Here is one last post from the Nature Valley Grand Prix with photos that I took of the last stage. It was killing me to have missed the timecut and not be able to do this epic criterium with the infamous Chilkoot Hill, but it was definitely some excellent racing that I got to watch.…
Here is a quick post with some photos from one of our team managers (Tim Ramos). 2008 Nature Valley Men's Composite Team 2008 Nature Valley Men's and Women's Composite Teams Warming up for the Cannon Falls road race Jason and I getting to the start line early – Cannon Falls Brady and I on the…
I won’t hide that I am very disappointed about missing the timecut yesterday in the TT. A focus for me for the remainder of the season will be to work on my TT and improve my overall power output. I went for a ride today and felt miserable, so I believe I will take the…
I downloaded my heart-rate data this afternoon and was surprised to find my time trial time was slower than I had thought it was, and it turns out that with Ben Jacques-Mayne’s incredible TT performance, I missed the time cut by 14 seconds. So my racing is over. I am hoping to get a couple…
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…
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…
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…
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,…