US Pro Race

It's been a long hard week and I haven't been able to see much of the Colorado Pro Tour bike race that's been ripping through the state. But today I told everyone to go away and I took my 4 year old to the Golden race. We parked in town then rode up to the turn just before the pillars on lookout. My 4 year old muscled it out, it's the steepest point of the climb. We watched them race by then we quickly dropped back into Golden and saw the racers go back through Golden before racing into Denver for the finale. It was great to the pro racers on my roads. They were flying!
Racer sign in.
Had to ride the start after the race.
Chill'n on the dragon watch'n the race on the big screen after it left Golden.

Still Kick'n

Sorry for the long lack of posts. I'm still around and I've wanted to post some stories for awhile but it obviously hasn't happened. I've been spending a lot of time at work writing proposals. I'm not exactly a natural writer so when I get home and think of writing up a story for the blog, I just can't do it. I'm hoping things will slow down a little in the coming weeks so we'll see if I can get this thing going again.

One short story about today. My four year old has been on vacation for the past week (I didn't get to go because of work). When he got back I asked him if he'd like to go to the bike park, meaning the new Valmont Bike Park in Boulder. He, of course, said yes. When I asked him how long he wanted to be there he said "50 hours," so I planed for the morning. We drove out this morning before the heat of the day and had a blast! He was riding everything, I heard him laughing a couple of times as he rode ahead of me. When we got to the pump track he was all over it. He dropped in and didn't come out for almost 30 minutes! Velmont Bike Park is a fantastic park, there were kids and people everywhere. I really believe every city should have a park like that!

After the pump track we went down by the main entrance and ran across a true cycling star, Tim Johnson. He was just hanging out, so I told my 4 year old to go give him a knuckle bump because he was a super fast "mud racing" (Cyclocross) racer. Nate rode around Tim twice while Tim held out his fist, finally opting to be shy. Which I find funny because Nate as asked to watch dad's "mud racing movie" many times, the 9 ball dairies. The movie is about Tim Johnson's season when he won the cyclocross nation championships. So he knows who Tim is, at least on TV. Nate soon wandered off while Tim and I talked for a few minutes about the up coming cyclocross season, before Nate was getting out of sight. Tim's a down to earth guy and I enjoyed our conversation; thanks for asking a local cat 3 racer his opinion about the up coming UCI race, made my day.

Some of you may not be surprised to hear this but, where else can you go to your local bike park and find a nation champion? I think only in Boulder.

I'll post photos in an update.