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• Rhonde de Rosey: A New Way to Welcome Spring and Practice Your Team-Naming Wit

  25 March 10 • 0 comment

  by Natalia McKittrick It’s in the low 40’s and the sun seems half awake behind clouds discharging water that invades houses by leaking through ceilings and flooding basements. The puddles are determined to accumulate into small lakes. BikeSnobNYC tweets about dinners instead of regreasing the urban cycling culture… It may seem like another B-rate rainpocalypse [...]

• Diary of a Cross Pro: Helen Wyman Gets Back in the Saddle

  17 March 10 • 0 comment

  

  In her latest column, British National Champ Helen Wyman gets back on the bike to prep for her next cycling season, after a short off-the-bike holiday. Catch up on her last report, the Top-10 Moments of the Season. by Helen Wyman As a cyclist riding more than one season in a year, the annual holiday [...]

• Tim Johnson Reflects on Worlds, Readies for Road

  5 March 10 • 0 comment

  Tim Johnson (Cannondale – Cyclocrossworld.com) had a dream 2009/2010 ‘cross season, culminating with a National title and a 14th place at the World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic. The transition between his ‘cross and the beginning of road season, where he’s the captain of the UnitedHealthcare Pro cycling team presented by Maxxis, was a crazy-short [...]

• Lee Waldman Takes Time to Reflect…on Quitting?

  4 March 10 • 3 comments

  

  by Lee Waldman I believe that you should always finish the race, no matter what. Quitting unless there’s a broken bone involved simply opens up a Pandora’s box that should be left closed. It makes very little difference where or how you finish, nor should it. But…you need to finish. I’ve defined myself as an [...]

• Mariusz Gil Tackles World Cup Cyclocross, Belgian Life and Peanut’s Cookies

  27 February 10 • 1 comment

  

  A Foreigner on a Belgian Race Schedule by Christine Vardaros “I must try your cookies first before I give you an interview,” responded Poland National Champion Mariusz Gil when he heard that his Baboco-Revor Team manager Steven Baekelandt scheduled him an interview to take place at my home – juice and cookies on the menu. [...]

• Vardaros Finds Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race the Perfect Ending to a Long European Season

  26 February 10 • 2 comments

  Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race – Hasselt, February 24, 2010 by Christine Vardaros With all the official races here in Europe finally behind us, the indoor Cyclocross Masters event last night was the most spectacular way to end the season. Since it was a stress and pressure-free evening, the racers all had their guards down and [...]

• GVA Trofee’s Oostmalle: The Day of Parties – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  23 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros The last official race of the season may have been like any other, but when combined with a touch of senioritis (think back to the last couple of weeks of high school or university) everything felt different. For this reason, Jonas and I showed up a little later than our normal three [...]

• Fighting Leg and Financial Cramps – Katie Compton Renews Her Off-Season Battles

  18 February 10 • 0 comment

  Katie Compton had perhaps the best season ever for an American cyclocross racer, dominating Elite Women’s fields both in the U.S. and Europe until her leg cramps put the brakes on her hopes for winning the World Championships and the UCI World Cup overall. The possible upcoming sale of Planet Bike leaves one of the [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a Cross Pro – Top Ten Moments This Season

  17 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Helen Wyman As a long season is very nearly at an end, I’ve decided to put together a couple of top tens of the season starting with my top ten moments, so here they are, in reverse order: 10. Cross Vegas has to be in anyone’s top ten, just for the unique experience, crazy [...]

• Keep Your Eye on Boobs: Rider Profile of Sean Babcock

  16 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Stephanie Chase If you were following the Oregon cyclocross scene this year, you would have heard the name of the Team S&M rider Sean Babcock mentioned frequently alongside the likes of Ryan Trebon, Erik Tonkin and Molly Cameron. While most of the chatter leading up to the Men’s Elite Nationals would be about some [...]

• Gabby Day Reports on British Natz and the End of Her Season

  15 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Gabby Day I went into the National Championships this year not as well prepared as I would have wished. I had suffered with a cold since the World Championships the week before, so had not trained until the Friday before the race at Sutton Park. I did a very easy spin on the turbo [...]

• From Bike to Podium – A Column by Christine Vardaros – UPDATED: Photos

  14 February 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Christine Vardaros From bike to podum – that is, from the Krawatencross race in Lille, Belgium last weekend to the podium at the ECOPOP fair for a speaking engagement the following day. Krawatencross is one of the few races I look forward to every year – or at least for the past three years [...]

• Post-Season Ruminations – A Column by Lee Waldman

  13 February 10 • 1 comment

  Here, in installment #10 of Lee Waldman’s quest for glory in Masters cyclocross races, Lee reflects on some of life’s bigger questions and the role that cyclocross plays in that narrative. Missed Lee’s account of his race at Nationals? Check it out here. Also, read our race coverage of the Nationals Masters 60-64 event. It’s [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a ‘Cross Pro – A Big Weekend With a Stripey Jersey

  10 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Helen Wyman Having suffered from an unusually large amount of snow in January, our national championships were postponed until this weekend. In some ways it was a good thing as it was more about holding a peak from worlds rather than racing in the middle of a hard training block.  I also had the [...]

• Mo Bruno-Roy Checks In After Worlds

  9 February 10 • 0 comment

  First off, Matt and I would like to thank each and every one of our friends, fans, families and sponsors for all of the support during our European racing campaign this January. We couldn’t have done it without you. Also, there are still tickets available for the MMRacing raffle! If you want to win a [...]