Such a style queen

Such a style magnet
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baby Ella takes on Luca McQueen Bean showing her fashion skills..

time off well worth it

Mama loves baby girl
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if you have wondered where Jen has been... wonder no longer

Been busy last nine months

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Photo from Silverton Road Race

This is a pic of the gals headed out on lap 2.
Cate Hass is riding in front of Jen in the dark blue and white Bend Cycling team jersey.

Relaxing ride- retraining begins

Jen is feeling better now after a serious few weeks of being sick with colds and flu. Now shes back on the saddle. I went on a training ride with Jen and brought along the camera to practice shooting some vids.
This is the flat route on the old Bend Redmond Highway round trip is about 30 miles. Beautiful views of the Cascades, but hard to capture when the sun is coming from the West...

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Jen on training ride. Easy spin day

-Brent

Redlands Update

Thanks for the well wishes.

Jen is doing fine. She took a pretty good spill on the course.
Something used to pad the corners on the Sunset loop was bumped out onto the course as it was not anchored down. Jen couldn't swerve to avoid the big bag of insulation that was rolling in the street and she flipped over the bars instead of swerving into the group and taking others out.
She banged up her elbow and hip with some scratches and broke off her fingernail but should be alright, just a bit sore for a few days.

00-brent

Oh Redlands!

So my good friend Gaby asked me to guest ride with her this year at Redlands for Bicycle John's. I am so not fit right now! The Germans are stomping on me and the Aussies are causing immense suffering. It's wonderful!!! I couldn't as for better training than this. The Oak Glen stage is back and just as much suffering as I remembered. Somehow I always manage to be in the peloton at the base of the climb and then I just can't remember anything after that. I did manage to get into a break on one of the early flat sections but after a few minutes of intense fast pace line pulls I had to throw in the towel and head back to the peloton. It was disappointing but I was so out gunned and I just couldn't keep up the watts needed to stay with that group. Those ladies were so impressive. Fortunately for me that break was sucked back in before the next sprint hot spot, which was only a few minutes after I returned to the peloton. So yeah, I meant to do that.

No pictures yet as I am on the solo trip without my Brent. Hopefully he can steal some and post them for me, hint hint.
Full size picture on Redlands classic website:
http://www.redlandsclassic.com/gallery/gallery07/st1high/st1w_26.jpg

JJ