I’m starting this overview of the weekend’s four World Cup races with Saturday’s Elite Men’s race because it was a remarkably dramatic contest that reminded us of why we love cyclocross and because it demonstrated the overwhelming superiority of Mathieu van der Poel and the…
Indoor cycling strips away the distractions of nature, conversation, and wind. What remains is pure, unfiltered chaos. Magnified by a fan that sounds like a jet engine and a towel that gave up two intervals ago.
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…
