JB's Adventure Blog: Colorado couch surfing.

I would rather be real surfing but as they say don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I have never seen such a horse but if I do I will not be shy and give it a thorough dental exam to see what all the fuss is about.

After our work in Aspen was over Sue and I made our way over Independence pass toward Colorado Springs. Sue wanted to see her coach of many years Dean Golich. I knew he was a well known coach but I didn't know he was the director during the heyday of the GT program when he had Roland, Alison Dunlop and Lopes. Dean was a nice host and made room for me in Mari Holdens altitude tent. I didn't use it seeing as we were already at 7000ft. Kinda like having a pool next to the ocean eh? Any hoo. It was neat because there were all these huge trophies from foreign lands and T-mobil jerseys with the rainbow sleeves piled in the corner.

I got a tour of the OTC on Tuesdays by resident athlete and Tour of Shenandoah's all star's Sam Shultz. We checked out the weight room the pools the visitor center the human performance lab and even the head quarters for USA Cycling. I met Sean Petty and chatted with Matt Cramer a little. There were photos of all the US world Champions on the wall fro the last 20 years. Good inspiration.

Sam and I went for a 2+ hr easy mountian bike ride up a mountain and down a green canyon single track that was killer.
Later he took me to dinner at the OTC cafeteria with John Devine and some of the tri athletes. The whole thing reminded me of being at JMU and hanging with Erin's friends at the lunch table. The neat part was it was all sports a whole college campus just for developing athletes. Pretty cool.

Well now we are in Boulder prepping for our flight to New Zealand. Yesterday my former teammate Stephano sent me on a good ride up to Sugaloaf, Switzerland Trail and over to Sunshine Canyon. A good tough ride and sweet views of the mountains I would like to check the place out some more later.

Have a great day.

Jeremiah.

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 7:38 AM

Colorado couch surfing.

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