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Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

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Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

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Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

UCI Website - How to become an official

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Email: trackcommzach@gmail.com

Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

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Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

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Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring the Talk of the T-Town Podcast. BBraun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live.

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

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This is the podcast Geoff and Gerry recorded with coach Andrew Harris.
It was absolute amazing to have Andrew on the show and learn all about his uniques coaching philosophy and his Edge Cycling Team. https://www.edgecyclingteam.com/

(See topics and timestamps below)

From the Edge Cycling Website:
Andrew Harris is the founder of Edge Cycling and currently serves as the Performance Director and Head Coach.  Prior to the formation of Edge Cycling, Andrew coached individual athletes and served as a Strength and Conditioning Coach to several championship teams.

As the Head Coach of Edge Cycling, Andrew applies the latest scientific research, innovative training methodology,  and unique teaching techniques, and combines this with his own practical knowledge and experience gained from years in the competitive cycling arena both as a rider and coach.

As the team’s Performance Director, Andrew continues to assemble a team of riders, experts, and consultants that are driving the success of Edge Cycling.  From psychology, to business leaders, to technical experts, it’s the Team that raises the performance and drives the success of the organization.

By assembling a winning team, Andrew and Edge Cycling have amassed 147 National Championship medals including 52 National Championships.  Six athletes have represented the U.S. at Junior World 

Championships, 5 athletes have been selected to represent the U.S. at the Pan-Am Championships, one has completed two World Cup Season and was selected to the 2016 Olympic Long Team. 

• How did you get started with cycling and coaching?  0:01:27
• Moving into coaching  0:03:29
• Edge Cycling team  0:05:23
• Unique program  0:06:37
• Elite Athletes are expected to support the younger Athletes.  0:07:40
• Geoff joins the podcast 0:08:18
• Training facility 0:09:00
• Sprinters base comes from strength training  0:10:54
• Complex system of Training  0:11:38
• Lots of monitoring of data  0:12:23
• Time crunched cyclist - Structured training 0:13:27
• Using the right tools and constant learning 0:14:09
• Very interesting times with the wealth of content and research available.  0:15:45
• Do your riders perform in different cycling disciplines 0:17:01
• Riders transitioning from one discipline to another 0:18:56
• Proper talent identification often missing 0:20:06
• Future of track cycling and possible changes 0:21:36
• Track is a great learning curve and a safe environment 0:24:04
• Sponsor opportunities   0:25:44
• Travelling across the globe 0:27:25
• The difference in altitude  0:30:12
• Gymnasts amazing track cyclists   0:34:07
• How do you find and attract new talent? 0:38:15
• Coaching philosophy  0:42:06
• 2020 from a mental toughness point of view, how was that?  0:44:47
• 2021 goals and specific event you are preparing for?  0:49:53
• Integrity 2024 initiative  0:52:03

Please enjoy the podcast Geoff and Gerry recorded with Molly and Rob van Houweling. 

In addition to her work as a Professor of Law and Associate at UC Berkeley, Molly is also a competitive bicycle racer on the road, time-trail, track, and Zwift. 

On September 12, 2015 she set a new Hour record by cycling 46.273 km in an hour. A record that stood for 12 years by the acclaimed Dutch cyclist Leontien van Moorsel

Molly is also a six-time UCI Amateur Road World Champion, most recently winning the time trial titles at the 2018 UCI World Cycling Tour Final in Varese, Italy.

Podcast topics and time stamps:
Introduction.           0:00
Synchronized swimming         3:56

