Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I blew up at the Halloween cross race
Enjoy this video I took during a Solitude midweek mountain bike series race.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Fall in corner canyon
the video gets cropped a little when I embed it, here is the link for the perfect version http://www.vholdr.com/node/49366#
Monday, October 19, 2009
2 cross race updates!...and a gas mask?


UTCX race number 3 was held at the Heber County Fair Grounds, yet another horse racing track, and is all about power on the straights. Much to my surprise I had accumulated enough points to get a front row call up which I blew by stupidly lining up on the right side off the beaten path. The start was not good nor was it as bad as last weeks. I managed to move up quickly after the mount Heber run and soon found myself at the front of the first chase group. I thought to myself, "self, what has been your biggest problem in the first two races? Being on the front to long to early. GET OFF THE FRONT!! IDIOT!", so I moved back so I was second or third wheel. The group was full of very fast riders that it is just a treat to race with them after looking up to them for years, unfortunately that endearment didn't transfer into amazing legs. After about the first half when they would accelerate on the power sections I was beginning to drop off the pace and want to throw up. I got dropped but still felt pretty good until 2 laps to go when I blew up. I barley peddled with 2 laps to go but managed to recover for another effort with one to go. At that point I was so cross eyed I could barley ride a straight line so I made a big mistake in one corner then crashed in the next and got passed by 3 riders. I finished 11th. It was a good race, I went the hardest I have ever gone in a cross race and raced pretty darn smart, I was where I needed to be to bad the legs weren't. Now some pictures. the run up "Mt. Heber" every lap hurt
going down the Mt. wasn't as hard, but it was sketchy
This is when I was with the group and had friends going through the barriers.
This is after I got dropped and I had to run the barriers all alone.
I hope you notice I didn't have the tall socks this week, it was much to hot for them. It was much to hot for cross, think I got a little dehydrated. Pray for cold wet weather for every Saturday from now on.
Now for the week ahead planner. This Wednesday go watch the Utah High school cross country running state championships at Sugar House. I'm told to be there at 3:30. Go my friends that run!(I refuse to show school spirit on my blog!)(I like parentheses and exclamation points!) This Saturday you should all come and watch (that's you cross country team ) the cross races in Draper at the equestrian center on 1600 East Highland Dr.(13675 South), Draper, UT at the base of Corner Canyon. There will be races from 9:30am to 2:15pm. I race with the A group at 2:15.(I am taking the ACT again that morning so my racing might be a little off!)
Now the part about gas masks. Have you ever herd of a magical little place called the Army Navy outdoors store? I have, and I read their adds. They were selling surplus Russian military gas masks for only $13. It had the makings of an adventure. I journeyed to that magical land and purchased one just for fun. Then my sister came home and with her imac and photobooth we had some fun playing with it and some basic effects, enjoy.







You don't know what you missed.
Vote in my poll to decide what Halloween costume I will race in at the Halloween cross race at Wheeler Farm, keep in mind I would like to finish well so pick the costume you think would be least intrusive but still awesome.
P.S. I got my skis finally mounted up and tuned, bring on the snow!
P.S.S. The Pray For Snow Party will be a go for this year.
P.S.S.S. ( I really do like parentheses and exclamation points!!!)
I hope that you enjoyed this epic post.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Cross Season is Back!
the new skin suit and matching baseball socks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ZVXma4ahg watch the video of the first race.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Its been a while
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Err.... I guess I was wrong
A quick update in bullet point form with a more compleate update to follow with the Tour of Utah lookback.
- I went to MTB Nationals in Granby Colorado, I finished 11th and was as high as 7th before fading and losing time on the decents.
- I finnished 2nd overall in the 19-29 expert catagorie in the intermountain cup race series. The only I-cup races I did and didn't win I crashed in in. Lesson learned stay on the bike.
- Raced my second road race of the season and did well untill I pulled out of my pedal in the finnal corner.
- Finnished 8th overall in the snowbird hillclimb
- My phone bounced out of my pocket on a ride and was destroyed with all of my friendes numbers. I will get a new phone in the next couple days so I everyone with my number should call or text me so I can get your contact information back.
- Got a sweet helmet cam expect an epic video post.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Summer is finnaly hear, so I can start blogging
This is the only picture size that I could take from zazoosh.com, but the race at 5-mile pass that I won was very muddy. The section in this minuscule photo most people were walking, but thanks to my cross skills I was able to ride it with ease.
This is the river of a dirt road that we had to drive on to get to the East Canyon road race, thankfully it stopped snowing as we rolled off. I finished 2nd in the Cat 4's in a breakaway of 3.
I have smart friends that do things like go to model UN conferences and debate tournaments, one of my friends had to drop out of his partnership for the conference so I was brought in a couple days before the conference to be his replacement. I knew that my attention span would be taxed so I brought along a camera to document the experience. (It should be known that everyone else had been preparing for this conference for the entire year, I had one night of study.)about 10 minuets into the conference my attention span began to wain, pretending to be a member of the Canadian delegation was not enough for my brain so I looked at the program and found arguably the coolest word ever, "Finlandia", which I think is the Finnish national anthem. I should wikipedia it.
Even though I was supposed to be Canadian, when they needed volunteers for the flag ceremony my Swedish heritage came about and I got to carry the flag of my very forefathers. Sweater vests and glasses just look good on me don't they?
At about hour 6 or so we were supposed to be debating ways to be rid of malaria in Africa, my attention span was really shot at this point so I teamed up with the Egyptian delegation which we named the Canada of the Nile and together we drafted this brilliant plan to hire wizards to destroy the disease.
For the actual discussions we went into smaller conference rooms with representatives from every nation. This painting was on the wall right in front of me. After a while I referred to him as Jeremy. It was a long day. Though I let my partner down and we didn't win, I still came out on top scoring a phone number of the girls in the Egyptian delegation.
This picture is from the Sherwood hills race which I won making for my second victory in a row at the I-cup.
I was excited for the race in Draper but I got sick the week before and didn't really recover enough to have a good race. I led the first lap then faded. Because of muddy course conditions the race was delayed for most of the day so I probably did more standing around like this than any actual riding.
We are getting close to getting up to speed with my life I will just show you the video that showed my final project for IB physics that was due the last day of school and counted for most of my grade. I had to make a Rube Goldberg machine and film it.
Now that You have seen how I finished my school year you are caught up with my life.
I now have unlimited texting so I am considering starting a twitter profile so all of you faithful readers can get updates of my amazing life in real time! I will keep you updated on weather or not this actually happens.