Team Bicycle Trip

By Dennis Pedersen Last year was a bit of a breakout season for me, as it was the first one in which I focused completely on track sprints. This year I fully expected that my continuing specif...

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By Dennis Pedersen Gorgeous bikes, down HWY 5. This was my second visit to Carson, near Los Angeles, to race on the intimidating 250-meter wooden velodrome at the StubHub Center . I had a b...

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By Dennis Pedersen This season has been all about track sprinting for me. The only priority cycling races I had were the California state Masters championship track races (NCNCA  District) at...

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By Dennis Pedersen I have long wanted to ride on a steeply-banked, wooden cycling track, as used for most Olympic and World Cup track races. I was told these tracks are an amazing adrenaline ru...

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By Dennis Pedersen Nils and I went to these low-key timed events for practice and fun. I won the standing-start 500m time trial in 38.3 seconds, Nils won the standing-start 1k time trial in 1:1...

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Somebody said that in time of peace men satisfy their impulse to go to war by racing bicycles. I agree. In this particular instance, my own personal battle was to get to the top of Mt Hamilton fa...

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BY EDDIE SANTOS For most, Thanksgiving is a holiday synonymous with a large meal centered around turkey. For the rest of us, it's a heavy dosage of pain centered around Mt. Hamilton. As traditi...

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I like steep. Lomas Contadas, LKHC#7, was a short sweet treat with a 1.3 10.5% grade aperitif followed by a 0.4 miles flat intermission and a grand finale a bit shy of 1 mile at about 15% grade. ...

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I wished I had had a little more time to share this incredibly fun season of low-key hill climbs! Unfortunately Eddie wasn't there today to tell the story in his great words, so it's up to my cri...

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BY EDDIE SANTOS Pain. Agony. Peace. Perhaps the only words I can use to describe the latest Low-Key Hillclimb, this week held on the brutal slopes of Bohlman-On Orbit based in Saratoga. The 4.4...

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You know Stefano's full bore when he's out of the saddle. BY EDDIE SANTOS This past Saturday marked the return of the Low-Key Hill Climb series, once again kicking off with a climb up Mont...

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Mark accepting his 3rd place winnings RACE AROUND LAKE TAHOE 2013 by Jim Langley (black text) & Mark Edwards (blue text) In a nutshell – whether you call it The Great Lake Tahoe Bike Ra...

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By Ed Price I raced the Northern California/Nevada District Criterium Championships held on September 1st, 2013 at an industrial park in Pleasanton in the 55-59 age group. I was the last "offic...

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2013 USA MASTERS ROAD NATIONALS RACE REPORT by Jim Langley and Mark Edwards Jim's race - click to zoom RACE DETAILS: RACE REGISTRATION/HEADQUARTERS: Bend, Oregon (this was the 3rd consecut...

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Winters Road Race 35+ 4 My last weekend of racing for the 2013 road season. There are more races on the calendar, but this weekend features the last that is likely to favor my strengths. I had ...

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By Dennis Pedersen Bob Montague, George Janour and I decided to join forces in a race we could all enter. In my case that meant racing with the younger group rather than my preferred 45+ group....

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My road racing season is winding down, and this year I have been gratified to find myself with a second wind in August. The early season races are generally better suited to my strengths, with th...

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I have grown somewhat tired of racing the 45 4/5 races. I do not particularly think it is anyone’s fault, except for maybe my own. Every time I enter a 45 4/5 road race, we ride around at a no...

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After a two month hiatus from racing (and a 4 month break from my last crit), I was back in action last week at the Suisun Harbor Criterium. I've been eager to get back into racing since I've bee...

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By Dennis Pedersen I really like these road races; partly because they're just a 45-minute drive from Santa Cruz, and partly because the race categories are so friendly to a Cat 3 Master like...

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I went into this race with quite some frustration about my knee problems which had completely shut down my running for a week. And just days after signing up for a local duathlon (next Saturday) ...

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I have been somewhat discouraged about racing since flatting in the Time Trial at the Topsport Stage Race, back in April. When I took a look at the race calendar last week, I was thinking about D...

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By Dennis Pedersen Some of you know that I have changed my training regimen quite a bit this year. This move was based on my performance at the State Track Championships last year , and was des...

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2013 WATSONVILLE CRITERIUM                                                                                                            ...

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By Dennis Pedersen Whew... that's all I can say! After all of the groundwork laying the foundation for the HP Tour de Cure team , making sure HP would host the event at our Palo Alto campus aga...

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