Report by: Peter Bell
The Lake Sunapee Road Race is one of the towering classics of the New England spring.
Held on a difficult rolling course around the eponymous lake, it has been there year in
and year out (except for when it got snowed out in 2002) since 1974. With that sort of
history, it has seen a [...]
It was high noon on Friday when we rolled into Athens. Gabe, Andy and I had spent the previous day driving down to Charlotte, North Carolina, where we picked Ryan up from the airport to complete our four-person squad for the USACrits Speed Week. Another few hours in the minivan brought us to Athens, Georgia, [...]
This past weekend marked the first annual Tour of the Dragons, an inexplicably-titled stage race consisting of an Individual Time Trial, Criterium in downtown Bennington, and 100 mile Road Race in the Equinox valley (and steep surrounding hills). Trent, Nick, Peter, and Landen toed the line for MetLife, eager to both build up early season [...]
The MetLife squad opened their New England campaign last weekend at the venerable Michael Schott Memorial Classic. The race known as “Marblehead” has been the perennial kick off for New England now for 40 years. Unfortunately, after issues with the town and traffic concerns the race has been cut down to the point [...]
Eight of the MetLife riders convened at team member Chris Coutu’s home in Cape Cod last weekend for a training camp to officially kick off the 2011 season. After a long winter of slogging through cold, slushy rides or tediously spinning away on indoor trainers, the camp gave the guys an [...]