Chris Swan

Well after a long, but very fast moving, off season is done, its time for an even longer, and faster moving, race season to come back.  So far Ive done 2 races this year, Cherry Pie and Sublime.  Skipped Jack Frost this year, it seems to be becoming an every other year sort of race [...]

The end of the season is near for us Oregon bike racers.  California still has a lot of action going through September(why don’t we here in Oregon?  The banana belts should be in September instead of march, way better weather!) but here its cross time.  I guess that’s no surprise, I think it would be [...]

The road season is winding down, and that means one thing-Cross season is coming out to play! That means its time to dust off the cross bike, and get it up and running again.  I got my bike tuned up and working again just in time to go help out at the cross clinic.  I [...]

Theres still time to catch some more great clinics offered on Monday nights.  The focus of the clinic tomorrow, Monday August 17th, will be on pace line and echelons.  Come and learn some new tricks for saving energy, riding smoothly, and safely maneuvering in the group.  Improve your ability to move in the peloton as well as [...]

Well today was crit champs, but the race didn’t happen until after some other good training and racing happened.  First off, there was the Tuesday night crit here in Eugene, then the Team Oregon Mid Summer Crit series crit up in Hillsboro.  And  there was also the crash aftermath from twilight-a large bump at the [...]

Day 5: Gresham, I almost didn’t race.  I was feeling really tired, and a little sore from the crash, but after seeing all my team mates signing up, I decided to get kitted up and race as well, get out a little pent up aggression from friday.  I signed up, watched the finish of Kareys [...]

Stage 4 of the week: After the twilight crit, I did a team time trial in Washington.  It was pretty hard, I was the only guy without a TT bike, and my recovery from the twilight was terrible.  It was an hour of pain and suffering.  I spent the whole time staring at the wheel [...]

Say that five times fast…That about sums up the OBRA TT championships, or perhaps any 40k time trial that is on a flat smooth road.  It was out in the flats of the W valley, right in the middle of the “Grass Seed Capitol of the World”.  I showed up with time to spare since [...]

So for the first time since I’ve been racing NRCs, this is the first season I’ve missed cascade… Didn’t quite sign up in time, BIG oops, and the field, and the waiting list, was full. Im still in Bend, doing some training for elite nationals, which starts next week. So its not all bad that [...]

Last week was Mt hood, and as always, it was a great field and great racing.  It started off with the prologue.  It was short and sweet, but not as short as last years crazy sprint in down town Portland.  This year it was back to the old course in hood river up to panorama [...]