Indy Rootstock :: James Nichols

Personal Summary

Challenge Equals Growth – Always strive to do more today than you did yesterday.

Professional Experience

Owner of Tailwynd and Tailwynd Events

Full Service Promotional Companies
Athletic & Fitness Events
Marketing Strategy
Web Design
Full Service Athletic Event Management Company

15+ years in the construction products industry
Currently President of Rogers Block, Indianapolis, IN
BA Business – Washington State University
MBA – Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

Athletic Summary

Adventure Racing/Orienteering

2009 LBL Challenge (Bonk Hard Racing)
2008 Planet Adventure Urban Sprint (2nd Coed, 2nd Overall)
2008 Planet Adventure Sprint Redux
2007 – … year off for knee surgery
2006 – Warner Adventure Race, Nashville, TN (2nd place in co-ed)
2006 – Wild Scallion, Chicago IL (15th place overall out of 99 teams, 12th in division)
2006 – Indianapolis Adventure Race, Indianapolis, IN (6th place overall)
2006 – Planet Adventure Urban Sprint, Indianapolis, IN (2nd place co-ed, 6th overall)
2006 – Planet Adventure Sprint, Indianapolis, IN (3rd place all male, 7th overall)
2005 – Wild Scallion, Chicago IL (25th place overall)
2005 – DINO 18 Hour Mission Adventure Race, North Vernon, IN (10th place overall)

Running & Other Athletic Interests

2008 - Hilly Hundred
2008 - Missouri River 340 (340 mile paddle race across Missouri)
2006-2009 - 3-State 3-Mountain Challenge Century, Chattanooga, TN
2007 – The “Wild Ride”, Road Bike Century
2005 – 2007 – Multiple Orienteering Events
2006 – DINO/XTerra Triathlon, New Castle, IN
2006 – DINO/XTerra Triathlon, Logansport, IN
2005 – Indianapolis Sprint Triathlon, Indianapolis, IN (2nd place in division)
2004 – Indianapolis Sprint Triathlon, Indianapolis, IN
2004 – Indianapolis Marathon, Indianapolis, IN
2004 – DINO/XTerra Triathlon, Logansport, IN
2004 – Indianapolis Mini Marathon, Indianapolis, IN
2003-2005 Multiple 5k’s and 10k’s

Plans for 2009

To compete in several 24 hour races
To race the MR340 again, this time tandem
To continue volunteering my time to direct and coorindate adventure races and orienteering meets

Memberships

United States Canoe Association
Central Indiana Bike Association
Indiana Crossroads Orienteering, Membership Director

James Nichols @tailwyndevents

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Mountain Bike

As an adventure racer, I seem to have fallen into a rut with my mountain bike where it sits around in it's slick tires and PowerStrap pedals setup to race.

Well yesterday I changed out those pedals and tires and took the bike to Town Run. While riding the nicely groomed trails at the park I realized just how much I miss just riding trails. It sounds funny to say, but riding trails just for fun is not something I've done in the past year or so. I plan to be back tomorrow and then find a time in the next week to go to Brown County for more.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Comeback!

The last few months of race directing and Planet Adventure transition have taken their toll on me. I've struggled to find time to train, and in reality I've struggled to find much extra time for anything.

But no matter... I'm back! Thanks to great friends that are willing to ride just sub 20mph with me, I've been back on the bike 3 out of the last 5 days. I've also been out to paddle, barely getting in the monthly paddle trip with Doug (we're now at 35 months in a row of paddling at least once each month together).

Today I'm hitting the trails, hoping my knee hangs in there until next Friday's surgery. It'll be nice to get that floating chip out of there and have some knee-lock-up free training experiences. I'm shooting to be back in the game for the Hilly Hundred at the end of October.

Thank you friends!