I've been doing a lot of racing recently, and in combination with my class-load have fallen a little behind on posting race reports here, but that should be changing shortly. Recently I completed the challenging Capital Stage Race down in Olympia, finishing as the highest placed rider on the Bikesale.com team (however there were only 3 of us). I also just this past weekend raced the always exciting Ballard Criterium. This race was blisteringly fast as usual, but rather than being spit out the back as I was in 2013 (only lasted about 20min of the 70min race), this year I was hard charging until the end. My Garmin reported that we were running 26.6mph average for those 70 minutes - definitely a challenging effort!
While I didn't have any notable finishes in any of these races, I do feel like my form is coming along well, and we do have the whole summer of racing ahead - that just means it is time for some strong finishes!
Well, back to the main purpose of this post - I have just sorted out my 2014 racing machine. After a lot of research and working with a few builders and companies, I have found the perfect bike for what I was after. The next step involved a lot of back-and-forth with their team, making sure things would work out and getting the bike set-up perfectly. While I am not racing officially under their banner this season, I am acting as a representative of their products, and if things go well that could possibly change in the future.
I am going to keep things a little secretive until I have the bike dialed in, so stay tuned, but here are some teasers to get you as excited as I am...
