Hey cycle bikers! Welcome to our revival of the HUCA blog. This will be a great place to come for updates on the team, racer profiles, and race reports. We had epic road, mountain and cyclocross races in 2014; great developments for the team; and a super exciting road season ahead in just a few weeks. Here is a recap and a look at what’s ahead.
2014 Road Season
3543Harvard finished 10th overall and 7th in Division I in the East Coast Collegiate Conference. Especially cool about that accomplishment is that we did it fielding men in women in ...
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A sunny Monday in October brought the Harvard Cycling team down to Jamestown, RI for the Jamestown Classic, a beautiful looped road race course around the island. It served as both the end of summer racing season for the veterans, as well as a first race for many enthusiastic new racers. Ian and Jesse drove down earlier in the morning with new racers Nima and Alex, arriving for the start of the men’s Cat. 5 race.
The women had a slightly more stressful trip down. I was supposed to pick up the rental car as soon as Enterprise opened ...
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Some races just don’t go according to plan. Coming into the Green Mountain Stage Race (GMSR), I really wanted a strong race. I had a 6 week training lead up and a week-long taper to be nice and fresh for the start of the four day race on Friday, August 31st. My bike had new wheels and a newly upgraded drive train and I couldn’t wait to see what it was capable of in its hopefully last race before retirement as a training bike.
Unfortunately, I woke up on Thursday with a horrible sore throat, the first harbinger ...
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Last weekend we headed to scenic New Hampshire and Vermont for the ECCC's penultimate race weekend. On the menu was last year's brutal ITT, the classic Frat Row crit, and a new road race course that I hadn't seen before.
The ITT was actually cut short this year because the dirt climb section had been re-graded and gravel had been laid down, making it mostly impassable by road bike. So instead of a grueling 3.75-mile race with 2 main climbs, it was instead a speedy 2.5-mile relatively flat course with a single climb out of ...
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