I was able to have both boys in bed by 7:45 pm tonight, its a good thing because I’ve been packing like a girl for cycling camp the last 2 hours.

Recently I joined the Velo One Bike Club out of Fort Collins, CO. We leave tomorrow morning for camp and climb 44 miles from Loveland, CO to Estes Park, CO where we stay in a YMCA (70 riders). I think Estes is at 7,500 ft. I’ve never done a climb like this before, I’m guessing its a 3 – 4 hour ride. Saturday is a 62 – 100 mile option and I plan on trying for my first century (100 mile ride) and Sunday is a 62 mile ride home.

My expectations for myself are as follows:
- I’ll probably get dropped from every pack I join.
- Not pace well on the long long rides.
- Sunburned.
- Blow up way sooner than I think I will.
- Have a lot of fun.
- Meet some new people.
- Push myself to complete my first 100 mile ride.
- Be way skinner and more fit that Greg Sellers at the end of the weekend.

I’m all set with Motor Tabs and Fluid to keep me moving and recovering well.

Julie has loaned me her Flip camera so I’ll have some fun video of the weekend. I’ll be updating my suffering via Twitter (www.twitter.com/outsideallday).

Wish me luck!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

For immediate release
April 23, 2009
By Nathanael Ksiazkiewicz

info@FCCyclingFest.com
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Twitter http://tr.im/fccftw
Facebook http://tr.im/fccffb

FORT COLLINS, CO – April 23, 2009 – Fort Collins Cycling Festival is excited to be hosting Echelon on May 6th & 7th which is leading up to Collegiate Road National Championships! This is the first ever collegiate cycling leadership conference and it will cover a broad range of topics in order to equip coaches, team captains and managers to effectively operate collegiate cycling teams.

Echelon is a multi-day conference that attendees benefit from in many ways. They include the opportunity to hear from a wide range of experts flying in from around the nation. A complete list of speakers will be released in the next few days. They will also have the opportunity to connect with other leaders in the world of collegiate cycling including team captains, team coaches, USA Cycling staff and team managers. The information provided will help attendees grow their teams or coaching business. Plus, all USA Cycling Coaches are offered a special registration rate and will earn continuing Education Credits. Because much of the information presented is applicable with triathlon teams, USA Triathlon also offering CEU credits and a special registration rate (1.5 USAC CEU’s and 3.5 USAT CEU’s). Topics at Echelon range from how to maintain sponsorship to harnessing the power of social media to putting on a bike race to aerodynamics and the wind tunnel to coaching the Female Athlete: Lessons, Lies and Planning Success. Conference attendees will be encouraged to use Twitter throughout the conference so that those who can’t attend are able to follow the discussions. Echelon along with Collegiate National Championships are using the hashtag “#fccf” and people are encouraged to follow the Tweets about Echelon here http://tr.im/twfccf

Background: Started in 2008, Fort Collins Cycling Festival is promoting five cycling event weekends in 2009 that include four road races, six mountain bike races, three bike tours & three cycling related events. These events will draw over 2,500 racers from over 40 states and five countries with over 10,000 spectators. For the past two years FCCF has, in collaboration with Rams Cycling, hosted Collegiate National Road Championships. Many of the FCCF promoted events benefit local community organizations such as Child Safe and CSU’s GSSE Program. All FCCF events minimize waste due to a partnership with Zero Hero. FCCF embraces the power of social media with Facebook Pages for each event weekend and Facebook Events for each individual event. Our Twitter account is regularly updated and tweets use the hashtag #fccf.

Learn more: Facebook http://tr.im/Echelon09 | Twitter http://tr.im/fccftw | FCCyclingFest.com

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Danny MacAskill is a freak!

I am inspired so this is how I am going to start training for Cyclocross season… I am convinced this kid is one of the X-Men!

Inspired. Danny MacAskill from dave on Vimeo.

-DSheek
cross bike 360 down a ten stair

Felipe is the best triathlon coach in the industry. I believe anything and everything he says in regards to health, training and nutrition. This is a great article.

