Nick, Me, Jared coming up the hill
Saturday was the MN State Championship Road Race, the last race of the season. I was pretty psyched for this race and felt that I had a good chance of winning it. The unknown for me was that it had been a while since I had to race 72+ [...]
OK, if you would have asked me back in March as I was gearing up for the season, what kind of season I would have I simply would have said a good one. Looking back over the season now, I would say I had a great season. I started the season with a 4th place [...]
The Synergy Time Trial was on Saturday and I was going out there to protect my first place standings on the Cat 3 ROY competition. I knew that I would lose time to Tyler Olsen and David Jones, as they are both stronger in the TT than I am. During the St. Peter TT, my [...]
I went down to Northfield, MN for the annual 4th of July crit race for the first time. I have always wanted to do this race as I have heard great things about it. The race certainly lived up to its aura, as the course is wide open, good roads, some tight turns and a [...]
Originally I had not planned to race this race due to family commitments, but a last minute change freed me up and off I went. I raced Cat 3’s again and the usual suspects where there with Tyler Olson and Jordan Cullen. A newer racer to me that is going well is Nigel Kinney, a [...]
I normally don’t do time trials. For two reasons, first they really hurt and you have to dig very deep. Second, because I never feel satisfied about my effort afterwards. So going into this race I had a few goals. 1. Ride under 1 hour, 2. Average 26 MPH, 3. Don’t get passed by my [...]
My goal in this race was to make it a hard race. I decided to attack from the gun, which I did and then spend the first 3 laps out front on my own. I had a racer bridge up on lap two and help for about a lap then he fell off pace. Shortly [...]
On Saturday I headed out to the road race of the new MN Memorial Classic Omnium race. I was feeling pretty good and had a lot of confidence coming off of last week’s win at the Birchwood Road Race. The day was to be a hot and windy one. The course of the race was [...]
I was pretty psyched for today’s road race. Birchwood always puts on a great race with a neutral feed support. This makes the race so much nicer, knowing you can get water on each lap.
The course this year was full of punch hills, but the key sections were the 3 dirt roads we traversed. [...]
Saturday I went down to Henderson, MN for the Sibley Road Race. This is one of my favorite courses as the hill makes the course tough, but the winds are what can define the course. When I woke up, the temps outside were just 34 degrees… This was kinda crazy considering it is May and [...]