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• The Search for the Perfect, Pain-Free ’Cross Fit

  15 June 12 • 1 comment

  Does your back hurt during ’cross? Setting up a new ’cross bike and wondering if your setup is really dialed? Spring and summer is the time to figure these issues out. We’re here to help. When it comes to cyclocross, the bike fit conundrum comes with a host of oft-repeated truths. These include buying a [...]

• Tackling Nutrition as a Noob: A Column by Josh Schwiesow

  3 June 12 • 0 comment

  

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. He’s taken a hard look at how the first season of racing went overall, looked at his first race attempts, and now he’s tackling the technical side of things by exploring nutrition. by Josh Schwiesow Most cyclists spend some time focusing on their weight, [...]

• Rebecca Rusch Teaches Women Technique, Confidence and Serious MTB Skills – Video

  23 May 12 • 0 comment

  

  Last weekend at DirtFest, endurance world mountain bike champion Rebecca Rusch showed off her skills at several women-only clinics. She and pro downhiller Katie Holden demonstrated proper cornering and body positioning on the mountain bike trails just outside of State College, Pennsylvania, and while the techniques may not be cyclocross-specific, there’s a lot to be [...]

• What to Expect When You’re Expecting … To Attend Your First Race: A Column by Josh Schwiesow

  20 May 12 • 4 comments

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. Why cyclocross and why now? Well, don’t ask us, just check out his first column. But in Josh’s timeline, now that he’s found his new bike and taken a hard look at how the first season of racing went overall, he’s ready to start [...]

• First Lessons in Season One: A Column from Josh Schwiesow

  29 April 12 • 6 comments

  

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. Why cyclocross and why now? Well, don’t ask us, just check out his first column. But in Josh’s timeline, now that he’s found his new bike, he’s looking at how the first season of racing went, in order to see what needs to be [...]

• Women’s Wednesdays: Clinics Down Under

  25 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Kate Lansell The first Dirty Deeds (the cyclocross series that’s growing the sport in Australia) women’s skills session was held last Saturday at Darebin Parklands. For a misty Melbourne morning, it was great to have a bunch of enthusiastic women arrive all kitted up and ready to go. Some were experienced riders who had participated in [...]

• Women’s Wednesday: Off-Season Antics, Part II

  18 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford The off-season isn’t really much of an off season for any of our serious women racers, as we found out in our last edition of Women’s Wednesday. We heard from racers like Kaitlin Antonneau, Christine Varadaros and Nicole Duke, and these speedy ladies have all already started racing their other season. Today, [...]

• Newbie News: Eight Tips to Starting Cyclocross

  7 April 12 • 5 comments

  

  Over the year, and especially in the months leading up to the start of ’cross season, here at Cyclocross Magazine, we get a lot of questions from novice racers and people who are excited to be trying their first race in the fall. The main question we hear: “how do I get started?”

  In this new bi-weekly feature, Newbie News, we’ll be talking about how to get started racing cyclocross, regardless of skill level, budget or fitness. We wanted to start this column with a bang, and give you a preview of what’s to come as the weeks progress and the season gets closer and closer.

• Prepping for the Season: To Run or Not to Run

  30 March 12 • 8 comments

  

  It’s the debate of the ages: should you be incorporating running into your cyclocross training program? We run during our races constantly: over the barriers, through the mud, across the beach, up the hill. For a pure cyclist with no running experience, that can be an overwhelming addition to a race.

• Women’s Wednesday: How Women Are Training in the Off-Season

  28 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford Our Women’s Wednesday column is back, and this time we’ve asked around to find out what it is that female racers are doing in the off-season to prep for the upcoming cyclocross season. We checked in with racers like Kaitlin Antonneau, who also races road while going to school, and Olympic hopefuls [...]

• “The Feed Zone” Author Allen Lim on Riding & Nutrition During Tim Johnson’s Ride on Washington

  18 March 12 • 15 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford Ever wonder how to fuel during a long ride without getting bored, or worse, getting the dreaded “gut-rot” (cyclocrossers might know it as “cross-rot,” but the principal is the same). Lately, there’s been some serious buzz in the cyclocross community about a new cookbook by chefs (and scientists!) Allen Lim and Biju [...]

• Training Tuesday: Matt Fitzgerald Talks Off-Season Weight Loss

  6 March 12 • 5 comments

  

  by Molly Hurford It’s the off-season for most, the beginning of road season for some, and for a good chunk (pun intended) of racers, now is the time they’re choosing to think about dropping that off-season weight gain before the real work of training for cyclocross starts. After all, when you race in a skinsuit [...]

• Video: How to Corner, with the Keoughs

  29 December 11 • 1 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford With Nationals rapidly approaching, it can’t hurt to brush up on some basic techniques: after all, no matter what the course conditions, corners will always be a part of cyclocross racing. A couple of months ago, the Keough brothers, of New England cyclocross fame, showed us some of their remount, dismount and [...]

• Training Workout Review: Cyclo90 H.I.T. Program

  19 December 11 • 1 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford We recently interviewed Graeme Street, the creator of the Cyclo90 H.I.T. Program, and now that we’ve had time to check out the DVDs in his collection, we’re bringing you a review of his program. Cyclo90 H.I.T. focuses on high intensity training, core strength and rapid fitness gains in a 90-day period. The [...]

• Cyclocross Power: A Detailed Look into Ryan Trebon’s Watts

  2 December 11 • 14 comments

  

  Cyclocross Magazine got a rare look at a top-’crosser’s power file: Ryan Trebon’s (LTS-Felt) race winning effort at the 2011 Planet Bike USGP. Power specialist and coach Russell Stevenson analyzes the data and looks at exactly why – and where – Trebon is so good. See for yourself what constitutes a world-class cyclocross talent! by [...]