Mellow Velo

PRO Team Weekend – Race tips from the pros

Posted on11. Mar, 2010 by KFullerF4.

Being embedded with a cycling team allowed me to gather interesting information, snap photos and draft some of the fastest women in the business. But I also had the opportunity to seek advice and find inspiration for my own racing season, which starts this Sunday at the University Oaks Criterium in San Antonio.
By Friday afternoon, [...]

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PRO Team Weekend – Day 3

Posted on09. Mar, 2010 by KFullerF4.

THE RIDE

Saturday was the real reason I ended up at pre-season camp with the Vera Bradley Foundation cycling team. On that day, a $200 donation to the foundation would buy a ride with the team. CycleTo was allowed to give away a free slot, and somehow I managed to win the drawing.
On my way to [...]

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PRO Team Weekend – Day 2

Posted on07. Mar, 2010 by KFullerF4.

SPECIALIZED
Friday – – I awoke late feeling like a human being again, having slept off the hangover of a day that got me from Texas to California. I trundled downstairs with notebook, recorder and cameras in tow, only to find that my breakfast choices at the Red Roof Inn were white toast, wheat toast, Fruit [...]

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PRO Team Weekend – Day 1

Posted on05. Mar, 2010 by KFullerF4.

Meeting Team Vera Bradley Foundation
Thursday — By 7:00 in the evening, I found myself in a van full of professional women cyclists. I was in a daze, rocking back and forth with half a cheek on the bench seat, fighting to stay awake on the fumes of four hours of sleep enjoyed in the distant [...]

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