Professional road cycling journal

Archive for August, 2008

13th in Time Trial Nationals

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in News | 2 Comments »

I was satisfied to be back in a race again and obtain a top 15 at the national championship. It shows me that even with minimal training, zero racing, and several months off the bike I am already well ...

US Pro Time Trial tomorrow!

Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in News | 2 Comments »

My first competition in my return to racing is the national championship time trial tomorrow. Its been great to be back hanging out with my team again here in Greenville. We scoped out the time trial course yesterday and I ...

Ready for Nationals

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

It feels nice to be done with my big initial training block as I return to competition.  It took an enormous amount of energy from all systems to get the ball rolling again aftera couple months of total rest and ...

Benefit from The Pros Closet

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Check out our new sponsor, The Pros Closet, for some Tour de France memorabilia and Slipstream cycling stuff, sales of which will benefit the Just Go Harder Foundation. Thank you!!! 

Recovery and Return to Racing

Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in News | 1 Comment »

 I met with my doctors at Craig Hospital last week to get another CAT scan and devise a time frame for my return to racing.  We did a CAT scan instead of an MRI because my neurologist wanted to see ...

Boulder Bike Park

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

If you haven't heard of it already, my hometown of Boulder, co is embarking on a really cool project, the valmont bike park. Soon it will hopefully be a playground for all types of cycling with mtb courses and ...

Tour of Utah up next

Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

The past few days have been nothing special. A couple easy rest days, and a couple big 5hr days in the mountains. I've just been trying to polish off the form before heading to Utah on Monday for the five ...

Recovery Update

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 Posted in News | 3 Comments »

The last couple weeks have been a bit of an experiment.  I arrived in Colorado from Europe last month with a solid 2 1/2 weeks of EZ riding in Girona under my belt.  With I little "base" I started to ...