COMOtion Sports Takes # 10

COMOtion Sports Takes  # 10
The Team Organization Paid Off With An Easy Cruise To The Finish Line

Friday, August 24, 2012



Life in slow motion- still waiting for the delivery of the new SB-66 it's old news now. 
Tomorrow we'll climb Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder to watch the next to final stage race of the 2012 Pro Cycling Challenge,  Hoping to catch Tejay climbing like he wants it to the summit.

Good night.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

How About That, Won That Sucker Again!!!

The struggles of getting peeps to spend money on race registration fees and gasoline versus food and clothing have been tough this year.  Likewise, sponsor cash for the 2012 COMotion Sports team were nearly non-existent. Down from 8 cash sponsors to 3, we drained the budget to supplement last year's shortfall.  Nuff of the doomsday stuff.

After 3 venues, the team has secured the 10th Mountain States Cup Cross Country team championship.  Although some will travel to Telluride in August, there is no mathematical chance in hell anyone can catch us.  Since the drug feds are chasing Lance, we're home free.  Just kidding.

Team Totals After Crested Butte

2012 Cross Country Teams:


Rank Team Name RRSR RRSR ANGL WILD FULL Total
1 CO-Motion Sports 856 750 944 958 0 5380
2 Yeti Pactimo Pro XC 590 632 156 394 0 3038
3 C3 Bikeshop Dirt Crew 480 550 296 304 0 2730
4 Feedback Sports 0 0 0 122 0 122

Thursday, May 24, 2012

2012 RACE SEASON SLOWLY EVOLVING

The last 10 years of going through the cyclic training ritual from September to March to increase mileage and pushing your maximum heart rates to prepare for lung busting races at 10,000 feet elevation has grown old. You've probably heard this before from me.  Need to channel efforts.
 In the 2012 season I will be focused on pushing the new COMotion Sports racers to tough it out while gently supporting their efforts with Topeak goodness and promises of fame.
The season started last weekend with a full 3 event Omnium effort at the Mountain States Cup Riverside Rampage in Salida. Weather could not have been better.  Brother Darner hooked us up with venue friendly camping and the 8 team members pushing the Arkansas River Valley race track and had a grand time at the water tank.
Early season results look good but no slackers allowed with a tight season schedule.


2012 Cross Country Teams:

Rank Team Name RRSR RRSR ANGL WILD FULL Total
1 CO-Motion Sports 856 750 0 0 0 1606
2 Yeti Pactimo Pro XC 590 632 0 0 0 1222
3 Feedback Sports 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
Topeak  RIDE UP Stand was perfect for quick lubes and adjustments.
New Cat 2 Female 30-39 racer Jennifer Tatro impressed the world with a 3rd place finish on a heavier that wanna-be steel framed rig.  A new Yeti ASR 5 is on the way.  Tatro will rock the season.

24 Hours of E Rock is next on the schedule.  Watch this one as well.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Count Down to New Yeti SB-66 ......

Sarah says "mid-April" delivery for the brand new Yeti SB-66 do-everything-bike.  Picture the lily white beast with Crank Brothers blue/carbon stem, seatpost and Candy pedals
Is it mid-April yet?

Drats!  Word is now late March---early June delivery....does supply and demand theory mean I've picked a winner?
UPDATE:  Try August..................... 

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Semi-Retirement Moves Us South

Uncle Raul spared no expense in 1st class transportation for our guests.
Over the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays, we will be spending time in Oklahoma, Texas and then jump the puddle to Colombia.
Two weeks in the Sooner State have lead to rides on the Big Top through Post oak singletracks with  sandy washes,  man-built downhills and rooty switchbacks. Major efforts dodging poison ivy, sand burrs and needle grass thrown in.   Thunderbird State Park near Norman showed me a surprising maze of single track that wound endlessly through the Little River drainage basin in central Oklahoma. Trail building skills and efforts  here are much appreciated and come at a much greater costs than following a natural fall line in the Rockies.
What the state lacks in elevation is made up by traversing multiple canyons with 2x4 supplemented drops and red dirt landings. The roller-coaster single tracks are a soothing diversion from Front Range babyhead and waterbar dodging trails and high altitude panting.


Back for a family Christmas  and south again to Dallas with son Joshua and daughter-in-law Lilly.  Next stop,  Bogota, Columbia where the couple joined together in a Catholic church sanctioned ceremony.  Mountain bike riding there was limited to dirt trails in Simon Bolivar park on a rigid hardtail without clip-in pedals.  Was a blast to spin mountain bike rubber on my 3rd continent.
Big city riding means park trails and good company.  Daughter-in-law Lilybeth and her sister Laura kept me honest.
Back again in the states and contemplating a serious race season for 2012.

2011 Cross Country Series Ends In 9th Victory

If you are reading this, you probably know that for the last 5 years, I have had the opportunity to be a part of the COMotion Sports' cross country race team.  We mainly concentrated on the Mountain States Cup Series but have made our mark on the 24 Hour scene and Cyclocross venues.

 Over the Labor Day weekend, we collected our 9th consecutive series championship and unlike last year, we totally dominated with 20,144 points.  The closest runner up team scored 9,006 points.  As always, the freshman newbies towed the train.

Katie Sodergren, the Cat 1, 19-29 year old COMotion Sports racer blew out her competitors taking 1st place with an astounding 3,274 points. Katie participated in 16 of the 19 series races.  She and her father spent a lot of quality time together preparing  for and celebrating her summer wins.   Those many wins included a 1st place in the USAC Cross Country National Championships in Sun Valley, Idaho. Her continuing career as a Colorado University racer is one our team can take pride in.

Cool summer blog has been in draft form too long and it's time to move on.