Month: July 2012

  • GCGP Day 5 – Newton County Circuit Race

    2012 Georgia Cycling Gran Prix Overall GC podium. L-R Dan Holt (Team Type 1), Alexy Schmidt (Team Type 1), Brian Toone (Tria Cycling p/b DonoohooAuto.com and Infinity Med-i-spa). Photo by Barbara Dowde Three days, three podiums! This podium was for 3rd place in the 5 day stage race overall. Unfortunately I didn’t see anyone with…

  • GCGP Day 4 – Covington Criterium – 3rd place

    GCGP Day 4 – Downtown Covington Criterium Podium – L-R Dan Holt (Team Type 1), Oscar Clark (UHC/707), Brian Toone (Tria p/b DonohooAuto.com and Infinity Med-i-spa) It worked so well yesterday, I thought I would try it again. So as soon as the chief official said “riders ready” – the secret codeword for “go” in…

  • GCGP Day 3 – Oxford Hills Road Race

    Pro/1/2 Oxford Road Race podium (L-R Brian Toone, Oscar Clark, David Guttenplan) Podium! I ended up second after a long 70 mile breakaway from the gun. I was tired of missing the early move so I decided to initiate the first attack by attacking as soon as the race started. David Guttenplan (United Healthcare /…

  • GCGP Day 2 – Gwinnett Civic Center Criterium

    Tough race tonight. Team Type 1 again played it perfectly taking 1st and 2nd with Dan Holt and Alexey Schmidt. Here is how it played out. There was an early break that got a good gap, but I think it was missing TT1 so I was pretty sure it would all come back together, which…

  • GCGP Day 1 – Road Atlanta Circuit Race

    What a disappointing race. I missed the original break b/c I thought it was missing TT1, but in fact there were TWO tt1 riders, Dan Holt in the initial move and Alexey Schmidt in a bridge group with Mike Stone (Hincapie Devo). It was a large field combined with the Cat 3s and the fading…

  • Rapha Rising Day 8

    Family vacation time at the beach started yesterday – so I squeezed in a super fast climbing ride in Birmingham yesterday before driving down to Florida. I am not really a beach person at all, but my family loves it so I’m here to have a good time with them. One of the things that…

  • Rapha Rising Day 7

    This is just a quick post so I could upload the bazillion screenshots and photos from my ride today. I set all kinds of new records … one shortest distance record, but most of the records were shortest time to reach a given amount of climbing. I was pushing the pace really hard – and…

  • Rapha Rising Climbing Competition – Days 4, 5, 6

    It’s 4AM – time to start my longest ride ever. At midnight, celebrating with @beautifulwife the end of a very long day of riding. Wednesday – Day 4 – 249 miles, 42,200 feet of climbing These two pictures above bookend my longest ride ever with the most climbing ever. Getting up at 4AM and then…

  • Rapha Rising Wednesday Mega-ride

    I’m working on a longer post with details from yesterday’s ride … but here is a quick summary: Wake up at 3:45AM to begin riding by 4AM … a little slow getting going and out the door by 4:10AM Do laps in my neighborhood for about an hour before it is light enough to head…

  • Rapha Rising Climbing Competition – Days 1, 2, 3

    Analise and Josiah – gymnastics in the front yard My favorite mountain goats – at the top of the Vesclub descent The Rapha Rising climbing competition started on Sunday, and today I had a fun ride per the pics and Garmin screenshots below. I started out with lots of laps in the neighborhood to start…