Rider Highlight: Connor Brown takes 6th at U23 Nationals TT

Name: Connor Brown, Elevate Pro Cycling Team
Event & Category: U23 National Championships
Brief event/course description: Time Trial and Road Race events. The National TT course was rolling terrain, which is good stuff for a Midwest kid like me to be able to go out and do well on. Living in Missouri there are not very many advantages when it comes to training conditions. There are no mountains with high altitude that I can use to train on and we don’t have great weather year round. However, the one thing we do have going for us here in the Midwest is rolling terrain and wind. So I was definitely happy to see that the time trial was similar to what I was training on all year. I finished 6th in the TT.
The U-23 road race was on a rolling terrain as well, kind of like the way the Winston Salem circuit race is set up. I really didn’t see it as one of those courses that would be hard enough to split the field, but with make up of the field I knew it was going to turn into a slug fest. With that in mind it definitely had the recipe to be a hard circuit race from the gun, which I always find to be challenging and fun. I finished 13th on the day.
Which coach do you work with and how did your training help you prepare for the event?
I work with Adam Mills. Living in the Midwest there aren’t tough races or mountains to get myself into shape for hard events like Redlands that are scheduled early on in the season for me. This means that I have to rely more on my coach more then most to give me hard and precise workouts to get me and keep me in shape. That’s precisely why I went with Adam. He offered me exactly what I needed to take my racing to another level.
What advice do you have for someone up and coming in your cycling discipline?
Have fun! If you don’t love what you are doing just know it only gets harder.
What is your next event?
Tour of Lawrence and then I’m off to race the Cascade Classic.
Nice work, Connor Brown! Good luck at your next racing block!
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