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Criterium de Bethel

The following is Tim Mitchell’s account of the Criterium de Bethel:
Waking up on Sunday morning I was disappointed because I knew that the rain I
saw outside my window meant the weekly Wells Ave training series would be
canceled.  On the internet that morning though, was a ray of sunshine; I saw on
the race calendar there was [...]

Racing the Johnny "Not a Piece of" Cake Series #1

The forecast looked promising all weeklong for the Albany, New York, region.  Partly cloudy with highs near 60F for Saturday, March 28th.  This was too good to be true given that only eight days prior the Vernal Equinox arrived, up to its usual trickery announcing spring with a dismal, soppy wet and cold day.  MetLife [...]

Tour of the Battenkill: Gatherin' In-tel for a Sunday In-Hell

Giddy-up.
As jack frost loosens his ice grip on New England, a few things are most certainly around the corner.  For throngs of bike racers across the region, one of the most eagerly awaited among these – perhaps more so than DST or even the spring classics – is the Northeast’s own perennial spring monument, the [...]

Landry's Indoor Time Trials and Tribulations

The time trial is generally thought of as an individual endeavor.  Put 200 cyclists in a room together, 16 of them at one interval racing against both themselves and each other, and you have a whole different ball of wax.  On March 1, 2009, Landry’s Bicycles in Boston hosted the first annual Boston Triathlon Team [...]