Dean’s 2015 Masters Track Worlds Team Pursuit Report – Manchester, England The team pursuit is my favorite track event and always has been – even before I was racing on the track. I had the opportunity to practice with my team at the NSC Velodrome in Carson, California a month before worlds and we were…
While my training was going great, and I felt as strong as ever on my track bike, I can’t write this report without including my trip to England, where things went from so right to so wrong. The heats and finals are titled below if you want to skip ahead. My Friday night flight out…
Dean’s 2015 Purgatory 35+ Race Report – 2nd Place Purgatory is the State Championship race and usually marks the end of the Spring road race season, yet this year it would be my first real race. An exciting early race season schedule saw Marblehead and Miles Standish get cancelled, a broken wheel at Battenkill, too…
The 2014 USA Cycling Masters National Time Trial Championships were held on Antelope Island in Ogden, Utah. The course was a 21-mile out and back route along the exposed shore of an island nearly completely surrounded by the Great Salt Lake. I knew wind would be a factor, and also had to adjust my pacing…
This past weekend I competed at the USA Cycling Masters Track National Championships in the 3000 meter Individual Pursuit. For my many non-track-cycling friends this is basically a 2-mile individual time trial on a fixed gear bike in a banked velodrome from a standing start – yet dig down a little bit and there’s a…
Myles Standish Road Race – P123 Field – 7th place It was another perfect Spring day for bike racing. We had about 60 starters and would ride 7 laps of the 5-mile course through the winding and punchy roads of Myles Standish State Park. There were a handful of the usual teams at the line and…
Michael Schott Memorial Marblehead Circuit Race – P123 field – 84 starters – 1st Place! The course was 19 laps of the 2.2 mile Marblehead Neck circuit. The weather turned out great – sunny and breezy conditions but still chilly enough where I covered by arms and legs. I’ve had a solid winter of training…
Are you considering working with a bike fitter who guarantees that they can quantifiably show you an increase in your power from their fitting? It is not uncommon that I hear people say their fitter promised, and then showed them, a quantifiable 20 to 50 watts of power increase. The reality is that bike fitters…
By Dean Phillips, Fit Werx Have you ever noticed that your average bike speed is slower when it’s cold out? Look no further than any local 10-mile weekly time trial and some riders seem to be up to a minute slower on the coldest days compared to their PR times on warm mid summer days….