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• Meredith Miller is Pretty in Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

  18 October 11 • 1 comment

  by Molly Hurford Meredith Miller, for the second year in a row, is putting on her pink skinsuit once again and fundraising for Breast Cancer Awareness, this year through a silent auction, t-shirts through Stomach of Anger and a raffle on BikeReg.com. She sat down to answer a few questions for Cyclocross Magazine, in between [...]

• Hup, Hup, Hup Y’all! Cyclocross, Texas-Style

  14 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Daniel Curtin A recent transplant to Texas has written a couple of editorials for this publication. An experienced cyclocross racer, instructor, and race promoter, moves to Texas from a hotbed of cyclocross somewhere North of the Red River. Probably going to take over and runaway with the Texas Cup. Me? I’m well-versed in Texas, [...]

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

  13 October 11 • 2 comments

  

  Cait is in her second year of racing cyclocross and rides for Geekhouse Bikes. When she’s not racing, she’s a horse-training, figure-skating, gymnast-ing, computer-nerd-ing, bike-mechanic-ing mermaid. If you see her at a cyclocross race, be sure to ask her about power animals. [Editor's Note: it will be the best conversation of your night. Guaranteed.] She [...]

• In the Saddle with Helen Wyman, Great Britain’s National Champion and Nine Time US Race Winner

  10 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  This time around, when the phrase “the British are coming!” was shouted at nighttime in Massachusetts, the British could not be stopped by the Americans. The Brit in question? None other than Helen Wyman, cyclocross National Champion of Great Britain, who recently snagged not one, not two, but nine victories early season on American soil [...]

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

  7 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Kristina Donehew is in her first year of racing cyclocross and races for Hup United. In her earlier years, she played some college and professional tennis. After four surgeries she discovered cycling and has ridden road, mountain and track with limited racing experience. She is just getting back on the bike after a five year [...]

• In the Saddle with Mitch Graham, Director of the Zipp Ohio Valley Cyclocross Series

  7 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Mitch Graham is the director of the Zipp Ohio Valley Cyclocross Series, as well as the race director of the Harbin Park UCI C1 event, part of the Cincy3 weekend of racing and one of only eight UCI Category 1 races in the United States. In addition to promoting races, he also runs BioWheels, a [...]

• Madison Nationals 2012: Interview with Race Director Tom Schuler

  5 October 11 • 3 comments

  

  This year will, technically speaking, be without a US National Championships, as for the first time the event has been moved from December to early January. While both excitement and concern over Wisconsin’s January weather have been brewing, there have been few details available to those interested in making the trip. We pinned down race [...]

• Craig Richey’s Rider Diary: Season Openers and the European Invasion

  4 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Canadian racer Craig Richey is starting his season in the US this year, though like last year in Belgium, he’s finding himself up against some of the top Euro pros . He checks in with an update on the season so far, coming straight out of New England, the place some might consider to be [...]

• Mical Dyck Rider Diary: From CX to Xterra to CX

  4 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Mical Dyck in her element – on the ’cross course. ©Doug Brons Mical Dyck loudly announced her cyclocross season’s intentions in Seattle, rifling off the front of the Elite women’s pack at both StarCrossed and the Rapha-Focus GP. She claimed fourth and second places in those races, respectively, and was the last hanger-on when World [...]

• In the Saddle with Jason Knauff, Series Director of the Chicago Cross Cup

  3 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  by Barron Gira We recently caught up with Jason Knauff, series director of the Chicago Cross Cup (CCC) since 2009, at a ’cross practice he was leading in a Chicago park. Cyclocross Magazine: Tell us a bit about yourself and how you started in cyclocross? Jason Knauff: I’m originally from Baltimore and lived in Boston [...]

• In the Saddle with Brian Joder, Promoter of the Sacramento Cyclocross Series

  1 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Brian Joder of BicyclingEvents.com chats to Tim Westmore about this year’s series, sponsors, format and the “smiling dirty faces” of Sacramento.

• Rider Diary: Gabby Day’s US Adventures

  30 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  Since mid-September, UK-based racer Gabby Day has been on the East Coast in the US racing in the MidAtlantic and New England races, from Nittany to Nor’Easter. This Wednesday, she finished second at the Midnight Ride of Cyclocross in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and updated us on how her trip to America has gone so far. (Our [...]

• A Fine Line – Trying To Stay Upright In Oregon, Part II

  30 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  This season, we’ll be following a few racers who have some interesting stories to share. From a freshly-minted elite racer to a newly declared master, we have a wide variety of racers we’ll be hearing from. We’ll catch up with them intermittently as the season wanes on, and hopefully we’ll be able to chart their [...]

• Rider Profile: Wandering Cyclist Add to the Ranks of that ’Cross Community

  30 September 11 • 1 comment

  Throughout Northern California there are many, many cyclists whose personalities add to those idiosyncrasies of the cyclocross community— competitive, relaxed, laid back, perhaps even on the fringe of normal society. Last year, a meandering athlete “found” cyclocross and added her “bent” to the sport. Now, she sets sights on immersing herself in the scene and improving her game.

• In the Saddle with Adam McGrath, Pro Cyclocross Racer Turned Farmer/Racer

  29 September 11 • 2 comments

  

  Pro racer Adam McGrath has gone from international racer to local farmer in the past year, though he hasn’t hung up his bikes just yet. He’ll be chronicling his new set of experiences in his new column for Cyclocross Magazine, “For Mud, Beer, Bikes and Barns.” We wanted to start off with a Q&A so [...]