Tag: strava

  • 1,000,000 ft on the way into church

    1,000,000 ft route – click to enlarge – climbs annotated Elevation profile for today’s commute to church (click to enlarge) On this ride into church this morning, I reached 1,000,000 ft of climbing for the year. I marked the map with a red X where I think I was at the time. I guess I…

  • Schlitz Park Criterium – Tour of America’s Dairyland – Day 6

    Strava map highlighting one lap of the race. This has to be one of my all-time favorite criterium courses, although I would not want to race it in the rain. Fortunately for us in the pro men’s field, we dodged the thunderstorms and raced on a completely dry course. This was not the case for…

  • Greenbush Road Race – Tour of America’s Dairyland – Day 5

    Notice anything missing in this picture??? Answer – my iBike came loose on one section of bumpy road. There was no way to tighten it back up while riding so I had to wait for one of the screws to come completely off. Then I could spin the iBike around to unscrew the other screw.…

  • Waukesha Criterium – Tour of America’s Dairyland – Day 4

    Finally, I made it into the top 20 to score a point towards the overall omnium. I am excited about the road race tomorrow with its double points and long distance (about 80 miles). I had a great warm-up ride with lots of climbing up some very steep hills in Waukesha. None of them gained…

  • Thiensville Criterium – Tour of America’s Dairyland – Day 2

    My day started out with a wonderful breakfast at the original pancake house – pecan pancakes, great coffee, and fiesta omelette And my day ended with this – a broken speedplay pedal! Actually, the broken pedal happened about a quarter of the way through the race, and the awesome SRAM mechanics had me up and…

  • Shorewood Criterium – Tour of America’s Dairyland – Day 1

    Today was the first day of the Tour of America’s Dairyland, 11 consecutive days of racing all over southeastern Wisconsin. First, the thing that probably amazed me most about today … I had to wear arm warmers and the temperature dropped into the 50s by the end of the race. Keep in mind that summer…

  • Tour of Atlanta – Burnt Mountain road race report

    2011 Burnt Mountain road race pro/1/2 podium Finishing sprint video: Hats off to the Hincapie Devo guys who took 1-2 in the Tour of Atlanta Burnt Mountain road race today. I squeezed onto the podium for third. The race started down a steep hill, and a group of eight of us carried a lot of…

  • Four weeks later…

    So it’s been four weeks since the tornadoes went through Alabama, and I have seen a lot of the damage on my normal commute routes through Cahaba Heights and Vestavia Hills. But yesterday, I rode on Sicard Hollow for the first time since the tornadoes hit. Apparently, the Cahaba Heights tornado traveled along part of…

  • Recovery update

    Making great progress on recovering here. Today (Friday), I put in my first really hard efforts following a flying Warren St John up several cat 3 climbs on a climbing version of the Ross Bridge loop. My shoulder has limited mobility and I can stand for longer stretches, but I still can’t torque on the…

  • Sandy Springs crash, videos, and race report

    Summary – racing well, but missed break which lapped the field. I was working hard to stay at the front with 2 laps to go when my front wheel started to slide out on the fast downhill turn #3. I straightened up to stop the slideout, but that meant that I wasn’t going to be…