Athlete Highlights
Jan Roubal wins Bell's Beer Copper Trails Festival
In considering all of the factors that decide the outcome of the race, there are some major contributors such as overall fitness, experience, etc. However, often times it’s the little things that mean the difference between 1st and 2nd. In a hard fought battle at the Bell’s Beer Copper Trails Festival last week, Jan Roubal…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Mat Gilhousen gets first buckle at Leadville
Name: Mat Gilhousen, Tradewind Energy Cycling Team Event & Category: Leadville 100, Open-Geared Bike Brief event/course description: The Leadville 100 mountain bike race is arguably the top endurance mountain bike event in the country with nearly 1,400 entrants ranging from those who simply want to finish to top professionals. The course starts in Leadville at…
Read MoreAthlete Highlight: Christian Helmig, Luxembourg National Champion
Christian Helmig has done it all. He holds Luxembourg National Titles in a range of disciplines- Cyclocross, XC MTB, MTB Marathon, Elite Road, and Elite Time Trial. How does an athlete come to find success in such a range of disciplines? It’s definitely not easy and takes a lot of careful planning, a lot of…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Eric Marcotte, Jamis Pro Cycling
Eric Marcotte is a household name for anyone who follows the American road racing scene, with two national titles to his name in both the US Pro Road Race and Criterium. Marcotte also owns a chiropractic office and balances working and running that business with racing professionally for Jamis Pro Cycling. We interviewed him recently…
Read MoreHeath Blackgrove, Elevate Pro Cycling
We had to share this great interview by Thomas Miller at Bicycle World with Heath Blackgrove who is a director for Elevate Pro Cycling, one of our sponsored teams. The article and photos are re-published with permission. It’s 10am on Tuesday morning and I’m at Café Medici in Austin, waiting to meet up with the…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Owen Hatcher wins Wheels of Thunder
Owen Hatcher has had a turbulent season. After breaking his hip at an early season race, he’s coming back with a vengeance and is well on his way to cat up to a cat 1 by season’s end. Fun facts about Owen: he’s a vegan athlete and a pilot instructor! Name: Owen Hatcher Event &…
Read MoreAmbassador Highlight: Scout Cycling Team
Source Endurance is a proud sponsor of Scout Cycling Team in Fort Collins, Colorado. Scout Cycling Team is Fort Collins’ top elite team and is comprised of aspiring professional racers competing across Colorado and many out-of-state races like Joe Martin Stage Race and Cascade Cycling Classic. How Scout Cycling Team Got Started Scout Cycling Team…
Read MoreRider 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…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Brad Loyd wins Niwot Circuit Race
Brad Loyd began racing last year as a category 5 and has found great success, most recently winning the Niwot Circuit Race in Colorado! He’s been working with coach Zack Allison since the beginning of the year and is preparing to cat up to a cat 2. Name: Brad Loyd Event & Category: Niwot Circuit Race,…
Read MoreAthlete Highlight: Joseph Schmalz of Elevate Pro Cycling
Recently, we sat down and chatted with long-time Source Endurance athlete Joe Schmalz of Elevate Pro Cycling Team. Joe has a long background in cycling and has found great successes this season at the Pro Road Tour. He is also a great athlete to work with and an all around great guy. Tell us about…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Brian Darby wins team time trial championships
Name: Brian Darby Event & Category: Victorian Club Teams Team Time Trial Championship (Australia). Masters. Brief event/course description: A rolling 37.6 km course with 232m of climbing. How’d the race/event go down for you? It was a very windy day (30 km/hr with 45km/hr gusts) and it would be a crosswind for much of the race. Our team was a…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Jed Schneider's Top 20 at the Belgian Waffle Ride
Jed recently had a great result at the Belgian Waffle Ride and a big personal accomplishment of finish the Tour of the Gila in the Men’s 1,2 field in Silver City, New Mexico. He’s kindly offered up some advice on time-management with a career and training as well as how to choose a bike for…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Trey Harrison wins the VeloTek Grand Prix Stage Race
Source Endurance Master’s athlete Trey Harrison recently competed in and won the Master’s 40+ category at the VeloTek Grand Prix Stage Race. Great work to Trey and his team. Best wishes for the Dirty Kanza! Name: Trey Harrison Event & Category: VeloTek Grand Prix Stage Race Master’s 40+ Brief event/course description: 3-stage stage race. 0.7 mile uphill time trial…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Ali Hamze takes his first omnium & criterium win!
Congrats Ali on your first omnium and criterium win! Ali has been working hard with Coach Mitchell Sides and had a very successful collegiate road racing weekend at SCCCC Conference Championships! Photo cred: Carter Baker. Name: Ali Hamze Event & Category: SCCCC Conference Championships – Men’s B (category 3/4) Omnium consisting of a road race…
Read MoreCase Study: Using Intervals to Correct Deficiencies
The idea of “threshold power” or any one of its analogous titles has been seen as an end-all, be-all by too many athletes, coaches, and competitors in endurance based sports, particularly cycling. However, at the elite level, many of these general fitness and performance markers fall to the wayside, and for good reason. When examining performance at the…
Read MoreGravel cycling tips for women from Karen Pritchard
Meet Karen Pritchard. She’s a member of Source Endurance sponsored gravel team Panaracer/Stan’s NoTubes p/b Bicycle X-Change, with some fantastic results such as Unbound Gravel- 2015: 2nd place finish in age group and 7th overall female Land Run 100- 2015/2016- 1st in age group and 2nd overall female Karen loves gravel and was so kind…
Read MoreRider Highlight: Casey Cohenmeyer
Casey recently completed her first Belgian Waffle Ride after volunteering last year. She’s been riding bikes for about a year and a half now. She not only finished the BWR, but finished 24th out of 40 female starters and 407 out of 548 overall starters for men and women with a time of 11:35:55. Way…
Read MoreAthlete Highlight – Clint Waara
Clint Waara – Fort Collins, Colorado. Source Endurance Athlete since 11/2014 Stats: Road Rider – Goals – Raise threshold power, work on weaknesses, lose weight. Rider Type- power rider, longer efforts, time trial strength. 20 minute power July 2015 – 300 watts normalized (NP) 20 minute power December…
Read MoreZach McDonald Wins MFG Cyclocross Season Finale
Congratulations to Source Endurance athlete Zach McDonald on his win at the final race of the MFG Cyclocross Series in Seattle, WA! A race-long battle with former World and National Champion Russell Stevenson ultimately ended in victory for Zach after a slight bobble by Stevenson on a technical remount opened the door for ZmD on…
Read MoreAthlete Highlight – Nate Prewitt
Nate Prewitt and I have been working together since the beginning. The very beginning, even before gaining a degree in Exercise Science I helped Nate get some training plans down on paper. Like from the movie Ninja Turtles when Master Splinter and Michelangelo drank the toxic waste and grew into lean, mean, fighting machines, Nate…
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