Keefer Madness

My First Ace Race

// July 8th, 2008 // No Comments » // Cycling, Personal Crap

Select Tuesday nights, a 0.5 km oval racetrack 8 miles north of Burlington, North Carolina gets overtaken by cyclists hammering in USCF races. This was my first foray into racing at Ace Speedway and first in general racing on an oval.

Amanda thought the all out endurance-based profile of the race would be well suited. I wasn’t so sure. My category “C” race started at 6:15. Well, it was scheduled to start at 6:15. I think it ended up like 6:30 or later till we were actually lined up at the start line. Our race consisted of 9 racers, including myself and another teammate, who was also out on the oval for the first time as well.

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Shooting a Twilight Criterium

// May 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Cycling, Photography

Man, this is a great post I just happened to stumble upon just now regarding photographing cycling/cyclists – a twilight criterium to be exact. Seems like a good post for Amanda and I to read, reread and bookmark!

Shooting a Twilight Criterium

Wolfpack Classic Criterium – Fast and.. Fast!

// February 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // Cycling, Personal Crap

So my first race of the season is in the books. I felt good going into it, riding all fall and winter on a combination of my trainer bike and a spinning bike at the gym, plus taking two spinning classes weekly for some interval training.

I’m down ten pounds from last season, and working on dropping more. I’m hovering right around 190 now and hope to eventually hit 175. That should be just about right for my power to weight ratio.

Anyway, onto the actual races. My teammate Adam, who moved up to category 4 raced first. The race was a combination of Cat 3 and Cat 4. He stayed with the lead pack and close to the front the entire 40 minute race, ending up with the best race of his career so far. Adam placed 9th in a race that included a bunch of riders an entire category higher than him, and a few big teams. He was the only Cat 4 Trike there, so he did exceptionally well considering all of those obstacles. Congrats!

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Checklist for Racing in Your Crit

// February 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // Cycling

So with me just hours away from leaving for my first criterium of the season, I wanted to post my standard checklist of things I bring, as much for myself as for anyone else out there, but figured some other newbs to the crit scene.