Chris Swan

It seemed like a nice day for a bike race.  A nice sunny day on the east bay, with a nice breeze coming off the golden gate full of fresh cool pacific air to make it a nice temperature.  Arriving at the line, it looked like the ingredients for some action packed criterium racing.  Not any one teams [...]

After my behind-the-pack break away action Saturday, my legs were pretty toasted to start the final stage.  When ever the course kicked up hill, it felt really hard…I actually wondered if i was getting a flat, or if my brake was rubbing when we hit the first short hill on the course, but all my [...]

Stage 3, Skyliner TT, a slightly uphill out with a fast return coming back made for some high speed action.  The road was also a little bumpy, which led to the falling apart of my right shifter.  Not the best situation, but I only needed my smallest cog coming back, so it wasn’t a big [...]

Stage 1 started out pretty fast with a lot of attacks and it wasn’t long before a break was established.  From that point not too much happened, there were a few attacks and attempts made at bridging up, but the pack was pretty much set on cruise control.  I didn’t really stay on top of [...]

This week was a good week of solid training.  No record breaking mileage, or epic rides, but quality workouts.  To top off the week of training, I hit up the Salem Fairview circuit race.  The course was was a great circuit with an gradual hill to go over and a flat finishing straight.  There was [...]

After being at a race every weekend since February, and about 41 times clipping in at the line, its about time for a weekend off.  My intense recovery week training included a session at the local skate park, with a few odd looks from the BMX’ers and skaters(not every day you see a fully decked [...]