Monthly Archives: March 2012

race announcement

Randy Hadzor – Team USA

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It’s official…

(source)

Randy Hadzor will be representing Team USA at Nancy France, 2012.

Here is the official email from USAT:

The 2012 ITU Standard Course Duathlon World Championships will take place September 22-23, 2012, in Nancy, France.

Nancy France is just 20 or so days after the Powerman World Championship in Zofingen Switzerland, perfect timing for fitness and transportation potentially. Giving ample time to get acclimated and being that Zofingen is the longer distance, the training taper will be spot on.

Now it’s just a matter of financing the trip, WoolSports, Mello Velo Bicycles & Café, M&J Coaching continue to be invaluable supporters making training and racing at the current level possible. Randy could still however benefit from local personal and corporate support.

Help Randy get to Europe!

(pronounced yerp)

We’ve set up a donation page with the funds going to race fees and travel expenses helping Randy get to and compete in these World Championships.

Randy is open to advertising interests and other various arrangements ie; get your company logo on the uniform worn in Switzerland or more  locally at another race; also possible is advertising right here on btbathletics.com!

In France he’ll have to wear the Team USA uniform which will be available to Team USA Nancy athletes sometime this summer, but other races are open for discussion, with the new Variety Studios silk screen capabilities virtually anything is possible!

Thanks to all for your support! It’s an exciting opportunity!

2012 is going to be a big year for BTB !

interesting

kraftwerk – tour de france

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I don’t know how I’ve never seen this video before. I loves me some electro-music to zone out and do design/artwork. Rumor has it Kraftwerk has been the dudes since back in the day for that genre of music, not to mention their sweet use of international style typography and the whole cycling thing.

I don’t actually know much about them but I plan to listen to them while I work today.

interesting

"Radball"

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So while Marcus was researching the new Canon DSLR that’s about to be or maybe is on the market… he came across this video that he shared with me. The sport is like, as he put it, “upgraded bike polo”. (For those not familiar with bike polo think horse polo and then substitute bicycles for the horses.)

So then I obviously had to know.. is this a real sport or some sort of hipster/photography exercise in doing ridiculous things to show off both bicycle and camera prowess.

I found, to my glee…

Radball is a legit sport.. and it looks wild. This second video is titled “Cycle-ball / Radball UCI world championships Romania vs Malaysia part 1” it looks pretty official to me… I recommend watching numerous other videos as well, the handling skills are unreal.

I only became aware of bicycle polo recently – – and it’s pretty cool. As spring approaches you will most likely be able to find the Syracuse Bike Polo folks out wheelin’ around Barry Park near the University / Westcott area.

I’m curious if anyone will build up some of these wild looking bikes and start nurturing a local Radball culture.

update

2012 races / seeking sponsorship update

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I got an email yesterday from USAT saying I’m in consideration for Team USA for 2012 ITU Short Course Duathlon World Championships in Nancy, France. The World Championship is set to take place September 22-23… I replied saying I would love to be considered… now all I can do is wait… and train

This renews my awareness to the fact I still have to do a substantial amount of sponsorship work.. Wool Sports, Mello Velo and M&J Coaching stands by BTB here as the 2012 season approaches, helping a great deal to keep the dream with in reach. However I still need to come up with a large amount of finances to get to these destination races. The cool thing is that if I am selected for France, I could potentially be ‘over there’ in Switzerland already and have perfect timing for trans continental logistics and level of fitness as the Powerman World Championship is September 2nd in Zofingen.

So, feasibly I may only need to come up with cash for 1 round trip airfare.. still don’t actually have a functioning aero bike – but we can only work with we got, some day the gear will come but for now I’m content to kick the shit out of pros with whatever I’ve got laying around.

I’m totally open to any leads for sponsorship assistance. If I could choose, I prefer to help promote local Syracuse / New York companies that know what hard work is. I’m not very good about talking myself up to places so I may enlist my dad as my manager for these kind of discussions. After all he knows what it’s about as he is getting all dialed in for his Ironman 70.3 Age Group World Championship in 2012 as well.

That’s it for the update, 2012 is gonna be huge! See you out there.