Recovery is over. I’m training hard enough as of this week to make my quads sore which should be a sign that I’m no longer holding anything back. In case there was any uncertainty, for me that’s a good thing. Some pretty tough intervals on Monday, a 750m swim TT with fins on Tuesday morning, […]
Continue ReadingWhile I like to say that my triathlon racing strategy is “Swim, Fly, Run”, in reality it’s quite a bit more complicated, it’s terribly hard to output “fly” quality cycling at a moment’s notice, especially when you’re out there in variable weather conditions on variable road surfaces and most importantly on varied terrain. Unless you’ve […]
Continue ReadingImportant news folks! We’ve now crested the peak! Cyclocross season 2009 has been moving further and further into the past and now Cyclocross season 2010 is advancing closer and closer in the future. Today marks 6 months until Hardcore’s Hop’n’Hurl Race in 2010, it’s time to start getting excited! In case that bit of news […]
Continue ReadingMy third race in the Expert category went down this morning. Fun times – challenging course with the conditions we had which were slick clay and mud that really caked on the wheels. I was riding tyres that were the shape of my fork and my seat stays for much of the race, nicely moulded […]
Continue ReadingI made my debut in the Expert Category this weekend and in my opinion I managed to have a respectable set of performances. Saturday’s course was very flat and had only very short technical sections, in the end it was basically a cyclocross time trial. I nailed it, with an average heart rate 176 BPM […]
Continue ReadingLunch-hour findings: Video of the C-race at the Dark-Knight cyclocross race in Calgary a couple weeks back. I wound up second place after a hard-fought battle. I rode off the front from laps 2-4 and was then passed. I got caught up in a corner which doesn’t make it into the footage from this clip […]
Continue ReadingYou can’t spell bicycle without also spelling ‘bile’ Nationals was a hurting situation, my result was +2 laps, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to make it to the finish but did kind of expect that I’d last until my penultimate lap before being passed by the race leader… and then a while later […]
Continue ReadingSchool of Cross – Elite Men – Hop ‘n Hurl – Expert Men – Hop ‘n Hurl – Women – Hop ‘n Hurl – Elite Men – There are more photos in the Cyclocross 2009 Gallery
Continue ReadingCyclocross is a sport that has a couple really defining attributes. That’s nothing special, every sport has defining attributes. The thing that makes it different is that it’s mostly the loosely associated attributes or that make it great, the barebones aspects of cyclocross racing aren’t all that exciting. The sport of cyclocross is the result […]
Continue ReadingThe Cyclocross season began last weekend with the kickoff race in Red-Deer and this weekend was the first double-header weekend of the year. I raced on both Saturday and Sunday… and hopefully will be doing so for the rest of the races for the next six weeks until the provincial championship. I slapped knobby tyres […]
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