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• Making the Leap to Coaching: Kenton Berg’s Training Diary

  24 July 09 • 0 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 but this summer he’s been motivated to do something about it and decided to seek professional help. Follow Kenton this season as he brings Cyclocross [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – July 22, 2009

  22 July 09 • 1 comment

  It was a busy week for the world of cyclocross, and we aren’t even talking about the American National Mountain Bike Championships in this edition of PCR&R. What we are talking about includes: transfer rumors, European National Mountain Bike Championships, Albert outsprints the field, Marianne Vos and the Cascade Classic! Finally! Transfer Rumors!

• From Cyclocross to Road and Back: An Interview with Jeremy Powers – Part II

  15 July 09 • 1 comment

  With only a few months to wait for the kickoff to cyclocross season, many diehard ‘crossers are biding their time scanning eBay for the next amazing buy while others are spending most of their summer atop a bike, plowing their way through yet another road race season. Jeremy Powers falls into that latter group. Cyclocross [...]

• Take Aim at Cyclocross Pros in Fantasy Cyclocross

  13 July 09 • 0 comment

  

  If you haven’t yet put in your entry for this year’s version of Cyclocross Magazine’s Fantasy Cyclocross game, you may now have some extra incentive: American professional cyclocrosser Georgia Gould – fresh off victory in the BC Bike Race’s Mixed Duo category (with National Champ Ryan Trebon) – has entered her picks for the coming [...]

• From Cyclocross to Road and Back: An Interview with Jeremy Powers – Part I

  13 July 09 • 3 comments

  

  With only a few months to wait for the kickoff to cyclocross season, many diehard ‘crossers are biding their time scanning eBay for the next amazing buy while others are spending most of their summer atop a bike, plowing their way through yet another road race season. Jeremy Powers falls into that latter group. Cyclocross [...]

• Vardaros is Back, Writing and Racing

  9 July 09 • 0 comment

  

  Our European correspondent and pro-racer Christine Vardaros checks in for an off-season installment of her column on life as a Euro-racer-gal cyclocrosser. My last road race was almost one full year ago so naturally I entered my first one back last weekend with much trepidation. After taking many months off of racing and hard riding [...]

• Catching Up With Jonathan Page

  8 July 09 • 0 comment

  You can’t shake a stick at your local cyclocross series without hitting somebody that has decided to concentrate on ‘cross because training and racing on the road meant too much time away from the family. Want to hear something crazy? Jonathan Page feels the same way. Granted for him being a pro roadie meant spending [...]

• Compton Loses Spike Sponsorship, Reduces MTB Schedule

  29 June 09 • 0 comment

  Katie Compton has lost her interim sponsorship from Spike Shooter and will abandon her plans to compete at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cups in Canada. The five-time Cyclocross National Champion and Short-track National Champion has been sponsored by Spike Shooter for her cyclocross career and recently on an interim basis while she searched for [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings – June 17, 2009

  17 June 09 • 1 comment

  A huge weekend in the cyclocross world, with results and news coming from all over the world. Read all the way through, because it never gets boring. Who knows, maybe you’ll find a surprise. Nature Valley GP Wrap Up Tim Johnson’s OUCH team wrapped up the Nature Valley GP over the past week, placing GC [...]

• Georgia Gould Transforms a Racer to Superfan

  15 June 09 • 0 comment

  

  by David Hutton (this story was one of many published in our print Issue 5) We all know how ‘cross is a spectator-friendly sport, and regardless of rider turnout, fans can make or break the atmosphere of a race. From local racing to big-time UCI battles, it’s not just the in-race action that brings the [...]

• Katie Compton Talks About Her Sponsorship Search

  6 June 09 • 0 comment

  As we originally reported two weeks ago, Katie Compton is seeking a title sponsor for her mountain bike and cyclocross campaign. Katie Compton rode for Sho-Air Specialized last weekend at the Bump ‘N Grind but hasn’t yet landed a sponsor for her upcoming ‘cross season. She talked

• A Conversation with Helen Wyman

  23 May 09 • 0 comment

  Great Britain has its own crop of talented, English-speaking female cyclocross stars, and British Cyclocross National Champion Helen Wyman leads the pack. After last season’s  Kalmthout World Cup, Christine Vardaros visited British National Cyclocross Champion Helen Wyman (Team Swift Racing) in her Swift mobile home to in hopes of learning more about her fellow racer [...]

• Katie Compton Seeks Title Sponsor for Cyclocross Campaign

  22 May 09 • 4 comments

  Last month we reported on how Katie Compton was seeking a bike sponsor for her upcoming mountain bike and cyclocross season. Now the five-time national champion has expanded her search to a new title sponsor to help fund her campaign to win a World Cup overall title as well as the World Championships. Husband Mark [...]

• A Conversation with Simon Burney

  18 May 09 • 0 comment

  Simon Burney is the author of the seminal “how to” book on cyclocross, Cyclocross Training and Technique, now in its 3rd edition. He is a former professional cyclocross racer and has spent more than twenty years managing professional cyclocross and mountain bike teams, working with some of the top ‘cross racers in the world. Simon [...]

• Katie Compton Seeks World Cup Title and Bike Sponsor

  28 April 09 • 1 comment

  Katie Compton is starting to ramp up her training with the mountain bike and cyclocross season in mind, and has planned out an aggressive schedule with her most ambitious goals yet.  The six-time national cyclocross champion (five elite, one espoir) is planning to race the fat tire circuit this summer, starting with the Bump n [...]