Our friends from the Flatwater Cycling team are hosting the Flatwater Spring Training Criteriums March 20th & 27th.  Training crits are a great way to test your fitness, hone your bike handling skills, and allay some of your fears about riding fast with a bunch of other crazy people.

For those new to crits below are some very basic things to do before, during, and after the crit.

Before:  read more »

Believe it or not race season is right around the corner and the weather appears that it may cooperate yet. As most of you know there is a Flatwater training crit coming up the next few weekends.  read more »

Since 2004 the Norfolk Race series has been giving area cyclists an chance to try out bike racing or hone their racing skills.

The year the series starts May 4th with a time trial at Norfolk Beverage. The TT series will run the first Tuesday of each month through September. On the 3rd Tuesday of the month there will be a criterium or MTB race alternating each month. 

Check back for more details!

The Elkhorn Valley Cycling Club is the featured Nebraska bke club this week on Nebraska Cycling News.

Up until the end of 2009, the Elkhorn Valley Cycling Club used to be its only race team, Elkhorn Valley Cycling powered by Monster (EVCpM), to promote cycling and the cycling lifestyle. That all changed in 2010 though. This year the main team will remain Elkhorn Valley Cycling powered by Monster but have added two teams to the roster: Elkhorn Valley Cycling – Triathlon and EVCCX – Monster.  read more »

Want to show your support for Elkhorn Valley Cycling  read more »

The 2010 Nebraska Cycling Association Board Meeting and Election was held January 30 at Whole Foods in Omaha. A large crowd of interested cyclists attended and were treated to a presentation of information and statistics by NCA President Ryan Feagan.

Following this presentation, elections were held and several Elkhorn Valley Cycling Club and Team Type 1 members were elected to the board. Congratulations to John Spray, Joe Savoie, and Craig Harding and good luck in 2010. The full 2010 NCA board members are:  read more »

Lately Jon Downey has been putting me out there as the team coach and to be honest I like the sounds of it.  I am willing to share my five years of knowledge of cycling, racing, and training. 

If you would like my humble advice on fitness, racing, dieting, or general training questions, shoot me an email.  My knowledge of training is primarily based on "The Training Bible" by Joe Friel and my 5+ years of races.   read more »

EVCC and TT1 racers: Get your 2010 race goals in so Coach Joe Savoie can start getting a 2010 season plan put together to maximize everyone's chances of success. We like to look at races as being of three priorities: A, B, or C, with A races being races that are most important to the racer, B being somewhat important, and C being least important or possibly a training race. The team would like to get behind racers at their A races but to do that it needs to know what those races are.  read more »