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• 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 [...]

• 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.

• Colorado State Championships and Nationals Loom – a Column by Lee Waldman

  30 November 09 • 1 comment

  

  It’s down to the business end of the cyclocross season as Master’s racer Lee Waldman fine-tunes his preparation for the Colorado state championships and master’s nationals. This is installment #7 of Lee’s regular column, catch up on #6 here. by Lee Waldman One week until our state championships, two weeks ’til Nationals. Cyclocross season seems [...]

• Nats’ Clydesdale Championships Details Released

  24 November 09 • 2 comments

  You heard about the Clydesdale Cyclocross Championships here first. Now we’ve got more details here for you non-climbers or super-tall folks looking to add another race or party at the National Championships in Bend. Portland, Oregon – The Knights of the Cross Crusade have spoken, therefore let it be known that on the second Saturday [...]

• Superprestige Asper-Gavere: Great Legs, Broken Bike , A Column by Christine Vardaros

  16 November 09 • 3 comments

  by Christine Vardaros GAVERE, BELGIUM – Passing through the start/finish pavement going into the second lap of five, I was on the wheel of Pavla Havlikova and Belgian National Champ Joyce Vanderbeken (who eventually finished 7th and 10th, respectively).  My first thought was, “Holy Toledo. I’m racing my bike!”  The next thought, as I held [...]

• Nommay and Jaarmaarktcross – Focusing on the Positive, A Column by Christine Vardaros

  15 November 09 • 1 comment

  By Christine Vardaros “It’s always best to keep positive, things can change in a minute,” I continuously repeated to myself after last weekend’s disastrous World Cup race in Nommay, France. And I kept repeating it straight up to the start of the next race three days later at Fidea’s Jaarmaarktcross in Belgium. Nommay was easily [...]

• Weather Gods Bring New Cyclocross Challenges in Colorado – a Column by Lee Waldman

  13 November 09 • 1 comment

  

  Mother Nature has forced Colorado’s Lee Waldman out of his comfort zone, but he knows that this will only help his preparation for master’s nationals. This is installment #5 of Lee’s regular column, catch up on #’s 3 and 4 here. by Lee Waldman. The weather gods have spoiled us here in Colorado for the [...]

• Time Flies – Vicki Thomas Checks in From Belgium

  12 November 09 • 1 comment

  

  Vicki Thomas checks in with another installment of her adventures chasing the ‘cross dream on the courses of Europe.  Vicki’s previous report from the Treviso World Cup can be seen here. The old adage is that time flies when you’re having fun. This is definitely ringing true for me. It is hard for me to [...]

• Training with Power for Cyclocross: Kenton Berg’s Diary #5 – Don’t Call It a Comeback

  10 November 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 fifth entry. Read his previous entry here. Back from Injury: One Month In What a difference [...]

• SSCXWC – The Inside Story – A Report By Dave Queen

  9 November 09 • 0 comment

  by Dave Queen Jim Croce taught us in song that you don’t step on Superman’s cape and you don’t spit into the wind. Sunday reinforced why you don’t challenge Portland when it comes to cyclocross. The Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships (SSCXWC) was, thankfully, just like every cyclocross event in Portland, a ‘cross racers dream. [...]

• Sue Butler’s Choices In Life: Nommay World Cup Vs. Racing In A Gold Bikini

  9 November 09 • 1 comment

  Sue Butler opted to skip racing the SSCXWC and defend her claim on the Golden Speedo to instead race for UCI points in France. Would she regret it? The Portland-based rider from the Monavie-Cannondale Team checks in with a diary entry below. Perhaps I chose to go to Nommay to avoid racing in the gold [...]