Update!
I'm going to be on the radio! This Wednesday, July 4th, at 9:00am I'll be on the Portland based KBOO Bike Show. The show is titled, "Is Lycra really necessary? A discussion of the sportier side of bike culture." It should be interesting. The show will be live on 90.7FM in the Portland area and they apparently stream live at kboo.fm as well. A podcast will be available shortly afterward at PortlandTransport.com (which, I should mention, is an excellent site in its own right.) I'll get a link up here when it's posted. So, there are clearly plenty of opportunities to hear me getting taken to task for our collective lack of fashion sense. Check it out.
On the racing front, It's been a pretty light season for me thus far. After Georgia, I got a short break before slaving away on the front for Nathan O'Neill in New Mexico at the Tour of the Gila. He won the opening TT and then the rest of the team spent the next four days defending the lead. At the end of May, the Mt. Hood Classic in Hood River followed basically the same script. Nathan lost the jersey for two days, but got it back just in time to make us ride the front for the longest, hottest, hardest day of the race. Not that I'm complaining, it's a lot of fun getting to defend a race lead. Nathan tends to give plenty of opportunity for that.
Other than that, I've been pretty busy getting beat up on by local fast guys. Aaron Tuckerman of Rubicon has been consistently outsprinting me up at Mt. Tabor, and his teammate Bradley Paine just made me look foolish out at last week's PIR training race. It's great to have plenty of fast guys to race with at home; it keeps me sharp. But it'd be nice if they'd let me win sometimes for the sake of my fragile, fragile ego.
And on the topic of crushing defeats, I just missed out on the Oregon State Road Championship yesterday down by Eugene. Aaron Olson put the fear in everyone by showing up in his full T-Mobile kit, and Barry Wicks and Ryan Trebon came out on their freakishly tall Kona bikes as well. I got in the break with them along with Evan Elken of Jittery Joe's and yet another local fast guy: Chris Hamilton. But alas, my chicken-dance-sprint was no match Evan's more practiced version. First loser again. Thanks to Kenji Sugahara for the photo.
That's me on the right. I don't like losing. Ryan Trebon apparently doesn't mind as much.
Next up is the Cascade Classic in Bend a week from Wednesday. Maybe I'll post updates from there. Maybe.
On the racing front, It's been a pretty light season for me thus far. After Georgia, I got a short break before slaving away on the front for Nathan O'Neill in New Mexico at the Tour of the Gila. He won the opening TT and then the rest of the team spent the next four days defending the lead. At the end of May, the Mt. Hood Classic in Hood River followed basically the same script. Nathan lost the jersey for two days, but got it back just in time to make us ride the front for the longest, hottest, hardest day of the race. Not that I'm complaining, it's a lot of fun getting to defend a race lead. Nathan tends to give plenty of opportunity for that.
Other than that, I've been pretty busy getting beat up on by local fast guys. Aaron Tuckerman of Rubicon has been consistently outsprinting me up at Mt. Tabor, and his teammate Bradley Paine just made me look foolish out at last week's PIR training race. It's great to have plenty of fast guys to race with at home; it keeps me sharp. But it'd be nice if they'd let me win sometimes for the sake of my fragile, fragile ego.
And on the topic of crushing defeats, I just missed out on the Oregon State Road Championship yesterday down by Eugene. Aaron Olson put the fear in everyone by showing up in his full T-Mobile kit, and Barry Wicks and Ryan Trebon came out on their freakishly tall Kona bikes as well. I got in the break with them along with Evan Elken of Jittery Joe's and yet another local fast guy: Chris Hamilton. But alas, my chicken-dance-sprint was no match Evan's more practiced version. First loser again. Thanks to Kenji Sugahara for the photo.
That's me on the right. I don't like losing. Ryan Trebon apparently doesn't mind as much.Next up is the Cascade Classic in Bend a week from Wednesday. Maybe I'll post updates from there. Maybe.
2 Comments:
I will set my alarm just so i don't miss it. good ride sunday, wish you had won, I had money riding on you breaking your 2nd place funk. I guess you will have to do that at CCC now.
Doug - I heard the bike show on KBOO. You did a great job. Way to represent!
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