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Archive for April, 2008

beachin it before the tour de Georgia

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

The Georgia coast is s nice change of venue in more ways than one. I was enjoying relaxing on the beach for a few minutes yesterday, taking in the relative heat to what I've been riding in lately. I was ...

Tour de Georgia

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Yesterday was a marathon flight day. I left home just before 10am and didn't arrive at the race hotel until 1:08am. I guess I just got unlucky with the 'online special' that sent me to Georgia via Kansas City ...

Crazy Colorado Springtime weather

Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

My first week back at home in Colorado was met with some classic springtime in the Rockies weather. My wife and I hung out at her house up the hill in Nederland, where it is still very much winter, ...

Tour de Georgia up next…

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Both Timmy and I will be heading down south for the Tour de Georgia, which starts Monday April 21st and runs through Sunday April 27th.  Stage 4 will offer a team time trial, while stages 5 and 6 both include ...

Redlands wrap up

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Well, I would say the team has had better races. On sundays final stage in the first twenty-five km, I had to stop once to rip my chain out of my frame and then once to replace a rear flat ...

www.EldoraRace.org

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

As the big bike races of the season are ramping up now that it is springtime, the season is wrapping up for our "alma matter," the Eldora Mountain Ski Club. Several kids had great results at Nationals and the ...

Redlands Crit

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

What can go wrong will go wrong. Shawn Milne was off the front of the field with 3 other riders going into the last corner at the finish of the crit today and crashed breaking a bone in his hand.  ...

Redlands

Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

One of the neat things about redlands is that often times teams stay with hosting housing. Spending half the year sleeping in hotels can get old, so it's nice to have some great homemade enchiladas instead of 'race food inc.' ...