USA Mountain Bike Pro Racer, Jeff Hall


Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts

Sunday, December 9, 2007

SALSA CYCLES, Jeff Hall @ St. Felician, Quebec Canada: World Cup #5 (6/30/07)

"DNF": it was bound to happen with all the travel.

Fly to Montreal, Rental car was screwed up, 3 hours to get out of Montreal. Drive 350 miles to the end of the road in northern Quebec in a pounding rainstorm, through Moose country. We saw 3 or 4 along the side of the road. Get to this little town about 3:00 AM. Sleep for 4 hours then drive 2 hours to the race site. Get there and they changed the schedule, Jeff can't ride the course till 4:00 in the afternoon. So we hang around 4 hours, cold and damp. Drive back to our hotel, then he races the next day. You can get the idea. Jeff raced about an hour, then pulled out, Just had nothing that day. Most of the Americans were way off the pace too. Six major races, one every week, that started in Germany back in May. It went Germany, Austria, Austria, Utah, Quebec and again in Quebec. That is the most grueling travel schedule we have ever raced. Jeff has 1 week off to recover and it was off to Vermont for the USA National Championship Race.


In the meantime, there wasn't any pictures this race. I pulled together a few European pics.

Planning out the next destination, in our hotel room in Austria.



Pictures above are from Austria, including a castle that was built in the 1200's, that they are reconstructing. The pictures below are from Luxemburg and Belgium.




Sunday, December 2, 2007

SALSA CYCLES, Jeff Hall @ Mont St-Anne, Canada: World Cup #4 (6/23/07)


Waiting for the racers call up to the line.

Start lap of the mens race.



Adam Craig: USA
53rd place, best World Cup finish of 2007, Mont St-Anne. Gathered 15 more UCI points. Gaining UCI points every race in the last 8 races.

Monday, November 12, 2007

SALSA CYCLES, Jeff Hall @ Offenburg, Germany: World Cup #2 (5/27/07)











TEAM SALSA: Pro Mountain Bike Racer, Jeff Hall & Team Manager/Driver/Wrench/Travel Coordinator/Language Uninterpreter, Mike Hall. Spreckin sie English any-one, eh?

The plan: Fly into Zurich, Switzerland, drive into Germany. Race at Offenburg, the World Cup. Find a race somewhere in Europe on the 2nd week-end, to pickup UCI points, then race the World Cup at Champery, Switzerland. Come home, simple eh?

Raced at Offenburg in a total mud fest. Had a top 95 finish. This is good. Thousands of spectators braving the rain and mud. Bleachers full of fans in the middle of the woods eating brats and drinking beer in a pouring rain. Yelling as the racers slide, slip, sprint and ride by in the gumbo mud. The fans have a passion, there is no doubt. Biking in Europe is a true sport.

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SALSA CYCLES, JEFF HALL at Houffalize, Belgium: World Cup #1 (4/22/07)