Mark Batty: Solid race, podium finish
Mark Batty shares his experience at the 2011 Canadian Cyclocross Nationals in Toronto on Nov. 5: Friday, Nov. 4: Emily, Adam and I pack the car and head down to preview the Nationals course. It was really nice to only have a one-hour drive meaning we were able to do this course inspection the day [...]
Mark Batty: Don’t believe the forecast
“Umm Mark, we’re not really getting out of the car?” When the decision was made to go to Beacon Cross in New Jersey there was nothing but sun in the forecast. A day before heading down I take another glimpse of the weather and, sure enough, they’re now calling for 20-30mm of rain, and they [...]
Mark Batty: Emptying the tank before cyclocross nationals
Mark Batty of Team SpiderTech p/b C10 kept it local this past weekend, racing in Barrie, Ont., north of Toronto. Coming as it did at the end of a heavy training block, results weren’t the objective: Last Sunday was the Barrie Cycling Baseball Cross. Unfortunately there was no baseball playing, just full-on cross racing. The [...]
Mark Batty: Podium at last
Team SpiderTech p/b C10′s Mark Batty continues his cyclocross season in preparation for the national championships in Toronto on Nov. 5. Here’s how his last weekend went: Another early morning, another 10-hour drive and another great weekend of racing. Granogue Cross located in Wilmington, Delaware, presented itself with sunshine, blue skies and high teens for [...]
Mark Batty: Back pain and bad luck in Gloucester
While most of his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates are taking some time off, Mark Batty is racing on the North American cyclocross circuit until the national championships in November. This past weekend Mark was in Massachusetts for the Gloucester Grand Prix … which didn’t go as well as hoped: Writing about the Gloucester races is [...]
Mark Batty: Long drive, stomach issues and mud
For the next two months, Mark Batty will be flying the Team SpiderTech p/b C10 flag on the North American cyclocross circuit. Mark reports on his first weekend of racing: Twelve hours of driving finally gets the van to Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The temperature is quit chilly and the sky is overcast. Friday morning I [...]
Mark Batty: A new season … of cyclocross
While some Team SpiderTech p/b C10 riders duke it out at the world championships and others take a well-earned break before getting ready for 2012, a whole new season is just starting for Mark Batty. For the next two months Mark will be duking it out in the off-road discipline of cyclocross, and he’ll be [...]
Guillaume Boivin ready to tackle worlds
SpiderTech p/b C10 rider Guillaume Boivin is in Copenhagen for the road cycling world championships. He will be the sole Canadian in the U23 men’s road race Friday. The 23rd of September has been circled on my calendar for nearly a year. After finishing third last year in Australia, a day hasn’t gone by without [...]
Hugo Houle: Good start at Tour de l’Avenir
Hugo Houle is competing at the Tour de l’Avenir in France with the Canadian National Team. Hugo was fifth in the prologue Sunday — Canada’s best-ever result at l’Avenir, which is the most prestigious U23 race on the international calendar: Aujourd’hui, avait lieu le prologue du Tour de l’Avenir, course U23 la plus prestigieuse au [...]
Zach Bell: Flat roads at last
Zach Bell just wrapped up the final European trip of the season with Team SpiderTech p/b C10. The end of our Euro August tour finally finished on some flats. It was great to find that form that had been building up of the course of a month. The difference between racing at the beginning of [...]
Andrew Randell: Bad karma, black eye
SpiderTech p/b C10′s Andrew Randell is back home after crashing out of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge during Stage 2. Andrew brings us up to date: One year after breaking my femur I’m back on the injured list, the season finished earlier than expected and my chance of doing the Pro Tour events in Quebec [...]
Andrew Randell: Altitude and damaged lungs
Andrew Randell is competing at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge with the SpiderTech p/b C10 team. He posted the 35th-fastest time in the prologue. It’s amazing how much you can empty your body in a short nine minutes. Today was the opening prologue for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, an 8-km time trial that started [...]
