Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Pro-Am and Tulsa Tough recap

So I guess I'm in full on recovery mode for a while. I'm still riding some, but not racing for a few months or any structured training. The Pro-Am and the Tulsa Tough went ok. The results were so-so. I was hoping for a little better, but anytime you can do a huge criterium race block and not lose any skin is good thing.

This is the video I took from the Pro-Am. My co-worker Evan won. I ended up 17th. I felt pretty good the first hour, but struggled the last 15 minutes. I've slacked off on the training hours to go really well for 75 minutes.


The friday night race at the Tulsa Tough was my first ever Pro 1 race. This is a video someone posted on youtube. It's a pretty good representation of what the race felt like.


Saturday and Sunday
 I did the masters 40+ races. I got 6th and 15th. The following weekend was the Oklahoma state criterium championships. The 1/2 race on Saturday went pretty bad. Overheated and got dropped got 12th. Sunday went better. With the help of my team, I got the win in the masters race, plus won a bunch of primes.

I used my prize money from the past 2 weekends for supplies to build a welding table. It should be pretty cool once it's done.  Here's a quick video I made of part 1 of the project:



Sunday, June 1, 2014

Major race block underway

I guess we're pretty much smack dab in the middle of the crit season. So far it's gone ok for me. The team in general is having our best season ever. This weekend is the OKC Pro-Am. I had originally planned on doubling up on Sat. and Sun, but that didn't/is not happening. 2 days down with 1 to go. I've been doing the pro 1/2 races and so far I got 21st on Friday and 19th yesterday. Not really what I was hoping for, but that's how it goes.
I'm planning on having my camera on board today, so that should be fun.

I made a little video with the windows movie maker thing. I plan on doing a few more. Mostly tutorial stuff. Anyway, this is it: