Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Unveils Routing for Great American Rail-Trail sports-masters August 22, 2019 Cycling, Featured, News, Running, Sports 764 Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) recently unveiled its preferred route for the Great American Rail-Trail underscoring the organization’s commitment to creating an iconic piece of American infrastructure that c...
Mountain Bike Training for Masters Riders sports-masters November 30, 2017 Mountain Biking 572 By Lynda Wallenfels If you look at mountain bike race results you’ll notice the 40 plus year old race category is one of the bigger fields. Then look at their finish times and you’ll see how incredibly fast the...
World Bicycle Relief + Qhubeka sports-masters November 1, 2017 Cycling, News, Road Cycling 657 Why do Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka riders display the “five-finger salute” after UCI World Tour victories? The gesture symbolizes the Qhubeka charity’s 2016 goal of putting 5,000 African children on bicycles through its #BicyclesChangeLives campaign, wh...
SELF Magazine names Farm to Fork Fondo as a bucket list event sports-masters July 26, 2017 Cycling, Events, Featured 744 In an article titled "6 Destination Races I've Turned Into Vacation -- and 10 Still on my Bucket List", Megan Lappe from SELF magazine lists the Farm to Fork Fondo series as an event to add to the bucket list. ...
Cycling a ticket to travel for Steve Fairless sports-masters July 25, 2017 Athlete Profiles, Cycling, Featured, Road Cycling 942 Entry into the competitive realm of cycling opened up a world of opportunities for Steve Fairless who was the subject of Marcus Cobbledick’s movie titled Fairless that debuted at the 2015 Melbourne Internationa...
Cycling Legend Dies in Car Crash sports-masters April 6, 2017 Athlete Profiles, Cycling 1186 Steve Tilford will be remembered as 'voice of truth' Cycling fans and racers around the world are mourning the death of 57 year old multi-discipline champion Steve Tilford. The American was killed in a tragic car crash in the early hours of April 5, 20...
78 year old British cyclist to tackle legendary Giro d’Italia sports-masters February 24, 2017 Cycling, Featured, News 985 By Shaun Reynolds A decorated Masters Cyclist from Coventry, England is preparing to tackle the Giro d’Italia to raise vital funds for four charities. Cycling veteran and former World Masters Cycling champi...
Masters racer recounts life-saving recovery after harrowing crash on bridge sports-masters February 9, 2017 Cycling, Featured, News, Road Cycling 1222 By Neal Rogers, cyclingtips.com One minute, Mike Allec was lining up for the sprint at the end of the Santa Barbara Road Race. The next, he was hanging over the side of a bridge, his bike in pieces, in a ravin...
Chattanooga’s Durward Higgins is a National Cycling Champ at 75 sports-masters January 29, 2017 Cycling, Featured 1453 By Ron Bush Durward Higgins turned 75 on January 27 and he was planning to celebrate with a 75-mile bicycle ride on his birthday so he can do another one approaching that length the next day with a group of riding buddies. And doing it more easily than the...
