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• Middle Cross Fall Bike Fest Brings Cyclocross to Boulder Middle Schools

  9 November 09 • 0 comment

  Middle School Cycling Program Concludes With Festival The Middle Cross Fall Bike Fest is scheduled Wednesday, November 11, at Manhattan Middle School in Boulder. The mid-day festival takes advantage of the Veteran’s Day Holiday when Boulder Valley Schools are not in session and serves as the final event of the fall Middle Cross (MCX) program. [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary: Salsa, Bonfire, and Beer Hand-Down Powered Racing

  5 November 09 • 5 comments

  by Ben Popper A few weeks ago, I made a pilgrimage to Toronto.  We crossed the border looking for that UCI point, knowing that Saturday’s race was C1 and offered the prize to the top 15, but that with its new NACT status the race would be harder this year.  I lined up with that [...]

• From Tropical Treviso to Icy Edmonton – Vicki Thomas Chases Her Cyclocross Dreams

  1 November 09 • 0 comment

  

  Funny, typically these columns flow from my fingers so freely. But this one is a struggle, perhaps because I feel like I’ve lived so much in the last few weeks. I want to capture every moment of it for you, but at the same time I don’t want to bore you with mundane details. But [...]

• Dancing on (and off) the Pedals – a Column by Lee Waldman

  31 October 09 • 1 comment

  

  Colorado’s Lee Waldman aims to bring more content for our masters readers through a regular column this season as he builds towards his goal of a national championship. It’s been a while since installment #2, but we’ve got a double dose below to get you caught up. by Lee Waldman Cross and Tango have much [...]

• Koppenbergcross – Racing Is Only Half the Fun! – A Column by Christine Vardaros

  28 October 09 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros If I were allowed to put only one race on my “to-do list”, Koppenbergcross would be the one!  It has all the elements of my theoretically perfect cross event. The course contains a climb on the world’s most famous cobbles, plows down a technical switchback descent, and comes lined with 20,000 screaming, [...]

• Van Dessel Bicycles and Triumph Brewing Team Up With HPCX, Costumes Coming to Beacon Cyclocross

  28 October 09 • 0 comment

  October 28, 2009; Conshohocken, PA, USA: Cyclocross racers at MAC’s two days of UCI and amateur racing in New Jersey this weekend will need to pay closer-than-normal attention to what they’re wearing. Beacon Cyclocross in Bridgeton New Jersey will see racers trying to avoid the Jersey Devil while rushing through the woods on Halloween, while [...]

• Night Racing in Holland – a Report by Christine Vardaros

  22 October 09 • 0 comment

  by Christine Vardaros If I could describe racing at night in one word, it would be WOOO-HOOO! OK, well maybe that is technically two words but it just can’t be summed up in one. I suppose unreal or surreal can cover it too. According to the TomTom GPS, which almost every single Belgian uses to [...]

• Training With (a Lack of) Power for Cyclocross: Kenton Berg’s Diary #4 – Injured

  22 October 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 and decided to seek professional help. This is his fourth entry. Read his previous entry here. Issues, issues, issues! Sorry for the gap between columns. [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary: The Obsurdities of Cyclocross

  17 October 09 • 1 comment

  The Ben Popper Diary is back, and this week Ben skips the typical race report to instead take us behind-the-scenes of his three days at the Ohio UCI3 Cyclocross Festival. Ben’s previous entry is here. Rather than give you another race report of the funny madness I experienced at the UCI3 weekend in Cincinnati last [...]

• Two Races Down, Five Months to Go – Christine Vardaros Checks in from Belgium

  16 October 09 • 2 comments

  by Christine Vardaros My racing season here in Belgium is now fully underway. I have so far competed in the first round of the World Cup circuit in Treviso and the GVA Trofee Series opener in Namen.  Both races could not have been any more different in every way. Treviso was a staggering fourteen hour [...]

• Water Is $2, but the Beer Is Free – A Race Report by Jamie Mack

  8 October 09 • 2 comments

  by Jamie Mack Race reports here usually involve top riders, UCI points and epic battles. This isn’t one of those. I followed a few of my teammates (Christiana Care Physical Therapy Plus/First State Velo Sport) and Delaware training partners to the Hillbilly Hustle in Elmer, NJ last weekend. I’m not an A racer – far [...]

• The Ben Popper Diary is Back: Losing a Bar Fight and Getting Run Over

  3 October 09 • 1 comment

  by Ben Popper Have you ever had to explain to your boss why you’re coming back from Vegas with a black eye?  Because thank the Belgian gods, it’s fall again, and there’s nothing that gets me bruised in style like a good old cyclocross race. Year two of my quest for UCI points has started [...]

• Dancing for the Stars (and Stripes) – A Masters Racer’s Tale by Lee Waldman

  29 September 09 • 1 comment

  

  While we know many of you like reading about the top Elites, we all know the masters racer represents a big percentage of the cyclocross community. Colorado’s Lee Waldman aims to bring more exposure to the masters racer and content for our masters readers through a regular column this season as he builds towards his [...]

• Training With Power for Cyclocross: Kenton Berg’s Diary #3

  17 September 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 third entry. Read his previous entry here. Numbers, numbers, numbers…I’ve got tons of graphs and numbers [...]

• Crashing New Zealand’s CX Nats – Looking PRO, Feeling Slow

  7 September 09 • 0 comment

  As we reported on Friday, New Zealand hosted their second-ever Cyclocross National Championships last weekend with much success and even more mud. American Colin Reuter crashed the event and sent in his report below of the memorable experience. by Colin Reuter One of the perks of dating an elite female athlete with dual citizenship is [...]