..................schmongfonger

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Friday, June 24, 2011

Monitor Pass

Weather looks great for this weekend. Little winds, temps in the 70's-80's.

Love riding this pass

Here's a motorcyclist's video.... a faster look....

On a good weather day I usually ride from Hwy 395/Hwy 89 to the summit marker in the aspens for a break, then ride down the east side to to Hwy 4/Hwy89 and turn around and ride back up and over. The eastside is a bit steeper in the canyon, but the ride is just great. I usually visit friends in Walker after and BBQ & drink some beers. Part of the recovery process.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Alpe d'Huez , Stage 19, 2011 TdF

The climb up Alpe d'Huez is 13.8 km with an average gradient of 8.1% (1130 m) with 21 switchbacks marked with signs honoring each of the Tour de France/Alpe d'Huez stage winners.
The best pure climber of all-time, Marco Pantani, records the fastest ascent to date (36 mins 50 secs).

Monday, June 20, 2011

2011 Nevada City Bicycle Classic

Great racing in an historic venue on a beautiful sunny Father's Day. All of the races were really fun to watch.

"The King of Broad Street"

Ian Boswell killed it!! The 90 minute Pro race selected the strongest from the field and a breakaway group of 6 were off the front with 7 laps. That's when Boswell left the others behind.

Most courageous rider was 10 year old Decker Krogh (bib 501).

He was the youngest kid in the juniors category. His frame was way too big. He struggled every lap but refused to give in to 'the dark side' and quit. He was the darling of the crowd and it appeared that he was feeding off of the crowd's enthusiastic cheering urging him on. Later in the afternoon he was riding on the back of one of the course motorcycles chasing the Pros. This kid won't ever forget this father's Day.

The Master Men 35+ and 45+ 1/2/3 race saw Dan Martin, Safeway 1st; Jason Walker, MarcoPro Strava 2nd;, and Chris Phipps, Iron Data Thirsty Bear Cycling 3rd.
Walker was in a break with Phipps and Martin from lap 5. Martin attacked and was solo with 3 to go. Walker took the downhill sprint.

Most dominate performance was Katerina Nash in the Women Pro 1/2/3 race.

She played with the field then unleashed a brutally hard attack and ended up winning by 39 seconds.

Men Cat 3/4 had a field of 47 riders.
By this time we were cruising up the course and visiting the bars. Our view was through a pint of Guinness. The eventual podium was:
          1st-Tobin Ortenblad, Spokesmen Bicycles
         2nd- Matt Balzer, Team Indoor Power
         3rd- David Mesa, Chica Sexy Beauty Salon

Bottom Line: A really fun event......

"Stick Your ____ Out the Window"

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Puerto Escondido - The Mexican Pipeline

On Location Puerto Escondido from IronFistMedia on Vimeo.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Weiner Text... A Dramatic Reading...

Shamelessly lifted from 'Crooksandliars.com'

Mikaela Shiffrin..... The 'Future' is here

Shiffrin Wins Trofeo Topolino Slalom

U.S. Ski Team members were down at Mammoth Mountain holding racing camps. These kids are pretty BAD ASS. All of 'em were arcing some really fast nice turns. Mikaela Shiffrin, 16 years old, was just killing it. I couldn't 'buy a turn' as good as she was layin down.
"A sophomore at Burke Mountain Academy, Shiffrin, who turned 16 in March, had a remarkable year. She took control of the NorAm standings in December, winning a super combined. She then stood on the NorAm podium three more times over three days and in January won two NorAm slaloms.

At the 2011 Junior World Championships, Shiffrin earned a bronze medal in slalom despite competing with a heavy cold. U.S. Ski Team coaches took notice and offered her a World Cup start in March where she missed qualifying for a second run of slalom by five hundredths of a second.

By mid-month, she had sealed the NorAm slalom title and took third overall. But Shiffrin saved her best for last. At the Putnam Investments U.S. Alpine Championships in Winter Park, CO, she won her first national title, taking the slalom crown ahead of four-time Olympian Sarah Schleper (Vail, CO) and Resi Stiegler (Jackson Hole, WY). At the awards banquet that night, Shiffrin was named Ski Racing Magazine’s Junior of the Year.

"I guess anything is possible," said Shiffrin after the slalom win in Winter Park. "Sarah [Schleper] and Resi [Stiegler] have been so supportive of me, beating them today is a crazy feeling but the better part about it was that they were still supportive of it. This is the best end to a season ever."

A former member of the Ford Sayre program and Lebanon Outing Club, Shiffrin splits her time between East Burke, VT, and Vail, CO. As for her long-term goals, her dad, Jeff Shiffrin, says she “keeps them under wraps.”
http://www.usskiteam.com/alpine/news?storyId=3750