Road Culture

If America is the land of comfort, we were definitely not in America today

Now that I can feel my fingers, I feel it an opportune time to recap today's mud run

What I learned from Stage 1: Keeping a positive attitude and losing your mind are NOT so far apart

Karen Jarchow will be chronicling her experiences of her first mountain bike stage race at the 2012 Breck Epic

King checks in with his prologue from a new book on mental strength in cycling

Our Kenda-5-hour Energy rider checks in on late-season disappointment, a new Olympic medal system and criterium moral outrage

With amateur doping cases gaining notoriety, local racers in Florida are taking anti-doping into their own hands

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Being beaten on the line when you think you're going to win and getting your bike stolen while on course is way worse than a slow race

Going slow to get back to fast is easier said than done

Ben King checks in from the rainy Netherlands after going soft in the U.S. for a month

Fresh off her selection to the U.S. Olympic team for London, Amber Neben checks in on overcoming adversity and leaving her ill-timed Beijing mechanical in China

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Judy Freeman's Olympic bid was a hard dream to let go of — and the battle cost her a tooth — but the other side isn't as bad as it looked

Judy Freeman's Olympic bid was a hard dream to let go of — and the battle cost her a tooth — but the other side isn't too bad

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Amber Neben checks in after her Specialized-lululemon team taught stage-racing class at the Exergy Tour over Memorial Day weekend

Our off-beat diarist checks in from the final stage of the Jelajah Malaysia with a long-shot close-call

The former world champ is headed back to Idaho, where her pro cycling career started to take flight 11 years ago

Tom Boonen happy with Amgen Tour so far, but hopes for first win in Sunday's final stage in L.A. Then he'll focus on the Olympics

Tom Boonen talks about the difficult stages ahead, and says that it's time to remove the masks

Andrew Talansky discusses what the Amgen TT revealed about the GC contenders' strengths and weaknesses

In his daily video diary from the Amgen Tour, Tom Boonen eases onto Twitter, talks about his last chance for a California stage win and remembers Robbie McEwen

In his daily video diary, Andrew Talansky tells VeloNews that racing in the U.S. is lower stress for Garmin-Barracuda, but more unpredictable with a wide range of abilities and objectives in the peloton

Tom Boonen ranks Peter Sagan among the best sprinters in the world, but says 'everybody is beatable.'

Tom Boonen tells VeloNews that his receptions in the U.S. following the classics has been overwhelming and that he'll skip the Tour de France to focus on the Olympics

In the second installment of his Amgen Tour video diary, Tom Boonen tells VeloNews that the other teams must take responsibility in California

Garmin-Barracuda rider Andrew Talansky is a favorite for the overall win at the Amgen Tour of California. He'll join VeloNews daily for video diaries from the race

In the first installment of his daily video diaries from the Amgen Tour of California, Tom Boonen tells VeloNews that his Roubaix win was the most special victory of his entire career, but it took two weeks to relax afterward

Garmin-Barracuda rider Andrew Talansky is a favorite for the overall win at the Amgen Tour of California. He'll join VeloNews daily for video diaries from the race

Lee Rodgers blogs about the Jelajah Malaysia, stages 1 - 3: extreme heat, ice pack runs and brutal efforts

Phil Gaimon from Kenda-5 Hour Energy blogs from New Mexico's Tour of the Gila about nosebleeds, a bullying big brother and other racing intrigue

Our off-beat diarist is en route to Malaysia and is back with his thoughts on an up-and-down Tour of Korea

Lee Rodgers Diary: Racked with wrecks, Tour of Korea stage 5 marred by pandemonium, sketchy support (and oh yeah, someone won stage 6)

If I was racing, I was going to be in it 100% with whatever I had

If I was racing, I was going to be in it 100% with whatever I had

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Riders "strike" under torrential rains to cancel stage 4, following a brutal but successful day of attacking and hanging on

A sleepless night and aggressive, wet racing greet Jelly Belly-Kenda at the Tour of Korea

Our off-beat contributor is back to racing in Korea, but carrying a little something extra in the lungs

Learning lessons in the heat of battle ahead of the biggest race on the Garmin sophomore’s calendar

Emerson Oronte (Jelly Belly) muses about his excitement for his first trip to race in the Tour of Korea ... and wonders what this thing called kimchi is all about.

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Hammer outlines where she thinks she can improve between now and London

IOC and UCI’s idea of having regional champions compete against one another will backfire

Intense rivalry like the Aussies and Brits have on the track is what pushes athletes "beyond the limits we put on ourselves"

Jamie Staff muses on missing the cut in the team sprint on Wednesday, which effectively ruled the United States out of the event in London

I think it's a whole different gig to prep mentally for a World Cup. There's just more calamity to cut through to keep the focus on the race

Our off-beat diarist takes you through his ride into a new shade of jersey in Taiwan

Young American learns grit on the ground at Tirreno-Adriatico

The sprinters complained about the amount of climbing, but I argue it's worse for me. I'm the climber. I have to drop everyone each time.

The canvas is the road, the wheels the brush, the will the ink.

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Turns out the challenge of success isn't over once you cross the finish line

Collectively weʼre hunting, and yet, paradoxically, every individual is potential prey

Diarist Lee Rodgers gives his off-beat take on the first stage of the Tour de Taiwan

Thomas de Gendt solos into Nice as Wiggins holds yellow.

I might as well get the full Belgian experience

I didn

Luis Leon Sanchez pipped Jens Voigt in a two-up sprint to win the sixth stage of Paris-Nice.

Edvald Boasson Hagen won the third stage of Tirreno-Adriatico ahead of Andre Griepel and Peter Sagan.

Peter Sagan takes the stage as Chris Horner moves into the overall lead.

Mark Cavendish won Thursday's second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico ahead of Oscar Freire and Tyler Farrar.

Lieuwe Westra takes the queen stage as Wiggins holds yellow.

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Britain's Bradley Wiggins (Sky) holds on to the leader's yellow jersey.

Sometimes wisdom makes no sense

Normal people wouldn't do this

Now then... what day is it...

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The heart willed but the legs were having none of it

... and let it slide

It’s almost over. The Arabian Odyssey is to come to an end.

My brain this evening is a chihuahua squashed in the driveway under the Dodge

Time to test my motivation at Algarve

Life does not pause

Did I say this all had become normal? Ignore that...

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