This past weekend, Ben Gramling, Adam Barnes, and I loaded up the Bike Route van and headed over to Oklahoma City for two days of racing put on by the students on the OU cycling team. The weekend started with a road race on Saturday and concluded with a criterium on Sunday afternoon. The road… Continue reading An Early Season Win at the OU Land Ronde
This past weekend, the City Title Cycling Team headed to Chattanooga for the River Gorge Omnium, a fun weekend of racing that includes a short net-downhill time trial, a high speed crit under the lights in downtown Chattanooga, and a hilly road race finishing atop Raccoon Mountain. We had a good-sized team as Kevin Solomon,… Continue reading River Gorge Omnium
Every April, cyclists from around the country descend upon Northwest Arkansas for the Joe Martin Stage Race. The elite amateur cat 1/2 racers faced two challenging road race courses on Thursday and Friday before the Devil’s Den time trial on Saturday and finally concluding with the downtown Fayetteville criterium on Sunday. Joining me were my… Continue reading Stage Win and GC Runner-Up at Joe Martin
This past weekend, the City Title Cycling team traveled to Tulsa for the #Fullgas Crit and Road Race. The weekend opened with the crit, a long 2.6-mile hilly course on rough pavement next to Keystone Lake. It was a warm, sunny day with the wind blowing in off the lake. by Biff Stephens There wasn’t any time wasted in our 75-minute race, as… Continue reading Double Runner-Up at #Fullgas
The River Gorge Omnium is one of my favorite races each year. It starts off with a fast 6 kilometer time trial around the Raccoon Mountain Reservoir Saturday morning. Saturday night features a deceptively tough flat and fast 4-corner crit in Chattanooga. It finishes off with the road race on Sunday that is 70 miles with 5600 feet of climbing over 2 major climbs,… Continue reading Climbing onto the Podium at River Gorge
The Joe Martin Stage Race is one of the premiere stage races in the country, and we’re fortunate enough to have it right here in Northwest Arkansas. It is a 4-day stage race for the elite 1/2 race with an uphill time trial, two road races, and a crit. For me, this would be the… Continue reading TT Podium and Top-10 GC at Joe Martin
On Sunday, the Tyson Foods Cycling Team headed over to Tulsa for the Tall Chief Road Race, the second and final race of the #Fullgas omnium. It was the first time for me to race on this course, which had a little bit of everything: some exposed crosswind sections, rolling hills, sectors of awful pavement,… Continue reading Victory at the Tall Chief Road Race
Last weekend, the team headed down to Little Rock to start our season at the Cross Winds Classic. We had 7 guys out of the field of more than 60 Cat 1/2 riders, set to race 5 laps of the flat 13-mile course. The temperature was in the low 50s throughout the race and the… Continue reading Cross Winds
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