Cali

Well, the first two races are over. Overall they went pretty well. The only bummer thing is that since my training started a solid month late or so the form just isnt quite there. On the bright side I should be on good form by the time the team heads to europe and mentally fresh. Our schedule over there is, Olympias Tour, U23 Paris-Roubaix and Circuit Montenez(if the race is held) Then we come back and do Tour de Beauce in Canada and Philly week.

Hopefully I can be on good form for all of this.

The really cool thing that we were able to accomplish at Redlands was winning the Overall Team classification, youngest team to ever do that. Hopefully things will only get better.

Walker

Getting ready!

I am super excited to leave tomorrow! Finally I will be able to see if all this training that I have been doing has been enough to propel me to some good results this season. Howes and I will be getting on a plane tomorrow morning and will be joining the rest of the team to race San Dimas and Redlands. I did the races last year and they are really fun. The uphill TT the first day of San Dimas is a really cool climb, it would be equally cool to have some good climbing legs; so i guess we will see. Keep the fingers crossed.

It will be really fun when Toast joins us at Redlands later on this week. Its always fun hanging out with that kid. So leading up to these races I have only been able to race two collegiate crits and one pro crit. The collegiate crits are really fun because it is a lot more like a game and can actually try some tactical things and see what works with out having to dig very deep.

Well gotta go pick up the new kits from the service course, hopefully they are pretty cool. Also have to figure out what my plan of attack is to get to the airport!

Hello?

Well I will start this off with a big o'l SORRY. I know its lame that I havent posted anything since... um... June. Ya thats it, june. Wow that was a long time ago. Well a lot has occurred since then. Finished up the season, rode well but never got a personal W but was an asset to the team. So after a hard season i signed a lease for a new apartment in Boulder with my friend Tag who is a really good downhill ski racer and is racing for the CU ski team this year. Started classes in the fall and have been training a lot and working on my education at the same time. Sometimes this proves to be hard but luckily i havent had to cut class time short for riding time.
One cool thing that happened this fall was going to Grand Cayman Island for a "bike race" The race was temporarily cancelled due to a Hurricane. Of course, we knew about the hurricane prior to leaving but me and team mate Stetina figured we were up for a little adventure... Flew to Miami thought, well if they cant fly us to the Island worse thing that happens is that we have to fly back home. Fortunately we met up with the only other team mate I was able to convince that it was a GOOD idea to fly into a Hurricane and we got on the last flight to the island. Got there the rain and wind were crazy. One cool thing was that Christian VdV had actually been up for an adventure aswell and was there with his wife. In the end we did get some solid riding in but more time was spent swimming with Stingrays, Snorkeling and sampling the local food and of course the Pina Coladas. Wow, those are good.

Stetina, showing how the fierce wind could hold you up.



The calm after the storm


Stingrays feel weird



We did get some racing in too

Christian won over all and Pete got the stage

On the final day we went snorkeling. I almost had to lay the smack down on a huge fish.

Well now all I have to do is keep training and I look forward to racing soon. I think I might do some collegiate racing to build up for the more important races this spring. Ok well this whole catch up thing is tiring. If anyone still reads this I will try and keep up with the updates.