I forgot about that climb in Zwittler! Oh crap!

Does anyone have a 27 I can borrow?

Radar showing rain out there right now at this early AM. Maybe we'll get one of those - It's pouring on one end of the course, but hot and sunny on the other, just to bake in that mud. :p

Shock and awe. Not too many smiles up on the mound this afternoon. 8800 ft of climbing in the humid sun? :cry: Pretty much, if you finished, you placed in the money.

Photos going up now.

(coming to you from right up the street from the Hooterville Inn which seems to be the place to eat for ToAD staff judging by the support cars parked here!)

It's insane, isn't it?

Driving the route for shooting pictures it was just like you see in the Tour ... the riders spend so much time on each climb, you just drive from group to group. Who's in this one? Okay, who's in this one? All on the same climb! Pix almost up, see web page for write up.

(hmmm ... new location, uploading again, getting MY bike out)

Thanks for the update. I've been waiting for info on this race all day.

Any idea how many 4/5's finished?

Report filed, see web page.

Pro 1/2 88 starters, 28 finishers.
Masters 32 finishers.
Pro women 21 finishers.
Cat. 3 28 finishers.
Cat 4/5 31 finishers.

Now reporting from "The Firehouse" in Mt Horeb, bike ready, I'm gone.

I'm riding the Military Ridge Trail which I've never done before.

Moderately hard race. The good news is that Wilke's calculations are a bit off. There is "only" 1800-1850ft of climbing per lap, plus the finishing climb.

15th place in the cat3's, out of about 40 who started. It luckily not too hard of a race. I've definitely been more spent after other races.

I should have tried harder. But, I'm happy that my fat butt got up the climbs. Time for some sprint work now!

Just two laps? Pssh. Denzer had 7,500 feet of climbing for the 3's.

Still sorry I missed it.

Tilford calls it epic, and he's seen a few races in his day. He has a pic of the P/1/2 results, too.

Tilford is good at a blow-by-blow of the Pro race and he does it quickly. I enjoy reading his blog.

I've got one pic of him, and one of JPradun going up Pinacle Rd the second time. Gonna push to get them all posted by morning.

Long day, fun day, wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Another race report: http://www.xxxracing.org/index.php?/...s/blue-mounds/

Thanks to Frunkin for carrying the video cam yesterday. Will hook up with Recursive today in Waterloo and JPradun on Saturday in Grafton. :)

Zwettler, Pinnacle, and Mounds Park Road. That's a ***** of a course!

JW, thanks for the video of you driving the course. Those are some of my favorite roads.

Yeah, you can't do that course justice with only 10 minutes of video, I tel 'ya! :D

I'll take a look at the bike cam to see what we got out of that, guess Frunkin went down at some point. :(

I'm updating my blog everyday, also.

http://iliveonnitro.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the pics, John.

Day 2 - Waterloo, WI. Home of Trek USA.

Quick report:

Trevor goes down (Tijak? What is it?) Looked okay, but road rash on all extremities. Recursive said he went down alone on the back side, may have it on video. Recursive and Frunkin not pleased with the hokey riding in the 3's today.

BIG NEWS: Steve Tilford takes the overall lead in the Pro 1/2 from Matt Busche!!

Thats awesome.

http://peloton-pix.smugmug.com/photo...08_RycLC-M.jpg

Ton of pix. Gonna run home, change into some dry clothes, and get a proper report out.

Awesome day of racing here in Waterloo !!

:love:

Gee, doesn't Tillford look like Sean Kelly (Yellow and green??)

Finally got a look at the bike-cam from Bluemound .... AWESOME!

Cripes, that road patching was bumpy!!

Nice job Frunkin.

Great course today. Decent size field. Hot and Humid for the 4/5s. Finished 8th on the day. Teammate was 6th. 'Bout time I get a decent result and a little $ for my pocket - wait it's gone already - lunch for me and our housing guest at a quiant diner along the S/F.

See ya in Grafton!

Looking forward to today's pics John!

I snaptured some power data. Check my blog for some graphs.

I forgot my heart rate strap. I'll get that next time.

Recursive pondering that Pro contract from Rock Racing.

http://www.peloton-pix.com/photos/568822957_MtfPE-M.jpg

Tjiak pondering that Pro contract from Astana for next year's Paris-Roubaix.

http://www.peloton-pix.com/photos/568828892_gRGJp-M.jpg

Recursive hauled the bike-cam yesterday. Speedster22 and JPradun on tap for today in Grafton.

Will "Hip" be there??

tjayk= my initials T-J-K.

and yeah... that sucked. the worst of the road rash was my right hip/ass cheek which you can't see in the picture. plus i have some pretty sore joints and it hurts to walk. i was already a little to close for comfort to the guy next to me when another rider squeezed up the outside boxing me in. before i could get out of there i got tangled up and went down, narrowly avoiding being run over.

it would be nice to get another view of that if it was on video.

Status: Out with a "non-functioning part" at the Giro d' Grafton. Adjustable reach screw and plastic piece from right SRAM lever broke off and jammed my shifter. Stuck in the 12t until I pitted a half lap later. Heidi said no go to a free lap as it was "non-functioning part" and not a mechanical. Got a push back in, thought about it for a second - kill myself for what? - and pulled the plug. More racing to come.

That was you? I was the guy on your right who went airborne and almost crashed, too. I'm glad it wasn't worse than it looked and that you are generally OK.

I put the story of what happened on my blog... :x

Just rolled in from Grafton. Long, hot day, WHEW! Thanks to JPradun for running the cam today. Frunkin was on the hunt on the front of the field a number of times. Speedster22 ... well, I was going to hook him up with video for the 4/5 but by the time I found him, his race was over. :wtf: :D

Being as late as it is, and the 4/5's start at NOON tomorrow, I'm gonna skip those tomorrow and just go up for the Pro 1/2, maybe the Pro Women. I really like Manitowoc, so I'd like to get up there, but I need to catch up on what I've shot so far. Getting back logged only day 3 into the 12 day series!

Will have website updated in the AM.

Good luck to all tomorrow.

:)