Life Lived One Corner at a Time
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We are getting ready for a couple week break here; but before we do it, Boedi, Céline, Allan and I need to fill you in on all the details from the big weekend in Winston-Salem and two days of phenomenal racing.
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Coming from Maple Ridge, BC, Canada, Maggie Coles-Lyster of DNA Pro Cycling has been a force in the criterium peloton this year. We got a chance to sit down with her and hear about that whirlwind of success. We also discussed the very sad; but very real fact that sexual assault, abuse, and harassment takes place all too often in our sport. Maggie is the victim of sexual assault stemming from events in 2017 when racing in Europe and she was brave enough to speak with us about it here.
If you have been a victim of any type of abuse in our sport there are resources, like SafeSport here in the US, or International Safe Sport abroad. In addition The Cyclists' Alliance is also there to provide guidance and help for its members and supporters.
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The criterium season is winding down, which means more time for lazy Sunday mornings brunching with the cats outside. But before we pack up the Zipp 808s for the winter there is a veritable buffet of racing to cover including the Momentum Indy weekend, the Sun City Crit and Bucks County. With all that racing we need a full crew to help break it all down, fortunately we've got the best of the best here to do it.
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Kerry Werner, a double threat with Project Echelon and Kona Maxxis Shimano, joins us for the hour from the most unique host housing situation in the history of domestic bike racing to talk about CX, crits, and what it will take to make a purely American version of an very international sport.
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Olivia Ray of Rally Cycling and George Simpson of Project Echelon sub in for the usual suspects on the Crit Squad to talk about the Experience Fayetteville Criterium which is the final stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race. We breakdown the action, and delve into a lot of wonderful information that may qualify as a tangent.
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A lot has happened lately which means a lot to cover. The full crit squad was back but we needed more, so we brought in our clean-up guy Micheal Boedigheimer to give us that extra little push. Tune in for coverage of the Hammerfest, Spartanburg, Athens, and Grant Park.
This may sound a bit different, that's because our good friend Boedi steps in to take the reins on this mustang of a show. He, Allan and Céline take you to Salt Lake City, Littleton and far beyond to tell you about the good and the great of the last couple of weeks of racing in our criterium nation.
They did it again, L39ion of LA dominated another weekend of racing at the Boise Twilight Crit. Céline and Allan, the full crit squad, is back in the studio again to help breakdown the action and talk about some strategies the field can employ to try and derail the L39ion winning plan.
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The full crit squad is back together, Allan Schroeder (CS Velo) and Céline Oberholzer (Wolfpack) are with me in studio to breakdown the happenings at Sunny King and to get into detail about what we learned in the first month of racing this year.
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A few hours away from being a junior this year, Luke Lamperti of Trinity Racing came through the chaos of the final couple corners of the Pro Crit Championship victorious. Here's his story. Plus we’ve got a special story from Inside the Peloton submitted by our correspondent Allan Schroeder of CS Velo.
An all star cast including Céline Oberholzer, Bill Schieken and Micheal Boedigheimer joins me to break down a surprising week of racing at pro crit nats, TOAD, and Harlem.
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L39ion of LA was simply unbeatable this weekend at Tulsa Tough. A complete sweep of the top step of every podium in all the pro races, men's and women's, is just a dominating result. Adam Mills, and Céline Oberholzer join me to breakdown everything that happened over 3 days in Tulsa.
Céline Oberholzer, Wolfpack, and Kyle Tiesler, Support Clean Sport, help breakdown the action from the first big weekend of crit racing in 2021 at Armed Forces in Arlington, VA. It was a hot and humid couple of days with some familiar names like Kendall Ryan, L39ion, taking a win; but then some new names like Stephen Vogel, Project Echelon, make their appearance in emphatic style.
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2 episodes, 2 weeks in a row, 2 pro criterium national champs.
What happens when you are one of the most admired and respected bike racers in the American peloton...you win races. Emma White of Rally Cycling is the reigning criterium champion and she won it in Knoxville by racing hard and smart and with the help of her team. Now she has her eyes set on adding an Olympic gold medal to her World Champion jersey and national title.
2 episodes, 2 weeks in a row, 2 pro criterium national champs. If you want more #critbeef it's inside. If you want insight into the mind of one of the best athletes in the US, it's inside. If you need more Danny Estevez content, it's inside. If you need more info about how this is going to be the hottest year on record for the crit circuit, it's inside. Travis McCabe of Best Buddies Racing is here and he's not holding back.
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It's time to talk racing. This episode is jam packed with information previewing the 2021 USACRITS competition, the Pro Road Tour, Nationals, all of the best events in the country. Plus we reveal our first week of power rankings. Allan Schroeder, CS Velo, and Céline Oberholzer, Wolfpack, help break it all down.
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#critbeef is real. It has sharpened the focus of the upcoming crit season, and provided a reason to the top athletes to compete. It has also opened up an opportunity to look at why the US has an amateur and pro crit championship and whether that makes any sense any more. Adam Myerson joins us to provide context and historical perspective for how we've gotten here and what it all means going forward.
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Your subject matter expert, and guru, Zack Allison of Source Endurance stops by to answer our questions on a variety of different criterium related topics.
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Tiffany Thomas is a transgender woman, she's a bike racer, and a human. She is living in extraordinary times, right alongside all of us, and this is her story. Discovering and living her identity as a person and an athlete isn't easy; but it's her truth. We learn about that truth and what we as fellow members of the bike racing community can do to be there with her.
The community we build is our legacy. The time we spend in this sport is only a part of the overall story of the sport; and what we do to make it better than it was when we started, stands as a testament to our character. Jed Schneider, multi-time awesomeness and dear friend, took some time to talk to me about the view from this side of 30 years in the sport, and what he hopes to do in the 30 more years that he has left to go.
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