A few months ago while telling me about a race from a few years ago former national champion Brooke Miller was describing a race scenario and I made an offhand comment that her PhD work which had to do with sexual mating habits of banana slugs. Miller’s work employed some game theory mechanics to analyze aspects [...]
Read more →This summer David LaPorte, the organizer of the Nature Valley Grand Prix, gave me an interview for a project i was working on. He spent about 15 minutes telling me that while the road races in the NVGP were great and popular with the riders he wanted to make it very clear that the crits [...]
Read more →Snelling Road Race … where all the kids play With well over a thousand participants already registered for this event, there are some pretty significant issues of logistics that surround a race like Snelling, and they’re worth talking about and sharing. So please feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments section and [...]
Read more →The Bay Area Super Prestige cyclocross series is set to start this Sunday at San Francisco’s McLaren Park, but the festivities actually get started this Thursday at Sports Basement in the Presidio with a season kick-off party. It’s the perfect way to reunite with old friends, talk cyclocross and win cool ‘cross stuff. The event [...]
Read more →[Before we get to the matter at hand, a little local loving. Today is the last day to help remedy the sponsor-default snafu that hit the Menlo Park Grand Prix this year. The total bill Velo Girls were stuck with was $4000 to the City of Menlo Park. So far 75% of the bill has [...]
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