for Kids, that is:
(sorry… I don’t know how to shrink this picture!)
She spent almost 2 hours doing multiple 20mph runs down a road following the photographer’s SUV while he shot out the back… he said he took over 200 pictures and they picked that one! Trust me, she’s much cuter than the picture shows!!!
That’s awesome!
Here… this is better:
Colnago, Zero Gravity brakes? Jeez … lucky kid!
Congrats, this is what it is all about. The future of an endurance sports racing champion.
Cool bike, 650’s?
That is really cool, Congrats to you and pass on Congratulations to her for us!
Many of y’all have read my posts over the last couple of years about my kids and their triathlon adventures (my daughter’s 2002 National Championship and 2003 National Championship and her brother placing 4th making them the highest ranked brother-sister combo) but as a single dad I’ve been sooooo busy that I haven’t posted much lately.
One reason is that they’ve taken up mountain bike racing “for fun” this Spring. At 7, my son is too young to race “officially” so he does the Shimano Kids Kups, but my 9-year-old daughter went for the full-fledged-climb-descend-crash-and-burn mountain bike racing! She started in February and by May she had won 5 races, won the Texas State Mountain Bike Racing Championships, qualified for the Junior Olympics and ended up ranked #1 in the nation by USA Cycling / NORBA!
If you have a junior that wants to just race bikes, look into mountain bike racing… no cars and it’s very kid-friendly (at least here in Texas).
She still love triathlons, though, and in September she will race one weekend in Atlanta at the IronKids National Championships, and then the following weekend at Mammoth Mountain in California at the Mountain Bike National Championships (at over 9,000 feet which will be tough on her sea-level lungs!).
Awesome, just awesome, what else is there to say…
Would you adopt me? I need a Colnago…
Good eye Gary! They ARE Zero Gravity brakes and she loves them! They stop much better than the Cane Creeks she used to have. It is a cool little bike and it has little 24" wheels that they stopped making about 10 years ago.
Thank’s all of y’all… I’ll pass the kind words along to her.
Oh… and here’s a picture with her brother that’s much more flattering of her:
that’s awesome man. great to see that you’ve got your kids on the right start. good for you.
Shhhh. . .Don’t anyone show that pic to Tibbsy. . .He’ll go bonkers over that bike. . .
Awesome for IronDad and family. . .
Invisible tape Tibbsy. . .invisible tape. . .
Awesome! Nothing like athletics to build well rounded kids. Enjoy these years while they last.
Your zeal for all things two-wheels blares through like a Chicago El whistle at 3:00 AM.
Wow! That’s awesome!
Good looking kids too! Do they resemble their mother or their father? 
Keep up the good parenting. If they are training hard they are learning the importance of discipline, self-control, and physical fitness.
-Robert
Incredible! you seem like a helluva father with one great set of kids. Inspirational.
I thank you for this post. It made me realize how stupid and meaningless it is for me to cry over the Pistons loss last night,a game they surely had won but let it slip away.
Congrats on your great kids!
How cool . Not just that she races and had her picture in SI but that she has a father like you who is so proud, caring and nurturing
That is very cool - I hope both your kids kick butt in their races. I’m glad I’m in a different age group!
Thanks Robert… my son looks exactly like me (drop-dead handsome 
and my daughter looks like her mom and my sister.
Tibbs… Kiersten has already said that when she outgrows the bike no one else can race it, not even her brother. When it’s done racing she wants to hang it on the wall. It’s small enough and pretty enough that we just might do that!
That’s very cool. My daughter’s also nine and planning on racing this summer. I’ll definitely show her this for inspiration. Though I hope she doesn’t ask when she can get a bike like that.
Fantastic!! We just took the training wheels off my daughter’s bike and she’s a little speed demon around the neighborhood now. I showed her your picture for inspiration:)
