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Posted by Tim Crytser on Monday, March 02, 2009
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Hey guys, how’s it going?
For this installment of the Daniel Corbin project, I though I’d go a little further into depth about my training program, and also talk about what’s been going on with me day to day.
It’s been a hectic past few weeks for me. In order to take off the week to go to Lake Whitney, I have had to work five days a week, eight hours a day for the last two weeks. I know a lot of people will think that that’s just normal, but it’s definitely not when you add several hours of workouts to it. My daily routine is I wake up at 6:30 a.m., take a shower, eat breakfast, make lunch if I didn’t make it the night before, and get out the door at 7:45. My drive to work is a little over an hour, and I get there at 9:00 sharp. My boss is super picky about me getting there on time, so I can’t be even a minute late, which is hard to do when you drive an hour through rush hour traffic. I work until five, and then take another trip through rush hour traffic back home.
Before I go home I go to the gym to do whatever I need to do there. I’m doing my cardio workouts at the gym right now because it’s still a little cold to be doing them outside, and also because it sucks doing them in the dark. I never get home before 9:30 and usually I get home after ten. Then I try to get some food and also try to prepare my lunch for the next day so that I have one less thing to do the next morning. I also do any work I have to do on the computer like logging my workouts and writing blogs and that sort of thing.
By the time I’m done with all of that I’m lucky if I can get to bed around 11:30. That’s a pretty hectic schedule if you ask me. It’s even worse on the day I have strength training to do because it’s such an intense workout and I’m completely exhausted when I’m done, and I just want to go to bed. I hope that people see how determined I am by looking what I do to accomplish my goals. It might seem like I’m complaining when I write this, but I’m not. I am glad to work 11-12 hours a day if it means that I can go down to Texas and prove myself to my sponsors. And who can complain about a job in this economy anyway?
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As far as my actual strength training program, it is every bit as crazy as my schedule. I have all of these crazy workouts that Seiji has me doing. The back extensions I do are done on a stability ball, and it looks like I’m bowing on my knees to something. I have to make sure that I’m not looking at a mirror when I do them or I’ll start getting full of myself! People probably think I’m insane when I do 45 degree lunges because they are so intense. I’m breathing hard, sweating like crazy, gritting my teeth, groaning, and in general just looking like I’m going to die. But the workout that takes the cake would have to be the one leg shoulder presses...
A regular shoulder press isn’t that hard, but next time you do them try to stand on one leg while you’re doing them. They suddenly become a whole heck of a lot harder. That’s another one where I’m really gritting my teeth to try to finish them. Seiji must be laughing, thinking about my doing these redonkulous exercises!
One more thing I’d like to talk about, and am really excited about, is my upcoming trip to Texas for Lake Whitney. There are several things I’m looking forward to once I get there. First of all, the race. This is going to be fun. I’ve never been to Lake Whitney before, I hope it’s a gnarly track, the rougher the better. I’m ready to represent Team Coach Seiji, Racer X VT, Twigg Cycles, Nineonenine Designs, Scott USA, Fly, SPFC, Jordans Flooring. We’ve got three riders on our team, me, myself, and I! (hahaha). Seriously though, I’m excited to be representing all of my sponsors. Right now I’m getting ready, ordering parts and supplies from Twigg Cycles, getting fresh stickers from Nineonenine Designs, I’ve already gotten my goggles from Scott and my gear from Fly. And I’m getting my body ready with Tim and Seiji’s help so that I’ll be at a peak in my training when I get to Texas. My training on the bike is perhaps the hardest for me, but I’m feeling really good and I feel like I’m on top of things in that aspect as well.
Another thing I’m looking forward to is meeting Seiji. I have never met the man who plans my workouts, ever! So I’m really looking forward to meeting him. One more thing I have to try when I get down there is eating a 48 or 64 oz steak. I hear that the steaks are way better in Texas, and if you can eat the whole thing, it’s free! I’d better be hungry before I try to eat one of those though, because I bet they’re not cheap!
Well, I’m all out of time. I’ve got to get to bed before it’s any later in the morning...
As always, I would also like to thank all of my sponsors, Coach Seiji , Racer X Virtual Trainer , Twigg cycles , NineoneNine Designs, Fly, SPFC, and Jordans Flooring.
Posted by Tim Crytser on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Posted by Tim Crytser on Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Every day is a winding road....
Ok, whatever, as long as that road goes were you want it to, right? But what if it doesn't? Then you end up with a day like I had! Was it because of poor planning or bad luck? I'll tell you what happened and you can decide for yourself...
