Colorado 2024

To the 3 or 4 people who might happen to come across this, it's been a while. A LONG while since I've written any blog postings, but I've been on a pretty epic journey, and I finally feel like I have a few updates to talk about without being overly emotionally influenced. I've officially been living in and around Denver Colorado for almost 6 years now. 10% of my life. I don't really know where to begin than at the present date I guess. I havent done an actual road race, criterium, Etc. since June of 2018. Anyway, I guess the main point here is that I've registered for my first road race in forever (at least that's how it feels)! Next weekend, April 6, the day after I turn 58, I'm going to be participating in the Boulder Roubaix "rough" road race! I say participating because I have no idea how things are going to go. I went and pre rode the course last weekend. It's a great course! It's been going on since 1992, so there's a bit of history with it. I'm sure lot's of iconic battles have gone down there that I have no idea about. The thing is, here in Colorado, compared to Oklahoma, from what I've found is that for every 1 elite bike racer there, there are 100 here, so I have no idea how things are going to shake out. But, you've gotta start somewhere to find out, right? Anyway, I've known about this event for a few years, but I'm finally excited to give it a go. I'm still riding my old rim brake road bike. I'd planned on getting a new bike at the beginning of the year, but that didn't pan out just yet, so I'm just going to roll with what I've got. I put the widest tires I've got that would fit on the bike, some Challange Paris Roubaix 27mm wide tires that are being borrowed from my old Rossin. There's a chance of rain the day of the race, so just in case, I,ve got my gravel bike set up with some wider gravel tires.

My green Garneau road bike is what I'm planning on riding, but the yellow bike is my back up. I'll definitely post an update with how things go down...