Another Great Day

The kids started the day with a TT hill climb. Apparently a legendary one here in town that everyone does to gauge how they are doing. They call it the Telegraph climb. We pre road it on Tuesday and today they went out against the clock.

I was unable to attend, since Donovan broke his bike. I allowed him to use mine while I spent the morning scouring town trying to find a new derailluer hanger. I didn't so we went ahead and rented him a bike for the next two days.

At the hill climb Marcos was the grand champion. He won by just less than a minute. Very well done. However on the way down he just about tacod his wheel and it had to be smashed on a rock to get him home.

After lunch we then met with the great Travis Brown. Hunter's boy hood bike racing idol. We told Travis as much and made sure to get a picture with him. Dude is really cool and even gave Marcos a wheel to use for the rest of our time here. So Hunter dude is super nice. He spoke to us about professionalism and sponsorship and really just about everything.

After that the kids had a little break which they used to just unwind and play cards. The free time was nice.

But the next speaker was a Nutritionist who had us laughing the whole time. The gentleman Rick has been in the game forever and was working with Lance at age 14. He is now working with Tom Danielson and is actually going to be in Spain training him for the next 6 weeks. He said his but chafes after 6 hours of motor passing on a scooter, that and a ton of other great info.

Upon our return I am certain that I am going to have many more tools in my tool box as a coach. I am very excited to take my new knowledge home and use it with the team.

Today's finally was definitely worth the wait. The head coach of the DEVO youth MTB racing team came out and did a skill session with us. We road down stairs, learned how to hop off curbs, and got to play on two different skill tracks. He is an impressive coach and actually produced 7 National titles this year at MTB nationals. We really enjoyed and learned a ton from him.

The moral of this story or the trip, we are super fortunate to have this opportunity to spend time with incredibly smart and talented people. I have learned a ton and I really hope the riders go home truly appreciating this experience.