Month: June 2008
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Nature Valley Grand Prix 2008 – Day 3 – Morning Time Trial
June 13, 2008 – 10:30AM Ohio St Time Trial Quick summary: Felt awesome for the first part, getting close to my 30 second man, but after the turnaround I never saw my 30 second man again and started to fade. The hill on the course wasn’t too bad but the last part was into a…
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Nature Valley Grand Prix 2008 – Day 2
June 13, 2008 Cannon Falls Road Race Quick summary: The field mostly stayed together even with lots of crosswinds on the course, a crazy dirt road, and very fast finishing circuits. With two laps to go on the finishing circuit I got gapped off by another rider and couldn’t chase around to get back onto…
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Nature Valley Grand Prix 2008 – Day 1
June 12, 2008 St. Paul, Minnesota Downtown Criterium Quick summary: cold, rainy, miserable, but I survived to race another day. Photo credit: Steve Pottenger, Nature Valley Grand Prix website The details: I made it 11 laps after a starting position about 30 riders from the back of what the announcer said was a 200 man…
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Racing up north
June 7-11, 2008 Welcome to my new blog chronicling my cycling adventures. I am currently in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota racing the Nature Valley Grand Prix. This first post describes our travel up here from Birmingham, Alabama and a race I did in St. Louis along the way. Tour de Winghaven – O’Fallon,…