Category: Cycling

Comments about bicycling

Cycling in 2020

Cycling in 2020 has been an interesting year.  I started out looking forward to the new cycling season after my forced early off season in 2019 due to injury that August. Races / TimeTrials Because of the shortened MATTS schedule,…

Working Remotely

When people talk about working remotely they usually mean working from home.  Over the past weekend I had to really work remotely: I was recording finishing times for competitors in the 2020 Ill Kanza Gravel Fondo bike event.  Ill Kanza…

Quadriceps Tendonitis

    In early March, I started to ride outdoors in preparation for my cycling team‘s training camp in Southern Illinois.  After 2 days of outdoor riding on my road bike, which had been idle all winter, I started developing…

2015 Mid American Time Trial Series

The 2015 Time Trial season started off in January with a series of indoor TTs. Being my first full year participating in the series, one of my goals was to complete the requisite 10 races to be considered in the…

2011 Racing Season

Is time to seriously start to plan for the 2011 Race season. I have already completed the indoor time trial season, with rather poor results. Here is what I have planned for the season. I was able to find races…

2010 Racing Season

I have just closed out my first season racing bicycles after finishing the Jamestown Classic.  I am pretty happy how the season went though I think I should have interspersed more TTs. The reason I stopped doing TTs this season…

Cycling in different parts of the country

In August I traveled to Iowa and was able to bring my TT bike.  I was able to ride between Coralville, Oxford and Tiffin and put in over 100 miles.  What was a surprise to me was the speed I…

Wells Ave Crit

On May 2nd, I participated in the Wells Ave Training Crit.  The race is held in an industrial park on a closed (no cross streets, open to traffic) loop.  The only businesses which are operating on Sunday mornings are the…

Spring Training Camp

I spent last weekend in Southern Illinois riding with Wild Card Cycling at their spring training camp.  The plan was for me to arrive in Champaign on the Wednesday before, ride locally on Thursday, meet the group on Friday morning,…

First Spring Ride

This afternoon was a special for me.  I got to get my first miles outside for 2010 and was the maiden ride for my reconfigured Trek 2300 road bike.  I picked up the bike from my local wrench on Saturday…