Archive for April, 2008

Italian 24 Hour Passion

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

24 hour racing seems to be doing very well over in Europe and the Italians are really going all in for it. Check out this site: http://24hpassion.it/ …and notice the current news article Maybe Nam & I can make it over next year for a race.

Vail Lake Press

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

It seems the Granny Gear PR team kept at it even after the race: The GG site. Cyclingnews.com Velonews.com VassagoCycles.com Wobble-Naught.com Look in the April issue of DirtRag (24 Hours of Conyers ad) and the May issue of National Geographic for some pics of Namrita & I. The NGA deal is a one pager about [...]

24 Hours of Vail Lake Report

Monday, April 28th, 2008

With all the stress on Friday out of the way I quite relaxed on Saturday AM before the race. We had a good night sleep, the bikes were as ready as they could be and were ready to race. I purposely took off slowly even on the run knowing there was 3 miles of dirt [...]

Hot, hot, hot

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Namrita wins it and I take 3rd. We are flying home this evening, so look for an update after much sleep.

Game On

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Yesterday no longer matters. Granny Gear will have real time results posted here.

Challenged

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

That’s how I feel today. It seems as we prepare for this race we have been challenged in every way. The key piece that set off a series of challenges today was a missing box from Atlanta that was to be delivered via UPS. We found out last night that it was missing and it [...]

New Products – L&M and Vassago

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Light and Motion Announces the Seca Line of LED Light Systems: Three Models Built Specifically To Outperform HID April 24, 2008, Monterey, CA— Born from a need for high-performance lighting on the trails behind Laguna Seca, Light & Motion is proud to announce the arrival of Seca. Seca is the first LED bicycle lighting system [...]

Preride – 24 Hours of Vail Lake

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

My friend and beginner season racing , Orion, joined us this morning for a ride around the course. No pics today, sorry. It starts out with a big sand pit…6″ deep sugar sand…just like Florida! Then it climbs for 3 miles, some of it gradual, some really steep. From there we roll up and down [...]

California Style

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

We are in Temecula until Sunday getting ready for and racing in the 24 Hours of Vail Lake. The flight out of was OK other than an hour delay in ATL which involved changing planes….it was almost a direct flight . The Vassago guys picked us up at the San Diego airport carted us around [...]

Packing Up

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

We are heading to Temecula tomorrow for the Granny Gear 24 hours of Vail Lake. Physically I think I’m good. The effort on Saturday was hard and long enough to give me that last push toward peaking I’ll need to set me up the next 4 weeks of racing. All of the equipment seems ready [...]