Thursday, July 01, 2010

Announcement

Being as the Tour Day France is upon us and teams are announcing their exciting new sponsors, I thought I should hold my own private press conference to announce my new sponsor (employer): FasCat Coaching. Many of you know that Frank Overton has coached me in the past and helped me achieve the results that landed my first pro contract. Well, over the years Frank and I have spent many hours in intense 'business meetings' discussing all things cycling over the local breweries' finest. And recently, in lieu of racing due to my current unforeseen situation, Frank took me on as an apprentice coach with his business FasCat Coaching. I have been at it for a couple of months now and I am having fun being part of the team. FasCat just opened a new Performance Center in Boulder on N. Broadway so that has been really exciting as well. If you're local make sure you stop in, say hello, and check out the new digs. We have a lot of cools things going on including live coverage of the Tour everyday in HD on the big screen! I plan to be there every morning drinking coffee and screaming at the T.V.
So that's what's new with me. I have been riding quite a bit but still no real 'training'. I have a 13 mile trail running race coming up in 2 weeks so I've been trying to half-heartedly prepare for that. I've been managing to get those competitive outlets in here and there for sanity purposes. But now that I'm a coach, I may just try to live through the athletes I'm working with!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

good luck at the race...you'll be a great coach! -k2

Anonymous said...

I must admit that with you not in the Tour I've lost most of my interest in it. I to think you'll make make a great coach but you should be tearing up France with the rest of the rider. I miss watching you ride.

Don H.

chinze said...

hello tom...i've never been too good at following my sport much less others, but i thought check up on you today...you made a few comments that rang true w/me also...i've been in crowley, la (pop. 13,000) since 12.07.09...i'm still plugging away trying to motivate myself through another day of training...if you find that you're in need of "boulder break" you're welcome to crash here for a while...i wish you much luck in your current direction...mark p

Anonymous said...

Tom, good to hear!!! I'm very happy for you. I have a special interest in the tour this year given the contest at work where we drafted riders. Look forward to seeing you at Ragbrai and sucking on your back tire up the hills.

-Wells

Anonymous said...

Tom- congrats on the coaching job !! I still hope to watch you race profrssionally in the future. Good Luck!

Lisa G.