Too old for Vegas....

Last week we were in Vegas for Interbike. We did a ton of walking as there was so much fun stuff to see at the show. The top eleven things we saw at Interbike worth a damn...

11. Cav's Scott bike...its real pretty and teeny tiny!

10. Pashley Bikes -- beautiful cruisers handbuilt in England...cool t-shirts too!

9. Bont -- The rad'est cycling shoes ever!

8. Krieg -- The sweetest saddle bags ever!

7. Focus -- Beautiful bikes, pretty cross bike...be in touch with Brian 'Go Fast' Dallas for more about 'em.

6. Basil -- Euro styley bike baskets and bags...simply gorgeous

5. Xtreme Sports ID -- your critical info quickly accessible during an emergency.

4. The Luna podium boys at Cross Vegas! Which by the way is the most fun race to watch. Prime viewing is on the hill in the VIP area...thats right, we're VIP! And watching all the CO girls tear it up at Cross Vegas...1st - Katie Compton, 2nd - Katia (so she's from CA by way of Czech but heck she's got good friends in CO so we'll give her CO cred) 3rd - Georgia Gould then Alison 'Advanced Placement' Powers, Dombroski, and Seehafer - her second cross race ever! Colorado is the best.

3. 30 minutes of pool time with bff!

2. King George Hincapie raising the roof atop the Palms hotel way past midnight.

1. And most of all fun times catching up with me old teammates and mechanics

She Made It!

....up all the stairs at Red Rocks, sans pants. Apparently the pants prohibited efficient stair climbing. She was fast, the adults were exhausted when we got to the top. I forget how magical a place is the Red Rocks Amphitheater. While standing on the stage, you can't help but be reminded of the one of the most amazing and powerful performances ever to take place - right there on the same stage - U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Cascade Classic

Where has the week gone? As with all stage races the week of racing just flies by in a blink of an eye. While the last day of the Cascade Classic (in Bend, Oregon) has sneaked upon me, it feels like Tuesday's first stage was weeks ago. Here we are, the last day of the stage race -- a 17 mile circuit up and down Awbrey Butte. Scenes from the week follow....



We take over garages with bikes a plenty! Our fearless mechanic takes care of all these bikes!


We take over kitchens....


We find great humor in some of the unique sights we see while on the road.


Huntress is happy to be in Bend....looking forward to her 4 hour mountain bike ride.


McGrath cherry picks the Raspberry Powerbar gel shots.


The Muckster sports the mechanics smile.

Bend, OR

Its the pink bike.

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TwitterBlogFace'ing

It just took me ten tries to remember my Blogger login its been that long. With all this Facebook and Twittering, the blog has found itself sorely neglected. I've decided to make a 10 day blogging effort to see whether the blog will continue. I'm in Bend, Oregon for the next 10 days racing Cascade and then Road Nats. Stay tuned for updates, stories and pics.

btw...if you've never been to Bend, you must. It's beautiful here. A great town with great weather and lots of outdoor fun. It's where I'd go if Denver wasn't so cool!

A weekend on the dirt

It was the first real summer weekend of the year here in Colorado so what better way to spend it than in the mountains. I headed up to Winter Park on saturday to race the Super Loop...at the last minute I thought better of racing as I had yet to ride my mountain bike this season. While the peeps were racing, I enjoyed a great climb up to the top of Mary Jane and the reward of some sweet single track back to the base. As the racing was still going on when I got back down, I decided to head back up to the top and enjoy another fun descent. It has been years since I spent a day at a Winter Park mountain bike race and nothing much had changed, it was just like the good 'ole days....lots o' fun.

Sunday BFF and I headed to Breckenridge to ride again in the dirt. This time it was to scout out next weekends race course...the Firecracker50. An epic mountain bike race - 50 miles with tons o climbing on some super challenging terrain. For the second year in a row it will decide the mountain bike marathon national champ. We rode a lap of the course, climbed a gobs ton, descended some fun trails, were lucky with gorgeous weather and made only one wrong turn....that is I only made one wrong turn -- good thing BFF and Jack-attack coordinated efforts to track me down! The weather held out for us and we had a simply fun day playing in the dirt.

A Musical Genius of our Time...Gone....Sad

Such sad news today. In tribute let's take a look at the greatest video ever filmed...Michael Jackson - Thriller.