After a great spring campaign of racing in the Cat 3s capped off with a 5th in the GC for Cherry Blossom Stage Race, I found myself with 53 upgrade points and a forced upgrade to category 2 (which I was planning on doing anyway). Kenji put it aptly in his email response to my [...]

I wish I had time to update you. Too busy living life and such to have time to write about it.

FYI: If you make it all the way to the bottom of this long post, you’ll be rewarded with a spoiler picture of my new race bike in nearly-complete form. Some nice spring weather happened to coincide quite well with a busy last several weekends. It was Jess’ spring break between terms and even though [...]

Chris DuBois posted a great report on this one, so I’ll let him do the storytelling this week.

This one could be of some use to all you cyclists wanting to improve nutrition or generally eat well. It has come to my attention recently that I eat nutritiously. Very nutritiously. It’s been an interesting progression, but thinking back I gained some insight into how that has come about – mostly relating to the [...]

I made yesterday’s race a lot more interesting than it was supposed to be for myself. Sublime Sublimity, now in it’s 2nd year, already has a reputation for being one of the harder one-day road races in Oregon, not to mention that it comes very early on the calendar.  For my field, it was 40 [...]

You probably wouldn’t guess that these photos were taken in February on the Oregon Coast if I hadn’t just told you so. Today was a brief but fun escape from reality to go explore Seaside to Tillamook with Jess, and the weather was perfect.

Lots to say about the race, both good and bad, but I guess the bottom line is that I won, which is awesome! Sorry if the report is a bit long. This one was a weird one. It still hasn’t quite sunk in fully, partly because with a mile to go my only goal left [...]

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