Boston and marathon running           4:58

Rob introduced Cycling          5:50

Leading into doing a few triathlons    6:17

How did Rob get into cycling  6:58

World hour record and specializing in TT       8:40

Wind tunnel    9:59

Hour record change of rules...you can do this.          12:18

TT gains. Trial and error          15:58

Experimenting with for example cadence      20:55

VO2Max, Lactate, metabolic rate       22:51

Low cadence advantage and disadvantage    22:45

Power meter on seat post?    26m 46s

Rob is the mechanic   28m 32s

Logistics traveling the world with your bike  30m 10s

Managing nutrition and different times whilst traveling       33m 18s

Made many good friends in Mexico   34m 54s

Picking the right location to set your records 36m 40s

Colby Pearce coach and holder of "the ultimate hour record"?        38m 30s

Technology changes like Power meters..       40m 37s

Time Trail on the road.           42m 2s

Canyon, Leah Thomas, Movistar        44m 44s

Merckx record also know as the absolute record      45m 22s

Zwift and Dutch Diesel Ladies team   47m 46s

Dutch ancestry how far back?            49m 35s

Wintertime in Calpe & Mallorca Spain           53m 13s

Velodrome in Palma, meeting Alex Dowsett   55m 6s

Time management Work, family and sports  56m 31s

With the pandemic its hard to do goal setting.         58m 57s

Bkool and Velodrome 1:01:34

Zwift and Velodrome???        1:02:33

Thanks to B Braun Medical Inc. for sponsoring this episode. B Braun is a global leader in infusion therapy and pain management, B Braun develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical products to the healthcare community. They are also strong believers in supporting the quality of life in the communities where their employees work and live. 

Visit thevelodrome.com to learn more about the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

Kim's website http://www.kimgeistcoaching.com

@kimgeistcoaching #kimgeistcoaching

https://www.facebook.com/KimGeistCoaching/

In this podcast, Geoff and Gerry speak with Bob Aceto. Bob works at a local bike shop and spent his whole professional career in cycling retail and wholesale. He offers a pretty cool insight into these parts of the cycling industry. 

Bob got into cycling, having to rehab from a knee injury acquired in wrestling. Due to this injury's severeness, running was not an option, so he was left swimming or cycling. After dabbling in swimming for a while, he tried cycling because a group of local friends was cycling every day. Within no time, Bob was hooked and never looked back.

In his late teens and early twenties, he started doing longer and longer rides. During this time, Bob did a biking vacation in Vermont; he liked it so much that he interviewed on the spot with the company that organized the bike vacations. There it was….his first job in the bike industry.

Next summer, he started working in Vermont, had a big fleet of bikes, and learned a lot as a bike mechanic fixing flats, spokes, cables, etc., etc 

After a summer in Vermont, Bob started working for a local shop in New Jersey. After that, followed by a job in cycling wholesale.

We talk about history in the cycling industry and technology. Brands like Panasonic, Fuji, Motobecane, Peugeot, Cannondale, Raleigh and Colnago are discussed. Do you remember Girvin flexstems, Shimano rapid rise derailleurs, grip shift and much more.

http://www.bikepro.com/products/stems/girvin.html

https://www.motobecane.com/road/

https://www.colnago.com/en/hall-of-fame/

https://cycles.peugeot.com/road

https://www.panasonicbikemuseum.info/history/

https://www.retrotogo.com/2020/07/ti-raleigh-40.html

Of course, we discuss todays brands like the big 3: Trek, Specialized ad Giant, and we discuss recent technology and the impact of e-bikes.

In this episode Geoff & Gerry meet with Colleen Gulick. Colleen is a professional cyclist, all women cycling team director, race organizer, small business owner, and much more.
It was great to have a conversation with such a smart and entrepreneurial person who's very passionate about all facets of cycling.

Colleen is a Pennsylvania native who grew up close to the Trexler Town velodrome (T-Town) also know as the Lehigh Valley Velodrome, where she entered the youth program at the age of 6. Colleen rode her first national championship at the age of 11 and has collected 43 medals and 5 gold medals on the national and international stage.

It was very cool to hear that Colleen started with icehockey because she liked the Mighty Duck movie so much! From ice-hockey she followed in her mothers footsteps playing field hockey. Needless to say she was a very active child combining the 3 sports mentioned above and dabbled with other sport like track & field and Lacrosse.

Colleen talks about her time in college (University of Maryland) playing field hockey at D1 level trying to combine that with cycling.

After college, she committed fully to cycling and with great success. She enjoys racing crits and track the most. On the track she participates in Madison and Kierin and she talks about her experience competing abroad in countries like Tasmania, the Netherlands, Chili, England and more.

Our conversation moves on to talk about her coaching practice and how coaching has evolved with having more tools and science available now a days.

