Episode 83: March 9, 2022: The Long Road

Photo by Patrick Daly with Harriet Owen in the middle, Rachel Langdon on the left, and Makalaya McPherson at right.

Athletes want to compete and will compete even when hurt. It is their very nature that injury is ignored, often times until it becomes detrimental to a career. Harriet Owen suffered a serious concussion in March of 2021 at a training camp; but kept trying to compete and push herself. She paid a price for it, and eventually had to end her season early and suffered with post-concussion syndrome long after she stopped racing. Now, months later she is putting everything back together and hoping that 2022 will be the year that she can return, injury free, to the top of the podium.

Episode 82: March 2, 2022: Everything. Has. Changed

Danny Estevez of Best Buddies Racing launches the 2022 season for us. He's an athlete who made the choice to leave the sport as a junior and then, when he was ready, to come back and drive for the top step on the podium. In 2021 he achieved that goal, winning the amateur national title in the road race and the crit. Now he's setting his sights on even bigger prizes.

Episode 81: December 15, 2021: What We Liked About 2021

The final episode of the season has arrived. Céline, Allan, and I breakdown, hopefully in a lighthearted fashion, what we liked about 2021.

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Episode 80: December 8, 2021: What We Should Have Learned in 2021 with Adam Mills of Source Endurance

It's retrospection time and we've got our professor, Adam Mills, from Source Endurance here to breakdown the lessons that we all should have learned this year. We've have four lessons in today's class, and we are sure you'll enjoy.

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Episode 79: December 1, 2021: Exit Interview featuring Julie Kuliecza

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Our guest this week, Julie Kuliecza, has made it to the end of her professional racing career. We are here to celebrate that milestone with her; but also to learn from her wisdom and experiences. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, that's how we learn.

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Episode 78: November 17, 2021: Great Expectations featuring Scott McGill of Aevolo

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In road racing, the autumn is the time of expectations and fresh starts. It's when we get to dial in where we want to go in the future. The future for Scott McGill is bright with a new contract with Wildlife Generation and bigger opportunities in Europe and beyond. We talk about that; but also about this past year, including what happened in those final corners at Pro Crit Championships.

Episode 77: November 10, 2021: Inspiration featuring Ama Nsek of L39ion of LA

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In this week's episode we provide you with just the inspiration you need to get through the shorter days and cool temps. Allan and Céline cover for me in my absence with this great conversation with Ama Nsek of L39ion of LA.

Episode 76: November 3, 2021: Next featuring Spencer Moavenzadeh of ButcherBox Cycling

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A lot has happened in our criterium nation in the past couple of weeks. There will be good that comes from some terrible news. We will be here to convey that good news and explain it when the time comes. For now we need to talk about what we know about the recent controversy and start to take those next steps forward. This week we present our interview with Spencer Moavenzadeh of ButcherBox, one of those people who is working to make not just bike racing, but the entire world a better place.

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Episode 75: October 6, 2021: Gears and Guitars a Winston-Salem Recap

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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.

Episode 74: September 29, 2021: El Piranha featuring Maggie Coles-Lyster of DNA Pro Cycling

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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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Episode 73: September 22, 2021: Charcuterie Plate

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.

Episode 72: September 15, 2021: Cognitive Recalibration with Kerry Werner

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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.

Episode 71: September 8, 2021: Experience Fayetteville Criterium Recap

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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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Episode 70: September 1, 2021, Foursquare

Photo by Patrick Daly

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.

Episode 69: August 10, 2021, The Wide Open

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.

Episode 68: July 15, 2021: Free Britney

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.

Episode 67: July 8, 2021: The King of All Crits

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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. 

Episode 66: July 1, 2021: The Youngest Ever

Photo by Patrick Daly

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.

Episode 65: June 24, 2021: Pro Crit Nationals Recap

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.

Episode 64: June 16, 2021: Simply Unbeatable

Photo by Bruce Buckley from Armed Forces Cycling Classic.

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.