Monthly Archives: January 2012

Just another reminder. Our pre-season team meeting will be this Wednesday at 6:30.  Please make it if you can.  It’s going to be fun.

There is a Team Meeting scheduled for 2/1 at 6:30 pm.  We don’t have many of these. If you’re on the team, please try to make it.  The main topic of discussion will be this year’s road schedule and, more importantly, how much fun we’re going to have. If you are not on the team [...]

The Bicycle Heaven Racing team is proud to announce it’s roster for the 2012 racing season.  With the exponential growth of the team over the last few years this roster is, without question, our largest and most potent pre-season roster ever.  If you are looking for a team for 2012, however, we do accept new [...]

…and they continue to be speaking the truth in the Bicycle Heaven Racing Team dungeon.  The truth is that the folks who have been showing up are getting stronger. A lot stronger. RMFK brought his coaching pain today.  Rob walked in with a 90 minute ride.  “Don’t worry,” Rob said, “only an hour and 20 [...]

Having gone through an entire Chicago Cyclocross Cup season, the “post season” races, the Nationals in Madison, and (last week) the Master’s Worlds, can we finally say cyclocross season is over?  It’s about 75 days until the first USAC road race in Illinois.  About 60 if you head up to the ABR practice crits in [...]

Bryan was up at the Illinois Cycling Association awards to accept his 2011 Masters 4/5 trophy tonight.  Good job and great year Bryan!

Racing bikes is hard. Everybody knows that.  It’s fun, though.  So much fun. Getting into bike racing is really hard, too.  It shouldn’t be.  It is, though.  From what forms to fill out, to how to find races, a lot of people who want to race bikes, never make it to the start line.  It’s not [...]

This Wednesday – (1/11/12) I’ll be holding an FTP test night.  If you are interested in knowing this baseline number please sign up. Since the entire test process will take about 40 min (including warm up) I’d like to use the rest of the time (approx 55 min) to discuss the benefits of training with power and how a [...]

Nationals Race Report: 10-29 year old Race I arrived at the course a little bit before nine o’clock. So I had time for one lap before the start of the women’s race at nine o’clock. The course was a little bit icy since it was still pretty cold at this point in the morning. I [...]

                  Spectacular ride today. 19 folks showed up.  A BH record for January!  We rode the standard Bicycle Heaven route until we hit the northeastern most corner.  At that point we broke down into small groups based on either ability or desired workout.  Each group then headed [...]