Wow, hitting the hay after an amazing day in Steamboat Springs, Colorado for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Saw lots of stuff, including an incredible pack sprint finish to Stage 4 of the race. Met a bunch of great people, both locals and folks from the Front Range also up for the race. Even saw some old friends.<\/p>\n
As a last-minute volunteer, I was initially put on bike corral\/bike parking duty, but it turned out they asked for additional help in the media room, where a friend was already assigned to work.<\/p>\n
I got to spend the day setting up for the post-race press conference, got to witness it (have some video I’ll post later), and learned a lot along the way.<\/p>\n
Came away impressed with some of the racers, especially the Italian winner and a Russian top performer on the day, who, even while not speaking their native language, came across as engaging, funny, excited for the race and, of course happy to give a nod to their sponsors whenever possible.<\/p>\n
Also met a CSU professor involved in a biotech startup, and a local young woman with a cool food product. Always liked Steamboat as a town with a ski area, rather than a ski town, but impressed with the show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Always liked Steamboat as a town with a ski area, rather than a ski town, but impressed with the show it put on today, as well as all that seems to be going on up here when it comes to business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}