Ok, I’ve been remiss. I’ve blogged about zero times since the spring. Many awesome things happened over the summer, and I have essentially ignored them all (as far as the blog goes). But hard to ignore our very own Jenn Dice being inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. This crowning jewel still only being the second most spectacular thing to happen to Dice this summer. The first being her nuptial festivities in Crested Butte to fellow Alchemist Team Rider, Stuart “Disco” Walsworth. I’ve been campaigning for a name change to Jenn Disco Dice, but no dice. Strong work JD. What are you going to do for an encore next summer?
A couple more things to rattle off:
- Congrats to Paul Hooge for going toe-to-toe with 3000 of the world’s best ultra-runners at the Ultra-Trail du Monte Blanc (UTMB) in France. 170k, over 9000m of climbing. He passed about 150 runners in the last 20 miles to finish amongst the fastest and complete one of the hardest endurance races on Earth. I’m hoping he does a write up that I can share on the blog. Some of his stories from the race are epic, and hilarious.
- Congrats to Sean Bender for literally saving the life of a downed pro cyclist during the US Pro Challenge. He was in the caravan following the race from Boulder to Golden when a racer plowed into a stopped vehicle. Sean quickly jumped out of his medical car and went to the cyclist’s aid. From his description, it was a bloody disaster, but he managed to intubate and stabilize the fellow despite being bathed in blood himself. You are a hero, Dr. Bender.
Apologies and Thank You to all the Team members who’ve flown the colors and represented the Team without recognition on this delinquent blog. You deserve better, like a venue that has more than two followers.
ER Boards next week. Time to start studying.
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Nice job Hooge, Jenn, and Sean. All very impressive work.
I guess it’s Alchemist boards season. I need to take mine in a few weeks, and Dan Busse as well. Why am I reading this gripping blog and not studying?