Hugo Houle: Hard races and improving form
U23 national road and time trial champion Hugo Houle just finished the Tour de l’Ain and Tour du Limousin with the SpiderTech p/b C10 team in Europe — two of the toughest races of his career. Hugo tells the story: Nous voilà déjà au milieu du voyage. Je viens de compléter le Tour de l’Ain [...]
Andrew Randell: Between races
Andrew Randell is in Colorado with his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates, where they have been recovering from the Tour of Utah and getting ready for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which starts Monday. Andrew brings us up to speed: We had a week to kill between the Tour of Utah and the USA Pro Cycling [...]
Zach Bell: Limousin ain’t no plush town car
Zach Bell just completed the four-day Tour du Limousin in the south of France. He brings us up to speed on the experience: That was 4 days of hurt locker … I mean there was some times at a nice easy tempo in this race. However you were almost always going up or going down. [...]
Andrew Randell: Heading to Colorado
Andrew Randell just finished up the Tour of Utah and, along with the rest of his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates, is heading to Colorado for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Andrew brings us up to date: Sunday was the queen stage of the Tour of Utah, the mountain top finish that everyone was looking for [...]
Bruno Langlois: In transition
Bruno Langlois is looking for a good spot to go fishing after helping his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates Pat McCarty and Lucas Euser to Top 10 finishes in the Tour of Utah: Le Tour de l’Utah étant terminé, l’équipe est de retour sur la route. Direction Hotchkiss, Colorado, là ou nous seront en transition pour [...]
Andrew Randell: Racing in the oven
Andrew Randell is racing in the Tour of Utah with SpiderTech p/b C10. He talks about the hellish heat during Saturday’s Stage 4: Today’s stage was a circuit race in Salt Lake City. The race consisted of 11 laps, the main feature of which was a 500m climb that kicked up to the state capitol [...]
Andrew Randell: A long day’s wait
Andrew Randell is racing the Tour of Utah for Team SpiderTech p/b C10. Today (Friday) is a long day of waiting around for the time trial tonight. Despite the short race the day is still full: a morning spin to open the legs and make last minute adjustments to the time trial bikes; lunch; a [...]
Zach Bell: Learning the ropes in Europe
Zach Bell is learning the ropes of European racing as part of SpiderTech p/b C10. This week the team is competing at the Tour de l’Ain in France. Zach tells the tale: The end of Thursday marked the halfway point of our first tour back in Europe and I think the opening two days saw [...]
Bruno Langlois: A hard day’s racing in Utah
Bruno Langlois had a tough day during Thursday’s Stage 2 of the Tour of Utah. Bruno tells the tale: Aujourd’hui j’avais l’intention de vous parler de autre chose que de la course mais je n’ai pas été témoin de choses très très excitante alors je vais vous parler de mes péripéties et ceux de l’équipe [...]
Andrew Randell: Back from Hell
Andrew Randell has been suffering through the heat and climbs at the Tour of Utah. Andrew tells the story: To Hell and Back. That’s a phrase used to describe one of the French cobbled spring classics, Paris-Roubaix, but it is certainly how I felt through yesterday and today. Yesterday I got worse on each of [...]
Will Routley: Sidelined by nasty crash
A horrific crash has temporarily sidelined Will Routley from SpiderTech p/b C10′s European racing program. Will tells the story: Our first race back in Europe and I lasted 40 minutes. I crashed out in the Sparkassen Giro on July 31st. It was probably the worst crash I’ve ever had, hitting my face into a fence [...]
Bruno Langlois: Back to racing in Utah
Bruno Langlois is part of the SpiderTech p/b C10 squad racing at the Tour of Utah this week. Bruno shares his experience so far: Suite à un camp d’entraînement à Boulder, CO de 10 jours afin de se familiariser avec l’altitude, nous voilà à Salt Lake City, Utah, pour le Tour of Utah. Samedi le [...]
