Last winter Sean Wilson of @teamcajuniors and I decided that we wanted to take juniors to race in Europe. So we combined resources and came up with a program where a small group of 17-18 juniors would first race The Junior Tour of Ireland and then travel to Belgium to race a block of kermesses. … Read more
Yep – that was the headline in the Kilkenny People Newspaper yesterday after Kaia Schmid won stage 1 of the Rás na mBan Stage Race in Ireland. The article can be found HERE. Due to her win she picked up quite a collection of new shirts. From the article: Schmid will wear the overall leaders’ magenta … Read more
teamwork /ˈtiːmwəːk/ : noun : the combined action of a group, especially when effective and efficient. The video above is from stage 1b of the Hungary Nations’ Cup and shows the mad dash through the caravan following a crash with less than 15 km to go in the race. It is from the POV of one … Read more
To say that Kaia Schmid had a successful outing in her very first international competition would be an understatement – winning one gold (and a new shirt), one silver and one bronze medal in the Junior World Track Championships in Cairo, Egypt. Her first race on the velodrome in Cairo was the scratch race in … Read more
teamwork /ˈtiːmwəːk/ noun: the combined action of a group, especially when effective and efficient. The team time trial is the embodiment of team work in cycling on the road. You start with six riders (sometimes more, sometimes less), you ride together as a single unit as fast as you can over a given … Read more
The last time the Tête de la Course Cycling colors were flown in Walla Walla was in 2013 which just so happened to be the last time that I raced the Tour of Walla Walla. Both were back in 2021 – I was there directing the LUX/Sideshow p/b Specialized Junior Men’s Team in the Pro … Read more
Billy Innes is: An artist A former professional cyclist The former Junior National Team Director for USA Cycling A role model for young men pursuing their dream of becoming a professional cyclist at the highest level One of my closest confidants and a dear friend occupying what I like to call my inner circle … Read more
“Hey Joe, can I borrow one of your athletes?…………For an extremely ridiculous challenge….?” That was the text I received at the beginning of December from Erin Blevins (aka @shutup_eat – a friend, a key part of the NonProphet crew in SLC and an all around bad-ass) My answer: “Only if you promise to put … Read more
In November my friend Mark Twight visited. During his visit we went on a bike ride with Heidi Franz and afterward we sat down and had a conversation in the NonProphet mobile recording studio (aka my house). That conversation is up now on the NonProphet podcast here During the conversation Heidi describes how she got … Read more
OB·JEC·TIVE: / noun / a thing aimed at or sought; a goal PLAN: / noun / a diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something MO·TI·VA·TION: / noun / the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way … Read more
