Saturday morning I opened the 2021 season with the Sham Events Ouachita Gravel Grind TT. I don't typically race in January, but after last year, I was itching for some competition. The Ouachita Gravel Grind is usually a mass start event, but they decided to make it a time trial this year due to Covid-19.… Continue reading Opening the Season at the Ouachita Gravel TT
This past weekend, I made the long drive to East Tennessee for the Johnson City Omnium. One of the races I make sure to include in my calendar every year, it features a road race that finishes atop a major climb, a short TT and a crit. As usual, there were several strong riders at the… Continue reading Back to Racing at Johnson City
This past weekend, Ben Gramling, and I headed over to Oklahoma City for two days of racing put on by the students on the OU collegiate cycling team. The weekend started with a road race and a time trial on Saturday and concluded with a criterium on Sunday afternoon. Road Race The road race was… Continue reading Second Overall at the Land Ronde Omnium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2elL3_8TH0 The Rogers Cycling Festival took place this past weekend with a new omnium format featuring and Eddy Merckx time trial, the Brick Street Crit, and the Walnut Valley Road Race. After winning the time trial and then picking up a few points in the crit, I had a small lead in the omnium standings… Continue reading Omnium win in the Hometown Race
The Tour of Lawrence is back and better than ever. The race featured three criteriums and an Eddy Merckx style individual time trial over the four-day Independence Day weekend. I had the Friday time trial and the hilly Sunday criterium circled as days that gave me the best opportunity for a result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKcokAYxrl8 After a… Continue reading Closing out the Tour of Lawrence with a Solo Win
This year, I would make my first ever visit to the state of Vermont on Memorial Day weekend for the Killington Stage Race. The race has road races on Saturday and Sunday before finishing with a time trial on Monday. I got to the race courseFriday evening and had a chance to pre-ride the Stage… Continue reading Killington Stage Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bh_NBz6RDY For 42 years, Fayetteville has been home to the Joe Martin Stage Race, one of the toughest stage races in the country. 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… Continue reading A Disappointing Joe Martin
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
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
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