The best explanation for cramps so far

Read parts 1 and 2 linked in this first.

http://scienceofsport.blogspot.com/2007/11/muscle-cramp-part-iii.html

Your training is making you faster than Lance Armstrong.

Or that’s what you should tell yourself:

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17792517

A little early 2008 track

Ride the World Cups February by Alden Tanaka.

First Junior Track Session of 2008 by Steven Woo.

LA Track World Cup Coverage by locals

Photos by Steve Ryan.

Photos by Ted Burns.

Photos by Matias Elgart. 

Photos by Rob Evans

More photos by Rob Evans.

Latest reportage on Proman blog.

BMC comes to California for a pre-ride

Ken Conley catches them at dinner:http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwc/sets/72157603677864304/.

http://kwc.org/blog/

What’s Jeremy up to?

Ran into a very proud father, Curt Ferguson, on Alpine Road today (on his twenty five mile commute on a fixie!) and he told me his son, Jeremy Ferguson, of Rocklin, CA, was invited to Geoff Proctor’s Eurocross Camp 2007.  Follow some of his exploits here.

A little NorCal road trip to the ADT Ladies Only Track Session

Hanan Alves-Hyde was kind enough to share some insights and photos from her and her co-conspirators about their recent trip to Los Angeles.  Thanks Hanan!

Details on the sessions at ADT/Encino:

ADT Ladies Only Track Session (LOTS): http://www.lavelodrome.org/Events/LadiesDay/LadiesDay.htm
ADT Accelerated Class:  http://www.lavelodrome.org/Training/AcceleratedClass.htm
ADT Training Races: http://www.lavelodrome.org/Races/ADTTrainingRaces.pdf
Encino Velodrome Winter Challenge:  http://encinovelo.org/

Photos:

Karla Kingsley:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/65559483@N00/sets/72157603431067654
Hanan Alves-Hyde:  http://picasaweb.google.com/hananrabia/ADTDec07
Sabine Dukes: http://www.pbase.com/sdukes/encino_07

Alicia:http://www.flickr.com/photos/8184265@N04/archives/date-taken/2008/01/14/

Reports:

Hanan Alves-Hyde:  http://hananrabia.blogspot.com/2007/12/adtencino-2007.html
Sabine Dukes:  http://velobellababble.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

Beth Newell, part uno:

http://bethbikes.blogspot.com/2007/12/la-or-bust.html

Beth Newell, Part deux:

http://bethbikes.blogspot.com/2008/01/some-old-pictures-from-la.html

I went about three years ago, but for some reason they didn’t let me do the LOT session so I had to ride with a bunch of stinky guys so it wasn’t nearly as much fun as Hanan, Sabine, Karla, Jen, Beth and Alicia had this past weekend:

http://www.juniorvelo.com/index.php?p=146

Richest Track Race in the US

One 100K scratch race.

Report by Michael Hernandez - Rock Lobster, VOS, Swobo http://groups.google.com/group/ncva/msg/8c7204893e9afebe

Photos ( or it didn’t happen) by Sabine Dukes - Velo Bella/Kona

http://www.pbase.com/sdukes/encino_07

A little BMX

A video of some local grass roots BMX action shared by Veronika Lenzi of Through My Eyes Photography.

Photos uploaded throughout the year by Shane Huntoon.

Ride the World Cups - 23 November 2007 short report

Really big turnout for track at this time of the year - about forty A’s and ten C’s.  I think having it on a holiday helped a bit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swoo/sets/72157603279628357/

Photos and video at:

http://www.ridetheworldcups.com/

Photos by Garrett Lau at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettlau/archives/date-taken/2007/11/23/