Go big or go home

Getting published is pretty cool.  Getting Published covering a World Cup event is even better.  Relationships are everything, of course, and I have Craig McFarland to thank for my first published article in New England Cyclist, in the summer of 1992.  I raced the Sport Class , then grabbed my camera still covered in mud and ran around the course  to photograph the pros.  Tomac, Furtado, Overend, Dacourt, Grehwal …and  Bob Roll, the original Fruit Loop, freshly retired from Motorola road duty, racing mountain bikes for the hell of it.

The, highlight for me, at the time was not only writing the article and snapping some pics but also having one of my pics of Tom Masterson, selected for the cover.  Tom was a local rider, lived in Dover at the time and a former national cyclocross champion.  He came knocking on my door a few weeks later asking for a copy of of his photo. Nicest guy in the world.   There is irony in this story of course because almost 20 years later Tom runs a mountain bike camp in Vermont, Coyote Hill, that my son Colin has attended 3 years running.

20 Years is a bit of a drought for published work however…time to put a plan together for 2012…DH World Cup at Windham?…time to go big again.