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My bike racing highs and lows

Written on 1 Feb, 2010 at 23:29 in Training | 2 Comments
My bike racing highs and lows

Weight was never an issue for me. That is, until I hit my 30s. Then I started fluctuating. Once a mountain goat of 153 pounds, I started last year about 200. A year later, I’m 175. I’m still looking to lose. All in an effort to go faster.

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Off-season training: savoring the sun

Written on 10 Jan, 2010 at 23:15 in Training | 0 Comments
Off-season training: savoring the sun

This short post completes my updates from sunny old Arizona, where I got in 60 hours of base miles and enjoyed the sunny, warm weather while I could.

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Sal Scotto: the interview

Written on 28 Dec, 2009 at 20:16 in Interviews, Training | 2 Comments
Sal Scotto: the interview

Salvatore Scotto DiVetta is well known to bike racers in New York City and along the East Coast. While on vacation recently, I caught up with the 24-year-old to talk about what he’s doing this off-season and how he’ll be heading to Belgium to test his legs in a kermesse or two next year.

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Off-season training: Arizona is for hedonists!

Written on 15 Dec, 2009 at 22:01 in Training | 0 Comments
Off-season training: Arizona is for hedonists!

If I learned one thing in the last week of off-season training, it’s that parfaits are best left to Jan Ulrich. And that you sometimes need to ease off the training if you want to keep your significant other.

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Off-season training: early December

Written on 9 Dec, 2009 at 15:17 in Training | 0 Comments
Off-season training: early December

I’m almost a week into my three-week trip to Arizona, and I’ve brought along my bike for some base miles. It’s been a trip in every way, with the desert beauty and the sunny skies smiling down. To boot, I met up with a fellow Brooklynite for some training in the hills.

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Off-season training: Arizona cruisin’

Written on 4 Dec, 2009 at 13:57 in Training | 0 Comments
Off-season training: Arizona cruisin’

With visions of cactuses and desert landscapes, I fled NYC for a little off-season training and R&R in Tempe, Ariz. The sunny environs of greater Phoenix offer lots of varied terrain and opportunities to ride all day in pretty much any direction you desire.

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I can’t climb and other myths

Written on 31 Oct, 2009 at 19:13 in Training | 0 Comments
I can’t climb and other myths

Funny thing about bike racers: They tell themselves they can’t do a whole bunch of things. Like go up hills. But are we just playing mind games with ourselves? CR contributor and former Midwestern rouler Gene Dougherty deconstructs his fear of steep gradients.

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Cyclocross: a beginner’s quick guide to training and racing

Written on 8 Oct, 2009 at 23:55 in Training | 0 Comments
Cyclocross: a beginner’s quick guide to training and racing

In the fourth article in our series on cyclocross basics by Brooklyn-based racer and CR contributor Ian Landau, a training primer for newbies and a bit of advice on how to make sense of the way races are organized. There’s even a lovely video of riders struggling in unholy amounts of mud. Read on.

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Cyclocross: a beginner’s quick guide

Written on 1 Oct, 2009 at 18:35 in Training | 0 Comments
The Gin & Trombones, in special edition Belgian colors, by Van Dessel.

A series of no-frills articles on cycling’s coolest discipline by Brooklyn, New York–based cross racer and CR contributor Ian Landau. He explains what you need to know to get started racing cross now, including equipment, skills, races, and fans.

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Calling cycling reporters, writers, and photographers

Written on 28 Sep, 2009 at 16:11 in Interviews, News, Opinion, Photos, Race Reports, Training | 0 Comments
Photo by Fotoreporter Sirotti

CyclingReporter.com, a new Web site that covers a slice of the bike racing scene in the New York City area and beyond through race reports, photographs, and articles, is looking for reporters, writers, and photographers. Want to share your last race experience with a growing audience of passionate bike racers? Do you take pictures at [...]

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