Race simulations are a great weapon to have in your belt. Try these training tips and you’ll be plenty prepared for exploding off the start line and getting a jump on the competition.
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Think the BC Bike Race is the easy Epic mountain bike race? Think again.
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Katie Compton has the legs. Heather Irmiger has the lungs. Mary McConneloug owns the technical skills and Georgia Gould has the speed.
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Less than one month after taking the marathon cross-country national championship race, held at the Firecracker 50 race in Breckenridge, Colorado, Horgan-Kobelski comes into this weekend’s USA Cycling mountain bike national championships in nearby Granby as the odds-on favorite to win.
Travis Brown won the second annual Original Growler MTB race in Gunnison, Colorado, on Sunday, May 24. Brown, who also won the inaugural 2008 event, knocked out the 64-mile course in a time of 5:40:35, beating second-place Jeff Irwin by almost four minutes. Eszter Horanyi was the fastest female to complete the full course; she [...]
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Despite the US Open of Mountain Biking moniker, international riders took top honors at Mountain Creek, New Jersey on Memorial Day weekend. Overall Downhill results went to Sam Hill (AUS) and Miranda Miller (CAN), and the Giant Slalom went to Britain’s Brendan Firclough. Jill Kintner was the lone American to make the top spot on [...]
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Weather always affects the racing at Sea Otter. Some years torrential rain changes the course; other years the heat and wind dish out beatings. This year organizers made the game-time decision to shorten the course due to heat. But one thing was for certain this year on the 90-degree day: Christoph Sauser and Georgia Gould were on fire.
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Riding alone the last three laps, Catharine Pendrel (Luna) looked like she had the Sea Otter short track sewn up, but Emily Batty (Trek) had other plans.
Chasing just behind with Heather Irmiger (Subaru-Gary Fisher), Batty jumped with half a lap to go on a paved climb, and held her lead to the finish.
“I just felt like I had so much energy,” Batty said. “It will be a good opener for (the cross-country race) tomorrow.”
Norway’s Lene Byberg (Specialized) leapt past Irmiger and Pendrel to finish second, with Pendrel rounding out the podium.
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Nearly 20 years ago some 350 mountain bikers congregated to race cross-country and dual slalom at the Laguna Seca Challenge. The events of that 1991 weekend eventually grew into the Sea Otter Classic, which this year will host multiple thousands of racers competing in the widest range of disciplines of any event in North America.
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For most riders, the single greatest goal of their TransRockies experience is to reach the finish line each day in one piece and within the time limit. By doing so, they remain officially scored in the event and on track for the treasured finisher t-shirt and medal—mementos of their achievement. While riders come to the start line with ample physical and logistical preparation, the singularly wild and rugged nature of the TransRockies means that there are always unexpected obstacles to overcome along the way to the finish line.
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