You’re welcome. Thank you for being an athlete that every coach hopes to have but very few are fortunate to get the opportunity to work with. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being dedicated. Thank you for being disciplined. Thank you for paying attention to detail. Thank you for understanding the big picture. Thank … Read more

Tête de la Course Cycling is offering one day clinics for your club team. The clinics will be presented by myself and Tom Peterson and consist of some classroom time followed up by on the bike practice. Both of us have a tremendous amount of experience in the sport of cycling and bring unique perspectives … Read more

Newly retired World Tour Pro and Seattle local Tom Peterson will be joining Tête de la Course Cycling as an Associate Coach starting in 2015.  Tom got his start in cycling mountain biking as a kid in North Bend, WA just east of Seattle. He made the switch to the road as a junior and … Read more

“Sure, we’ll be happy to coach you but we will only talk to you once a month for 30 minutes and don’t even think about sending more than 4 emails in a month. Oh yeah, and if something comes up in your personal life and we have to adjust your training plan to accommodate…well, that … Read more

This past week was a good week.  I turned 47 years old on Tuesday and my birthday present to myself was a 47 mile-for-every-year-old ride…..ON THE ROAD! It was just my third ride on the road since surgery eight weeks ago. As many of you know I fractured my femur while in Spain back in … Read more

As previously noted I spent two months this summer living in Sittard working for USA Cycling as an Associate Director for the Junior National Team. My first group were six Nieuwelingen. The second group I worked with, the K2 Group, were 17-18 year old juniors and included newly crowned U.S. Junior National Road Champion Jonny … Read more

Master’s Track Nationals is being held this week at the Marymoor Velodrome in Redmond, WA. Last night one of the athletes that I coach, Jim Flynn, took 2nd in the men’s 45-49 Points Race. I was pretty psyched to hear about Jim’s result and even more so when I heard how he did it which … Read more

European Bike Racing School continued for the members of my nieuwelingen group, Brandon, Matteo, Tyler, Ben, Maxl and Justin. One of our mechanics, JW, who is from the area told me about a Tuesday training race on an old horse track oval. The oval is about 1800 meters around and gets quite a turnout. Since … Read more