Month: July 2008

  • Heading to Chicago!

    Quick update: We made it into Aurora late last night after 14 HOURS in the car yesterday. After a good night’s sleep, Kristine took the kids with our friends to play at a children’s garden/playground nearby, and I am getting caught up on a few things. Later this afternoon I’ll be driving part of the…

  • Heading to Chicago!

    Quick update: We made it into Aurora late last night after 14 HOURS in the car yesterday. After a good night’s sleep, Kristine took the kids with our friends to play at a children’s garden/playground nearby, and I am getting caught up on a few things. Later this afternoon I’ll be driving part of the…

  • Bull’s Gap Time Trial Photo

    I’ve got to hand it to the COGS group – excellent race, accurate times, quickly posted results AND photos. Way to go Cyclists of Greater Sylacauga! Here’s one of the photos (licensed under creative commons license). Thanks for posting these! Original photo by: Diddlee Creative Commons license You can view all the photos from the…

  • Bull’s Gap Time Trial Photo

    I’ve got to hand it to the COGS group – excellent race, accurate times, quickly posted results AND photos. Way to go Cyclists of Greater Sylacauga! Here’s one of the photos (licensed under creative commons license). Thanks for posting these! Original photo by: Diddlee Creative Commons license You can view all the photos from the…

  • 2008 Bull’s Gap Time Trial

    Quick summary: 3rd place! behind two Masters World Time Trial Champions: Mike Olheiser (2006) and David Grice (2003). I was happy with just about every aspect of my ride except for having a little bit too much left towards the end. Mike’s time of 48’27” shattered the old course record set by GW by over…

  • Bull’s Gap Time Trial

    Here is a blast from the past. I am racing this Sunday for sentimental reasons as much as for the training. It will be exactly 15 years since my first bicycle race – the Bull’s Gap time trial in 1993. Here a couple pictures my dad took during that race. You can’t miss the tube…

  • Huntsville Criterium Photos

    Here’s a few photos from the races this past weekend. Most of these are not my pictures so I have linked to the photo hosted on other sites. If you hover over the link, you will get a preview of the picture without having to go to that site. The sprint for third place: http://rldaniel.exposuremanager.com/p/pro_1_2/_d2n682621…

  • Huntsville Race Weekend – Full reports

    I’ve already included my heart rate and power data in the previous post, so here I want to detail how the races played out for those interested in reading about race tactics. State championship road race, Hartselle, Alabama First, Heath Goebel put on a great race with two excellent course venues. The road race was…

  • Alabama State Road Race and Huntsville Crit (updated)

    Update: Somebody just pointed out to me that the criterium was not the state championship criterium. That is coming up here in Birmingham at the Pepper Crit in September. If I can medal in that race, then I will have medaled in all three Alabama state championship events! Quick summary: 3rd yesterday in the road…

  • Alabama State Road Race – Update

    It was a very exciting race, and it came down to an exciting three-up sprint which I led out, head down, 40mph (slight downhill) thinking that I had the jump to hold it to the line – but Mike Olheiser and Matt Winstead came around with less than 50 meters to go. That meant third…