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Beer, Wine, Music, Theater, Literature, and of course 'cross. As a cat 1 cross racer I have to juggle that with career prospects (future law school student) and life (engaged and share a cat and a dog with my fiancee). It is always a battle between what would be ideal as a racer and the responsibilities of being a 24 year old with student loans looming. Then again the battle is what makes life great.

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of June 3rd, 2011

  4 June 11 • 0 comment

  Summer heat is rolling through the country as both the everyday ’cross racer and the pro line up on the weekends and weeknights to build a little bit of extra fitness. September is just around the corner and will be here before you know it. So as we get closer, what are the pro crossers up to?

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of May 27th, 2011

  27 May 11 • 0 comment

  As the Giro d’Italia wraps up this weekend and the Tour of California wrapped up on Sunday you would think that the Pro Cyclocross news would be slowing down, but think again. Lars Boom has re-upped with Rabobank. The Tour of Belgium, a cross racer’s off-season paradise? Kevin Eeckhout of Sunweb-Revor retires at the ripe old age of 21. Amy Dombroski and Katie Compton head overseas for a little pre-season European dirt. Georgia Gould, Ms. Consistency? Todd Wells, best American on the dirt. In this week’s Working Man’s Edition we look back to Spencer Paxson, Jake Wells and head to a master’s working man Peter Webber.

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of May 20th, 2011

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  It’s time to really start thinking about ’cross season, maybe even starting to glue up some tires if you haven’t already. Now that it’s that time of the year again, heading out and pinning, or zip-tying, numbers up is probably a good idea. The Pro racers have that in mind too as they’re out getting the race miles in to prepare for a strong ’cross season.

  This week, the Tour of California is being absolutely dominated by ’cross riders, with Jamey Driscoll, Jesse Anthony, Jeremy Powers, Lars Boom and Ben Jacques-Maynes all making appearances at the front of the race. [See some of our race coverage of Stage 2, Stage 3 and Stage 4.] Sven Nys is on his way to his second Olympic games after a second place finish to Julien Absalon. John Gadret came oh-so-close last week to a stage win at the Giro, but clearly that wasn’t good enough for the Frenchmen, as he sealed the deal this week with a Stage 11 win. Is Kaitlin Antonneau making a switch to the mountain bike? Rumors are brewing that the USGP may make a stop in Bend, OR. This week’s Working Man’s Edition takes another look at Justin Lindine as he heads to Canada for the Coupe de Quebeque and Spencer Paxson as he crosses the pond for the Dalby Forest World Cup.

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings Week of May 13th, 2011

  13 May 11 • 1 comment

  by Kat Statman As the weather slowly turns warmer, putting on more miles becomes less of a chore. Preparing for the hard months of cold and wet racing ahead in the fall becomes easier, and many of us are falling back in love with bikes and bike racing. It also means that now is the [...]

• Remembering Wouter Weylandt, 1984-2011

  10 May 11 • 2 comments

  

  On May 9, 2011, as most of the cycling world has seen by now, during the third stage of the Giro d’Italia, a 173-kilometer trip from Reggio Emilia to Rappallo, we witnessed a tragic event. Wouter Weylandt, a young Belgian sprinter for the Leopard-Trek team, crashed on the descent of the Passo del Bocco. Weylandt’s [...]

• SRAM Purchases Quarq, Jumps into the Power Meter Market

  9 May 11 • 0 comment

  

  A consolidation is happening in the power meter market. With Garmin buying and further developing the pedal-based Metrigear and Look teaming up with Polar for another pedal-based system, SRAM wanted in on the action. Quarq is one of the power meter leaders, along with Power Tap and SRM. “We are excited about the opportunities that this [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of May 6th, 2011

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  by Kat Statman Some weeks the ’cross season seems closer and closer, and others it just seems farther away. I’m not sure where this week stands, maybe it’s farther away, but only because there’s a lot of road and mountain bike racing news coming down the wire. So where did the top ’crossers pop up [...]

