I will be traveling to Park City, UT for the next few weeks after a brief stint in Las Vegas (hopefully I will be able to get a run in with Josh Brimhall, a sic ultra runner in Vegas). The trip to Park City will be both work and play related. I am sharing a house with a couple good friends/industry reps and working the Louis Garneau booth at Dealer Camp.

The Saturday after Dealer Camp I am racing the Speedgoat50k, put on by Karl Meltzer( ya the guy that ran the Pony Express Trail last year!) I love a race that has a hand-drawn topo map--

I have been running consistently and recently purchased an EMS device that shocks your muscles for excellerated recovery and O2 flow to damaged muscles. Also I have been back and forth on my sock selection. Ya that's right, I am fretting over my sock selection. See I have been having some issues and discovered that the Injinji lightweight sock is the best with my foot in the Hoka Mafate shoe I am rockin. I am glad to have such an assortment of socks at my disposal like the Injinji Midweight, Original weight and lightweight. As an athlete, you should have an arsenal of socks at your disposal....well do you?

Louis Garneau the biggest small company Tour de France leader video

I have been a part of the Louis Garneau family for a couple years now and couldn't be prouder. Last summer I was apart of a photo shoot with Chris Legh, Pierre Peron and friend Shawn O'Connell. At Interbike, a cycling industry convention in Vegas...save that one for another blog... I grabbed a copy of Decline Magazine and Garneau had used my idea of a lifestyle shot for a full pager! In the ensuing weeks, I was in a couple downhill specific shops and bosted that I had a full page in Decline. I knew the questions would range---"What race?" "What sic move were you doing?" "WTF, you?!" I am proud of my AD. So I am a cross country racer, Marin has DH bikes they will let me ride! Garneau also has supported my efforts in starting a National Cyclocross Team with riders ranging from Anna Young (Junior National Champion) to Nat Ross (friend and 24hr solo National Champion and MTB Hall of Famer). Together with Garneau, partner Dave Griebling and Pioneer S-M....

Recently, I was fortunate to spend time in Newport, VT the US HQ and really saw how this great company makes many of their products in the US! The point of all this is culminated in the video below. The current leader in the Tour de France is Thomas Voeckler of Team Europcar which is a new team to the Tour and Garneau is the Quartz helmet, X-Lite shoe, sunglasses AND Mondo Bib and jersey custom apparel sponsor. The time that Voeckler has spent in the "yellow jersey" has been done so in special yellow items that are hand sewn and painted especially for him by Garneau workers. The Garneau office actually had a "wear yellow office day" last week!

Enjoy the video:

Trifest in Tucson

Well another Trifest has come and gone and a lot happened. I got there Wednesday before to clinic REI for Tifosi Sunglasses, great crew! I stayed with Billy Brenden during the week and we had a fun time. It was Nic, Billy's brother's birthday so we all went out to celebrate.

After that I made a ton of sales calls for Serfas bike products, my new line! I am telling you that if you don't own any Serfas products, you are missing out!

Late into the night, I looked at Billy's shoes. I noticed that he had been working on a fashioning a pair of casual shoes to pitch to Louis Garneau in hopes they would roll them out for their casual lineup!

On Thursday or Friday...there was a group ride up Mt Lemon. The group started out with 60+ people!! That's the only way to get motoring up Mt Lemon. Chris Brown (BMW/Litespeed) was there as were several other climbing types. I got bored as usual early on so I attacked to get things ramped up and catch some folks sleeping in the pack.

At Windy Point, after catching the fallout from the lead group, I was in 5th position yo-yoing so I stopped to stretch and wait for Billy and a couple others. We got motoring again and reached the top in like 2:05. I guess that is a pretty fast time to the top. I didn't know there was a standard!!! I wouldn't have stopped and waited...

Trifest was Saturday and there was a good amount of consumers and a TON of sic 2011 product being expod. I displayed the new Vortice helmet from Louis Garneau and the new tri apparel from CW-X.

The night went on and I won a Beer Mile. I was also on hand to receive the Vendor of the Year from Trisports on Louis Garneau's behalf! What an honor. Louis Garneau has the best fill rates, minimal mis ships and the best rep!