Winter Training & Watching Your Weight
I’ve spent the entire season riding more & faster than ever before and, according to my handy-dandy Garmin 705 calorie-counter and multi-tool, I’ve burned off enough energy to shed one or two of me this season. But I’m still here, trust me.
In fact, all year my weight has remained in the same 175 +/-5 [...]
Nature Valley Grand Prix - Playing the Role of a Sponge
From June 11-15, I certainly was playing the role of a sponge. I learned sooo much and had sooo much fun with Kristin, her teammate Emma Rickards, Emma’s fellow aussie friend Kate Bates, Kristin’s husband Joe, and Jim Miller. I also went to Nature Valley with a fellow awesome LaGrange teammate, Michelle Orem. I will [...]
Cyclists’ “Woodstock” Weeks Away
Going to RAGBRAI again, God Bless!
The cyclist’s version of Woodstock is once again, gratefully, at hand, and I’m positively stewing in anticipation of the chance to get together with a couple tens of thousands of cyclists and a five-hundred miles of nearly constant SAG support.
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the acronym [...]
What To Do When You Can’t Do The Bike…
Going into 2008 I had put in a lot of hours on the spin bike doing hard intervals in the basement to the point that the sump pump kicked on to vacate the sweat. Then the club rides began and it seemed everybody had improved a notch or two and had ambitions on strong racing results. As [...]
Amateur Racing Update From America’s Breadbasket
Okay, so this year it seems the common thread of logic, is that to attract good money-paying racers one has to claim they’ve got the GOD AWFUL HARDEST race course e-e-e-ever.
In our case, it’s called Hellbender - but not for reasons you would think - and it proclaims it is BAR NONE the hardest [...]
Local Racing Season Is On….Finally!
After a long, cold, wet, gray winter of Dickensian proportions, followed by those too-early-in-the-year “training races” with names like “Froze Toes” for good reason, the temps have finally surpassed the 70 degree mark across the U.S. Midwest and the race calendar is suddenly chockablock.
Now this is what we live for, isn’t it?
So we’re all finding [...]
Ever read Ten Points, by Bill Strickland?
Hillsboro-Roubaix; Got Bombed Yesterday
Bicycling magazine editor Bill Strickland spilled out the deepest, most painful secrets of his troubled life in a small but incredible book that contrast these horrific twists and turns, and his process of working through them, against his challenge of winning ten points in the local Crit series in one year.
To [...]
Bicycle.Net’s New Features
Bicycle.Net is adding a handful of great new features. Check back over the next couple weeks as we launch our expanded magazine format.
Vande Velde’s View: The dust settles
Vande Velde’s View: The dust settles
By Christian Vande Velde
CSC Professional Cycling Team
Oh my lord, the morning after the Tour is the best breakfast in the world.
It’s better than Christmas, as Stuey says. I spoke with the man a few times over the course of the last two days as he coached me to make it [...]
