Chris Swan

Well the end of August is in our midsts.  The season is starting to wind down, and so are my legs apparently.  I tell them what to do, but theyve been talking back a lot more than they usually do, despite my disciplinary measures.  Weekend before last was Dunnigan hills RR, which for me lasted [...]

Patterson Pass was a course that threw everything at you except for really bad pavement. The climbs were challenging, and the wind handed out a whole new element. I swapt my casset to an 11-23 thinking it would be a good idea for the tail wind before the race, and it was, since i was [...]

Sunday was Tympani criterium, forever known as the bush of doom crit to me since the first year I raced.  Got bumped in a corner=brushed a bush that is against the corner=my bars then got caught in the branches=preceded to crash and get run over.  We(the Lombardi guys) kept working to get a break going, but nothing lasted more [...]

Since Im not a masters rider yet (got a good number of years before then, but I hear they go by fast) there was no racing for me last week, so it was a good time to train hard.  Racked up some big miles and had a trip to Santa Cruz topping it all off with 8 hrs in [...]