going fine.  Almost good even.  But yesterday, I started my ride with [...]

And the season pushes on now almost done with August.  This will be my longer season so far in my career, although I’ve had more race days in the past, this year it’s looking like I’ll get about 70.  Nonetheless I am feeling the effects of the long season that began in Australia in January.  [...]

So as I’m drinking my coffee this morning in lovely gent, Belgium, I glance out to the window to catch my old friend, Mr. Sunny blue sky.  So I take my espresso to the dome and begin the process of getting dressed to ride.  Every ride has some sorta tactic to getting ready, I generally [...]

I admit it.  I sometimes lag on updating my site.  Maybe it’s motivation, maybe I don’t think I have something worthy to write or possibly I’m just busy traveling/racing/others.  Regardless, I’m back now to for a quick blurp.  I’ve taken a small break to mentally prepare myself for the second half of the season.  I’ve [...]

This week for me started with Scheldiprijs on Wednesday.  Working with Kristoff for the much expected sprint finish, I did my best to put him at the front for the last few k’s.  He winded up avoiding the massive pile-up to finish 7th.  It was a good finish for him mostly for avoiding the crash, [...]

As things are heading in a good direction for me I was hit with a flu like virus after the first stage of De Panne. I am recovering now and will be on call for the weekend and be aiming at Wednesday Scheldiprijs as my next objective. At Gent Wevelgem I noticed I had more [...]

Back in Gent after a small trip to the states, I’m ready to tackle another block of racing heading into the classics. I’m looking to improve and gain some real momentum here for the next few weeks of racing. My next race is Waregem which is Wednesday. It will be my first race in almost [...]

So I didn’t start het Neiuwsblad on Saturday in an effort to ‘save it’ for sunday, Kuurne Brussels Kuurne. The 193 km Race featured some good cobblestone sections, included the infamous Old Kwaremont along with others. We were looking to our main leaders Karsten Kroom and Gren Van Avermaet. The race was heating up before [...]

On the last night before the last day of Tour of Oman, I am about to start my 19th race day so far for this year. It’s pretty awesome that I’ve gotten to do such good racing in really good(hot) weather. I got some tan… I mean burn lines to show for it. too Getting [...]