First Weekend in June

TT Position is well dialed-in



Attacking at the Shamrock's Capitol Criterium



Shamrocks Capitol Crit Elite Men's Podium

Jordan bounced back from disappointing performances at the Memorial Day Weekend Races in Iowa to set a PR in the MN State Time Trial, and finish 2nd in the Shamrock's Capitol Criterium.

Still recovering from getting sick the past weekend, Jordan posted a 53:50 for the 40K at the MN State TT. That is over 4 minutes faster than his previous best.

On Sunday, at Shamrock's Capitol Criterium, one of the best criterium venues in MN, Jordan rode aggressive, and finished 2nd in the elite men's race.

Just one week left before Jordan departs to Texas for the summer. His final race before he leaves will be the Fixed Gear Classic this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the NSC Velodrome in Blaine, MN. He and his partner, Dan Casper, will be facing tough competition including racers coming all the way from Europe to compete in the 3-day event.

Another PR at TNT

Time Trialling in Medina

Jordan set another time trial personal best this past Tuesday at the TNT Time Trial in Medina. His time of 22:36 was just under a minute faster than his time 2 weeks ago over the 11mi rolling course, averaging 29mph! His time was good enough for 2nd overall, just 2 seconds behind Jonathan Toftoy, who holds the course record of 22:14.

Hunger Games at the Tower Tour Road Race

Hunger Games Salute

Today I raced in Baraboo, Wisconsin at the Tower Tour road race.  The course was pretty hard with 1,100 feet of climbing per lap, to add to that it was 90 degrees at the start of the 1/2's race.  The race got of to a pretty quick start with a group of four taking off and getting a small gap.  They were away until about half way into the 2nd lap Tony Olson went insane up a half mile climb and caught up to the break.  I counter-attacked when we caught the break and I was followed by one rider and we caught a rider that was about 15 seconds ahead of us.  The 3 of us began to work really well and quickly got a very sizeable gap.  After cresting the finish climb one of the guys in the break came apart, and drifted off the back.  I continued to work with my remaining breakaway companion for the next lap, but started to notice he was getting pretty tired.  I decided to attack with 12 miles to go and I was able to stay away until the finish with a one minute gap on a chase group of four.  I am really glad to have won my first race in Slipstream-Craddock colors and couldn't wish for a better team to ride for!

Time Trialling - Another PR

Farm Dog TT - Photo by skinnyski.com

Jordan finished a scant 0.1 seconds behind Dan Casper at Saturday's Farm Dog TT. He averaged 28.2mph over the 8.3mi rolling course, setting a new PR by 38 seconds.

Bad luck at Tour of Gila

Jordan's hopes of performing well at the 2012 Tour of Gila were dashed 70 miles into the 95 mile long first stage. Travelling at nearly 30mph, a rider in front of Jordan lost control of his bike, causing a chain reaction crash. Jordan almost made it through, only to have a bike bounce up and take him out. He got back up, untangled his bike from the pile, and prepared to continue until he got dizzy and nauseous. He quickly found himself in a neckbrace, in the back of an ambulance, headed for the emergency room.

He was scraped up from head to toe. They did cat scans and took x-rays, all coming back negative. His worst injury were a very sore knee, and slight ankle sprain. As sad as it was to be forced to abandon stage 1 of the prestigious race, we were very thankful it wasn't worse. We remained is Silver City for the remainder of the stage race in support of Jordan's team.

Unfortunately, his bike didn't survive as well as Jordan. The top tube of his Cervelo S3 was cracked, with a broken rear shift lever, and rear deraileur. His HED Stinger wheels also took a beating. Fortunately for Jordan, his Slipstream Craddock Team were able to immediately provide a Cervelo R3 in replacement. SRAM neutral support was kind enough to replace his broken shifter and derailleur. Finally, Ian at HED trued up his damaged Stinger wheels. Back in business. Jordan is healing very quickly, and hasn't slowed down. He finished a close second at the TNT time trial just 6 days after his crash, averaging 28mph over a 24K course.

Ken Woods RR Recap - Hypothermic

Recap: Ken Woods RR Elite Men Race Recap

Results: http://www.endurancepromotions.com/?p=2695

Brone's Camp

This weekend my dad and I drove down to Fountain City for the Brone's training camp. I went last year and it was a ton of fun riding on the super quiet roads near Winona.

The weather was great for the camp this year and on Saturday we were able to get a solid 50 miles in. The ride was great and I was able to chat with Jens Brabbit and Gregg Brandt a ton on the ride.

Sunday's ride had even better weather than the day before. The ride was super relaxed for the first 2 hours then 6 of us turned off to get in a few extra miles. There were some solid shenanigans in the last few hours of the ride and we ended up getting 80 miles in.

This camp was super fun and I really liked both day's rides a ton! Brone's Bike Shop that put on this camp was such a nice shop and is super classy on the inside! Mark and Gary Brone do a great job of running that shop and you should make sure to stop in there whenever you're in the area!Next up for me is the Flanders/MBRC camp this coming weekend.





On a side note, after sunday's ride I hit up the Nelson Creamery and picked up one of these drinks. IT WAS AMAZING!! Just a random thing from this weekend!