The Sonic Boom Racing team was founded on a simple philosophy, team over the individual. Its no surprise that the team trial event works to our team’s strengths, and the 2012 Haystack Team Time Trial was no exception. This year’s weather did something very unexpected. There was no rain, little wind, and sunny skies to [...]
This is the time of the Cobbled Classics, so what better way to kick off the race season than with the Front Range’s own version, Boulder-Roubaix? One 18.7-mile lap consisted of 60% dirt/40% paved roads; the 35+ Open race would complete 3 laps. The profile isn’t too challenging. What makes the race difficult is the [...]
This eight corner one mile criterium was my last race of the 2011 season. This year has been much different and I’ve been racing primarily in the 45+ ranks and enjoying bringing along my wife Pam and son Ben to many of the races. The week before at Saul Raisin I was fortunate enough to [...]
Time Trial: I didn’t a good warm up because my brother and I were driving around lost trying to find the start. I was first to start after the Cat 3’s because of reverse alphabetical order, and I really had no idea what the course was besides 8 miles out and back that it went [...]
Who says people from Connecticut can’t ride bikes up hills? Tom Danielson can; he holds the record for the Bob Cook Memorial/Mount Evans Hillclimb. Chris Case can; four years ago, as a Cat. 3, he won the hillclimb, and this year, as a Cat. 2, he almost did it again… Shockingly low attendance (roughly 30 [...]
Q. You just raced the Morgul Bismark course recently. When was the last time you raced on that course? A. 28 years ago in 1983. It was stage 10 of the Red Zinger Mini Classic. The race was 11 stages, 10 days and covered about 400+ miles of racing. I don’t think there are NRC [...]