Suhr the Blur

I know it is a bit much for one post but trying to update the blog when it was in Spanish was a nightmare. Enjoy. Links to pictures are at the end. After getting an invite three days before the event, we frantically worked with the promoter to get our team to Aguascalientes, Mexico by Monday. My coach Mark Tyson and I tried to find another competitive partner for me since my usual partner, Ryan Luttrell was out with an injury. We came up with, Jackie Simes IV, who rode with Taylor Brown in Ghent, Belgium last November when we raced the U25 Six. Jackie is a young rider with racing in his blood, who we knew would be up to racing competitively at the Six. So with a partner and confirmed tickets, I was set to go try my hand at my first elite six-day race. Before I left I did some quick research on what to expect based on past results. I came up with results on last years race. And saw that there were a few well know European six-day riders who attended. Thus my expectations were se...

Well just a day after my last blog my world got turned upside down. I had just finished my last VO2 intervals workout of my five week training block, extended to seven weeks since I came down with that cold for two. (VO2 intervals are the hardest intervals you can do on a bike for an extended amount of time, i.e. over 30 seconds. My last workout consisted of 8 intervals of five minutes each.) So I was happy that I had made it over some of the toughest training there is each year, and was planning how I was going to tackle the two races this weekend. But my plans were suddenly broad-sided by a call from my coach with the news that we got a last minute invite to a Six-Day race in Aguascalientes, Mexico that starts on Monday, and how he was going to try to find me someone to ride with, since my usual partner, Ryan Luttrell, is laid up with an IT Band issue. Anyway, we worked all evening and ended up calling up Jackie Simes out of Trexlertown, PA, who had ridden the Gent Six with us....

Sorry to keep you all hanging. Over the last three weeks we have had some excitement in Boulder, though not in racing. I ended up coming down with a good chest cold that sacked my energy and took a good two weeks to subside, thus making life a bit of a drag and racing useless. I was also at the peak of an intense training block, which lead to me taking some good R&R. In the meantime keeping things interesting, my roommate broke two vertebrate in his back while skiing, and thus is forced to do just about nothing for 6 to 12 weeks. I hope for his speedy recovery. As for me I am looking forward to intense training on the track coming in May. And I can't wait! Although, I did get a taste of the track last weekend. We ended up training on it both days and I ended up doing some sprint training in our final session. This was a completely new experience. The workout was to do accelerating motor 500m. This entails sitting on the back of the motorcycle in the draft high on the...