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The Palter Company, Inc., which also owns the Cycle Loft in Burlington, MA, will operate the Northeast Velodrome & Cycling Park in Londonderry NH for the 2010 Cycling Season.

To celebrate the launch of its new Facebook Fans website, Peaks Coaching Group has announced its new “MAX WATTS 1420 FAN PROMOTION CONTEST” featuring the grand prize of a free trip to Peaks Coaching Group Spring Power Camp

If there was ever a cycling training book written for me, it’s Chris Carmichael’s The Time Crunched Cyclist: Fit, Fast and Powerful in 6 Hours a Week. With a job that keeps me busy during the day and family commitments (and this web site) to keep me tied up at night, it’s very difficult to carve out hours to ride.

The Cyclist’s Training Bible Includes the Latest Advances in Training
Internationally recognized cycling coach Joe Friel has updated The Cyclist’s Training Bible, the bestselling and most comprehensive training book for serious cyclists. New in this fourth edition are updates on all the latest advances in cycling training including training with a power meter, smarter approaches to recovery and fatigue management, a new approach to strength training, and updates to body composition and nutrition. All the charts, tables, and illustrations are now in a two-color format, making The Cyclist’s Training Bible even …

USA Cycling sent out a news update today. You can view the full article here, but I have a few highlights.

34 road and mountain bike athletes recently attended USAC’s talent identification program
USAC saw a 2.7% growth in memberships this year.
The 2009 National Racing Calendar will have 34 races and more than $1.3 million in overall prize payouts.
The 2009 American Mountain Bike Challenge series has been announced as well. This series gives riders of all abilities to a chance to compete at a top level right in their own backyard.
The …

Belgian Knee Warmers had a good piece about paceline ettiquette. Here are their tips:
A paceline is an effort to save energy – When riding in a paceline, remember the effort is intended to benefit the group; to ride faster than you would as an individual at a reduced effort and provide you time to recover immediately following a hard effort. When it is your turn to pull through, stay consistent in speed and take your pull smoothly. Once you pull through to the front of the return line, ease up …

“Well, I can see the issue if a baseball player uses performance enhancing drugs. It gives him a competitive advantage. But what does anyone care if I use them and just work out at the gym? That’s not illegal, is it?”
Uh, yeah, Brutus. It is illegal. Unless steroids or EPO were prescribed to you by your doctor, you obtained them illegally from someone who is not authorized to sell them to you.
And how about those side effects?

Boy boobs. Maybe the guys at the gym will find you more attractive.
Hair loss. Big …