AUGUST 2014 cycling utah.com 1 VOLUME 22 NUMBER 6 FREE AUGUST 2014 cycling utah 2014 UTAH, IDAHO, & WESTERN STATES EVENT CALENDAR INSIDE! FEATURING: •Utahns ExcEl at ROAD NATIONALS •BikEpacking MOUNTAIN IDAHO'S TRIATHLON SAWTOOTHS •FirE rOad cEdar TOURING CITY •trail EtiqUEttE RACING •sOlitUdE icUp •riding Brian COMMUTING HEAD ADVOCACY •singlE spEEd MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING MAGAZINE WEST CYCLING MOUNTAIN WORLDS 2 cycling utah.com AUGUST 2014 SPEAKING OF SPOKES Hope, Faith, and the Tour de France the next morning to observe the faith monster stage with four major climbs, ride to win the stage just ahead of a By David Ward and hope of hundreds of pilgrims and learned that Tyler Hamilton had charging peloton. who came to drink of the holy, heal- soloed away early during that stage. Fast forward ten years to the It was 2003, and my wife, Karma, ing waters. Faith can be a fragile So we decided to wait in a café in release of Tyler Hamilton’s book, 4543 S. 700 E., Suite 200 three of my children and I were in a commodity, and I was touched by the that small town and watch the last The Secret Race. He had, of course, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 small town in southwestern France. fervent faith of these pilgrims. part of the stage on the cafe’s televi- been caught and branded a cheat- Karma and I had joined a tour group As we left that day, our route took sion. er years before. But in this book www.cyclingutah.com to watch several stages of the Tour de us across the roads that Stage 16 of There was a fairly large and vocal we learned that the night before his France, including Lance Armstrong’s the Tour, Pau to Bayonne, would contingent of fellow Tour observers epic mountain stage victory in the You can reach us by phone: 2003 Tour, he had received an illegal incredible win on Luz Ardiden. be following. A couple of times we at that café, many of whom were (801) 268-2652 blood-boosting injection that pro- Following that stage, we had our found our way blocked and had to Americans. Of course, we were all Our Fax number: pelled him to his victory. We, and three daughters join us for a trip to wait for the Tour’s procession to wildly cheering Hamilton’s epic (801) 263-1010 especially my wife, felt betrayed. Spain where one of those daughters pass. Finally, we came to a small effort as he managed to stay away. Our faith in Tyler had been complete Dave Iltis, Editor & had served a mission for our church. town where our route was again As he approached our small town, we in 2003, and we had given our hearts Our first night after meeting blocked as the peloton would soon went out to the sidewalk and cheered Advertising to him that day. Now, we felt cheated [email protected] up with our children was spent in be passing through. We had managed him on. After that, we returned to the on in a personal way. Lourdes, a city of faith. It was a to catch news as we drove of the café and whooped and hollered as we Of course, this was the year that all David R. Ward, Publisher touching experience that night and developments in that day’s stage, a watched him finish his magnificent hell broke loose from what had been [email protected] percolating for years. First, Lance Armstrong publicly stated he would Contributors: Ben Simonson, no longer fight the charges of doping Michael Gonzales, Lou Melini, that the United States Anti-Doping Andy Singer, Wayne Cottrell, Agency (“USADA”) had been pursu- David Ward, Charles Pekow, ing, branding it an unconstitutional Jared Eborn, Lukas Brinkerhoff, witch hunt. Thereafter, USADA had Wayne Hansen, Ian Scharine, John Higgins, Tom Diegel, Mike released its “Reasoned Decision” set- Newberry, Jay Burke, Breanne ting forth the basis for its charges Nalder, Amanda Carey, Jamon against Armstrong. Subsequently, Whitehead, Tim Bochnowski, Armstrong was stripped of all his Phillip Sarnoff, Amy Gilden, Ron Tour de France victories. Palmer-Leger, Patrick Batten, And looking back, there was the Renae Widdison, Robin Perkins, 2006 Tour winner, Floyd Landis, who Mark Fisher, Todd Leister, Karl Hendrikse, Shanna Powell, Tom was stripped of his title shortly after Flynn, Asher Swan his triumphal victory parade on the Champs-Elysées. Albert Contador Distribution: Dave, Karma, who won in 2007, 2009 and 2010 and Marinda Ward, Doug was stripped of his 2010 victory, Kartcher, David Montgomery which, sadly, also taints his earlier (To add your business to our victories. 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With that with soy-based ink. cycling utah is free, limit one Continued on page 15 copy per person. © 2014 cycling utah Pick up a copy of cycling utah at your What’s on your mind? favorite bike shop! Send your feedback and Cover Photo: Luke Ratto on the letters to the wooden bridge on Snowbird's editor to: new Big Mountain Trail. The new trail is 7.5 miles long with 2900' of [email protected] vertical drop. Photo by Dave Iltis AUGUST 2014 cycling utah.com 3 RACING Utah Riders Win Plethora of National Championships Bissell Development Cycling team, defended his U23 National Road Championship while Eisenhart, who was third in the road race, dominated the competition to earn a U23 Time Trial championship. Putt’s victory cemented the Park City product as one of the top young cyclists in the country while Eisenhart (BMC Development) showed he also has some of the strongest legs in Haley Batten won two national titles in the 15-16 Cross Country and 15-18 America’s young peloton. Super-D. Photo by Patrick Batten. In the U23 road race, Canyon Bicycles-Shimano’s Daniel Eaton ship in as many years while his lead- Time Trial title a few weeks ear- was part of a three-man breakaway out man, Keegan Swirbul (Bissell) lier – beat all others in the race early in the race. The trio’s five-min- took second and Eisenhart rounded against the clock. The new U23 TT ute lead, however, was swallowed out the podium with bronze. champion covered the 28-kilometer up by a hard chasing group and with Canyon Bicycles-Shimano’s Erik course in just 32 minutes, 38 sec- three kilometers to go, the race set up Slack placed second in the Cat 1 onds. Eisenhart’s time was nearly well for Putt and Eisenhart. road race. A strong attack in the sprint gave Not satisfied, Lehi’s Eisenhart – Continued on page 28 Putt his second national champion- who had captured the Utah State Sydney Palmer-Leger won the Women's 11-12 Cross Country National Championship. Photo by Ron Palmer-Leger. The Beehive State represented By Jared Eborn well, with more a handful of red, white and blue jerseys wrapped Stars, stripes and beehives. Might around shoulders. as well rework the national champ Perhaps the most notable win- jerseys after Utah’s finest displayed ners were rising stars Tanner Putt an impressive amount of speed and and TJ Eisenhart. The youngsters power at the latest round of USA put on quite the show during the Cycling’s 2014 national champion- Fourth of July weekend in Madison, ship races. Wisconsin. Putt, racing for the 4 cycling utah.com AUGUST 2014 COMMUTER COLUMN Roger Borgenicht Wants to See the Return of the Bicycle Roger Borgenicht is Executive Director for ASSIST, a non-profit community planning organization. He wants to see the return of and his wife enjoy bicycle outings on structure. If we invest in simple and the bicycle.