• Pro Bike Profile: Kaitlin Antonneau’s Cannondale SuperX Cyclocross Bike

  3 May 11 • 0 comment

  Our latest issue of our print magazine, Issue 12, is finally a wrap, and Cyclocross Magazine print magazine subscribers will enjoy another 108-page, content-packed magazine for a well-timed off-season cyclocross fix (and a faster pace of issues in the fall). In Issue 12, our famously comprehensive bike reviews include a full review of the Cannondale [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 29th, 2011

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  by Kat Statman The Ardennes Classics are over. The weather is getting warm. Big road races are moving away from one day 260-300 km epics to seven-plus-day stage races. The skinny climbers are coming out to play. That must mean we are getting closer and closer to ’cross season, only a four short months away. [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumbling Week of April 22, 2011

  22 April 11 • 2 comments

  by Kat Statman Yes, it’s still the off-season. How do we know that? Well, if you look at many cycling publications the front page headlines are all concerned with the Ardennes Classics, Andy Schleck’s Trek Madone and the fact that Ivan Basso is not racing the Giro d’Italia. Even though road racing has some similarities [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 15th, 2011

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  by Kat Statman Week in, week out, there’s racing to be had around the world where we can catch up on what ’crossers do in their spare time. So here it is this week. Marianne Vos continues to show that she is the best of the best. Lars Boom puts his stamp on Paris-Roubaix, will he [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 8th, 2011

  8 April 11 • 2 comments

  by Kat Statman It’s the thick of classics season and all we can think about is the smell of embrocation, rain soaked fields, 32 millimeter tubulars and practicing our dismounts and remounts. But we still have a few months before we start pedaling a bit harder and really preparing for the weekly battles. Until then, [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of April 1st, 2011

  1 April 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Sometimes it’s really hard to remember that we live and die for cyclocross, especially during the spring classics season, but Greg Keller and Molly Cameron do a pretty good job of reminding us on twitter. As we all start buying up our tubulars and thinking about what bikes and wheelsets we are [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of March 25th, 2011

  25 March 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman So is anything happening in the world of Pro Cyclocross? You better believe it. This week, let’s get a little Euro and see what’s going on for those across the pond. Zdenek Stybar is on his new Merckx road bike and has a BMX park named after him; Did anybody else see [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of March 18th, 2011

  18 March 11 • 5 comments

  by Kat Statman This week has been the biggest news week we’ve had yet during the off-season, especially with team transfers and strong rides from ’crossers that mix it up in the other disciplines. Kathy Sherwin’s mountain bike exploits continue as she and Jenny Smith nearly took a stage win at the Andalucia Bike Race; [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of February 25th, 2011

  25 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman The 2010–2011 cyclocross season is over. The general classifications have been decided and many of the rider–team agreements have been made for the 2011-2012 season. So what is there to talk about in the realm of pro cyclcoross? Well, we still have pro cyclocross to talk about. Just because the season is [...]

• An Interview with Greg Keller – Waxing Poetic on All Things Cross, Part 1

  21 February 11 • 2 comments

  

  by Kat Statman Since 2006, Greg Keller has had a voice in the cyclocross community through his site Mud and Cowbells. He holds down a job – a tough one at that – has two children and a wife while still devoting enough time to regularly blog and be an active member of the ’cross community. While [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings Week of February 18th, 2011

  18 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman With one big weekend left in the season, things have noticeably slowed down on the rumors and rumblings side of pro ’cross racing. Most riders already have their contracts worked out. There are only a few riders really looking to grab wins or strong rides over the final weekend (I’m looking at [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of February 11, 2011

  12 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman It may seem like the season is over, as many of us in the US are starting to log our long base miles or are taking advantage of all the snow in the mountains for a good physical and mental refresher, but fear not – there are still many pro cyclocross rumors and [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors & Rumblings: Week of February 4th, 2011

  5 February 11 • 0 comment

  by Kat Statman Yes, February 4th has come and gone, but there is always something exciting going on in the world of pro cyclocross. Zdenek Stybar shows us how to party and still finish on the podium; Nys hits the deck in the GvA Trophy at Lille this morning; Kevin Pauwels closes the gap in [...]