Chris Swan

Well Elite Nationals came came, and it was hot, dry(with a few random rain drops from a thunderstorm that was brewing to the south, but it was still 95 degrees and sunny) and a lot of attrition with not a whole lot of finishers.  I’m guessing that this course, awbrey butte circuit, has the highest [...]

Willamette was canceled due to lack of riders filling up the fields and the promoters were not able to cover the costs as a result unfortunately.  But Karey and I were going to get our racing in one way or another, so we decided to head up to do the Deschuttes River Valley TT festival.  [...]

Man, its been a while since Ive written.   This is due to the workload that the end of the term brought, where it became eat, sleep ride, school do homework…Which really isn’t much different than what I do the rest of the term, but there was less snippets of time to waste.  I have to [...]

So today was cherry pie.  The first race of the year.  I woke up to see bits of clear sky to the west, and it looked like the rain was moving away, so my excitement for the race instantly doubled.  There’s just something about having nice weather for the first race, rainy epic races are [...]

Well here it was, the final stage race of the year.  I was really excited for this one for two reasons.  One, its the first stage race this year that I was going into knowing I had good legs, two, it was in Eugene, so I had all the relaxations and resources one could want, [...]

Well it looks like I havnt posted for a few weeks.  Guess seeing that Im done with the summer term of school, the feeling of not having to do something seeped over into the world of blogging as well.  Training on the other hand, has not deflated in the least.  Did a couple of other [...]

There was a fair bit of hype approaching this race.  Aside from the NRC Hood and cascade races, this is the fastest crit in the neighborhood.  After having a poor base training, working on crits was one of my goals for this year since I knew it would take me longer before I was as [...]

After a day of rest, I decided to do the tuesday night crit…well, kinda, more of I was talked into going by Karey.  I didnt really want to spend the money to go race since Im broke, but finally after some persuasion, I decided to mount my steed and chamois up.  Since I didnt have [...]

I haven’t done this race for a little while, the last time I did it was when I was a cat 4 in my first year of racing.  The packing job to get here was an adventure all of its own.  To cram 4 bike racers and all the required gear for a stage race [...]

Comotion crit, Heres my summery of the event Too small of a field to be fun, I was marked and could not do anything because of it, as flattering as it is to be marked, it was lame.  At one point I almost quite with frustration to do intervals or hill repeats on my own, [...]