Right now I'm on a limited riding schedule because of the snow and ice we have around here, so I have to go someplace down south on the weekends so that I can get some decent practice. The weekend before last I was trying to do just that, but started off on the wrong foot, leaving way too late from my house. It all went down hill from there. I should have brought along some directions, but I didn't think that I would need them. I mean, come on, I've been to this track a dozen times, it should be easy, right?
No way, sucker! I started for the track around lunch, estimating that I would get to the track around two. Unbeknownst to me I had already gone the wrong way. I used interstate 270 when I should have used 70 instead. I found out when I called my mom to make sure I knew which way to go. Oh well, there's always more then one way to get there, and I just changed my route a little bit. It actually seemed like I had accidentally taken an easier route. It might have been, but it wasn't long before I messed up again.
I'm not sure how, but I totally missed my exit and didn't realize it until I had almost completed an entire lap around the capitol beltway! I finally recognized one of the exits that I was coming up on and just wanted to scream! Here I am, just trying to ride somewhere for a couple hours, why, why! After that I started driving a little faster hoping to get to the track by three (of course I was obeying the speed limits;) )!
Alright, I've looked at the map, I know exactly which exit I have to take, and where it is. I know which way I should be going when I get off of the exit, everything. Um, maybe not. I caught my exit and started going east ( I was going to a track on the eastern shore). Just a little way down the road I got the feeling that I was going the wrong way. I turned around and started going the other way. No, I don't want to go into Virginia, I guess I'll turn around again and go back the other way, it must be the right way. I'm going east on route 50 and I want to go to the eastern shore, it's a no brainer, right? Wrong again!
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Now let me put this in perspective for you, I was facing pretty much due north when I got to my exit. Washington D.C. was to my left, and the eastern shore was to my right. I got off on the exit going toward the right. How could that possibly be wrong? You wanna know where I ended up? I ended up in the middle of Washington D.C. of course! Please tell me that makes sense to you. On the map it shows 50 east going just about as straight as a road can go, straight towards the eastern shore. How I ended up turning all of the way around and going the other way is beyond me. I really felt like tearing my hair out...
Well, at about 3:30 I decided to go back home. The track closed at 4:00 and I would never be able to make there and do two twenty-five minute motos. Maybe it was for the better, anyone in my frame of mind should probably not do anything harder that sit in place and read a book, and that might be pushing it. The only good thing to come out of the trip was some site seeing in Washington. I drove by the Jefferson Memorial, the Library of Congress, which is a massively huge building, I also drove by the Washington Memorial, the White House, which is so much smaller than it looks in pictures, and finally the Arlington National Cemetery.
Quite a day to say the least. I guess what I learned was, I hate site seeing! I hope I never have to drive though the broken glass like streets of D.C. again!... Speaking of which, as I write this, I'm about to head to that same track again....
As always, I would also like to thank all of my sponsors, Coach Seiji, Racer X Virtual Trainer, Twigg cycles, NineoneNine Designs, Fly, SPFC, and Jordans Flooring.
Posted by Tim Crytser on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Posted by Tim Crytser on Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Hey everybody,
Just last week I took a little one week trip down to Florida and I decided to write about it for this issue of the Daniel Corbin Project. Enjoy!
I left the Friday before last week around three o'clock, and had a really boring first half of the trip. I wouldn't come to appreciate a boring trip until I started the next half of the trip the next day. We got going (me and my brother, who came with me) on Saturday around 5:30-6:00 a.m. in North Carolina, and not long after we got on the highway I noticed something that looked like smoke coming from behind the truck. I was thinking, 'oh no, what's wrong with the truck already'? Come to find out that one of the trailer tires had blown out, I'm not sure why there was smoke, but that's what happened. Then, while I was driving around trying to find someplace that was open to get a tire from, I got pulled oven by a police officer. I thought I was in big trouble, but the officer was actually really cool, he told me where the closest Wal-Mart was and even watched the trailer while I went to get another tire.
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After that, I had a smooth trip the rest of the way down, and I got to Waldo around four o'clock. The friends that I was supposed to be staying with didn't leave until Saturday morning, so I had to sleep in my truck that night. It wouldn't have been so bad except that there were two of us, and only one bench seat. My brother also happens to be a bed hog, so there wasn't much room. We met up with our friends on Sunday, and also got some practice in at Waldo.
