tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195555452024-03-07T01:00:33.812-07:00CLIF BAR DEVELOPMENT CYCLOCROSS TEAMBradyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00131079622462431977noreply@blogger.comBlogger342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19555545.post-28871973061245063462017-08-09T09:25:00.002-06:002017-08-09T09:25:38.829-06:00The Backstory: Zane Godby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Long time team member Zane Godby tells his story with Team CLIF Bar. From starting out as a racer, to becoming a mechanic, Zane shares how Team CLIF Bar has shaped him.<br />
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If you have been around the cycling industry long enough, there are a few<br />
questions that you will always get asked. Those questions are: When did you get in<br />
to racing? How long have you been racing? And what’s on your schedule this year?<br />
Each of us have different answers for these questions, but when it comes down to it<br />
they are all very similar. Without further adieu here are my answers to these<br />
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When I first got in to racing there were experienced racers that I looked up<br />
to, and most of the time compared myself to. Some of these people became my role<br />
models. It may have just been a coincidence, but all those people were some how<br />
related to the CLIF Bar Team. The people that made the biggest impact are Ben<br />
Turner (team manger), Brady Kappius (pro rider), and Myron Billy (cyclocross team<br />
mechanic).<br />
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Ben has been a family friend since I can remember. My dad and he met in the<br />
summer of 1999, they started riding and hanging out with each other at the races.<br />
Ben became the director for the TIAA CREF/CLIF Bar cyclocross teams. This was<br />
about the time I was getting in to the racing scene, so I would see the team colors all<br />
around. Once I was old enough, Ben gave me the opportunity to race for the team<br />
that I had always dreamed about being on. The years I raced for CLIF Bar are some of<br />
my most memorable and teachable years.<br />
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Brady has also been a long time family friend. When I was only a few years in<br />
to my racing career, Brady was beating up on the older guys in the senior categories.<br />
He was the racer that I looked up to the most, I always would have to stay a little<br />
longer at the races so I could watch Brady bunny hop the barriers or get the hole<br />
shot. Once I got a little older and was finally lining up next to him, it felt like I had<br />
finally made it to the big leagues. Fast forward a few years, and I have the privilege<br />
to work with Brady at his wheel company, Kappius Components. Working in a<br />
smaller business, it gave me the freedom to travel around to races and work with<br />
the CLIF Team.<br />
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I remember when I first met Myron, it was at one of the big UCI races that I<br />
traveled to as an 18 year old. It may have been my shyness or just the nerves, but he<br />
scared me. Little did I know what the next years had in store for me. My racing years<br />
came to a close, and I had no idea what I was going to do next. Ben and Myron came<br />
to me and asked if I wanted to help the team as second mechanic. I couldn’t turn<br />
down an opportunity like that! That’s when I decided to start my wrenching career.<br />
Working with Myron wasn’t only about working on the bike and driving around the<br />
country, he taught me more life skills than I can even remember.<br />
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The CLIF Bar team has been one of the most influential parts of my cycling<br />
career, both racing and as a mechanic. Not only have I seen growth in myself from<br />
my previous experiences, but now being a part of the development of younger<br />
racers has been fulfilling as well. One sees devo teams around the country with an<br />
emphasis on the growth as a rider, the CLIF team has always taken it a step farther<br />
and taught the kids not only about racing, but about how to make a bigger impact in<br />
the world, i.e. “start global cooling,” and other initiatives put forward by the CLIF Bar<br />
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<br />kolbenpreblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986606242598807286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19555545.post-87127860308074609952017-07-28T11:50:00.003-06:002017-07-28T11:50:52.908-06:00A Team Clif Bar Success Story - Ginger Racing<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You may have heard about the Ginger twins if you have followed to domestic crit scene over the past five years. My twin brother Kevin, Ginger 1 and myself Conor Mullervy, Ginger 2 raced professionally from 2010-2015 with Team Exergy and Champion System Stan's NoTubes and focused mostly on the Criterium racing. Though we did not start riding till our Senior year in High School and did not take training or racing too serious until we started school in Grand Junction, CO at Colorado Mesa University. During our Freshmen year of College is when we first met Ben Turner and he then introduced us into the life of Cyclocross. We had the privilege of racing on Team CLIF Bar development cyclocross team. This was our first real team with great support from sponsors and a good race schedule. We where hooked!!!</span><br />
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For the next four years we raced road in the spring and summer for the University and during the winter we got to race cyclocross for Team CLIF Bar. Kevin and I learned so much from this program and really got to develop ourselves as racers. My biggest result in Cyclocross was during my last year in the U23 where I finished 7th at Nationals. Not only did we learn some great racing skills while on the team but also some good life lessons. We also got to learn about how the cycling life style is not always glamours. I still remember leaving Nationals in Kansas City after the ice storm rolled in. It was Ben, Kevin and myself in the big green biodiesel Team CLIF Bar school bus heading back to Colorado. This is when we learned that the heater in the bus did not work and all would be bundled in sleeping bags for the next nine hours. On the plus side we also had all the CLIF Bars that you could ever imagine to indulge in. </div>
