It starts innocently. Someone mentions a training block. Another casually drops their HRV score like it’s small talk. Before you know it, your group chat is full of lactate thresholds, recovery metrics, and arguments about the correct zone for threshold work (Zone 3? Zone 4?…
Mathieu van der Poel wasn’t going to race at Benidorm on Sunday, but his friends talked him into it, and Lucinda Brand was coming off two straight defeats, so she had something to prove. But whatever the motive, the two dominant cyclocross riders of the…
The combination of defending champion Noemi Rüegg and reigning road race world champion Magdeleine Vallieres (both EF Education–Oatly) proved too much for their rivals on the deciding third, and final lap, of the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under, which was decided by the final climb…
The WorldTour season begins more or less officially on January 17, with the first stage of the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under, raced over a slightly lumpy course in and around the Australian town of Willunga. All 14 WorldTour teams are taking part for the…
