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• The Fine Line – Learning to Love the Off-Season

  12 June 12 • 0 comment

  

  This season, we’ll be following a few racers who have some interesting stories to share. From a freshly-minted elite racer to a newly declared master, we have a wide variety of racers we’ll be hearing from. We’ll catch up with them intermittently as the season wanes on, and hopefully we’ll be able to chart their [...]

• Tackling Nutrition as a Noob: A Column by Josh Schwiesow

  3 June 12 • 0 comment

  

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. He’s taken a hard look at how the first season of racing went overall, looked at his first race attempts, and now he’s tackling the technical side of things by exploring nutrition. by Josh Schwiesow Most cyclists spend some time focusing on their weight, [...]

• Rider Diary: Genevieve Whitson’s Off-Season Cyclocross Prep

  30 May 12 • 1 comment

  by Genevieve Whitson Preparing for the ’cross season: the calm before the storm … or so I thought. Over the last two months, I’ve been lucky enough to be a full-time athlete on the European roadie scene racing for a French UCI road team, yo-yoing between France and Belgium for spring classics and French Cups. [...]

• Rider Diary: Christine Vardaros’s Sun, Silliness and Serious Training at BABOCO Training Camp

  26 May 12 • 0 comment

  Cyclocross Magazine’s “Euro correspondent” Christine Vardaros reports in from her training camp in Spain. by Christine Vardaros I am just recently back from Benidorm, Spain, where I spent eleven days with my Baboco Team for training camp. It was such a fabulous experience that I am still on a high from it while wishing I [...]

• What to Expect When You’re Expecting … To Attend Your First Race: A Column by Josh Schwiesow

  20 May 12 • 4 comments

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. Why cyclocross and why now? Well, don’t ask us, just check out his first column. But in Josh’s timeline, now that he’s found his new bike and taken a hard look at how the first season of racing went overall, he’s ready to start [...]

• Adjusting to the Coaching Game: Lessons from Robert Annis

  6 May 12 • 0 comment

  

  Robert Annis is taking every step necessary to ensure a successful cyclocross season come the Fall, and to do it, he’s decided not to go it alone. Instead, he’s found a coach, which he explains in his first column, Learning from a Coach: Lessons from Robert Annis, and we’ll be following along to track his [...]

• First Lessons in Season One: A Column from Josh Schwiesow

  29 April 12 • 6 comments

  

  By now, you’ve probably read about our newest noob columnist, Josh. Why cyclocross and why now? Well, don’t ask us, just check out his first column. But in Josh’s timeline, now that he’s found his new bike, he’s looking at how the first season of racing went, in order to see what needs to be [...]

• Rider Diary: Nicole Duke at SPY Belgian Waffle Ride/Sufferfest

  25 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  We asked how Nicole Duke was training in the off-season a few weeks ago in our Women’s Wednesday column, and today she’s filling us in on how that training has been going. by Nicole Duke I admit, it’s a bit hard to write this as my brain is still foggy from the physical abuse I [...]

• Off-Season Training Starts with Tour of Cyprus: A Rider Diary by Christine Vardaros

  5 April 12 • 0 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine’s Belgian correspondent Christine Vardaros last updated us from her last cyclocross race of the year, the Stannah Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race in Hasselt, Belgium, but the off-season hasn’t been much of an off-season for her so far. In our last Women’s Wednesday column, we asked women how they were spending their off-seasons, and [...]

• Going Pro; the Aftermath: Craig Richey’s Rider Diary

  21 March 12 • 3 comments

  

  After finishing his last race of the season, GVA Trofee Krawatencross, in 41st place, Craig Richey is back to fill us in on how his two year pro cycling experiment went. He initially made the decision to quit his job, take his savings, and really make a run at “living the dream.” Last time we [...]

• Stannah Cyclocross Masters Indoor Race in Hasselt, Belgium – A Rider Diary from Christine Vardaros

  5 March 12 • 0 comment

  

  Belgium’s Version of Post-Season Celebrations by Christine Vardaros After an intense cyclocross season lasting almost six months, one can only guess how the people of Belgium celebrate its conclusion – with yet another bike race. But this celebratory race is like no other! Instead of all focus placed on battles for UCI points or for [...]

• Learning from a Coach: Lessons from Robert Annis

  29 February 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Robert Annis After a moderately successful road season last year, it was time to turn my focus onto cyclocross. I was riding better and stronger than I ever had in the past, so I was confident that I would dominate my fellow Cat 4 racers once the racing started. Not wanting my equipment to [...]

• GVA Trofee’s Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle – Christine Vardaros’ Rider Diary

  22 February 12 • 0 comment

  

  Our overseas correspondent Christine Vardaros catches us up on the end of her season, from races to cookie parties. by Christine Vardaros Our last weekend of real racing here in Europe ended with a double-header.  The first was at Cauberg Cyclocross in The Netherlands.  It was held where the 2012 Road World Championships will be [...]

• Cyclocross Worlds Rider Diary: Genevieve Whitson

  11 February 12 • 1 comment

  

  New Zealander Genevieve Whitson gives us her view on the race at Koksijde. by Genevieve Whitson Racing at Cyclocross Worlds now feels surreal … To have 50,000 drunk, ’cross obsessed Belgians cheering for us in rows five to six deep is something I don’t think much is going to match up to. People still tell [...]

• Tom Simpson’s Take on Worlds

  28 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Tom Simpson First, you have to start off with the map otherwise you’d never feel oriented (especially when I mention course crossing #9 and you’re already in the woods). Here’s the map. Course crossing #02 – and the race is already done. It’s 100 yards after the hole shot turn off the pavement and [...]