June 15, 2008
The School for Training, Racing, and Learning How to do Other Good Stuff too
So, this past week was not the best for training, as the weather was slightly hindering to my riding abilities. As many of you might know, I live in Breckenfridge and it snows here a lot. This is what my house looked like two weeks ago:
As you might be able to see, that is a lot of snow. However, a lot of the snow has been melting off and things were looking pretty up. And then came last Wednesday, after watching it snow in the morning for 3 or 4 hours, it cleared up a bit and I put on the old thermal jacket (nothing else though) and went out for a spin. 32 minutes later:
Yeah, I know what you are thinking. Actually I don’t, if I knew what you were thinking, I would have long ago quit the sport of cycling, and I would be making millions in some crazy traveling circus. Hwever, what you were probably thinking was: ‘that looks cold man!’ And yeah, it was so I tucked the old tail between my legs and went home. As I was hammering back towards my house, I was not looking and was surprised when the road brought me a:
I was going like 157 kilometers an hour, so in a flash of brillance I pulled a classic movies scene stunt out, and did one of these:
Yeah, I know: Dumb. But I did it and that deer didn’t even know what happened. After that I made it all the way home successfully and celebrated my survival of the elements with a toast to myself. Because Wednesday wasn’t enough, it also snowed of Thursday and I had to ride inside because I am a big baby.
In other news the races this weekend went really well and the team did a great job. We are becoming more knowledgable by the day. Yeah I just used the word knowledgable. Boom, Headshot. That’s all I got.
June 7, 2008
Taylor Shelden Wins the State Time Trial Championships!
Congratulation’s Taylor!
Special thanks to Larry Rosa of http://larryrosa.com for this great shot. He was shooting all day at the TT so check him out.
Team Rio Grande Racing has had two wins in two weeks. Momentum seems to be building.
June 5, 2008
City Park
Well the City Park Crit. didn’t go so well. We missed the break and didn’t bring it back. Logan was able to get 3rd in the field sprint, ending up 8th and we did get these swell photographs.
June 2, 2008
I ♥ Hugo
Its been a bit of a dry spell for me as far as race wins go. Oddly enough the last race I won was 4 long years ago in a small town called Hugo, CO. I was a Cat 3 then. I upgraded a week later and haven’t had a clear view of the finish line since.
I’m not going to go into great detail about the race, other than to say I managed to get into the wrong break and had to figure out how to make it the right one. At mile 35 it was Baker, Tark., Pinkerton, Reichardt, (all VC, not good, not good at all), Berger (former VC, not sure where his alliances were), Nicol, Rubin, (former teammates) Colby Pearce from Slipstream, Jered Gruber from Time U23, a Horizon Dairy guy, a Hauln Ass guy, myself and it seems like I am missing somebody. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this picture? I knew if we waited too long VC would start sending guys up the road and forcing the rest of us to chase. I didn’t much care for that plan. Luckily the heat, wind and repeated attacks over the numerous “climbs” on the course began to take there toll and with 18 miles to go it was down to Pinkerton, Rubin, Nicol, Pearce and myself. Ten miles later it was down to Pearce and myself. I knew I had absolutely no chance in hell against Colby in a sprint, so I managed to sneak away from him on one of the climbs with about 5k to go and never looked back. Yeah right, I was looking back every 15 seconds to make sure he wasn’t coming back.
I would like to say thanks to everyone that has given me a pat on the back (or a kiss on the cheek-Scott- not that there’s anything wrong with that ) after the race. It means a lot to me. So thanks.
- Congratulations goes out to fellow Wednesday Night Worldser Brett Kirby for winning the Cat. 3 race. I guess I’ll be seeing you on the Pro, 1,2 start line at Horgan. Watch out guys he goes uphill pretty fast too.
- How about that Rio 55+ team …another win at Hugo. Nice race boys!
- Trish and Jo of the Rio taking 1st and 2nd in the SW 35 plus or minus race.
