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• ’Cross Intel: Katie Compton’s Nationals Pre-Race Interview with Webber

  7 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  For full coverage, schedules and information on the 2012 Cyclocross National Championships at Badger Prairie County Park in Madison, Wisconsin, visit our 2012 Cyclocross National Championships homepage. See all of Cyclocross Magazine‘s 2012 USA Cycling National Championships video interviews here! Pete Webber caught up with Katie Compton, who hopes to add to her record streak [...]

• ’Cross Intel: Pete Webber Recons the “KoppenBadger Cross”

  6 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  Hello Cyclocross Fans! It’s Friday here in Belgium – I mean Madison – pre-ride day for myself and lots of other masters who’ll be racing tomorrow. It is a day of preparation and strategizing as we recon the course and make final equipment adjustments. I’m feeling great and made some hard efforts to “put some tension in [...]

• Never Complacent – An Interview with 7-Time National Champion Katie Compton

  5 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) has done what no other American cyclocrosser – male or female – has: won seven consecutive National Championships. On Sunday, she will line up in Madison, WI, to attempt an eighth victory. Cyclocross Magazine caught up with Katie as she makes her final preparations to talk to her about her season, her [...]

• ’Cross Intel: Pete Webber Reports on Nationals Uncertainty

  4 January 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Pete Webber Hello Cyclocross Fans! Cyclocross Magazine has invited me to write a column for the remainder of season to provide some insight from the US Nationals and Masters Worlds. During the coming weeks, I’ll try to write as often as possible and provide a look inside these races.

• Letters from Camp: An Interview with Sam O’Keefe

  4 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Evan Schmitt EuroCrossCamp IX just came to a close and we recently caught up with a few of the campers in a series of interviews we will publish prior to Nationals. In our third installment, we talk to C3/Athletes Serving Athletes junior rider Sam O’Keefe. Did you miss our interview with Jordan Cullen? Go back [...]

• Letters from Camp: An Interview with Jordan Cullen

  3 January 12 • 1 comment

  

  by Evan Schmitt EuroCrossCamp IX just came to a close, and we recently caught up with a few of the campers in a series of interviews we will publish prior to Nationals. In our second installment, we talk to Clif Bar Development Junior rider Jordan Cullen. Did you miss our interview with Cypress Gorry? Go back [...]

• Letters from Camp: An interview with Cypress Gorry

  1 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Evan Schmitt EuroCrossCamp IX just came to a close and we recently caught up with a few of the campers in a series of interviews we will publish prior to Nationals. In our first installment, we talk to Whole Athlete-Specialized junior rider Cypress Gorry, whose homeland of Arizona is a world away from the [...]

• A Look at EuroCrossCamp with Head Coach Geoff Proctor

  23 December 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Evan Schmitt We recently caught up with Geoff Proctor, the head coach of the EuroCrossCamp in Belgium. The camp takes the top American riders in the Junior, U23 and Elite ranks to Belgium for a two week racing camp over the Christmas holiday season. This marks the ninth year of the camp and we [...]

• In the Saddle with Kaitlin Antonneau, the US’s Youngest Female Euro Hotshot

  23 December 11 • 1 comment

  

  Kaitlin Antonneau may only by 19 years old, but this season, she’s been on fire in the cyclocross world. Most recently, Antonneau scored her arguably best placing this season, coming in 10th in the World Cup race in Namur, Belgium last weekend. by Bart Hazen

• “You Got This”: Women of the Verge Series, Part VI

  22 December 11 • 8 comments

  

  Cindy Brennan is a librarian by day, as well as a part-time student and she’s wrapping up her second season of cyclocross. 

She races for Bikes Not Bombs, which promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war and environmental destruction. For 25 years, BNB has been a nexus of bike recycling and community empowerment [...]

• Sunny Cyclocross Set for Dade City, Florida

  22 December 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Molly Hurford We caught up with race promoter Dan Millstead to ask about his Florida race, which will take place (in pretty warm conditions!) the same day as Elite Nationals in the negative temps of Madison, Wisconsin. This reporter is a teensy bit jealous of the racers who picked the Everglades as their winter [...]

• Checking in with Gabby Day, UK Cyclocrosser

  20 December 11 • 1 comment

  

  Our intrepid Euro correspondent and photographer Bart Hazen snagged an interview with Gabby Day, who recently scored a top ten finish at Koksijde, the site of this year’s Worlds. by Bart Hazen

• Mid-Season Kickstart After Fun in the Spanish Sun – Christine Vardaros’ Rider Diary

  16 December 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Christine Vardaros For the last few  weeks I’ve had a positive outlook on my cyclocross season – and it was about friggin’ time, I must add.  I am now starting to feel like a bike racer again – attacking the courses rather than feeling like a cyclotourist doing leisurely loops around the local park.

• “You Got This” – Winner of the Verge Amateur Women Series Has It

  15 December 11 • 4 comments

  

  by Ellen Noble Richard Fries calls me the hipster girl. Maybe it’s because of my awesome pink socks, my sweet Trek Portsmouth skinsuit or my thick-rimmed glasses, who knows. But it’s strange to think that before my hipster identity was created, I was just a normal mountain bike racer. A 3-hour-long-million-calories-burned-mountain-bike-racer. And in a true [...]

• In the Saddle with Allen Krughoff, Working Man Pro

  13 December 11 • 1 comment

  

  by Pete Webber Allen Krughoff of Boulder, Colorado, is one of the “Working Men” of pro cyclocross who’s racked up a solid string of results this season. In addition to stomping stacked fields in Colorado, he finished fifth at the CXLA UCI weekend and has been knocking on the top 10 door at the USGPs. [...]