We talk about nutrition and how constant glucose metering helped Colleen. Its super interesting to learn about the glucose peaks and valleys and the impact this has on your performance. Colleen even tells us about finding superfoods through monitoring to support optimal performance.

Colleen shares how she deals with celiac disease on a day to day basis and explains how being a boring eater helps her to control this disease.

The segment about how and why she started her own all women cycling team is amazing and shows that with determination, vision, and passion you can achieve anything. Highly, highly recommend listening to this segment. P.s. Colleen is always looking for new talented riders!

A cool person obviously also rides cool races like the fixie Red Hook crit series who she won in Brooklyn and came in 4th in London. We talk about how riding fixed gear helps you with your pedal stroke and the benefits it has for your overall cycling posture and technique.

We really enjoyed speaking with Colleen and hope you enjoy the podcast! Check out the links below with references to our interview.

Pickle Juice www.picklepower.com
FFWD USA www.ffwdusa.com
Pressure Positive Company www.pressurepositive.com
VibraCool www.buzzyhelps.com
Jakroo www.jakroo.com
Lactigo www.lactigo.com
Podium Sports, LLC www.podiumsports.org

In this episode of the Lowlands cycling podcast Geoff and Gerry speak with Rebecca Larson. Rebecca had an an amazing career as a Professional Competitive Cyclist between 1999-2008, won 10 National Championship Titles (Junior, U23, College), won Over 100 individual race victories, World Road Cycling Championships competitor, raced Internationally as a member of the United States National Team in Belgium, Holland, Italy and Switzerland. 

Rebecca still competes at a high level and we talk about how her family supports her with combining both of their jobs at the university of Oklahoma and raising their young daughter. Its very interesting to learn how Rebecca uses Zwift to maintain her race condition, and what it is like to be part of the Spice Girls(?!)
Rebecca provides great insight in dealing with the inevitable fact of aging and how this impacts your V02max, strength, muscle mass etc etc. 

Rebecca has a MS in Exercise and Sport Science and Ph.D. in Kinesiology and in addition to her work as an Assistant Professor University of Oklahoma, Department of Health & Exercise Science worked as a consultant for team Novo Nordisk Professional Cycling Team.

The objective of LowLands Cycling is to get more people cycling or people to cycle more. Everything cycling to make your cycling rides and cycling life more enjoyable!

My name is Gerry de Bruijn and in this episode Geoff and I interviewed Mandy Marquardt.

Mandy Marquardt is an American Sprint track cyclist, representing the US and Team Novo Nordisk, the world's first-all diabetes professional cycling team. Marquardt was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 16. We talk about her cycling career and competing at an elite level whilst dealing with Type 1 diabetes every day. Mandy is a role model for others coming to terms with type 1 diabetes and races her bike with a purpose to help others to see what’s possible with diabetes.

During the podcast we talk about being Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and how she deals with this each and every day. What is Type 1 diabetes and how Mandy uses her cycling and her knowledge to discuss and educate people around the world on this topic.

Mandy talks about her experience riding for team Novo Nordisk, she has been with the team for 10 years now, and how Important it was, and is, to have people around you to talk about Type 1 diabetes and share the different perspectives and experiences with each other. With Team Novo Nordisk, Mandy has met so many young kids through community events and talks, and she sees how they get inspired by her and they inspire Mandy to continue to do even better and be a voice in the Diabetes community.

We talk about how it was cycling in Germany, the difference between the different track disciplines and which one she likes most.

We also touch upon cycling on the road and the safety aspects having encountered a recent near hit by a car.

The T-Town (Trexel Town) Velodrome is an topic we discuss, and Mandy talks about the different programs and the beauty of her home track. The preffered cycling center aka The Lehigh valley velodrome in Trexel Town, is The track in the US, and maybe even the world. :-) Everyone loves to go there. It’s a great community where nobody feels alone and everyone takes care of each other.  

And yes, we also discuss Zwift and how Mandy got into the virtual world using her Wattbike to recover and meet up with her Novo Nordisk teammates online.

Just after recording the podcast, Mandy got selected to the USA Olympic long team!

