The Downtown Silver City Criterium, stage four of Tour of the Gila, was a fairly conservative affair. The four-corner rectangular course covered 1.04 miles with 80 feet of climbing per lap. Three intermediate sprints offered up sprint points and bonus seconds as did the finish. With a reshuffle of the general classification yesterday and the [...]

Tour of the Gila continued today with the challenging Dan Potts Memorial Tyrone Time Trial. The course, a 16.1 mile out-and-back, covers two significant climbs on the way out with a near-constant descent heading back towards the finish. Weather and technicality combine to make the day one of the most difficult time trials riders will [...]

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Meredith Miller maintained her position in the overall classification following the second stage of SRAM Tour of the Gila. The team captain and highest-placed rider for Team TIBCO currently sits 12th in the overall. Without a full team to support her efforts, Miller was tasked with “staying as rested as possible” by Sports Director Lisa [...]

Jelly Belly p/b Kenda executed a perfect leadout in the final two kilometers of the Tour of Korea, sending Ken Hanson to victory in Stage 9. Winning the final stage capped nine days of hard racing for the team, which also put Hanson on the podium in second place in Stage 5. Sergio Hernandez was [...]

The small but mighty Team TIBCO lost Carmen Small to a mid-race crash during the first stage of the Tour of the Gila today. Small, who was expected to be TIBCO’s top contender for stage wins and the general classification, suffered a large laceration to her elbow and bruising to the pelvis. “The crosswinds were [...]

Meredith Miller leads a small but strong squad at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. The five-day stage race is part of the NRC and Women’s Prestige Series and includes three road stages, a criterium and a time trial. Weather, altitude and technicality combine to make the race one of the most challenging on the [...]

After muddling through a few (meager) explanations of lactate threshold testing, power, training and how it all goes together we finally ask a man in a white lab coat, Professor Bruce Jayne, Ph.D., Biologist at the University of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences.  He knows more about it than you and I and your brother [...]

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Spring is springing, the classics have mostly sprung & another springy hallowed monument of the season is IU’s Little 500.  This latest podcast we touch on Roubaix, Amstel & the Little 5.  Stories of Cancellara the mighty, Gilbert the strong & Cutters the dominant.  We take three more calls this podcast from an observer of [...]

With three kilometers to go in Stage 4 of the Tour of Korea, Jelly Belly p/b Kenda seized the moment. All six riders were working together as they swooped to the front and led Ken Hanson to a second-place finish in the stage Monday. “The lead-out was great for the team,” said director Danny Van Haute. [...]