A few days removed from racing the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo, near Tucson, AZ, and I’m still coughing up bits of desert… that’s the dirt and sand variety, not the peanut butter/ chocolate cookie/ vanilla ice cream ‘dessert’ I’d so enjoyed the night before the race at Pizzeria Uno. All in all, it was a huge success… epic 2,000 mile road (round) trip, fun times with mostly new friends, incredible new Spot Brand Bikes, a pro pit area w/ heated trailer, and 12+ hours each of single-track mt. biking in a semi-competitive spirit.
Having participated in past 24 hour events as a solo, as well as on 3, 4, and 5-person relay teams, I was excited to partner with Spot Bikes CEO Nick Howe on a two-man team when he mentioned the idea a few months back.Both he and I would be looking to use the event as a training “carrot” this winter, as well as a springboard toward greater fitness later on this season.Nick is preparing for Ironman Wisconsin in September as a part of Team F4 IM MOO, FastForward’s inaugural Ironman training program, and I’ll be enjoying a variety of running, cycling, and multi sport races before (and hopefully after) becoming a dad sometime this July!
Assisting us as 1-man support crew and road-trip buddy, was none other than 2007 World 24-Hour Solo silver medalist, Kelly Magelky.Thanks Kelly for your consistent positive energy, sense of humor, pro-level advice, and little-known surgical skills!I’m excited to cheer you on this season, and hope to get a chance to do some actual riding together!
After a restful night in Las Cruces, NM last Thursday evening, we dressed in shorts and sandals, topped off at the nearby Starbuck’s and loaded back into the F4 truck for the 4-hour drive to sunny, warm Tucson.Unfortunately, as we arrived at the race venue later that afternoon we were met with an evil combination of driving rain and some sort of frozen, desert sleet/ snow. This combination pretty much annihilated the 10-mile dirt road from the highway to the race site, and it was all the F4 truck could handle to get us there safely.We’d hoped to enjoy a few hours of setting up our pit area, taking a lap of the course with the rest of the Spot crew, and picking up our race packets before heading back to town to spend the night at a hotel.Instead, we did none of the above, said a few hellos and scurried off to get warm and dry.Eventually the others did the same and met up with us for an enjoyable pre-race dinner at Uno’s.
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