New Clothing

It is always nice when clothing shows up early, before the first real racing opportunities (feel free to ask and I'll give you the full VOS rant) arrive. The Louis Garneau clothing for the 2009 season looks and feels really nice. There is nothing like doing away with the old, blown out chamois of old and putting on something brand new.

This is a good time to thank some sponsors. Thank you Subaru and Vista Auto Group for taking over the title sponsorship for the team. We couldn't make it all happen without you.


Thank you to Louis Garneau for the clothing, helmets, and shoes. Thank you Ed, Chris and everybody at The Bicycle Pedal'r for providing shop sponsorship and support. Thank you to Jittery Joe's for keeping us caffeinated. Thank you Ibis, for making our already great looking bikes look even better.


Thanks to all the other sponsors who provide the team with products necessary for a successful season; SRAM, Fi'zi:k, Cateye, Speedplay, TRP, Edge Composites, Shimano, Training Peaks, PepPod, and Squirt Lube.


It really does take the entire team to get everything done and to maintain a team as successful as the teams put together by HERO. Thanks go out to Alex, Mike, Leonard, and everybody else who has helped pull everything together for the 2009 season. It should be a good one.

Hutchison and I plan on breaking in the new clothing duathalon style. This weekend is the final event in the Chilly Cheeks series out at Cherry Creek Reservoir. The race is basically the CCTT course followed by a four mile run. I can't wait to see how the legs feel going into the run part. There are plenty of real racing opportunities coming up, but we figured one last hurrah in the realm of goofing off, while getting in good efforts wouldn't hurt.