Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Deposit
Sunday, January 03, 2010
still kickin
Friday, April 17, 2009
for the very first time...
just a preview of the crazy fans. We open the door to the van and our soigneur greame is mobbed by "trading card" grabbers.
a huge equipment and logistical effort by the staff to get us going for one big day of racing.
a riders eye-view from the podium at the team presentation. yes, i busted out my camera while I was up there.
A calm Arenberg a few days before the race.
That's all I have for now. Currently, I'm hanging in Nivelles, Belgium. A week and change until we head to Switzerland for Tour of Romandie. Trying to kick a bit of plague out of the lungs right now, but a couple days of downtime were in order anyway.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
They make roads out of what???
for them. I'd prefer to call them "body thrashers".
I was surprised to see how "unflat" the route in general was. Lots of
gentle rollers, up and town. The cobble sections that have a rise to
them are gonna be leg breakers. Imagining the race w 260 km of that,
its easy to see why "sturdy" fellas usually excel here.
We got our bikes geared out with a few PR trick parts. Different
forks, chainrings, pedals, and of course wheels. Thinking about
sliding some padding in my bars too.
Gotta love hanging in french hotel rooms. All of my stuff is literally
never more than an arms reach away.
Gotta rest the wrists.
send me the power, please
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Merci
past.... 2 years ago today was my belgian lightpole encounter. Amazing
to think all I've learned and worked through since then. I'm really
fortunate and blessed to be where I'm at today. Speaking of which.....
Arrived in belgium today and made the drive over to northern France in
preperation for the big dance with the old ugly lady who is
"Paris-Roubaix" this sunday. Really exciting to think I'm gonna be
part of such a historical and massive race. Its a big step for BMC to
get invited, and an honour for me to be representing the team here. I
have no doubt that it will be a brutally twisted day, but I don't
think you would find many cyclists out there who would decline the
chance to have a go at it. Gonna check out a few of the cobble sectors
the next few days and will hopefully have a few reports.
Pre- PR trip, all has been well. We had a great weekend in Redlands a
couple weeks ago with Louder bagging the overall, the team really
rising to the occasion to defend and also bagging 2 stage wins along
the way. A big personal highlight being part of it. Looking forward to
more of those.
France equals lame internet, so phone update means no picks. Check out
www.podiuminsight.com for a few great galleries from redlands.
For those social networking junkies out there, I caved in and caught
the "twitter" bug. Easy way to toss out some quick updates while on
the road, so follow me at www.twitter.com/brentbookwalter
More from the "hell of the north" this week.
Wham bam
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Hi, my name is Brent
Blitzed through my first belgian races of the year. Spent a whopping
10 days across the pond the first week in March and have since been
recovering, training and hangin at home. Spring has arrived and the
weather has been downright dreamy for my past couple easy days.
Downside is that everything is blooming and flowering. Especially the
mucous factory in my head. Allergy mania!
Out to Cali today for San Dimas and Redlands. Then back to chatt for a
week before heading back to europe. Looks like I will get my first go
at the big nasty which is paris-roubaix. Oi! Exciting that BMC got
the invite to such a prestigous race. One of those races I remember
watching as a kiddo in my mountain bike days. Gonna be wild and
brutal!
BMC boys got a good roll going last weekend with Chad Beyer winning
the Tour of Murrieta. Looking forward to keeping that flow going the
next two weekends. Gonna be fun to hit dan dimas since its been a
while since I've done that one.
For now, its back to the airport slog. Wholesome fun for thw whole family!
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