Yeah yeah yeah. I’m due for an update. Today was a pretty busy day- taking care of paperwork and all.
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Congrats to Sarah McCarthy, Poplollies who won the overall for the Norman Babcock Cat 4 Women’s Series by winning the Eugene Celebration! Congrats to her! Also a big congratulations to [...]

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So first off- big congrats to Carl Decker for kickin’ some butt down at SSWC (Single Speed World Championships - MTB). Now… what people may not know is that Bend’s own Amy Mitchell and Henry Abel won the tandem category at SSWC. As far as we understand, all the winners receive tattoos. [...]

Well… hopefully we’ll get to see Carl’s new tattoo in the near future.
Candi mentioned that the Kermesse went well and sounds like the TT went pretty well too.
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Tyler finally posts the results of the year long test of the Walmart Varsity.
Race.cx is back up and running!
Brad Ross was spotted riding MTB on McKenzie yesterday. [...]

What a busy week I tell ya. Fortunately, today is a little better- and I can get around to putting in updates.

Best Picture EVAR. From Colin Lyons via Sam
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Congrats to Kendra Wenzel for being elected to the USCF Board of Trustees!! This is good news.
Calendar
The 2009 OBRA Calendar is coming together quite [...]

So I’m looking at the video footage of the Portland Twilight Crtierium. Good stuff…. the only problem? I had it set to “small”. Thus, when I post it, the video will be like 320 px wide. Ooooops. Oh well. You’ll get the idea. I’ll hopefully have it done [...]

Oh my.
Today: 89 F
Tomorrow: 98 F
Friday: 101 F
Saturday: 96
HOTHOTHOTHOTHOTHOT!
Geekdom
Erik Aleskus sent along a link to the bike gear calculator for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

It features:

Gear Ratio calculator
Gain Ratio calculator
Gear-inch calculator
Development (Rollout) calculator
For fixed-gear addicts, patch analysis lets you visualize skid patches
Gear equivalency tool lets you find equivalent or closest-match gear ratios
Speed calculator taking into [...]

What a great weekend of racing. It started with the Portland Twilight on Friday, the Sunset Crit and Callahan’s Challenge TT on Saturday and the OBRA TT on Sunday.
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Evan Elken will be out in Downer’s Grove this weekend while Omer Kem will be battling it out in the Tour of Utah. [...]

Alright… I have a little time to write a little.
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Dan Porter’s wife was hit by a car while commuting last night in PDX. Fortunately she wasn’t hurt other than a few scratches and scrapes. Please be careful out there!
CXMagazine writes about the growing popularity of CCX.
Quickrelease.TV posts an article about the Best (and [...]

So I’m now back from Bend- which kinda sucks as I love it out there. I’ll post a little more of a wrap-up later but I figured I should give a little update first. Before I do, I have to mention that 27 Cat 4 women came out for the High Desert Omnium [...]

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Grant Boswell reports:
Ian did a smoking fast TT at Abitibi in Quebec for 3rd on the day against a 160 rider international field and ended up 4th overall GC at the end. Looks like the CMG juniors are all heading down to Orange county for junior natz right after HD and then Jake going [...]