Benefits of Core Stability Training
By Felipe Louriero

For athletes, the realization of this benefit is small at first. They are questioning why they have to do Core Stability training at all. But if they stick with it, they notice that doing an everyday activity starts to become a little easier. That sack of groceries can be grabbed with one hand. Climbing the stairs takes less effort. Sports skills become a little crisper and smoother. The connection isn’t there yet but it starts to make them wonder what’s going on.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

More info on Felipe and Breakaway Training.

Felipe Loureiro is a USA Triathlon Certified Coach and a NCSF Professional Trainer.

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Photo Courtesy of Kirby Lee
By Dave Ungrady / Universal Sports
Ryan Hall, the top U.S. male marathoner, is still a relative novice in the event, as evidenced by recollections of his first experience at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

“This was the most painful marathon I have run yet,” he wrote Wednesday in an e-mail. “It hurt bad. It was tough because I had a guy sitting on me for the last seven miles so I had to stay positive and not give in to the temptation to just settle for where I was. By the last mile I was just telling myself to drive forward with everything I had.”

Hall held off Tekeste Kebede of Ethiopia for third place, finishing in 2:09:40, nine seconds ahead of Kebede, but more than three minutes off his personal best.

Hall walked away wearily from Boston, but he feels he ran a good race considering the conditions. The result helped Hall recover from a disappointing 10th place finish in 2:12.33 at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he was the favored American but ended one place behind teammate Dathan Ritzenhein.

“I was very happy with the [Boston] race,” wrote Hall, who has completed five marathons since his April 2007 debut at the London Marathon. “Coming off the Olympics I needed this to remember what the marathon feels like and to get some confidence back. I am already really excited for the fall. I am going to run harder and smarter and take another swing. I will win a major marathon, it is just a matter of when.”

Hall’s coach Terrence Mahon echoed his runner’s post-race assessment.

“I think he ran a great run,” Mahon said by phone Monday. “To expect that he will come and win right off the bat is not impossible, but that’s not the only scenario for a great run.”

Hall created visions of victory early in the race when he floated down the opening declines in a brisk 4:38 first mile and a 14:33 5K. His moved defied traditional Boston Marathon tactics of easing into the race in the opening few miles.

“I just wanted to make it a true marathon race,” he wrote. “I wanted to run my own effort and be the one dictating the race early on. I think I might have been a little too aggressive considering the wind but having never raced the course made it difficult to know how to run the first half.”

Click here for the remainder of the story from Dave Ungrady at Universal Sports.

Many thanks to our boy Fitz Cahall over at the Dirtbag Diaries:

Rangi Smart was riding a small spur of his favorite single-track trail when he stumbled upon a perfectly designed mountain bike jump. A platform of two by fours and plywood launched a rider outward and 20-feet down the steep hillside. It was the kind of thing Rangi had only seen pro riders stomp on mountain bike videos.

The 33-year-old math teacher thought to himself, “What kind of nut-job rides off something like that?”

Then Rangi imagined that he was that nut-job.

We can bide our time, wait patiently for our chance to shine, but more often than not, the moment chooses us. It’s our job to answer. Here’s to another year of big ideas, another year of slaying giants, bearing down, not giving up, chasing daylight, paddling in and fostering change. We bring you the hopes, dreams and goals of professional athletes, regular joes, parents, soldiers and students. Here’s to the dirtbags. Here’s to Mr. Smart.

Visit the Dirtbag Diaries to hear the story.

April 24th thru 26th

Anaheim Hills Store
Parking Lot Sale

Everything 2008 and earlier must go!

’08 LOOK 595 frameset MSRP $4,000 – NOW $2,499
’07 SJ Marathon Carbon HT MSRP $3,800 – NOW $1,999
’08 Roubaix MSRP $1,600 – NOW $899
’08 Expedition Elite MSRP $470 – NOW $299

Special In-Store Deals During Event!

50% OFF Blackburn & Niterider Cycling Computers
All 08 Apparel and Shoes 30-60% OFF!
Kids and Youth Helmets 50% OFF!

