kdublog: LA World Cup

I took off a wee-bit early from work and carpooled up to Carson with Dave from LSWT.com in order to catch the second event on the schedule: the Women's Individual Pursuit! It was touch and go with the traffic we ran into... but we made it with a handful of minutes to spare

We got the hook-up on VIP passes from our buddy, Dr. Brent Kay from the Ouch! Medical Center in Murrieta - so that was nice! We first met Dr. Kay when he and Sarah Hammer tested at the tunnel a couple years ago. He goes real fast on a TT bike too - he smokes me every time at Fiesta Island!

Dave and I shook hands with lots of folks who had passed through the wind tunnel and old acquaintances of ours - it was pretty crazy actually seeing so many familiar faces at the track! Not only did I go up to this event to see some fast paced track racing action, we were there to show our support for a couple of really cool groups of people - Team Hammer, and Team Phinney.

Well, we cheered our hardest for Sarah during her Bronze medal winning pursuit effort where she layed down the fastest time of the event (you'll have to forgive the quality of the images - not much else I can do with my simple point and shoot camera)!

Nice work, Sarah!

Gold medal ride.

Silver medal ride.

After catching the women's pursuit we mosy'd our way down onto the infield, where it was also pretty cool to finally meet Connie Carpenter-Phinney! Kirk used to race against Davis Phinney back in the day (I did a few races with Davis, but I really can't call what I did "racing" - unless riding around for awhile before getting dropped by the Coors Light Train counts as "racing" ;-) ), and can remember watching the 84 olympics as a punk-kid where Connie took gold in the RR. Super-cool to finally meet her!

Here's some shots from Taylor's Gold Medal ride: