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
During my stint in Europe this past summer I was able to visit my friends Franky and Chantal in Meulebeke, Belgium. Meulebeke is located in the heart of West Flanders approximately 30km from Oudenaarde, home of the Tour of Flanders Museum. I had the good fortune of meeting Franky and Chantal in 2012 when they … 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
On July 13 I boarded a plane bound for Europe where I will be until October 1. For the bulk of that time I will be working for USA Cycling as an Associate National Team Coach for the Junior Men and Nieuwelingen. USA Cycling has a base in Sittard, NL in an old sports hotel … Read more
Due to heading straight to the airport after Redmond Derby Days and boarding a plane to Europe the next day this post is coming a week late and a bit abbreviated. That said, the 2014 Derby Days Criterium was a huge success. The big winners of the day were the members of the Keller Rohrback … Read more
There is still time to pre-register for the biggest prize list criterium in the Seattle area, but not for long. Pre-registration for the 74th Annual Redmond Derby Days Criterium closes Thursday, June 10 at 10PM. There really is no reason to not pre-register. The weather is looking great, the prize list looks even better and … Read more
