Q&A with Eric Steele about Nationals 2011 What were your expectations of the racing at Nationals and did the reality line up with your expectations? Nationals is a different kind of race all in its own. I’ve never been to an event on such a big level, so I wasn’t sure what to expect, all [...]

Nothing could be more fantastic and exciting than race primed and ready to go for every race all year long, right?  It may even seam like some superb athletes are not confined to the rules of peak fitness but in reality they are probably just talented enough to win even without totally dialed fitness.  If [...]

Time Trial: I didn’t a good warm up because my brother and I were driving around lost trying to find the start. I was first to start after the Cat 3’s because of reverse alphabetical order, and I really had no idea what the course was besides 8 miles out and back that it went [...]

Who says people from Connecticut can’t ride bikes up hills? Tom Danielson can; he holds the record for the Bob Cook Memorial/Mount Evans Hillclimb. Chris Case can; four years ago, as a Cat. 3, he won the hillclimb, and this year, as a Cat. 2, he almost did it again… Shockingly low attendance (roughly 30 [...]

Course: 1 mile, four corner crit with a big climb (“Cry Baby Hill”) starting in turn 1.  Weather: HOT 95 – 100 degrees. Whatever anyone tells you, cycling is a mental game. You trick yourself into believing that you’re not tired. You convince yourself that you’re not going too fast to make it around a [...]