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• The Beer Gazelle Wraps Up His Season in Santa Rosa with Grace

  31 March 10 • 0 comment

  Dan Bernards (aka Beer Gazelle – Built for Speed, Optimized for Beer) just wrapped up his first ‘cross season with the February 13th CX Santa Rosa series finale.  It was the feeling of community that originally brought him into the fold. Although his local race scene includes the Santa Rosa and Livermore series in California, [...]

• From Bike to Podium – A Column by Christine Vardaros – UPDATED: Photos

  14 February 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Christine Vardaros From bike to podum – that is, from the Krawatencross race in Lille, Belgium last weekend to the podium at the ECOPOP fair for a speaking engagement the following day. Krawatencross is one of the few races I look forward to every year – or at least for the past three years [...]

• Post-Season Ruminations – A Column by Lee Waldman

  13 February 10 • 1 comment

  Here, in installment #10 of Lee Waldman’s quest for glory in Masters cyclocross races, Lee reflects on some of life’s bigger questions and the role that cyclocross plays in that narrative. Missed Lee’s account of his race at Nationals? Check it out here. Also, read our race coverage of the Nationals Masters 60-64 event. It’s [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a ‘Cross Pro – A Big Weekend With a Stripey Jersey

  10 February 10 • 0 comment

  by Helen Wyman Having suffered from an unusually large amount of snow in January, our national championships were postponed until this weekend. In some ways it was a good thing as it was more about holding a peak from worlds rather than racing in the middle of a hard training block.  I also had the [...]

• Two Months in Europe – A Recap by Amy Dombroski

  1 February 10 • 0 comment

  Amy Dombroski wraps up here ever-extending cyclocross season in style at the World Championships in Tabor, taking 14th. Read her Euro recap below and, if you missed them, her reports on the Hoogerheide, Roubaix, and Zolder World Cups.  You can replay our live coverage from Saturday and Sunday and find all of our reports and [...]

• Dombroski Battles to a Top-Ten in Hoogerheide

  26 January 10 • 0 comment

  Amy Dombroski reports after the Hoogerheide World Cup, her much improved acceleration out of the gates and her stellar, top-ten result. She continues her ramp-up to the World Championships in Tabor next weekend and looks to be getting progressively more comfortable in the intense Euro ‘cross ranks. In case you missed it, check out her [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a ‘Cross Pro: Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud – Roubaix Wrap-Up

  19 January 10 • 0 comment

  2009 British Champion Helen Wyman (Kona-FSA) checks in with an update from Europe as she slides her way through a muddy Roubaix World Cup and prepares for Hoogerheide and Worlds. If you missed it, also take a peek at her adventure in snowy UK and CXM’s  profile of her Kona Major Jake cyclocross bike. by [...]

• Dombroski Takes on Roubaix, Targets Worlds

  18 January 10 • 0 comment

  Amy Dombroski checks in from one of the more iconic events in all of cyclocross: the Roubaix World Cup. Although Dombroski originally planned to wrap her season up after a short European stint, apparently she’s having too much fun (and doing too well) to quit just yet. Dombroski has adjusted her late-season plans and will [...]

• Helen Wyman’s Diary of a ‘Cross Pro: It’s Snow Joke

  16 January 10 • 1 comment

  2009 British Champion Helen Wyman (Kona-FSA) checks in with an update from Europe as she prepares for Roubaix and the pathway to Worlds. If you missed it, also take a peek at our profile of her Kona Major Jake cyclocross bike. by Helen Wyman Last weekend we returned to the North Pole (otherwise known as [...]

• Amy Dombroski Reflects on Her Zolder World Cup and Euro Racing

  11 January 10 • 1 comment

  by Amy Dombroski “World Cup”…the two words bring about those same butterflies as that angry  “Boy Sets Fire” song, the same fizziness of a hard espresso shot, the similar uneasiness of the scent of warming gel. It sounds like a big deal, eh, but it’s just another gun shot, whistle blown or red light changing [...]