July 11th, 2009 BTR Park Criterium (Kalamazoo Mi. Kalamazoo Bike Club)
Possible the best I’ve ever ridden. Things just worked right all day long.
I attacked from the gun and was quickly joined my 3 others. That group grew to 10 with Jeff Koch (Priority Health), Jason Swiatlowski (Bissell ME), & Eric Forester (Bissell ME) joining along. [...]
This was actually a fairly bittersweet race. It was a great race from an organization, course, weather, and result point of view, unfortunately the cat. 3 field was a disappointing 10-15 riders. They ended up mixing us with the Masters 45+ riders to give a larger field, which at least gave riders the ability to [...]
This year Peter, Mark, and myself(Geoff) made up the Cat. 3 contingent at Superior Bike Fest. Mark and Peter had raced it the year before and thought the crit and road race where fun and challenging, while the circuit race was being held on the picturesque Presque Isle. We left about 9:00 a.m. Friday and [...]
This past weekend found me up in Manistee National Forest racing my first 100 mile mountain bike race. The Founders Brewing / Lumberjack 100 It’s part of the growing Nation Ultra Endurance Mountain Bike Series.
I don’t have much experience in mountain bike racing. In fact this was my 3rd race in the dirt. However I [...]
Mt. Pleasant Crit. – Cat. 3 – Sat. June 13, 2009 – finished outside top 10.
Despite the ominous gray cloudscape prominent in Grand Rapids this day, a short trip north revealed mostly sunny skies with some of those fluffy cumulous clouds that pose no real threat of rain – temp about 70. The 4 p.m. [...]