Suhr the Blur

First, I have some cycling wheels for sale. Wheels and Bike Box: Info and Pics Second, I just returned from an amazing trip camping, hiking and exploring the Southwest US. There will be more to come, but here is a taste. Natural Hot Springs

Since I am horrible at updating the blog now, so I think tweets will be the new norm. Twitter: snowbbdd

Well the cycling chapter of my life has most likely come to an end. I have been tempted by other interests in my life and was no longer willing to put in the training time necessary to ride at the level I was accustomed. So after a long summer decompressing from the last six years of training, I am now happily employed as a snowboard instructor at Copper Mountain, CO. Training for ski school has been a great learning experience and I have found joy in teaching students a new sport. I am mostly teaching students between the ages 6-15, with the occasional 3-5 year old and the occasional adult class. Most of the older students can pickup the idea of the sport in a day, and then only require practice, whereas with the smaller kids it is usually just a battle of trial and error and as long as they are having safe fun then the day is a success. However that is not always the view of the parents, and thus we have to explain that the sport requires fine motor control and independent foot...

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Alright time again for another chapter. After returning from Stuttgart, I took a little off season, i.e. three weeks, which was very much needed after the almost 12 month season. There is no doubt that racing as much track and road as I did in that year has seen me grow leaps and bounds. I mean I went into the Gent Six (blog Nov '06) having never raced an international madison. But at the end of Stuttgart, I have raced four international madisons and a half of dozen madisons around the US. So in the past year I have advanced well past the rookie stage, well at least on the track. So after a little time off the bike I was invited back to Trinidad and Tobago to race in the Southern Games. With two weeks to go, I jumped back on the bike. And put in as many miles as I could, a couple of efforts, and then it was off to the races. The Southern Games consisted of two days of racing with 8 total cycling events. The biggest difference about this race is that it was held on a grass t...

I know. I know. I am very OTB (of the back) on this one. I have now been home for almost a week, but I am going to post the scoop now. Better late than never. The trip to Europe for the second leg of my winter six-day season turned out to be a big disappointment. The travel over and the preparation for the race in Stuttgart was perfect. We were all set up to ride at our highest level. The racing started out with a short 25 lap Madison points race. We were in the front of the field scoring points and controlling the race. It came down to the final 2 laps. Ryan was in second position. I was setting up for an exchange with one to go looking back into corner three for Ryan. I heard a crash and when the field came out of corner four there was no Ryan. He was attacking over the guy in first when another rider passed him on the outside and pulled down track before he was past Ryan, chopping Ryan's front wheel out sending him to the ground. Unfortunately, Ryan ended up breaking ...

The last week has been pretty uneventful. Most of the time was spent recovering from the speed "training" we received in Canada. and then running last minute errands for this trip. Now I am trying everything I can think of to try to stay awake until a decent time this evening to go to bed. I arrived in Izegem, Belgium this morning after traveling all yesterday, thus I am trying to force my body onto the new sleep schedule. Luckily, we did not have any problems with our flights or the trains and we arrived smoothly at the USA Cycling house for a short adjusting/training period before we race. We are scheduled to race the U-25 3 day race, which is happening in conjunction with the Stuttgart, Germany Pro Six day race. Our race runs Friday through Sunday. Anyway, this sleep deprived blog is now finished. Hasta manana.