After the race last weekend USAT invited all of the high-performance athletes to participate in a two day cycling skills clinic. Before the clinic I heard a lot of people voicing concerns that our time would not be spent as valuably as if we were just training as normal, but by the end of the […]
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Mexico Part Tres – Pan-Am Race Report
Puerto Vallarta is really hot in October. It’s strange that I was able to go the entire summer without suffering through any hot races, and as soon as Labor Day rolled around every race required a buzz cut and an ice pack in my helmet. I came prepared with my ice vest and frozen drink […]
Mexico Part Uno – A partial race report (for a partial race)
This is the story of how I managed to burn the skin off my back on fast-moving hot asphalt, and why you should know more Spanish than I do for the Emergency Rooms of Mexico. I arrived in Mexico on October 7th with a bunch of other people. Matt Chrabot and I were on the […]
Mexico Training
I finished my homework and started writing about my last two weeks in Mexico. In the meantime, here’s a video that Rory put together. This is how you train when you’re missing skin on a quarter of your back and have to race again in a week. More on how I lost all that skin […]
Three Weeks of Fun – and a brief Nationals race report
Woah! It’s been three weeks since Worlds, and SO much has happened. I’m back in Colorado and finishing up what is probably the last little training block of 2010, getting ready for Huatulco and Puerto Vallarta (World Cup and Continental Championships, respectively), catching up on schoolwork (I guess if I wasn’t behind it’s not really […]