Let's begin blogging again
With cyclocross season and ski season on the horizon I've decided to bring the blog back to life. Right now life is all about the USGP's Planet Bike Cup. We're at that point in the event process where everyone is freaking out. This year more than most as the USGP doesn't really know us as we haven't been through putting on a race together yet. Of course we don't really know the USGP either. It's a new relationship which hopefully will get easier as time goes on. Add to all that the presence of all the heavy hitters at the race including Erwin Vervecken and stress is high. Normally I do pretty well with that but I'm not at my most "zen" right now as my mother's health continues to be a rollercoaster and it is taking its toll on my patience and calm. I have to save all I have for the 5-10 phone calls I have with her each day which doesn't leave much calm for everyone or anything else.
Lots of USGP excitement though with Page and Compton riding for Planet Bike, Alison Dunlap out of retirement and back to cross racing and now Erwin Vervecken is coming to town. I can't even begin to imagine how exciting the racing is going to be. I'm excited that Wisconsin cross is going to have this kind of show to kick off our season!
It's been a tough year with mostly "no" coming from potential sponsors . . . well, they actually said "we're not sponsoring any new events this year" or "our marketing budget has been significantly cut". That has been very stressful for me. And John has been stressing over the major changes we're making to the course (more on that later). We make quite a stressed out pair but luckily Michele and Dave are still putting up with us as we make their lives stressful too.
In the stressful moments though I realize that this is all good even with things that aren't going perfectly. Ever since I saw Tristan having to travel all over the country to get UCI points and get known on the national level I've wanted to have opportunities for our top riders right here at home. Now we have that and they get to race local and the locals get to see how awesome our very own riders are. It makes it all worthwhile.
Expect more updates from this blog as we head into fall and winter . . . . the two best seasons!
Lots of USGP excitement though with Page and Compton riding for Planet Bike, Alison Dunlap out of retirement and back to cross racing and now Erwin Vervecken is coming to town. I can't even begin to imagine how exciting the racing is going to be. I'm excited that Wisconsin cross is going to have this kind of show to kick off our season!
It's been a tough year with mostly "no" coming from potential sponsors . . . well, they actually said "we're not sponsoring any new events this year" or "our marketing budget has been significantly cut". That has been very stressful for me. And John has been stressing over the major changes we're making to the course (more on that later). We make quite a stressed out pair but luckily Michele and Dave are still putting up with us as we make their lives stressful too.
In the stressful moments though I realize that this is all good even with things that aren't going perfectly. Ever since I saw Tristan having to travel all over the country to get UCI points and get known on the national level I've wanted to have opportunities for our top riders right here at home. Now we have that and they get to race local and the locals get to see how awesome our very own riders are. It makes it all worthwhile.
Expect more updates from this blog as we head into fall and winter . . . . the two best seasons!
posted by MadCross at 2:31 PM
1 Comments:
Good hearing from you Renee! Just remember- it's biking, something we do for FUN. Yeah, you're on the business end, but people are totally looking forward to -anything- that weekend, and we won't notice what goes wrong!
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