Tour de Park City
While Heather has a tendency to write a dissertation for her race report, I’ll try to make mine shorter. We drove to Park City on Friday and checked into the Newpark Hotel. Since they’re a race sponsor we got a pretty good deal on a “luxury” suite and it was just that, luxurious. We picked […]
Heather’s Tour de Park City
This is the first year of the Felt Tour de Park City, which has a 170 mile USCF race and different tour options (52, 108, or 170 miles). There was preregistration and day of registration. There were 900 people who preregistered and another 300+ who did race day registration. The race promoter, Riley Siddoway, tried […]
Tour de Park City Course
Heather and I are getting excited to race the 170-mile Tour de Park City one-day bike race on Saturday. Here’s the course map:
Criterium Weekend
This weekend was not only the Wells Fargo Twilight Criterium but also the Idaho State Championship Criterium. This was the first year that we had a separate Category 2 field and it was held on a new north–south course. Despite my taper this week, my legs weren’t feeling great and even with the smallish field […]
Gate City Grind Stage Race
Finished my first stage race this weekend and ended up doing okay. The road race was hard at first and I managed to get 17th. I wasted my TT effort during the road race as I ended up popping off of the front group on the last hill when a couple people attacked, then got […]
Idaho State Road Race
It was going to be a long hot race today and with Heather out of town and no guarantee of a neutral feed, I had to carry all of my fluids. So I had three 32-ounce bottles and a Camelbak that held another 50 ounces…that’s over a gallon of liquid and almost 10 pounds! But […]
Tour of Eagle
Tonight was the Tour of Eagle (aka, Eagle Criterium). Even though it’s no longer a stage race, the old “Tour” name has stuck from the original incarnation. The criterium kicks off the Eagle Fun Days weekend so there are always lots of spectators. Many of my friends and neighbors were out cheering for me. I […]
Pulling the Plug
Today was the Treasure Valley Road Race. I knew it wasn’t going to be a good race before it even began as I didn’t feel well over the last few days. It didn’t help that the conditions weren’t optimal for me; it was cold, I didn’t sleep well the night before and there wasn’t enough time […]
Another DNF
Well another “DNF” today (did not finish) in Emmett–Roubaix. But this time I managed to last two out of the three laps. The laps were the old-style laps where we went up Little Freezeout, made a right on Hollow, another right on El Paso and then turned onto Bill Burns…a gravel road. Yeah I’m a […]
No Chicken Dinner for You
Even though yesterday’s workout was encouraging, between my lack of real top-end power and some work I had to get done at the office, I decided to pass on the Chicken Dinner road race today. If it was a flat course, I probably could have hung on for a while, but I knew with the […]
Birds of Prey
Race started out OK, but then on the first lap of the lollipop-style course, we raced through a sleet storm and it got really cold. My hands were so cold that they became numb; I had to look at my brake/shifters to operate them! I ended up getting dropped the during the crosswind on Swan […]
Slammer Road Race
With people hammering from the gun I thought I was a goner within the first kilometer! But things settled down once the winning break was off and I managed to stay with the pack for two and a half laps. Then it was Klaas, Jason, Andre and I working together off the back of the […]
Jason Broome Time Trial
Today was the first race of the George’s Spring Series and it was the Jason Broome Time Trial. I didn’t get my TT bike together until last night because I was waiting on new headset bearings so without much time on the bike, I knew I wouldn’t generate as much power as on my road […]
Riding on Christmas Eve Day
We’re down in St George again for Christmas with Heather’s mom, sister and niece. This time we brought a better bike to ride. We shipped Heather’s old Javelin ahead of us and plan to leave it here so we always have a bike to ride when we come and visit. The only thing we brought […]
Track Nationals Team Pursuit
Our team name was the Underdogs. Shelly Olds started us off, I was 2nd, and Kele Murdin was 3rd. We had a good start lap. Then it went downhill from there. Unfortunately, I was the weakest link in our pursuit. I did not have good exchanges and I couldn’t hold wheels. It was more stressful […]
Track Nationals Points Race
There were 22 of us who started. I started on the rail. We rolled out for the neutral lap and the race started. We were crawling the first few laps. I was really scared that I would fall off. Megan Hottman attacked and stayed off to win the sprint with 90 laps to go, Becky […]
Track Nationals Scratch Race
I warmed up on rollers for 20 min with a two pushes. There were 21 of us who started the 10 km scratch race. I used a 92.5 gear (48 x 14). There were a lot of attacks, but it never seemed really hard. I planned on attacking with 6 laps to go. A break […]
Track Nationals Pursuit
I warmed up on the track for 58 min. I did 2 x 500 m pushes with splits of 19.0, 18.8 (I had to get out of aerobars to pass a rider) then 18.2, 18.1 (I caught a bunch of riders at end of lap and had to ride uptrack). Then I did one flying […]
Track Nationals Mass Start Test
I warmed up for a while on the track. I was going to get on the track for 5 min then get off and stretch. There were so many people on the track that I decided to just stay on. I warmed up for a bit on my own and then jumped on a train […]
Elite Track Nationals
We’re back in sunny southern California at the LA Velodrome, this time for USA Cycling’s Elite Track National Championships. I’m here to support Heather as she competes in the Mass Start Test, Pursuit, Scratch and Points races. Though I’d love to give the pursuit a try, I won’t be able to due to the tight […]