On Monday we all went to a track called Pax Trax that was awesome. They have huge bowl berms that are twelve feet tall that you can hit third gear wide open, lots of big table tops, and then one really big table top out front that's probably 85 or 90 feet long. You can throw some huge whips over it, and I threw quite a few of my own. I rode until my hands felt completely raw and I almost couldn't hold onto the bike anymore.
Tuesday and Thursday I didn't ride, so both of those days me and my brother flagged at Waldo. Most people probably don't think this way, but it's pretty cool to get paid to watch your competition's lines! Wednesday I rode at Waldo again, and had a blast. Unfortunately, staying with our friends in their camper didn't work out, so from Tuesday night until Monday night we had to rough it in the truck. Me and my brother worked out a system where we would fold the backrest of the seat halfway forward, and he would sleep behind the seat and I would sleep in front of the seat. Believe it or not, he still had more room than me!
On Friday we went to a track called Hard Rock, and when we got there I knew why it has that name, it was literally hard as a rock! I had to wait a while to sign up, so I had plenty of time to wish that it wasn't so hard packed. Right around the time sign up opened, a guy came out on a bulldozer and started ripping up the track. They have at least five tracks there, and I went and checked them all out while I was warming up. They have a sand track that's like riding on a whooped out beach, some kind of quad or fifty track, and a track they call the 'rollercoaster', which goes all over up and down on the biggest hill I've ever seen in Florida, a freestyle track, and then the main track, but I'll get to that later.
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I did the first of my two motos on the sand track and had so much fun that I even did an extra lap! After I was done with my first moto the guy on the bulldozer had finished tearing up the main track, and I decided to do my second moto on it. That track is incredible! It has even bigger table tops than Pax, and this step over that is one of the most exhilarating jumps that I've ever jumped. You feel like Doug Henry flying off of Henry Hill, without the spine crushing landing! Just completely awesome! I had a great time there, and I definitely want to go back there again.
I drove down to my Grandparents Friday evening after I was done riding and had another blowout :(. Then I went back to Waldo Saturday evening to get ready to race on Sunday... I raced the 250 Pro class, and had a little bit of a rough time. The first moto I got a crappy start and got taken out by a downed rider, and finished the moto in eleventh. The second moto I got a little better of a start, but crashed myself once and finished eighth.
The drama wasn't over though! I had two more blowouts on the way back home, and was just about to loose my mind! Well, that pretty much rounds out a very long blog. Hope you had as much fun reading it as I had doing and writing it!
I would like to give special thanks to Chris Loschiavo for getting my bike ready for the trip, I didn't have a single problem with it all week, and the Yentzer brothers for helping me out with my racing on Sunday. I would also like to thank all of my sponsors, Coach Seiji, Racer X Virtual Trainer, Twigg cycles , NineoneNine Designs, Fly, SPFC, and Jordans Flooring.
Posted by Tim Crytser on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Posted by Tim Crytser on Friday, December 19, 2008
Hey guys its Daniel. Just a little update on how things have been going for me since we last spoke. Well, I finally got to ride my new Kawi on a track that wasn’t frozen. It feels so good to ride on a dry track again. This past Sunday I went down to Southfork MX Park in Virginia and did some motos, and I had a blast. It was about sixty degrees, and the track was a little rough and rutted, and best of all, the track is a sand track. I love sand! After being off the bike for (a very long) two weeks it really helped to remind me how much I love riding.
This coming weekend I’m going down to North Carolina to ride with a friend of mine who lives down there. I can’t wait! I hope there are lots of other sand tracks down there, I want to tear them up! But what I’m most excited about is my trip I’m planning on taking to ride in Florida. Me and a bunch of local riders are going down to Waldo just to practice. Well, they just want to go down and practice, but I really want to race. That’s something else I haven’t done in a while. I want to race some really long motos on a gnarly track against my toughest competition. I want to know where I’m at compared to my competition, and I want to see how much my physical conditioning has improved so far.
I’m also having a lot of fun designing custom graphics with Nine one Nine design’s Kipp Brookens. So far they look really awesome, and they should be all finished up soon. I’ve always ridden Yamaha’s until now, so it’s been a challenge getting the right colors, but Kipp knows his stuff and he’s got the colors looking real sharp. Just about everything he does is custom, so you can always get exactly what you want, and unlike most pre-printed backgrounds, you can also have your sponsors logos on them. It’s always good to give your sponsors some love, right?
Well, it’s time for me to head to the SPFC (Frederick Sportsplex Fitness Center) to do some strength training. I gotta be ready to tear the track a new one this weekend. Talk to you all again soon.
Posted by Tim Crytser on Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
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