Brad Huff Cycling

So I have been getting some superb therapy from a few amazing trainers…..Beth Spangler RN and Acupuncturist, then the tag team of Karen and Jim at Midwest Sports Medicine Clinic then getting moved down to Health Tracks of St. Johns to build some strength in my atrophied legs. I will say that I have been very frustrated with all of this, but I have had to take a step back and realize that I have had such chronic problems for so long that it will take a little longer to get straightened out again.
Although with amazing help I have been able to make some hug gains in the past few weeks.
Hopefully I am ready to race by May?
ya this is awesome. but I did put in quite a few hours of the past few days, so I am happy.
just so you all know I have not been sitting on my ass saying Woo-is-me……any of you people know what a pistol squat is? well look it up and try doing that with while holding on the the other foot of the out stretched leg? but not really eccentric, only concentrically as if you are eccentrically flexing while you are riding your bike then you are just fighting yourself. kind of tough just to get in this position and not fall over? And yes my ATHLETIC TRAINER is standing right there the whole time

If anybody does not know yet, this girl just won her FIRST EVERY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the womens Kerin on Sunday, I am so happy to see all her hard work over many many years show!
Congratulations Jenny Reed!!!!!

“Do engines get rewarded for there steam”

I mean yes we get paid to ride our bikes, but I really like this quote.

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Where in the hell does it all go?
Procrastination only leads to a wasted time.
Where in the hell is that damn Doc Brown so I can go back and fix it all?

dumb jocks only become decrepit older dumber jocks if they never see the reality of life, training, and health. Taking the extra time to allow myself to really heal the right way is really hard. Most anyone that has ever had to stop doing what they love most, only to watch other leave you in there dust is really hard. Watching the reality of a dream slowly slip from ones fingertips is not easy pill to swallow. I do not have the towel in my hand, but I am just really frustrated with patience.
If you have not seen Chad Hartley’s exposa on Mike Friedman aka Meatball and his look a like brother Meatwad, please jet over to missing saddle and check it out.

well actually on the trainer with the garage door open as the weather is quite nice lately!
still slow going for me on the riding front.

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12THTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MIKE FRIEDMAN IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FRIEDMAN FRIEDMAN FRIEDMAN FRIEDMAN FRIEDMAN FRIEDMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“I miss my guinea pig”

I heart Cozza!!!

DISCLAIMER: I am not accusing anyone in this post but myself of “ASS-(of)-U-(and)-ME”…..assuming in another. By the way any of you assholes out there that accuse me of taking performance enhancing ROCKET SAUCE can…in the words of Double D “HAVE A DAY!” now read on please……………………………..

I was wondering when this photo would get circulated through the peloton blogs/cycling cyberspace and end up coming back to haunt me. You want the story well here goes…..
So there is this guy named Kayle Leogrande that a friend introduces me to back in the late summer of 2006. Well Kayle seemed like a great guy and pretty damn funny, so I do not mind talking with him at all. Kayle mentions that he is very interested in winning the up coming Elite Criterium Nationals in Downers Grove and asks me for some advice as I won the Elite title in 05. I talk with Kayle a few times and attempt to help calm his nerves about the big race while providing him with all the “in the race tactics” that I can think really helped me to achieve my dream of winning crit nationals. NEVER NEVER ONCE was there talk about anything else but actually racing our bikes. So the big race day comes and I find out that Kayle actually won the Elite race, he achieved everything we had talked about on the phone so many times and I was ecstatic for him. Now I have to use my own race advice to hopefully achieve my dream of winning back to back Criterium Championship titles….although not Elite/Elite but Elite/PRO! With amazing team work and some pretty damn good riding on my part I was able to achieve my personal dream of winning….well best placed American which still gets me the Championship Jersey. At this point I can not believe what is going on, the fact that both Kayle and I won, just like we talked about would be so crazy if it actually did. So I see Kayle as I am heading up to….no shit…..doping control….and I give him the biggest hug and we both are beaming with glee with what we had done. So his girl friend starts to take our picture and me being me I just reach over and gave Kayle a big kiss.

Kayle went along with it well…actually his girl friend was a little more freaked out than he was. So that is how the kiss came about.
Since then Kayle has been under direct fire, several of my friends kept asking me why in the hell I was even talking with that guy and/or calling him my quote un quote friend when he obviously lied to me, and probably much more than I or we even know. So am I upset with all that has come up over Kayle? YES! Have I confronted to him (via phone) about certain information that I heard concerning him? YES! Did he understand why I would be so upset with my name be involved with his if all the information comes out as true? YES! Am I still pissed? YES! Have I expressed my anger to my close friends? YES! Am I happy with his choices (if they are correct)? NO!!! Although you know what, after talking with Kayle (not recently, but several several months ago) I really feel for the guy. We talked about how quick people are to point the finger, how quick they are to judge, how terrible this sport of cycling can be on the mind, how much cycling requires of an individual, how unfair it is how certain individuals in the sporting world (not just cycling) are considered GOD’s even though they have been slapped on the wrist once, twice, or even more times than that, and what are we really doing wearing all this spandex anyways? So is Kayle on my shit list? YES! Would or will I still be Kayle’s friend? ohhh this is a tough one….yes…..because well…I am too nice as Friedman would say…even though I think that Kayle could care less. I really hope this helps shed some light on Kayle Leogrande and myself?