Gossip!
Why travel to Vegas?
Redundent yes but, I am copying these last 2 from my comments section. Joel and I chatted about it briefly in the Stumptown coffee shop the other morning. Portland (read: the entire west coast) is too far away to draw the larger, well funded cx teams right now. Fidea, Sunweb, Rabobank and co. are not [...]
oh. my. god. hove.
Did you hear what happened today? Amazing. It was like a surreal painting playing over and over in my head all day. “Was that really Jon Page on the podium at worlds?” So, um… “Wait, was that really Katie Compton on the podium at worlds?” Yeah… “Wait, wait, wait. Was that Danny Summerhill on the [...]
Back to reality:
It has been a little over a week, I’m back in Portland. Got my laptop back from Apple a few days ago, trying to catch up on a bunch of emails and business. Ok. Who left me the issue of the “cat 3″ comic book? Amazing. Also amzing is this: Kelly. Shoes. I like shoes. [...]
Holy World cup!
Drove out to the Hofstade world cup a couple days ago with Verge to heckle the FBUK British girls and Parbo. Finally had a day to play euro tourist super fan. Bought a bunch of touristy crap, snapped a bunch of photos. I fully intended to write a big update on my site. Instead, I [...]
A day off to fight a cold. Xmas day.
Ugh. Sounds like most of the cx camp is sick and I’m certainly fighting something too. Went on a sweet ride with Joachim Parbo. All around Tielt, Tiennen area—> I picked up Ryan Verge from the airport pretty early. He has been busy re building my bikes. After nationals and the last 2 Belgian races, [...]
Xmas eve – xmas day:
Here are some shots of the Eerde-Veghel race in the Netherlands. Afterwards, as I was undressing, a bunch of older Belgian guys crowded around me and wanted to get some of my fan cards. I had the tiny little pictures cards I got made and handed a few to each of them. They were pretty [...]
I was dreaming…
…yesterday morning when I heard a faint “hello? you coming?” from downstairs! I totally overslept and hopped right onto my bike (again) for the big group ride. I ended up in the front group by myself, nothing too exciting, lots of older Belgian men. Ex pros, grizzled 60 year olds. We passed by Sven Nys [...]
The Begijnendijk ride:
Not an hour off of the plane, Jos cons me into meeting up for the big group ride around Aarschot. It was 60+ people riding 2 abreast and in two groups (the 2nd group a minute back). I rode out to the start of the ride with Helen Wyman and Gabby Day. They raced the [...]
Tielt winge!
Found a link to the house I am staying at. I tried to con Brian Vernor into coming over to Belgium with me and he finally got his ticket! He is heading over to stay with Joachim Parbo (Danish national champ) and he did not know the name of the town he was staying at. [...]
What did I tell you?
Legs ARE coming around. True to my word, I improved on my result yesterday! I feel like such a super pro bike racer. Sleeping late, getting chauffeured to my races, handing off my jacket at the start line… Awesome. Not much to report from Nathan’s house here in Providence. I raced the Caster’s GP today [...]
