In the (Feed)Zone
with Mark Swartzendruber
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• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Druber
  
• REVIEW: Enzo's Button Hole Chamois Cream
  
• Superweek Reportage: Tell Your Friends it's OK to Come Out and Play
  
• Can't a Guy Get a Break Around Here?
  
• Illinois State Championship Road Race
  
• Catching Up on Old Times
  
• Red & Black Alert!! Verizon Wireless Wins Again! (Twice)
  
• The Training Block is Over, Bring On the Classics
  
• Let the Racing Begin
  
• Authentic, Fun Ride - Leader 722RS, Steel is indeed real
  
• Cycling's Silly Season and The 2009 Druber Awards
  
• SRAM S80 Wheels: Why Druber Loves These Deep Dish Wheels More Than Deep Dish Pizza
  
• A Work of Fiction Based On Events Which May or May Not Have Occurred...
  
• Catching Up on Old News and I Have A Blog
  
• Bitterness Fear and Consternation or Will the National Health Plan Cover Compression Tights?
  
• Long Road Races
  
• Guns n Roses Stone Roses Stone Ponies Slyness and the Family Stone and Why Billy Stones Gather No Moss
  
• Faith Restored Old Guys Really do Race (When They're Not Cowards) or Druber's First Blog
  
• Sleeping with the Enemy or War and Politics Make Stange Bedfellows or We're Getting the Band Back Together
  
• Catching Up on Old Times Odd Occurrences and Other Such Nonsense
  
• Verizon Wireless Cycling Team Continues its Winning Ways
  
• All Dressed Up but Nowhere to Go
  
• Druber Goes on a Grand Fondo
  
• I Went to Bed in Champaign the Night after Thanksgiving and Woke up in Northern Manitoba
  
• 2008 Druber Awards, Part II
  
• 2008 Druber Awards
  
• Musings
  
• A Druber Review: Rock Racing Team Kit
  
• Hail to the Victors, The Priority Health Classic, Why Druber Loves Michigan
  
• Stone Pony Throws Down at the IL State RR Championships... Again; Druber and Cletus Hit the Road for Some R&R; Lucas Oil Rocks the IL State TT Championships
  
• All About Those Bike Races
  
• Racing, Tippling, Eating, Hogging, Hunting, Laughing, and Story Telling. All in All, It was a Stupid Week.
  
• Masters Nationals Road Race and Criteriums. Exclusive Eye Witness Report: Some Competitive Cyclists Honestly Believe Themselves Better Than They Really Are, or How Not to be a Pretentious D-Bag.
  
• 2008 Masters Nationals - Me Beat Turbo? You're completely MAD!
  
• 2008 Tour of Winghaven - The Most Miserable Race I've Ever Done.
  
• U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame Road Race, Bound Brook Criterium...
  
• Of Men, Mittens, Mullets, and Mayhem
  
• Back in My Element
  
• Druber Goes to the Races in California... Again.
  
• RED ALERT: Lucas Oil Cycling Team Opens Spring Campaign with Five Race Wins.
  
• Hillsboro-Roubaix: All About the Time I was Ridden Off a Wheel in a Tailwind; and Old Guys Rule.
  
• All About My Training in the Mid South.
  
• Dopes Doping on Dope and Washing Your Hands with Soap.
  
• Racing in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. No Country for (Fat) Old Men. Campo, CA.
  
• The Enthusiastic Stranger; All About the Time My Bike was Stolen; The Old Man and Getting Old.
  
  

The Racing Chronicles
with Bill Stone
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• Special to TrueSport: The Return of the Gravel Grovel
  
• A Source Close to the Investigation
  
• Who is Robin Bauer
  
• Through a Tunnel Darkly
  
• Memories of Better People; or When Really Bad Things Happen to Good People. (with apologies to Rabbi Kushner)
  
• Superstition and a Fallen Hero; Or the Self Remembers a Television Show
  
• Louisville Tour of the Greens; Or A Golf Course Goes to the Dogs: Or Come to the Tent Party
  
• Carmel by the Zionsville: Or the Continued Paradox of Being a Writer of the Substantial and Serious
  
• MASS AVENUE FLASBACK: Or So You Want to be a Serious Bike Journal
  
• Master Nationals or Cycling in “Idiot America”
  
• The Return of MKA or How the Chronicles Destroyed a Kupcake and Saved Racing as We Knew It; Plus: How Masters are Ruining it for Professionals; and “Pounds Rule.”
  
• Psycho Cross.
  
• On Fallen Heroes: Or More Evidence that in the Panglossian World of Cycling Irony Died on Tuesday.
  
• Panglossian Cycling and the Death of Irony Part I: Or If This is Really the Best of All Possible Worlds Then Why Are Bicycles Being Buried in Mud.
  
• Much Chagrin About Not Much; or The Summer a Former Journalist Eviscerated The Chronicles.
  
• Give Them What They Want: or Masters Prefer Those Roomy Middle Seats.
  
• The Self Goes to the Land of the White Picket Fence and Does a TT; or So Where is the Spiritual Awakening?
  
• Lake Winona: Riveting Race Report or Yawn Just Another Weekend?
  
