Thursday, May 15, 2008
My kids ROCK!
My kids are so cool. Ashley just sent me a text to tell me that she made Dance Co. at West Lake. Austin is loving his job at Backcountry.com and he is doing some freelance graphics work on the side. Check out his blog (link to the right). I'm so proud!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Birthday Izzy!
Little Miss Isabelle is 2 today! Happy Birthday to my cute little neice! She is an awesome kid. She's got a huge personality. I love it when she says, "What about me?!" because someone has overlooked her and she wasn't treated like a big person. I also love how she is so tough. She is never afraid to try anything and she prefers to have her adventures while wearing her princess pumps and tiara.Saturday, May 10, 2008
Crits are sooooo fun!
That is me up front. Maybe too much time up there today? Still it is nice to get to pick my line through the turns!
What a great day! I am really loving racing criteriums. I love flying through the turns and I love how quickly the race can change. Today I feel I did well at meeting most of my goals. I really wanted to stay in the top 5 of the field for the entire race. Any time I'd find myself slipping back I'd work to move back up. My second goal was to be 1st or 2nd going into the final turn. That was obviously the goal of everyone and I went through 7th or 8th-not exactly prime sprinting position.
The officials had me down as 4th. As nice as that would have been I know that 1,2,3 went to Diane, Jillian and Jamie. I also knew Melanie flew by me because I fought hard to catch her. I'm sure there was also someone passing me on the right. Most of us ladies hung out and tried to put together what we remembered about the finish. I ended up with 6th but unfortunately some of my teammates got jipped out of a position at all and were given DNFs even though they were in the pack for the final sprint. I wish they would have had names attached to the numbers because Kris and I would have known that Breanne and Gail were in it until the finish. It sucks but I can also remember from my time as an official how hard it is to get numbers and it is even harder when you have a lot of people from the same team finishing.
I stuck around and watched the Men's 5 and the Women's 123. The Women's was a great race with Laura H. in a huge break with 2 PC women. They worked her and worked her and she hung on forever like a champ until she had nothing left. I'm interested in finding out what the penalty was for the PC woman that dropped back to get lapped to help her teammate. I'm sure that is a big no no!
It was a great day and I look foward to celebrating one year of racing (minus the racing I missed from the elbow) at Bear Lake next week.
What a great day! I am really loving racing criteriums. I love flying through the turns and I love how quickly the race can change. Today I feel I did well at meeting most of my goals. I really wanted to stay in the top 5 of the field for the entire race. Any time I'd find myself slipping back I'd work to move back up. My second goal was to be 1st or 2nd going into the final turn. That was obviously the goal of everyone and I went through 7th or 8th-not exactly prime sprinting position.
The officials had me down as 4th. As nice as that would have been I know that 1,2,3 went to Diane, Jillian and Jamie. I also knew Melanie flew by me because I fought hard to catch her. I'm sure there was also someone passing me on the right. Most of us ladies hung out and tried to put together what we remembered about the finish. I ended up with 6th but unfortunately some of my teammates got jipped out of a position at all and were given DNFs even though they were in the pack for the final sprint. I wish they would have had names attached to the numbers because Kris and I would have known that Breanne and Gail were in it until the finish. It sucks but I can also remember from my time as an official how hard it is to get numbers and it is even harder when you have a lot of people from the same team finishing.
I stuck around and watched the Men's 5 and the Women's 123. The Women's was a great race with Laura H. in a huge break with 2 PC women. They worked her and worked her and she hung on forever like a champ until she had nothing left. I'm interested in finding out what the penalty was for the PC woman that dropped back to get lapped to help her teammate. I'm sure that is a big no no!
It was a great day and I look foward to celebrating one year of racing (minus the racing I missed from the elbow) at Bear Lake next week.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Ogden BDO Criterium Pictures
Diane and me. . ..JPG)
Off the back alone. . . not a happy place..JPG)
I like the view from the podium. I'll have to do it more often.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
A Little Slide Show
http://jamesevans.printroom.com/
So if you are at work and trying not to actually do any work you can click on the link above and see pictures from last weeks Ogden BDO Criterium. You can see me in the pack then suddenly there is a picture of the pack and no Shanna. Then Shanna riding by herself. The in the last few I'm way at the back but thanks to my strong legs I manage to pull off third. James is going to send me some of the best pictures so I'll have them posted here soon.
Last night was the RMR. We were on the oval. I still like the outside better but last night seemed to be a more reasonable pace thanks to some of the Porcupine guys upgrading. (Thanks JT!) There was a crash which is always a bummer. It was probably those stupid cracks! Good to see those BCC guys out and hanging with the pack no problem!
Now I get a few easy recovery days so I can be ready to push hard on Saturday's Crit! Lots of turns and flat, I love it! Now if I can just keep my ADD in check I can do well.
So if you are at work and trying not to actually do any work you can click on the link above and see pictures from last weeks Ogden BDO Criterium. You can see me in the pack then suddenly there is a picture of the pack and no Shanna. Then Shanna riding by herself. The in the last few I'm way at the back but thanks to my strong legs I manage to pull off third. James is going to send me some of the best pictures so I'll have them posted here soon.
Last night was the RMR. We were on the oval. I still like the outside better but last night seemed to be a more reasonable pace thanks to some of the Porcupine guys upgrading. (Thanks JT!) There was a crash which is always a bummer. It was probably those stupid cracks! Good to see those BCC guys out and hanging with the pack no problem!
Now I get a few easy recovery days so I can be ready to push hard on Saturday's Crit! Lots of turns and flat, I love it! Now if I can just keep my ADD in check I can do well.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Geez! Like I wasn't already going to hell!
Okay, as if I wasn't feeling bad enough about being totally rude to nice people, I look in my purse and see my signed "restaurant copy" from my lunch on Sunday. Way to go Shan, just walk out on my bill. I called the restaurant and I guess they did get the $$ for my lunch but my waiter didn't get his tip :(. So I'm going back to Fiddler's Elbow soon so the good looking waiter named Joseph can get his tip. Maybe this time I'll refrain from drinking Bailey's with my coffee after an interval workout.
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