Chris Swan

Over the last weekend, there weren’t any road races in Oregon, well there was a cross race, but my cross bike isnt built up right now anyways, so that was a little out of the realms of really being possible.  It was good though, because I had a great week of training last week, with [...]

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 [...]

After sleeping in and watching the Olympics all day, getting up and going to race wasn’t something my body seemed to be expecting.  I felt a little lethargic loading my bike on the bike rack and heading over to the course.  We got there with about 30 minutes before Karey raced, not a whole lot [...]

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 [...]