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Dec. 31, 2008Jeremy Powers on how European cyclocross is different
I’ve been in Europe since nationals, a little over two weeks actually and usually by this point in my trip I’m tired and ready to a break and relax for a couple days. A year wiser and happier makes such a difference. This year I made a tough ...
Dec. 18, 2008What happened in Kansas City stays in Kansas City.
Bad days come and go. Everyone has one, no one’s immune to a real day “rocker.” It just happens. Well folks, I had mine last weekend and it sucked. Another year is gone and the opportunity at the national title will have to wait ...
Dec. 16, 2008Michael Barry's Diary: Back in the saddle again
In a sterile hotel presentation room, roughly 40 male and female cyclists, dozens of staff and seven managers and directors, sat and listened. The group was pushed into the last rows of seats while the front two were empty — like school kids ...
Dec. 10, 2008Barry Wicks' journal
It is the week before the US National Championship of Cyclocross and I am having trouble figuring out a good topic for my biweekly VeloNews.com journal. I wish this was because I am so focused and preoccupied with the impending championship event, ...
Dec. 3, 2008Jeremy Powers shares his cyclocross race travel list
The final two weekends of 'cross racing in the United States are upon us and when I think back to Star Crossed in September, just one week after finishing the Tour of Missouri and a long road season, it’s hard to remember all the racing up to this ...
Dec. 2, 2008Fresh Korn: Here's a toast to team-building!
What brings a team together? CSC’s boot camps are legendary. Often teams bring in consultants that help with “team building” activities. Ropes courses are status quo. A little trust-tree action from time to time is surely part of the ...
Nov. 19, 2008Jeremy Powers gives some tips on hopping cyclocross barriers.
We’re back and the racing has been abundant. I picked up a win in Toronto two weeks ago and a podium last weekend at the USGP in New Jersey. Now the biggest races of the year loom on the horizon and I’m looking forward to them all: the USGP ...
Nov. 14, 2008Michael Barry's diary: The story of a cyclist
Behind the story there is always a greater story, one which is often missed. The Tour of Lombardy unfolded in traditional fashion: a breakaway, a gauged acceleration in the peloton, the knife-stabbing attacks that seal most riders’ fate, and ...
Nov. 12, 2008Barry Wicks' journal on racing cyclocross in Belgium
They say the best way to perfect a skill is to go to where that skill is practiced perfectly. For cyclocross, Belgium is that place. Cycling fanaticism in Belgium is difficult to explain. There is really no correlation to it in the United States. ...
Nov. 5, 2008J-Pow's Journal: Camp, 'cross and a new nephew
Since my last diary, I’ve driven to Connecticut, jumped a plane south to Louisville and then west to Boulder to race the hotbeds of cyclocross! My trip to Connecticut didn’t involve racing, I had my cross’ bikes, they weren’t built, just ...
Oct. 30, 2008Kona cyclocrosser Barry Wicks' latest journal entry.
The wheel in front of me twitches and pulses with enormous energy as it tries desperately to pull away from my gasping breaths. My legs ache, the pain beginning deep, unbelievably deep, slowly creeping up through the layers of my consciousness, ...
Oct. 22, 2008Jeremy Powers reports on how he knew he had hit the big time in cyclocross
A lot of similar questions come along when you’re out at the races. One question I hear frequently is some variation of the famous “How do you know when you’ve made it big?” I usually give a good P.C. answer and move along, because who ...