Hand out those

Awards!

The "Off Season Team Night Out" was its usual success.  Burgers were snarfed,  Beer Quaffed (Al N. even had some beer!!),  Videos watched,  unsuspecting dive bar patrons confused.  Pretty much normal.  A Wednesday school night and a "blizzard" kept the debauchery to a minimum,  good for all the old people.

Our buddy Lee of the Miners Tavern

hooked us up once again,  a great venue,  big screen,  and a few pitchers of good beer on him.  Many thanks,  and good luck to Lee on his second Leadville 100 this year.

We did an expanded Team Award/Accomplishment section this year,  with 4 riders getting awards for their efforts over the season.  Besides these nifty certificates,  Some nasty Belgian Beer & Mad Alchemy Embro was doled out to the hard working recipients.   (Click-ey on the certificates below to get the full test of the awards.)

Jonathan Jones - Media Darling

Armin Bantowsky - Best Race Planning   (Armin,  do NOT think the irony of giving YOU a "race Planning" award is not intended & intentional...)



















David Claude - Get Back on that Horse

Ric Stofflet - Most improved Rider (or most improvement in gravity avoidance... NEVER have we seen someone crash SIX times in one race,  and yet finish.)

Video Productions are available on DVD upon request,  but the 2 full productions are also here for your viewing pleasure.

Dale Riley - Cross - Up Close

Cross - Up Close from Dale Riley on Vimeo.

John Deibert - Karnage Kam

2012 Cyclocross season highlights video from John Deibert on Vimeo.

That wraps up the CX season for sure.  Spring "Training" camps,  summer MTB,  and maybe a trail work day are the top of the team activity list for the Summer.  Enjoy the "quiet" time,  soon it will warm up.....

Top 10!

Al Naudin takes a top 10 spot in the Boulder Cyclocross Series overall.
Nice ride,  Al!!
Are you now the comeback "kid" on the team?

Beer!

Beer & Burgers.

1st Annual Team night was a 100% success. Thanks to those who came out. We'll do this again!

The Compound

Rolled out the new HPM team compound fro the Blue Sky Velo CX race on Saturday.  Brian at Boulder Racing was SO happy with the teams help over the last years,  he made a donation to the HPM team,  which we turned around into this:

10'x10' pop up tent with 4 sides,  and a rocking banner to "pro" it up.   Good for the cold CX months and even the Nordic folks can use it.  Available for any race anyone wants to bring it to.  (Contact Kirk).

Also,  a big welcome (back) to Paul Ricipiti.  Paul is (re-)joining the team,  coming back from a nasty crash last year.  Paul raced with some of us previously on the Cyclists for the Planet team.  He was already back in the mix at Xilinx.  Wellcome aboard,  Paul!!

HPM team trail work day

The first annual HPM trail work day had a great turnout.  Brought out 11 People,  plus a Boulder County Trail Specialist and the Hall Ranch Caretaker to keep us pointed in the right direction.  We did basic maintenance (drain construction & Cleaning) and some tread improvement on at least a full mile of the Hall Ranch rock garden section.  

Worked from the first big step up to the top near the bench.  It is amazing the amount of gravel washing down that section.  According to the Caretaker,  it takes work at least once a year to clean out the drains & get the water off the trail.  

Was a nice,  cool,  foggy day,  perfect for such physical efforts.

We got a LOT of work done,  and the county guys were highly complementary of the effort shown.  "best crew we've seen in a long time" was the feedback.

Feels good to give back a bit to the trails we ride so much,  and get so much enjoyment out of.   Special thanks to the "non-team" people who came out.  John Deibert,  Callie Riley,  and Todd Bouchet.  Thanks for joining us for the day!

The crew....  (Left to right)
Matt Robinson,  Al Naudeen,  Todd Bouchet,  Dale Riley,  Brenda Drake,  Kirk Olson,  Callie Riley,  Armin Bantowsky,  Chris Settje,  John Deibert  ( Brent Solman not pictured)



Thanks to all the team folks,  as well as Denny & Mike from the county.  We will plan on another one of these for next year,  and earlier in the year,  not so close to the cross season.

Team Work Days

Reminder... We have 2 "work days" coming up....

1 - Sept 18th, Trail work day at Hall Ranch, Lyons
Details soon

2 - Sept 25th - Cyclocross race promotion help for Boulder Racing
Morning set-up and Evening tear down. 1st Boulder series race, Location is POSSIBLY in Longmont, details TBD.

Note that if you can't help for the race on the 25th, you will need to put in one shift at ONE of the 6 Boulder Series races for the year.

Contact Dale to schedule your help or with questions...
dale.t.riley@seagate.com

Team Volenteer Trail Work Day

Saturday,  Sept 18
8:30 - Approx 12:30

Hall Ranch,  Lyons


Details on exact project,  meeting plan,  etc. to follow.  Anyone who has NOT indicated your participation,  let me know...   dale.riley@mesanetworks.net

Foon's Finished!

Call it the adventure of a lifetime,  a proud accomplishment,  crazy.  Call it what you want.  Tim finished his trans-continental ride yesterday.  19 days to ride coast to coast.  3000 miles.  more than 95 THOUSAND feet of climbing. 160 Miles a DAY.  I can't imagine it.....  Pictures here were lifted from the PAC Tour slideshow.

A quick little ride

 

Yesterday,  Foon got to wade out into the Atlantic Ocean

He's not alone in his possible mental illness.....

The Tandem Capitan from the ride posted the telemetry from the ride,  should you wonder what the profile of such a ride would look like

I,  for one am impressed.  Taint of steel. Man of Iron.
The boy ought to be pretty damn fit after a rest.  Ought to be "fun" riding with him.

Good Job Tim !!

The Website is UP

New team website! Not quite complete... needs sponsor logos & links.

http://sites.google.com/site/highpeaksmasters/