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Once we graduated College we where both offered our first Professional contract with a road team called Team Exergy. This is when we had to make the decision on wether to focus 100% on the road or in cyclocross. We both decided to pursue the dream on the road for the next five years. After two years with Team Exergy we started racing for another pro team called Champion System Stan's NoTubes. We got to focus on our love of criteriums with this team while racing all over the country and parts of the world. Turns out that the big green bus with no heat was the least of our worries after driving all over the country in various team vans. </div>
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At the end of 2015 Champion System folded and Kevin took advantage of being offered a spot on Team CLIF Bar's crit squad for 2016. I chose to move to Australia and race on an elite team called GPM-Stulz out of Sydney for the year. This was hard because this was the longest the two of us had ever been apart and the first time ever that we raced on different teams. While in AUS I would watch all the Crits that where streamed live and watch Team CLIF Bar and Kevin kick some butt. This made me really miss the USA crit scene and racing on the same team as Kevin. </div>
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For 2017 we are now both with Team CLIF Bar and loving every minute of it. This winter we where lucky enough to have our team camp in California with the creator himself Gary Erickson. Besides following Gary though a ragging river with all our new team equipment and catching a staph infection from the water, this probably was one of the best rides and experiences of my cycling career. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Being able to race together and coming full circle with CLIF Bar is something pretty special. We could not be happier and feel like home back with CLIF. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The morning of the XC started similar to the short track. We headed down to the Stan’s Notubes tent to get our gear organized and ready to race. After a good warmup we lined up with a world class field, including World and Olympic champions. The race started by going up the racetrack and just before the Corckscrew the race turned right onto the dirt. After a few rock gardens the track descended again, and then switchback climbed up again. after another descent the course flattened out and came into the short track course on the racetrack. Throughout the race we did this eight times totaling an hour and a half of all out effort on a very hilly course. In the end Ben Sonntag ended up 16th, Liam Earl 25th, Troy Wells 53rd and Anders Nystrom 68th. After the race a good cool down was in order and another round of meeting the supporters and sponsors of the team. We rounded out Saturday evening with a Clif Bar Company hosted party in the venue, featuring DJ NutButter and Jeremy Powers spinning music, a rap verse dropped by each of the Clif Pro ladies, and lots of food and good fun! That rounded out the overall experience, and it was fantastic to be a part of. </span></div>
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kolbenpreblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986606242598807286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19555545.post-69815101048555428212017-04-10T16:58:00.002-06:002017-04-10T16:58:28.283-06:00Mountain Bike Race Season is Here! <br />
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New team member Finn Gullickson is representing the team in California the past two weekends. </div>
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<br />kolbenpreblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986606242598807286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19555545.post-4497394982611892272016-12-20T15:01:00.001-07:002016-12-20T15:01:15.813-07:00A Day in The LifeTired of reading our blog posts? Yeah us to. This week team member Anders, created a video blog to show us a day in life. A student at Marian University, Anders is home in Boise Idaho for the Holiday break. Take a look at how Anders stays motivated for Cyclocross Nationals in a few weeks.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I always train with music, always have headphones in warming up at races, and usually am plugged in even just walking around between classes. Listening to anything from Punk Rock to Electronic Drum and Bass, each genre is a key component for whatever I’m doing that day. If it’s any sort of steady workout such as running (be it stadium stairs or just conditioning runs) or long steady rides for base miles, I go with genres such as Trance, Bass, and House. Steady, pumping music that keeps my breathing or pedal stroke steady and ticks the time by much faster than trying to do those days with just ambient noise. For more aggressive riding such as intervals or power tests, I jump to genres like Hardstyle, Drum and Bass, Dubstep, or more aggressive Rock music. The high BPM’s keeps the heartrate up and the intensity levels high in order to finish out each interval better than the last. In the gym I revert to Rap, Trap, and Rock/Punk Rock. Not necessarily needing to be fast paced songs but the aggression is still there for lifting heavy weights. Finally, since I can’t actually race with music, I listen to music for as much time as possible leading up to the race that day. Starting off with Electronic Trap for pump up and focus, and graduating to faster and faster electronic music through the warm-up until one song really sticks out to me. That song gets put on repeat so it’s stuck in my head all through the race. It usually ends up being a fairly catchy, Pop Electronic song that keeps the mood positive and the race pace high.</span></div>
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This week we wanted to mix it up and describe our favorite cyclocross ride. What's are favorite Wednesday skill ride? Where the heck do you even train for cyclocross? Team member Nic Jenkins offered up his favorite ride in his hometown of Colorado Springs. Hopefully his insight will give you some inspiration as the where to rally your cross bike in your own hometown. Really it just comes down to having fun and riding as much mixed terrain as possible.</div>
