Blog: The Coaching Chronicles
Dean Parker’s consistency helped him win the overall at the Tour of Kansas City in the Men’s 60+ race: Brief event/course description: Time Trial, Circuit Race (with big hill every lap) and Crit How’d the race go down for you? 2nd in TT, 7th in Circuit Race (mechanical) and 2nd in Crit. KOM and Prem…
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Pete Seng recently competed in the Lutsen 99er, Men’s 50-59. His result qualified him for Leadville, a long-time goal of his. Congrats Pete! Good luck at Leadville in a couple weeks! Brief event/course description: Along the north shore of Lake Superior, in the Minnesota north woods. The race is 99 miles, about 7,000 feet of…
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With our last “what you should be doing to prepare for a successful CX season” teaser, we discussed getting back on the cyclocross bike. That usually means cleaning it, replacing some worn parts or just buying a new one. Now it’s July. Now it’s the meat of the pre-season. Base season is in full swing…
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Sonja Johnson recently competed at the Unbound Gravel, the famous 206.7 mile Gravel Race across the Flint Hills of Kansas finishing in the top 10 overall for women and beating her personal goal time by nearly TWO HOURS. And all on about 12 hours of training per week. She kindly shared her prep and race…
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Patrick Bos wins crits. How a rider wins crits is key in what workouts to give them. We have to work out our weaknesses but at the end of the day we win with our strengths. Patrick is a versatile rider but lately we have been seeing success in working his strengths, a hard effort…
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John Wentling took the win recently at Salt City Criterium Classics with a patient and timely attack to take the win in the Men’s Masters 60+ race! He’s spent his season collecting quite a number of podiums, here’s the story of his latest: Brief event/course description: Fast and flat course, right in the middle of…
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Melody White is often found cheerily pushing watts at the training center at 5am, balancing her career as a self-proclaimed Certified Professional Water Girl & Poopologist (i.e. drinking water and wastewater specialist) with her love of triathlon, running, and all things active. Her personality is infectious and we’re happy to provide tools to help her reach…
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Nick Torraca has been on the go and on the road since the week after he finished up classes at the University of Texas at Austin. In order, he’s seen action at: Superior Morgul Classic in Colorado, Memorial Day criteriums in Dallas, TX, Oklahoma City Pro AM Classic, Tulsa Tough, North Star Grand Prix and…
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This year was SE Coach Zack Allison’s first time doing the Belgian Waffle Ride and DK200 (now Unbound Gravel), much less both in the same year. We asked him to share his top 5 takeaways from his own experience: Hydration – Yea we know, hydration is key, I’m not one to make vague articles. Know…
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SE coach Zack Allison recently competed in his first Belgian Waffle Ride and Unbound Gravel (previously DK200) He primarily races criteriums with Clif Bar Racing so competing in both these events in the middle of his season required some focused and tailored training. At Unbound Gravel he rode with the support of Niner Bikes, which called…
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