Tentative Racing Schedule: 2011

1/29 - Poor College Kids' Road Race - definite
1/30 - Palos Verdes Hill Climb Time Trial - definite
2/24 -2/26 Callville Bay Stage Race - definite
3/11 - 3/13 Murrieta Stage Race - maybe
3/19 - 3/20 Tour del Sol - St. George, UT definite
3/25- 3/27 San Dimas Stage Race - maybe
4/8 - 4/10 SD Omnium - definite cancelled!
4/16  Superior Road Race - definite
4/23  Devil's Punch Bowl - likely as a Cat 4
4/30  San Luis Rey RR - maybe
5/14 - 5/15 Death Valley Road Stage Race - definite
6/4  SCNCA Road Championships - definite
6/18 - 6/19 Mount Whitney Stage Race - definite
July - open ...Capitol Reef Classic Stage Race?  maybe others in AZ and UT, 
including UT State Road Championships
8/21 - AZ state road championships, held on Hillside RR course - definite
8/27 - Sanpete Classic RR, UT - maybe
9/24 - 9/25 Everest Challenge Stage Race - definite


This Friday I drive up to St. George, Utah for two days of training camp with my new team, and some of the questions will be ironed out.  The possibility exists that there may be several other races tucked into that calendar that I haven't considered yet and meeting with the team will answer that question.


Three days of warm temperatures and hot riding!  Saturday saw a fifty mile group ride over the Loop.  I turned in my best time since October.  Sunday saw us riding from the Henderson SBX out to Callville Bay in the Lake Mead area. Daniel and I broke away on a hill and stayed away until the turnaround, where we would have sat up and waited anyway. Total miles were a hair under 60.  Monday was outstanding.  The temperatures climbed to nearly 70 and I peeled my knee warmers off and rode in shorts!  The ride itself was a repeat of Saturday's ride.  Surprisingly enough, my time up the climb was identical to Saturday's, but much of the rest of the ride the tempo stayed fast with frequent attacks on the rolling climbs back to town.  All told it was 160 miles of hard riding over three days.  We used to call this Stage Race Training back in the day.  Ride long and hard over several days, then back off and recover and there would be a training bounce several days later.  After Monday I'm feeling my form coming back from winter hibernation.  The two races over the last weekend of this month should be fun.