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• Training with Power for Cyclocross: Kenton Berg’s Diary #7 – What If?

  25 December 09 • 1 comment

  

  Not sure if you’re training effectively? Have some ambitious goals for the season but feel like your racing has plateaued? Cyclocross Magazine’s Kenton Berg has been stuck in this situation and decided to seek professional help. This is his seventh entry. Read his previous entry here. WHAT IF… What if I hadn’t gone skiing… if [...]

• December Update: Vicki Thomas En Route to Worlds

  23 December 09 • 0 comment

  Vicki Thomas checks in with another journal entry about chasing her ‘cross dream on the courses of Europe. Check out her November update of her chronicles of Belgium here. I suppose the simplest way to start this update is to tell you my big news. You may have heard, but in case you haven’t – [...]

• Crossing the Atlantic: Americans Test Their Legs in Belgium

  21 December 09 • 2 comments

  by Dan Seaton Kalmthout, Belgium – Since last weekend’s National Championships marked the end of the racing season in the United States, a host of American riders made the trip to Belgium last week to continue to test their legs against the best in the world. Cyclocross Magazine had a chance to catch up with [...]

• So Close in Bend! – a Column by Lee Waldman

  21 December 09 • 0 comment

  

  Here, in installment #9 of Lee Waldman’s yearlong quest for glory in Masters cyclocross races, Lee tells about his experience at the National Championships in Bend. Missed Lee’s account of his podium-worthy appearance in Colorado’s state championships? Check it out here. Also, read our race coverage of the Nationals Masters 60-64 event. If this cyclocross [...]

• Jesse Anthony Reflects on His Season

  20 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Jesse Anthony The 2009 cyclocross season is completed, and I am taking the next few weeks to digest everything that’s happened this year.  My mission this fall was to ride as hard as I could in every race, train as hard as I could, and do everything in my power to get healthy and [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – Nationals Favorites Preview Edition Part II: Chris Jones

  12 December 09 • 1 comment

  Be sure to keep checking our complete coverage of the 2009 Cyclocross National Championships Center as we continue to update the page with more updates, tech pieces photos, and videos. Chris Jones has had one of the strongest and most consistent seasons of any of the favorites heading to Bend this weekend. Jones, riding for [...]

• National Contenders Spotlight: Coryn Rivera

  11 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Dave Sheek After racing for only six years how does one earn 24 national titles? Coryn Rivera has accomplished more at seventeen years of age than most of us dream of in a lifetime. She is a fulltime student in her junior year at Pacific Coast High School and does not get any slack [...]

• Nationals Contenders Spotlight: Ryan Sisters

  10 December 09 • 1 comment

  by Dave Sheek Kendal and Alexis Ryan, while two years apart in age, are a dominating force in the Elite Women’s category of their local Southern California cyclocross series. Both race in the kit of the local Team SoCalCross/CICLE and their main competition locally is Coryn Rivera (Proman Hit Squad) and their team organizer Dorothy [...]

• Nationals Contender Profile: Don Myrah Takes on Masters 40-44 Field

  10 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Justin Morgan When Don Myrah returned to competitive cyclocross racing in 2007, the appearance of a rider with four Elite National Championships under his belt would surely rate a mention in the cycling media, even if his initial comeback results found him finishing nearly dead last. “I must have only trained for two or [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – Nationals Favorites Preview Edition Part I

  9 December 09 • 0 comment

  In honor of this weekend’s United States Cyclocross National Championships, Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings will trot out a couple of interviews with big time favorites for this week’s action. First on the list is Olympic mountain biker and terror of New England and the Mid-Atlantic, Mary McConneloug, who rides for the Kenda – Seven [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary: Rockin’ at Jingle Cross

  6 December 09 • 0 comment

  by Ben Popper We were packed tighter in the car than the turkey had been stuffed the night before. It took the entire length of the drive to Iowa City before the final taste of Thanksgiving left my mouth. That was fortunate because the gut wrenching run up Mount Krumpit eight or nine times was [...]

• Training with Power for Cyclocross: Kenton Berg’s Diary #6 – Hazardous to Your Health?

  4 December 09 • 1 comment

  

  Not sure if you’re training effectively? Have some ambitious goals for the season but feel like your racing has plateaued? Cyclocross Magazine’s Kenton Berg has been stuck in this situation and decided to seek professional help. This is his sixth entry. Read his previous entry here. WARNING: TRAINING WITH POWER MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR [...]

• Koksijde: Sharing the Sandbox with Mother Nature, A Column by Christine Vardaros

  3 December 09 • 1 comment

  by Christine Vardaros Koksijde, Belgium – The Koksijde World Cup can be summed up in two words – rain and sand. As the course literally wound through the Belgian coast’s dunes, almost half the track was in sand. While the rain turned some of the sand sections into single-file highways, all of the races were [...]

• November Update: Vicki Thomas Chronicles her Belgian Campaign

  2 December 09 • 3 comments

  

  Vicki Thomas checks in with another journal entry about chasing her ‘cross dream on the courses of Europe. Check out her Nommay World Cup and Belgium update here and her report from the Treviso World Cup here. I’m sitting here in the spacious dining room of my “home” here in Blauberg, Belgium, thinking about the [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary: Recession Special- Racing at Home- Update: Video

  2 December 09 • 0 comment

  

  by Ben Popper Last year, we went to races everywhere, nearly every weekend.  It was a grueling, week-after-week process of packing, unpacking, missing work, or showing up for work a complete zombie.  Clothes went from the race bag to the washer, right back to the race bag again.  And it was expensive.  Really, really expensive.