Monthly Archives: June 2016

Rushing Around

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I’m in sort of a rush this morning, so I have to be short and scattered.  I’m driving down to the Kansas City airport this morning and doing an interview to get approved for a Global Entry TSA pre check thing.  I filled out the outline application and now have to go get photographed and fingerprinted.  This is the first time that I’ve been fingerprinted, so I guess I can forget my future life of crime.  After this I will officially be a “trusted traveller”.

The Dirty Kanza 200 yesterday seems to have turned out brutal.  Wet roads, wind, then heat. Ted King won the event by 40 minutes, but at nearly 12 hours.  Shit.  My team mate Brian Jensen, quit the race, while he was in 2nd.  He was feeling like heat exhaustion was setting in. One year it isn’t hot in Kansas until June, so there was no way to train for it.  I think my brother was out there for nearly 20 hours on a tandem.  I haven’t talked to him, but I’d bet the mechanicals were over a dozen.

After the TSA meeting, I’m driving to the Arts District in Kansas City and doing a criterium.  I raced yesterday, a circuit race at Cliff Drive.  I sucked.  It was a good turnout, something around 60 guys, which is great.  It was a field sprint, up a long hill.  I was somewhere between 10-15 I’d guess.

After the crit, I’m driving home, loading the van up and driving to Breckenridge Colorado.  My friend Stacie, from Louisville, has rented a house and is already out there.  Vincent is there too, but he is racing a MTB in Eagle today, so I don’t know where he is going to be tonight.  I’m not sure if anyone is going with me or not.  Bill was doing support at DK and probably was out there until 3 or 4 am.

Trudi is in France doing the Dauphiné.  It is live this morning here.   Okay, I need to get going.

Keith, Eric and Roger at the finish of 200 miles of gravel. They rode together and all finished in the top 50 in a little over 14 hours. Pretty great considering a World Tour rider only beat them by a little over 2 hours.

Keith, Eric and Roger at the finish of 200 miles of gravel. They rode together and all finished in the top 50 in a little over 14 hours. Pretty great considering a World Tour rider only beat them by a little over 2 hours.

The women's start at the Tour of KC. The house around the area are magnificent.

The women’s start at the Tour of KC. The houses around the area are magnificent.

Tucker isn't sure whether he gets to go this morning.

Tucker isn’t sure whether he gets to go this morning.

 

 

 

Waking up in Breckenridge

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I bit the bullet and drove home after the criterium and started driving West.  It was a little ugly around 2 am CST.  Driving up through Eisenhower tunnel, then down to Silverthorne, I got a little blurry eyed.  But it was worth it to wake up not having the drive ahead of me today.

Stacie has a rental house up above Breckenridge.  Vincent and Lisa are already here and Keith and Catherine are driving out today.  It has been a little chaos this morning already.

Stacie already rode over to Copper Mountain.  I’ll do a post on the weeknd later.    I’m looking to get some breakfast.

View from where I'd writing this.

View from where I’m writing this.

Tucker was pretty beat from hanging at the races the last two days. He found some pretty strange sleeping positions on the way out.

Tucker was pretty beat from hanging at the races the last two days. He found some pretty strange sleeping positions on the way out.