Monthly Archives: January 2005
Joined a team
I recently joined a cycling team to race with this year. The name of the team is S.E.A.R. (South East Area Riders – or Racers, haven’t quite figured that out yet). Anyway, the size of the club is approaching 100 members so it is quite strong and well established. It dwarfs any other organization I’ve trained and raced with. They’ve had as many as 60 people show up for a group ride – in the winter. Granted, it was a nice day…
Within the group, there’s around 20 CAT4 racers, and another 30 that are in the CAT4/35+ classification. Then we have a sprinkling of CAT3 and master’s racers, as well as some women’s 3’s and 4’s. If numbers mean anything, we should definitely be a factor in the races this year.
Our title sponsor is D.R. Horton (specifically the Continental Series) – they build very nice homes in Colorado.
Sadly, new homes for team members wasn’t on offer this year. Maybe when one of us beats Lance in the Tour… Kidding aside, it’s cool to have such a big name backing our team and seeing their commercials on TV. Hopefully, we can get them good exposure and results in the races.
First Post
I wanted to try blogging as a way of keeping track of my riding/racing and life experiences this year. Training has been going very well. I’m leaner than ever, and ready to rock!
Our team did a New Year’s ride today (annual tradition) that included climbing Lookout Mountain. My time to the top was 25:00, not too bad considering it’s Jan 1. I’ll be looking to trim a few minutes in the coming months, though. The ride ended up being 60 miles and was a great way to spend the day.
The theme of my blog is ‘the scene begins’. If you read the quote at the top of the page, you’ll see that it’s from a song by The Josh Joplin Group. It’s a good tune about basically being the star in your own movie – life. I thought that was appropriate for the approach I wanted to take.
Action!
The Scene Begins 