Tag: road race

  • Johnson City Race Report

    Quick summary 12th in the road race, soft pedaled the time trial for 50th, and 26th in a crit in the middle of heavy downpour – 17th overall omnium. Road race Wow, what a great race … epic location in the smoky mountains ending with an HC climb. A break of 7 riders formed on…

  • Rockabilly Omnium 2013

    Pro/1/2 omnium – me, Nathan Brown, and Johnny Brown Quick summary The road race was cancelled for tornado warnings halfway through the race. My teammate John Hart and I had both made it into the break of the day – the only team with two riders in the break. For the time trial, I was…

  • SRS Kickoff Weekend – Albany

    Memorial Day today Kinda puts bike racing in perspective – so many people have given their lives so that we can enjoy the freedoms we have here in America. Thank you all present, past, and future soldiers! Quick summary Yesterday, I ended up 9th in the road race after having finished 15th in the criterium…

  • 2013 Sunny King Criterium and Foothills Road Race

    Me and Kristine before the start of the 2013 Sunny King criterium SATURDAY’s Sunny King Pro/1 Criterium A five man break gets away about one/third of the way through the race. A four or five man chase with Frank Travieso (Mountain Khakis) and eventual winner Carlos Alzate (UHC) gets away a few laps later after…

  • Mississippi Gran Prix 2013

    Quick summary Friday night crit – 6th in a race that ended in a field sprint Saturday morning road race – 7th in a race that ended in a field sprint Saturday afternoon time trial – 32nd in a time trial that ended with a sprint Sunday morning circuit race – 6th in a race…

  • Hell of the South 2013

    Hell of the South 2013 Pro/1/2 podium – Me, AJ Meyer, Tommy Schubert. Photo credit – Tim Hall – I love that he got the Berlin Community Fire Department sign in the photo. You can see the registration tables in the background. Bike wheels on the inside … perfect for this race. Quick summary An…

  • Union City 2013

    Note: I started this blog about Union City last week (March 16-17), but I’ve been crazy busy all week and haven’t been able to post it until now. Day 1 – Shannon Mall Circuit Race I’m still trying to parse what just happened in today’s circuit race, but however the outcome we had a great…

  • Rouge Roubaix 2013

    Annotated power map (click to enlarge) I have been wanting to write this race report from the moment the race was over, but it has been a crazy busy week at work. I am finally caught up enough that I can sit down to reflect on what for sure was the most epic Rouge Roubaix…

  • 2013 Simple Joe’s Training Race Series

    Each year for the past 10+ years, Bill Seitz and his GSMR team have put on an excellent “kick-off-the-year” training series up in a rural valley near Gadsden at the Camp Sumataunga. I signed up to race all three races, but I forgot about a church program Analise and Josiah were going to be in…

  • Tour de Cullman 2012

    Carson took this great photo of Boris and me approaching the Skyball KOM for the second time. Saturday marked another great end of the season ride/race/party at the Tour de Cullman. The ride starts out as a motor-cycle led neutral social ride before we hit the start of the 18 mile race portion of the…