Went to Interbike this week with Team SoCalCross! It was really awesome seeing all the different products, talking to previous current and potential future sponsors, and meeting some very accomplished pro riders and awesome people.
Namely:
Jens Voight
Joachim Parbo (4 time Danish National Cyclocross Champion)
Bob Roll 
and Steve BlickSome of the Dealers
Belgium Budder
Clif Bar/Luna
On the Wendsday night of Interbike we raced Cross Vegas. In the UCI pro womens field our team represented with me, Alexis Ryan, Kendall Ryan, Dorothy Wong, and Christina Probert. (Morgan Ryan raced in the ProMens field) We were the largest womens team at the race. There were some heavy hitters at this race, which made for the whole thing to be a pure suffer-fest.
Results:
1. Katerina Nash (Cze) Luna Pro Team
2. Amy Dombroski (USA) Luna Pro Team
3. Mary McConneloug (USA) Kenda/Seven/Notubes
4. Georgia Gould (USA) Luna Pro Team
5. Susan Butler (USA) Hudz-Subaru
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On Friday September 10, 2010 the students of Los Osos High School joined together to remember the events of September 11. The STAND organization at the school organized an event where 1,300 students (about a third of the student body) stood on the grass spelling out the words PEACE. (Unfortunately I was not able to take place in this event due to being in the hospital, after being hit by a car the day before.) Afterwords, the names of those lost in that tragic event were read on the loud speaker.
The point of doing this was to promote peace among different cultures, and to remember the tragidy of those events and how they brought our nation together. An article was posted on this event on the front page of the Daily Bulletin and online. http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_16045157?IADID=Search-www.dailybulletin.com-www.dailybulletin.com .
What is shocking to me is what some of the people commenting on the article. Some are saying this event was pointless and that the kids of the High School are promoting false hope, and that attempting to obtain peace will be seen as a weakness to the other nations of the world. Comments like this really infuriated me. How is an act of PEACE and an attempt by the youth of the world destructive? It isn't like we were saying that there is never a cause for war. Our main comment was that a minor act of harmony and tolerance can in general make the various communities of the world a safer place to live. I would think that being united as a community, country, or the world would NOT promote destruction, but instead it would minimize conflicts.
Jens Voight
Joachim Parbo (4 time Danish National Cyclocross Champion)
and Steve Blick
