You’ve stuck to your training plan religiously.  You have some races under your belt this season and feel good about where things are headed, but the race coming up is the one.  The big event is a couple weeks away and suddenly you are plagued with doubts; overcome with the dreaded “what-ifs”.  The what-ifs take [...]

Why do we sometimes feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? We’re on top of our game one minute and feel like quitting the next. Our confidence gets shattered by our own brains. We sabotage ourselves until we’re forced to agree with the timeless words of the band Foreigner “I can’t take it anymore; no [...]

tonight i sat in the back of a station wagon sandwiched between two car seats. on my right was a 4yr old who thought it was hilarious to stick his fingers in his mouth and then rub his slobber on my arm. on the left was a 6yr old who started chanting “we’re going to [...]

Beat the Bookie:  Final Spring Classics Round First up, Fleche Wallone, Wednesday Who will storm the Mur to victory?  Will it be Kirchen pictured below?  That’s not what the bookies are saying.  Make your selection, as long as it is not Damiano Cunego, and you will be eligbale for Two Johns swag.  Maybe we will [...]

Special Guest:  SRAM’s Michael Zellmann We are back from a longish layoff, but not due to inactivity.  In this latest installment of of the Two Johns Podcast we discuss the classics season to date, Hamilton’s situation & the french conspiracy.  Local News you will get the riveting story of our racing lives followed by an [...]

Do you use Twitter? I DO, of late. I don’t really know why, but I think it’s a fun. Fun is just about as lame as adjectives get, but I’m resorting to it. Anyway, as my tweet from April 16 at 4:42pm (and subsequent tweet six minutes later, unbeknownst to me) reads: “It’s raining in [...]

Sunny here today in belgium, on the bus driving to the team presentation for Amstel Gold, nap very apealing right now… # Looking at the route book for Amstel, 260km all within a 40km square, haha, oh and don’t forget the 31 classified climbs… # Most Commented Posts F*king incredible! (13) Garmin team camp day [...]

First Amstel done, ooouufff, started to lack a bit of go at 245km, beautiful day, beautiful race, # 259km, 6h 40min, 240w avg power, 147 bpm avg heartrate, 4800 KJs, 3200m climbing..the experience; priceless… # And so after all that they bung up the results and give my placing to Ricardo, haha, the dutch, always [...]

We arrived at the start town of Maastricht on a cool but sunny Sunday morning for what would be the start of my first major classic, the 260km Amstel Gold race. I was slightly anxious yet overall was feeling surprisingly calm for the first of the three Ardennes classics this week. I have always dreamt [...]

There are perks to working at the Ergon booth at events. I get to talk to cool people from all the websites I check out all the time. Here is me giving the low down for Cycling Dirt on some of the NEW Ergon grips that we just received from Taiwan a few days ago: [...]

The Jelly Belly Team is flying halfway across the world for its next race: the Jelajah Malaysia 2009. This eight day stage race will begin April 19 in Kuala Selangor and end in a criterium in Kuala Lumpur on the 26th. The riders traveling to compete are Brad Huff, Bernard van Ulden, Matty Rice, Matt [...]

I frequent  Cycling Dirt on almost a daily basis.  I think it’s awesome that it’s dedicated to mountain bike racing.  Let’s face it, road racing on this planet is a much bigger deal than mountain bike racing so 85% of what we hear about has to do with slick skinny tires – not that there [...]