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As many options as there are in Colorado Springs for cross riding in the fall and winter, my all-time favorite place to ride is at Monument Valley Park by Colorado College. Honestly, you could even host a cross race there. With a giant sandpit and steep hills, I can ride for hours on end and refine a variety of skills. In fact, a bike path runs through the college area all the way to Monument. That being said, I can put in necessary endurance miles as long as I want, or until it gets dark out after school.<br />
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Typically, I like to do a couple mile start loop to my ride around the iconic Fountain Creek. I focus on feeling comfortable on the bike while eating and drinking throughout. From there I do a couple laps on a mock course that my brother and our neighbors made a few years ago. It includes a run up, navigating around some trees, hopping logs, and more race-like features. Afterwards I head to the sand pit and try carving some ruts in various directions; sometimes I hammer straight through and others I’ll turn slightly in the middle. <br />
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Frequently I ride through the park without a particular agenda, taking random turns and accelerations to mimic a cross course - some have turns that are really awkward and take time to master. Lastly, I spend some time hopping the metal bars in the parking lot at different speeds, for I am feeling more and more comfortable clearing barriers of a standard height.<br />
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Last weekend at Cyclo X Interlocken, there was one section that had a barrier run up, followed by a sand pit, and then a U-turn directly into another sand pit. Without a doubt, practicing sand riding skills during the week helped me out, especially when I got more fatigued as the race progressed. I actually had my best finish yet in the SM Open group (10th) and clocked the third fastest last lap of all the riders. It’s an awesome feeling to throw some elbows with local pros and test your fitness for a full 60 minutes, as opposed to 40 minutes.<br />
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Moving forward, I’m going to participate in a few more pro races in Colorado before starting my off-season. I have been training hard since the end of May and am excited for some time off from the bike. I always look forward to skiing and running in the winter. Not that I don’t enjoy cyclocross in December, but the timing isn’t the best. Next year my goal is to achieve top results at the UCI Junior events domestically and internationally in hopes to make the Worlds’ team in September. <br />
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The days of riding in the snow and cold where you pull out your winter gear (shoe covers, gloves, hats, leg warmers, etc) are right around the corner! I will give another post sometime this winter and give info on the latest outdoor adventures.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three of our riders were selected by their schools to participate in the Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals in West Virginia. Liam, Garrett, and Anders participated in XC and STXC, and Anders took it a step further to participate in both downhill and dual slalom. Anders and Liam both were representing their schools in the Varsity division while Garrett helped his team in the Club division. Garrett grabbed fifth place in the Club STXC Race. Liam Also finished fifth, except in the Varsity XC race. The guys had some excellent individual results helping their teams out with omnium. Anders helped Marian University secure 3rd in the Varsity omnium and Garrett helped the University of Colorado at Boulder secure the Club omnium title. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyone on the team is beyond excited to receive support from the biggest nutrition bar company in the game. Not only do they make great products, but they also lead the charge in terms of sustainable on environmentally friendly business practices. In thanks for the support we receive from CLIF Bar, we try to do our part at the races to reduce our impact on the earth. After the races when everyone else is going home, the team will stay behind to make sure all trash/recyclables were properly sorted at the race venue. This helps instill valuable life lessons on the value of sustainability, and the impact just a few simple efforts can have on the environment. </span></div>
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kolbenpreblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986606242598807286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19555545.post-80154338875273596722016-10-10T19:28:00.002-06:002016-10-10T21:43:42.482-06:00Want to see us? Here's the Schedule<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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kolbenpreblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986606242598807286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19555545.post-25355261010122800632016-10-04T19:36:00.001-06:002016-10-05T20:14:49.351-06:002016 / 2017 Season - What We are Riding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is our 4th season on the Niner BSB RDO. 4 years ago we partnered with Niner when they first released the BSB. With slight updates each year, Niner has really hit the nail on the head with this bike. Stiff, lightweight, race geometry, and mud clearance. All we could ever want in a bike. (</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ninerbikes/?hl=en" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@ninerbikes</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> #pedaldamnit)</span></div>
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This fall I've been all over the country following the UCI Juniors series in the US, which included the Pan-American Championships in Cincy. The first races were in between Colorado High School MTB races, which made travelling and racing in general super busy. In Providence and Boulder, I became more familiar with the ridiculous fast starts and high pace of some of the fastest juniors in the world, which most definitely helped my fitness for MTB state champs in the end of October. When that time came around, I was physically prepared and scored a 2nd place in Varsity boys. I was also 2nd at MTB nationals this summer, so I'm hungry for a W sometime in the future.</div>