Mandy is a 18x U.S. National Champion, 2x American Records, 2020 Olympic Hopeful.

https://www.teamnovonordisk.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mandymarquardt/
https://usacycling.org/index.php?p=article/mandy-marquardt-in-our-own-words
https://thevelodrome.com/
https://wattbike.com/us
https://www.zwift.com/
https://linktr.ee/Lowlandscycling

In this episode Geoff and Gerry interview Kim Geist. We discuss her long and extensive cycling career, how she got into coaching and how she deals with challenges like injury and currently events being postponed and cancelled due to Covid19.

We dive into strength training and talk a lot about the beauty of track cycling and her home turf The Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexeltown PA. If you are interested in track cycling and orienting what it takes to start, or learn more about this discipline, make sure to listen to the complete podcast!

Kim Geist, an elite, international-level competitive cycling including being a World and Pan American Champion, and Olympic long-team member:

• 2017 & 2018 World Champion
• 2017 & 2018 World Cup Champion
• 2015 & 2018 #1 Ranked Rider in the World
• 2019 Pan American Games 2x Champion
• 2016 Olympic Long Team Member
• 2015 World Championship Bronze Medalist
• 2014 & 2018 Pan American Champion
• 32-Time USA National Champion
• 2-Time Junior World Championship Medalist
• Former Pan Am and National Record Holder
• 3 Years Professional Road Cyclist

In addition to her long cycling career, she has a tremendous resume to support her coaching business

• M.S. Applied Nutrition, specializing in nutrition and fitness – Northeastern University
• B.S. Sport and Exercise Science, minors in sport management and in psychology – DeSales University
• Certified Exercise Physiologist – American College of Sports Medicine
• Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist – National Strength and Conditioning Association
• Level 2 Coach *with distinction – USA Cycling Coaching Association
• CPR/AED/First Aid Certified – American Red Cross

https://thevelodrome.com/
http://www.kimgeistcoaching.com/
https://linktr.ee/Lowlandscycling

Led by Multi-time World and Pan-Am Champion AND Air Products Program graduate, Kim Geist heads up our Women’s Wednesdays programming, bringing her invaluable racing experience and deep coaching chops to the track each week.
https://thevelodrome.com/community-programs/womens-wednesdays/

The Women’s Wednesdays Basic Class is designed to introduce and build confidence among individuals who are new to track cycling, within a welcoming, fun, and social environment.  Participants will learn how to safely operate a track bicycle on the velodrome as well as gain basic skills essential to enjoying track cycling.  The program will touch upon basic racing concepts, to serve as a stepping-stone to the Women’s Wednesdays Advanced Class.

Topics covered could include:  track bike anatomy & function, velodrome anatomy, paceline riding, warm-up structure, flying & standing starts, proper passing, close proximity riding, riding and racing together as a team, basic races

This program is appropriate for those who are: new to cycling, track cycling and/or fixed gear cycling, in need of a more in-depth introductory course or a refresher course, needing to build cycling confidence and/or want to take part in a social form of cycling, entering track cycling from competing in another cycling discipline.

Welcome to another episode of the N+1 Lowlands Cycling podcast. 

We are your hosts Geoff and Gerry. 

Today we talk with Dave Grant a top level cyclist who traveled to the Netherlands in the early 90’s to live and race his bike over there. 

Of course we are very interested in how he ended up in the Netherlands, how it was racing  for the Sauna Diana team and what he’s up to nowadays racing Road, Track, Cyclocross, and Mountain Bike, and how he will never do a Zwift race. Dave also discusses how training has changed under Covid 19, what new technology he’s really excited about, and what his goals will be once the racing season returns.

The Sauna Diana team was the very first team who actually had a coach-bus (English Doubledecker bus) for their riders.  After the double decker bus they acquired a coach bus which the lent to the TVM pro cycling team during the Tour de France. In those days the pro team didn't have the luxurious coach busses they have today, and the riders had to get changed sitting in the back of the team car.

https://www.activeyards.com/
https://www.road-results.com/team/35651
https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/
https://www.lowlandscycling.com
https://cyclinginflanders.cc/bucket-lists Cyclo Sportive's in Belgium
https://youtu.be/5osKi5Z184I The Move - Best of Liege-Bastogne-Liege