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- The cycle cross kind of developed

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out of people racing in Europe

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and they wanted to train
here in the off season.

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So, they just started
riding through fields

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and random stuff, to where they'd have

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to get off their bikes and run

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and then it kind of developed into them

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putting barriers and stairs that they

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make you run up and
they're really short races,

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they're really hard, really fun.

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It's sort of like the
steeplechase of cycling.

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(audience cheers)

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(indistinct announcer)

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I'm lucky enough that
I get to fly C-130's.

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Flying was my childhood
dream and I kind of

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never really pursued it 'till
I was, I think, about 26

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and so I'm working on a
private pilot's license

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and found out I really loved flying

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and started looking at the guard

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as a great way to get a
lot of good flight training

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and get to do some of the
coolest flying you can really do.

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It's pretty amazing to get
to do both of these things,

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you know normally, again,
to fly an airplane like that

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as a full time job and same thing

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with trying to be a competitive cyclist

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and I can do them both kind of part time,

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I get to do both of the
things that I really love.

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The lifestyle at the Air National Guard

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lets you do all this stuff, so right now

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I could go work at the
airlines too and come

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back and fly a C-130 and specifically

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the Wyoming Air National Guard,

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I was really interested in
because the mission of the C-130

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and the guys doing the mass fire fighting.

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I don't do that stuff yet, it's the most

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advanced flying that we do but growing up

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in Colorado we didn't have
other natural disasters

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so forest fires, it was the stuff

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that I worried about as a kid.

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So, to even be a small part about trying

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to fight those was a
huge attraction to it.

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I wanted to come back to racing but not

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as serious as I used to do it.

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I got to go to the World Championships

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and represent the US
at a bunch of races and

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now it's kind of difference to this year,

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I got together with some friends in the

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cycling industry and we
decided we wanted to do

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a cool project so we're
using my racing as a way

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to raise money and awareness for veterans.

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So, we're selling the
cycling kits that I ride in

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and then we're gonna auction
off one of these bikes

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at the end of the season
and put all the money

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towards veterans.

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(bell rings)

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(plane engine roars)