It was the third day of our Caribbean cruise and I was out riding. Yesterday had been a frightening 3 ½ ride on Aruba with the last hour filled with heavy traffic and roads with jagged sloping soft shoulders falling to wheel grabbing sand, and no passing room for the aggressive islander drivers.
Today was different, [...]
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Last week I enjoyed another “Life of Riley” moment. As a member of the athlete council for the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid committee (which I earned through doing nothing other than being a former Olympian) I was invited to be a “principal for the day” for a school the Chicago area. At first I balked [...]
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Race Report #18 – RV Racing: The inaugural Chicago Criterium, Grant Park, Chicago IL, Sunday, July 27. Category: Elite Masters 30+. Weather: 75 degrees, light winds. Course: bumpy, mostly wide, 1.1 mile/lap, 6 corners w/ two small hills per lap. Distance 47 miles, Avg speed, 27.9mph, avg pulse 171bpm.
Gary and I awoke to church bells [...]
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Race Report #18 – The Last Ride of the RV: Superweek Stage 16, Downer Avenue, WI, Sunday, July 20. Category: Masters. Weather: 75 degrees, light winds. Course: flat, 1 mile/lap, 3 corners
Yes, sad but true, this was to be the last ride of the RV. Now in its 4th season it has been both a [...]
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2008 Race Report #17: Superweek Stage 15 (Kenosha) and “Really Living”
After collecting my check for 9th place in Racine, we piled into the RV and headed to Lake Geneva, WI – home of Gary & Monica as well as their two sons, Rico (Otto) and Ogzila (Owen).
We pulled into the forested cul-de-sac in Lake Geneva [...]
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2008: Race Report #25, September 6, 2008 : Priority Health Cat 2/3 Criterium, Grand Rapids, MI. Weather: 74 degrees, light winds. Course: twisty, 6 corners mostly on brick 0.8 miles/lap, Distance, 40 minutes. Avg speed – 26.7mph, max speed, 38.3mph
I groggily and grumpily awoke to my alarm at 6:30am on a Saturday morning and 15 [...]
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2008: Race Report #22: Downer’s Grove Nationals Masters’ Elite ½: Weather: 84 degrees, light winds. Course: twisty, dangerous, seven corners, short steep hill, 0.8 miles/lap, Distance, 45 minutes + 2 laps, Average pulse 170. Avg speed – ?
There’s something about the prep for a ‘big race’ that unfolds memories from the cramped spaces of the [...]
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After leaving Evanston I headed up to Sheboygan – a 2 ½ hour drive become 4 hours with 294 late night construction. As I drove and mile markers streaked past, so began the usual tumbling thoughts of failure flashing through my mind – the tracers of getting dropped from the peleton leaving trailing sparks like a [...]
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Race Report #16:
Superweek Stage 14, Racine, WI, Thursday, July 24. Category: Master 40. Weather: 84 degrees, light winds. Course: nearly flat, very bumpy, 0.8 miles/lap, 4 corners, Average speed ~27mph.
It must be a roadie conspiracy – all my favorite 4 corner flat wide open courses from the past (Sheboygan, De Pere, Manitowoc, Green Bay) [...]
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Race Report #15: Superweek Stage 12, Evanston, IL, Sunday, July 20. Category: Pro 1/2. Weather: 87 degrees, light winds. Course: flat, 0.8 miles/lap, 6 corners, Distance, 70 laps, 100 kilometers. Average speed 30.4 mph, Average pulse 181.
I had intended to fire up the RV about a week before our annual trek up north, but got [...]
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