5701 Santa Ana Canyon Road
www.rocknroadcyclery.net
714.998.2453

I know of some of the product that will be out this weekend and the sale is going to be amazing!

-DSheek
Someone give me a loan, I want a new Look road bike!

EC has been busy lately producing some 80′s Rock!
Rumor is he shaped the board in the pants from this video too…

His Example:
EVH Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein Replica guitar Solid-Body

EC’s Replica:

Check out what else he is capable of at the EC site, www.ecsurfboards.com, or just go their to learn the business number so you can call EC to sing your favorite 80′s Monster Ballad into his voice mail with your next order.

-DSheek
“Hot for teacher!”

About Team Sho-Air
Sho-Air Blog
Rock N Road Cyclery

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NAME: Allison Mann

AGE: 28

HEIGHT: 5?8

HOMETOWN: Murrieta, CA

YEARS RIDING: 3.5 years

YEARS PRO: Almost one month! No, seriously.

HOURS SPENT TRAINING PER WEEK: 8-10 hours on the bike, 1-2 hours off the bike

TYPICAL TRAINING DAY: Breakfast, full-time job, usually an hour or so interval session at lunch, back to work, home around 6 for dinner, core/yoga, and in bed before 10. Not very glamorous, I know!

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Click here to read the rest of the interview with Allison.

I love this type of stuff, she’s has a full time job and yet manages to be a professional mountain biker. Good for her!

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Boston Marathon
April 20, 2009

I love that he motor paces with a mountain bike. I hope he wins.

Runners World has an entire website set for the race with tons of video and interviews:
http://www.runnersworld.com/cda/microsite/0,8032,s6-239-506-0-0,00.html

More info on Ryan at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Hall_(runner)

Andy B
outsideallday.com

GOOD BUZZ: No more coffee guilt
By Liz Applegate Ph.D.
From the May 2009 issue of Runner’s World

In a study done last year, researchers gave cyclists an energy bar with or without caffeine (equal to one cup of coffee) before and during a long, hard ride. They found that cyclists who have caffeine ride farther and think faster on cognitive tests than the no-caffeine group—useful news to runners in endurance events and adventure races, where quick decision-making is key.

Click here to read the rest of this article.

I wonder if diet Pepsi and chocolate brownies have the same positive benefits?

Andy B
outsideallday.com

Criterium Racing Rocks the Sea Otter Classic
By Bryan Sheasby

Yesterday marked the first day of the Sea Otter Classic at Laguna Seca race track in Monterey California. This is an event that combines all that cycling has to offer in one giant 4-day event. Today’s racing was limited to Criterium racing which is a new addition for the event this year. If you have never seen a Criterium race then you are missing out. These type of races feature a short course that usually involves some amount of tight technical turns and some wide open stretches. The course here utilized the back stretch of the race track in reverse, then it u-turned and went into the pits for the start/finish line. Criteriums run for a set amount of time instead of a set amount of laps.

Click here to read the rest of the story and to see over a dozen great pictures.

HT my buddies at AmateurEndurance.com. Word on the street is that Gregory Sellers is making the rounds evangelizing Motor Tabs.

Andy B
outsideallday.com

My friend Chris Howley (stud endurance skater) sent me the info on this event. It’s a great cause, get involved and make a small donation.

ROLLIN’ FOR NATHAN – Making Strides Against PKU
April 25, 2009
More info: http://active.com/donate/rollinfornathan

A small group of Inline Skaters from Fort Collins and Loveland will endeavor to skate 100 continuous miles on inline skates on the recreation trails in and around Fort Collins to raise funds for PKU (phenylketonuria). Imagine a life without being able to eat meat, fish, poultry, milk, eggs, cheese, ice cream, legumes, nuts, or many products containing regular flour. Just imagine, you can’t have a slice of pizza. For young Nathan Kiely, this isn’t something he can’t imagine, it’s his reality. Nathan has PKU.

Andy B
outsideallday.com