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Sunday 9am ride meets at Machinery Row Bicycles. We will ride the IronMan course from the Monona Terrace to Verona.

If you are interested in making yourself a better rider, then this summer Speed Cycling has the schedule for you. You will feel rewarded when you finish each of our excellent workouts because you will know that you did work that will truely improve you fitness and RESULTS.

This first segment of the course requires a good pacing plan. We will discuss some good targets for pacing in terms of perceived exertion, heart rate and power output. Learn how hard to go and why it is OK to let the other athlete go speeding by.

Ride your best this year. Train with Speed!

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While the weather didn't cooperate, 30+ Speed Cycling athletes took on all challenges and registered impressive riding at the 1st Annual La Crosse Climbing Camp. Watch for more to follow, and the much anticipated Climbing Camp Awards!

And here they are...

1st Annual Speed Cycling Climbing Camp Awards

Best Climber-Female (too close to call): Shirley Crocker! April Beard, Amanda Mack, Arrietta Clauss, Annie Lutz, Alisha Schneider, Diane Ostenso, Heisley Lewison, Jen Moore, Julie Fagan, Julie Hitt, Maggie Fournier, Meredith Peterson and Sarah Huang

Best Climber-Male: (also too close to call): Mark Morgan, Scott Lutz, Glen Jones, Jeff Lamay, Bill Benz, Bob Brunette, Larry Gausmann, Charles Hitt, Dustin Schneider, Allen Clauss, Tim Skinner, Greg Padden, Gordon Faulkner and Joel Fagan

Most Improved Climber-Female: Arrietta

Most Improved Climber-Male: (a family affair): Allen

Best Climber Under 21: Sarah

Best Fashion Statement (tie): Greg (jersey), Bob (socks)

“Good Guy” Award (4-way tie): Scott, Tim, Glen & Jeff

Most Creative Route Adaptation: Meredith 'Pick Me Up' Petersen

Best Roulleur-Female: Arrietta

Best Roulleur-Male: Glen

“Warrior Woman” Award: Jen 'Kill the Last Hill' Moore

Best 'Fat Tire Guy' Climber: Mark

'Super Tough' Award: Julie & Heisley 'No Glove Girls'

Idiot Award: Local Weather Forecaster

Spirit Award (obvious & easy): Shirley

Biggest Misuse of GPS: The 3 Amigos

Most Margaritas Award: 6 Way Tie-You Know Who You Are

March 3rd TT Results are HERE...

Additional Class Times.

Checkout our Schedule for noon ride dates. Speed Cycling is pleased to announce several new offerings at it's Fitchburg location. USCF Certified Coach, Andrew Hellpap will be leading a 6:00 A.M. training session every Friday. These sessions are open to all and are included at no additional charge in the monthly membership. If you are interested in attending these additional sessions, you only need to show up. Andrew is also starting a noon hour ride series. Contact Andrew for details, or simply show up.

SpinScan_© Evaluations.

USAC Certified Coach, Diane Ostenso, has begun conduction SpinScan evaluations at Speed Cycling. SpinScan provides biofeedback used to evaluate a rider's pedaling mechanics and can also identify the results from small adjustments to bike position. SpinScan offers two different ways of looking at your pedaling including a multi-color torque graph. This graph shows one full 360-degree pedal revolution divided into 15-degree segments. It will help identify dead spots in your pedal stroke resulting when power is not being efficiently transferred to bike's drive train. SpinScan reports a 'SpinScan Number', which is the average torque divided by the maximum torque times 100. Contact Diane to schedule your SpinScan analysis. Get your legs producing optimum torque through the full 360-degree pedal revolution,

To acommodate the training schedules calling for longer weekday rides, Speed Cycling will have its doors open at 5:15 A.M. Monday through Thursday. Riding should be available starting at 5:30 A.M.  The regularly scheduled riding will begin at 6:00 A.M. time, however, athletes wishing to start spinning before the program begins can now get set up to start at 5:30.