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You have an impressive mountain bike resume, with a semipro national championship and state titles. How much do you get to ride now that you are working for the series?Well, that USA Cycling National One Day semipro title is the only thing I couldn’t nail down! Snow kicked my ass two years in a row and sent me home emptyhanded. replica Movado watch However, I was fortunate to win Sea Otter 3X from the sport class all the way into the semipros. I won several semipro national events, the Counting Coup 3X, California State series, and at one point was USA Cycling’s #1ranked semipro rider, so I was lucky to have some good success on the bike.

The bike was never meant to be a pro endeavor for me. Its just that I caught on pretty quick and had a good work ethic and skill set that allowed me to rise to the top pretty quick.I can actually say towards the end of 2008 that racing wasn’t even fun for me. People felt like I was cheating them by not moving to pro, and I was already in way Bvlgari replica watches deeper than I had imagined with training, diet, traveling, racing, etc. So I said to myself that I would take 2009 off and focus on my career and my wife.Its funny, now that I manage the ShoAir/Specialized Pro Cross Country team and U.S. Cup Mountain Bike series, I have very little time for riding...kind of ironic. But I’m starting to turn that around and have been commuting a couple days a week on the bike into work, and doing a bunch ride on the weekend.

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