8/30/14-9/1/14 – Steamboat Springs Stage Race

The 3^rd year in a row for this great race up in Steamboat Springs.  I was racing domestique for a few of the CAT 3 guys this season.  The race is a time trial the first day, a 80 mile road race the 2^nd, and a crit the last day.  The TT went well I place fairly good in the CAT3 35+ group, we had a nice team bar-b-q after as well.  The family was there as well to explore steamboat, go to the hot springs and bike around town.  We had a nice house rented with a few groups of folks doing the stage race as well as an all female xterra race.  There were 4 dogs which made it great fun for the kids at the house.  Sunday was the road race and I was in charge of keeping any groups in check off the front.  Once one did go I headed up with them and did not work, but stayed away through 50 miles and to the last major climb.  I fell off on the climb and was caught by others and tried to ride the way down but lost him too.  Pushed through the finish hard and kept a decent placing.  The crit the next day went very well and we got some of our riders in the top 5.  Overall the job was done, and raced with a lot of future teammates for next season.

8/24/2014 – Xterra Buffalo Creek

This was my first Xterra race last year and the course was so much fun I decided to come back.  This year the lake actually had water in it, last year it was drained very low due to farm irrigation.  I was first out of the water by quite a bit in this race, but as usual I was passed early in the bike and it kept coming the whole course.  I think I had a decent bike for me but was nothing for the fast MTB guys.  The run I was only passed by one guy and I ran with him much of the race.  I ended up in 13^th I think a little further back than last year.