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Sunday was a great day for racing and the final stage of the 2009 Tour of Missouri did not disappoint. Garmin closing the gap on the final lap. I was able to catch the action from several different spots as I walked the course from downtown to Summit St. through Penn Valley Park and then [...]

I haven’t been having the best luck with cycling lately. On the last few long rides I have taken, I’ve run into mechanical difficulty; most recently, two flat tires on a 75-miler, which I had to cut short to 52. Today was the Cider Mill Century. I have been looking forward to this 100-mile ride [...]

Today was the first stage of the 2008 Tour of Missouri, which began in St. Joseph and finished in Kansas City on the Country Club Plaza. Last night we had some torrential rain and it looked like conditions would be miserable the whole route into KC. Thankfully the bad stuff cleared and the riders just [...]

The inaugural Tour of Missouri bike race began today in Kansas City and I spent the day watching and trying to get a few good shots. Cuban sprinter Ivan Dominguez from team Toyota United won the 85-mile stage in a mass sprint on the Country Club Plaza, Kansas City’s posh shopping and dining district. The [...]

Here’s a down-and-dirty QTVR that I shot at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome on Thursday. The National Masters Championships were going on all week, but no racing was happening during my brief visit – sigh. In cycling, Masters are athletes age 30 and over, and there are age subdivisions at every five years up to the [...]

Yesterday was the Lone Star Century, one of the Johnson County Bike Club’s big group rides. I rode last year after a few months of a nagging digestion problem, which I wasn’t quite over. I hadn’t been riding that much, in fact it was only my third ride of the year. Not my third group [...]