The week of the Boulder 2014 Cyclocross National Championships was amped. Juniors grinned ear to ear or scoped the course seriously with their headphones blocking distractions. Masters over 70 sharpened their elbows to contend for stars and stripes. I took it all in with pleasure and the pride of getting to show off something you love at its best.
"As soon as the sun came out and the snow started turning to mud I knew I could do well in Frisco. The slicker the better for me, because it's all about trusting your equipment and letting your bike take you for a ride. The brilliant golden of turning aspens with the fresh snow could not have been a more idyllic setting to suffer and feel the cold air freeze your lungs and fingers." Emily Zinn
Have done a couple of long rides recently on my old BZ (Before Zinn) bike. Was an interesting excercise.
I've got a bike in my garage that illustrates the proportional length crank philosophy that is one of the cornerstones of the design philosophy of Zinn Cycles. It's not a Zinn bike - but even so - it's still pretty cool...
If you’ve ever done squats in the weights room – you’ll know that you can cheat by not squatting all the way. You can seemingly lift more weight – but it’s a false economy as you don’t get the full strength gains that a deep squat can give.
Saturday started cool and dry and turned to pouring rain in the middle of my race. Fortunately, I had opted for tires with good tread (Dugast Typhoons) rather than fine tread, which would have been faster in the conditions at the start but which would have been sliding all over the place in the mud that formed rapidly the last two laps. I had lots of catching up to do in both races, since I started in the very back row both days. Unlike local races, in which riders are called to the line based on their points totals, the USGP in my and Emily's categories do not have a points category of their own and don't honor any other. Call-ups are based entirely on order that registration was received, and we registered late.
6/13 93k /1093mt/5hr. 58 mi/3856 vert ft
Dear Lennard,
This past weekend was the Cyclocross Nationals in Wisconsin. Not as much snow as we were used to from racing cyclocross in Colorado this season, and overall a great event. Here are some photos.