• Zippos, Willy Loman and a Special Report from Hawk.
  
• When everyone is wrong, everyone is right; or how The Chronicles came to love Joe McCarthy.
  
  

Pounding Idiots!
with Max Kash Agro
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• FU Landowski "Vee Fuxx U Upz Comeback Tour™" Team Complete with Addition of Non-Buffoonish Bodyguards Wolfman and Bob. Undisclosed mountain cabin in shadows of Suicide Rock, California.
  
• The Whale Whisperer: FU Landowski Kumbayas His Inner Humpback and Orca. Isle of Dr. Moreau, near Cougar Island, in the South Pacific.
  
• FU Landowski™ Announces Nothing Newsworthy Has Happened or Will Happen in the Next 24 Hours News Cycle. A TrueSport Exclusive. Cougar Island, CA.
  
• Genetically Engineered ‘Jock Hops’ Endorsed by Non-Crybaby F. U. Landowski.
  
• Landowski Pushes Milk, Not Miracle Vita-Drugs.
  
• Broken Bones, Bad Gas and a Bad Ass Lead Out: Kool Aid Graduates from Caricature to Hard Core Mo-Fo. Hood River, Oregon
  
• Posers, Prima Donnas, Punk-Daddies and Pinkophiles: Start Your Engines. A Preview of 2008 Dana Point Grand Prix.
  
• If the Shoe Fits, But You're a Non-Dues Paying Neophyte, Don't Wear It or, How to Spend Your Way to Groupie Glory. San Jose, CA.
  
• Man Down! Kool Aid Takes A Digger in the Name of The Dream. "Hey, check out my cool bump!" Bumpfuk, Texas
  
• On the Bus with Team Dream: Fully Immersed, Fully Invested, and Very Well Fed.
  
• Ride Ride Ride Your Bike, Slowly Up The Road, or the Futility of Unchasing The Dream. MKA Wants His Cake and Kupcake, too.
  

REVIEW: Enzo's Button Hole Chamois Cream
By: Mark Swarzendruber

Training: Tips on Riding in the Heat
By: Dotsie Bausch

REVIEW: Leader 722RS
By: Mark Swarzendruber

REVIEW: SRAM S80 Wheels
By: Mark Swarzendruber

Sports Induced Anxiety & Intrinsic Motivation
By: Todd Roberts

Carbohydrates & Weight Loss
By: Todd Roberts

Lactate Threshold & Carbs
By: Todd Roberts

REVIEW: The Ultimate Cyclist: train the brain
By: Doug Robinson

Iggy and Iggy Silva - 10 Years of Bike Racing Passion
By: Mark Johnson - Competitor Magazine

Tyler Hamilton - Some Thoughts and Photographs
By: Edward M. Rubinstein

Focus on Performance
By: Todd Roberts

Rider Interview: Dotsie Bausch - Jazz Apple Professional Cycling Team
By: Edward M. Rubinstein

Lost Fitness Verses Injury
By: Todd Roberts

Maintaining Proper Nutrition in the Post-Season
By: Susan Gabriel

Interview: Punk Rock Cycling Team
By: TrueSport.com

Sports and Important Lessons
By: Todd Roberts

REVIEW: Suunto t6 Wristop Computer
By: TrueSport.com

REVIEW: Rocket Science Sports Rocket Bag
By: TrueSport.com

REVIEW: Rapidade Energy Sports Drink
By: TrueSport.com

The Non-Scientific Side of Performance
By: Todd Roberts

REVIEW: Rocket Science Sports Dimpled Water Bottle
By: TrueSport.com

Intensity Factor - Can You Train Harder?
By: Todd Roberts

REVIEW: Rapid Recharge Energy & Recovery Drink
By: TrueSport.com

Is BMI a Good Predictor of Body Composition for Athletes?
By: Susan Gabriel

Some Is Better Than None
By: Todd Roberts

Circuit Training - Maximum Return on Your Time Investment
By: Catie Ogle

The Balance of Summer
By: Todd Roberts

The Bikes of Punk Rock Cycling
By: Kelli Mente

Food for Fuel
By: Sue Gabriel

Aerobic vs Anaerobic Timeline; When to Make the Switch
By: Todd Roberts

Anthropometrics with Ana
By: Ana Nelson

What is the “Right Length” for your Cranks?
By: Dick Kelly

Levi Leipheimer: The King of California
By: Rick Scott

TNT: The Life of a Pro Cyclist
By: Rick Scott

REVIEW: The Complete Guide to Climbing (By Bike)
By: Aaron Hubbell

JANUARY 28  ZIPP Service Course Time Trial Series #3(IN)

22  NorCal vs SoCal Cyclocross(CA)

21   Hart Park Cyclocross(CA)

21  ZIPP Service Course Time Trial Series #2(IN)

14  ZIPP Service Course Time Trial Series #1(IN)

08  USAC Cyclocross National Championships - Day 5(WI)

07  SPYclocross(CA)

07  USAC Cyclocross National Championships - Day 4(WI)

06  USAC Cyclocross National Championships - Day 3(WI)

05  USAC Cyclocross National Championships - Day 2(WI)

04  USAC Cyclocross National Championships - Day 1(WI)