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A few weeks later, it was time to shift to the heat in LA and finally score some UCI points. Since only 11 guys raced both days, I knew this was my shot to mix it up with the leaders and podium. On Day 1, I found myself in 4th early on and chased hard the whole race, only to get within 3 seconds of 3rd on the last lap until I washed out in a corner of pine needles, which were abundant in literally every corner. On Day 2, I was 3rd off the start and made it a priority to stay with 2nd as long as possible. I succeeded in this, going out onto the last lap with the 2nd and 3rd place riders. I tried to make a move to go into 2nd but got the "door shut" on me. At this point, I didn't have much of a kick left, and the two slowly rode away; however, I was less than a minute from first in the end. The bumps throughout the course sucked all the energy out of your upper body and hands. Overall, this event was a huge confidence-booster, and I scored some valuable UCI points to solidify my call up at nationals in January in Asheville, NC.</div>
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weekend I traveled to Cincinnati to race the CincyCx race and The Pan American
Championships. I was excited to finally travel to a cx race after only doing
local cx races or collegiate mountain bike races earlier in the season. I just
got back from collegiate mountain bike nationals that Monday but packed up on
Friday and headed to Cincinnati. It was an early flight and was a little out of
it, forgetting to empty my water bottles through security and then forgetting
myheadphones at home. It was a long flight with a layover and knew I wouldn’t
get through it with out my music so I picked up a pair of headphones in the
airport and was on my way to Cincinnati. Arrived in Cincinnati and met up with
Troy and we got a rental car and headed to our host house. After arriving we
met with our host Scott and he told us about a good ride we should do to spin
out our legs, we tried to load the file on my Garmin but it didn’t work so we
tried using a print out turn by turn direction of the route, we followed the
route for a little bit but realized it was going to get dark soon so we found a
bike path and rode that for a while till we headed home. It started to get dark
soon but luckily Myron had lights for us and Troy had his reflective capo kit,
so riding the roads at night we were visible and made it back to the house safe
and sound. The next day was the Cincy cx race, I had raced here before two
years ago and was excited to race in the pro field.<br />
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The race was in the evening
so most of the day was spent lying around and relaxing getting ready to race.
When race time finally came we headed to the venue. I got pinned up in the tent
and went our and warmed up with a quick pre-ride and then found my way into a
neighborhood to do some openers. After all that the race was off, I had a poor
call-up but was able to make up a few spots at the start but was playing catch
up for the race, slowly moved my way up until I found a rhythm and sat in at a
good pace. Slowed down towards the end of the race but finished with some power
in my legs feeling ready for tomorrows Pan American Championships. Post race me
and troy went to chipotle and got a burrito to help recover and get some
protein. After a goodnight sleep I was feeling rested and ready for Pan Ams.
This race was earlier than the last one so had to change up my eating habits
from the day earlier. Had a big thing of scrambled eggs for breakfast and then
some leftover pasta with meat sauce for lunch before heading to the venue,
where Myron drove me out there. Once again pinned up my skin-suit and got on
course for a pre-ride, unfortunately this time the UCI officials shut down the
course before I could finish the last part of the course. Luckily it didn’t
affect my race. After that I did some openers on the rode and then headed to
the start. Rode around the start for a little while after they postponed the
race. Then finally we started. I didn’t have my best start but was able to make
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The race was hard and last lap I was toning down a little
bit and was holding on to 15<sup>th</sup> position last lap and was riding the
descent well trying to keep any competition off me because I could tell the
legs were slowing down after yesterdays full race and the start of the race
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thought until a rider came up behind me. I knew I had a little punch left in my
legs so I put in the power and tried to hold him off, Luckily for me I was
putting some time into him and rode a very tricky off camber in front of him
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This year, my brother and I moved out to California for college, a new experience for both of us. I will be attending UC Berkeley and Liam will attend Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Aside from the increased course load, college offers a lot of new challenges for training and racing competitively; especially being new to the area. The first challenged I faced was finding new roads to train on, a process which usually consisted of about 50% ride time and 50% navigational time. Eventually I was able to gather my bearings and find some amazing roads to train on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">With new training roads discovered and bikes ready to go, Liam and I checked out our first cross race in Sacramento two weekends ago. I did not have the race I was looking for, but Liam managed an impressive 2nd place in the elite field (see his blog post below). This week I am preparing for the 3rd Sacramento Cross race at Lange Twins Winery, which is known for its amazing course design and all around good time. Following that I will be working on my form for CXLA and Cross Nationals in Asheville, NC. </span></div>
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Thank you to CLIF BAR, Niner, Challenge Tires, Crankbrothers, SRAM, Docs Skincare, Kappius Components, Fizik, Capo, Pategonia, and Pedro's for the support this season. It's going to be a great one!</div>
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