Recent Success from Advanced Cycling Riders...
2008 Collegiate Nationals. Scott Jackson (Banner Elk, NC) and his Lees-McRae Collegiate Team won the Division I Team Championship title at the 2008 USAC Collegiate National Championships held in Fort Collins, CO from May 8-11th. Through a series of individual wins and efforts, the team obtained enough points to overtake the University of California - Davis reaching its goal of winning the Team title. Scott also rides professionally for team DLP.

Joe Martin Stage Race. Tyson Racing's riders Stephen Liguori (Rogers, AR) and Levi Baker (Fayetteville, AR), had an outstanding performance in the uphill time trial at the Joe Martin Stage Race taking 3rd and 4rd respectively in the Cat 4. Steve went on to win the overall race by breaking away in the criterium, winning the stage and the race GC by one second! Bryan Marshall (Smith & Nephew/Memphis Velo, Memphis, TN) got 3rd place in the Joe Martin Road Race, 7th in the Time Trial and 6th in the Criterium to finish the race in a solid 5th place. See full results here.

Tour of Arkansas. After taking an impressive 5th place in the Joe Martin Time Trial and 9th overall in the Cat 3's, Adrian Balsara (Tyson Racing, Fort Smith, AR) showed his good form the following week at the Tour of Arkansas by taking 2nd place in the hilly road race, 2nd in the time trial and 4th in the criterium and going on to win the GC by a long margin over Alex Battles-Wood (Team Power Train, Tulsa, OK). See full results at www.Tour-of-Arkansas.com

Brice Jones joins Advanced Cycling!
Multiple-time national champion and professional cyclist for many years, Brice Jones is now part of the Advanced Cycling bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge on many aspects related to top-level training and racing. Brice will join Andres not just on the coaching side but in other projects aimed to propel our cyclists to the next level. See Brice's profile and some of his accomplishments.

2007 Arkansas State Crit Champions
Congratulations to Advanced Cycling riders Bruce Dunn, Debra Dunn, and Peter Oxford from the Tyson Racing Cycling Team, and to Scott Barnes from the Mercy Cycling Team for their victory in the 2007 Arkansas State Criterium Championships in the Masters 40-44, Cat 5, and Masters 30-35 categories, respectively, held in Van Buren, Ark. on September 29, 2007, putting and end to their road racing season on a high note!

Advanced Cycling and Ergomo
Advanced Cycling has recently partnered with Ergomo as Ergomo Coaching Center and distributor in Colombia. More information will follow soon...

2007 Collegiate Track Nationals, San Diego
Scott Jackson raced in San Diego, CA on September 14th - 16th at the National Collegiate Track Championships as a member of his team Lees-McRae. After a successful start on the road that has included several trips to Europe, Scott gave the track a shot this year. Follow the news of the race as well as results at www.usacycling.org

2007 Crit Nationals, Downers Grove, IL
Congratulations to Scott Barnes from Mercy Cycling who took 8th place in the Masters 30+ National Crit Championship race as well as 9th place in the Cat 2 Challenge held in Downwers Grove, Illinois on August 19 and 20. Scott improved upon his 2006 13th and 19th places respectively. For results go to www.dgcycling.com

2007 Road Nationals, Seven Springs, PA
Debra, Bruce, Alex and Adrian made their debut this year at National Championships held in Seven Springs, PA. Now they know what it feels to race at this level, and will hopfully be looking to come back next year. For results go to www.usacycling.org

Canada - Tour de L'Abitibi
Alex Hetherington competed at Le Tour de L'Abitibi in Canada as a member of the South Central Cycling Development Camp team directed by Tim Redus. Click on the race website for results.

Hunter Allen in NWA
Hunter is an authority on the topic of training with power. He is the co-author of the book Training and Racing with a Power Meter and a speaker at USA Cycling coaching conferences.

Hunter came to Northwest Arkansas on April 28th to teach a one-day seminar on the subject of Training with Power. He covered the following topics:

  9:00 - 10:00    Introduction to training with power and Power tools.
10:00 - 12:00     Power training steps, from your initial testing to detailed wattage workouts.
12:00 -   1:15    Lunch (included in the registration)
  1:15 -   2:30    Analysis of Power files and case studies. What does all the data mean?
  2:30 -   4:00    Advanced tools in training with power including the newly release Performance Manager.
  4:00 -   5:00    Test different power meters!

Click here for a PDF file of the topics.

Attendants had the opportunity to test different power meters, with an Ergomo, a Power-Tap and an SRM installed on different bikes.

The Next Generation...
Relive the drama and the action of the 2005 racing season with the Champion Cycling team in a 6-DVD set as they compete in more than 30 prestigious races all over Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and New Mexico facing talented riders and teams of regional and national caliber. Get an insight into the team's tactics, their preparation before the races, share their joy through their victories, and feel their pain through their defeats.

Learn new information through useful coaching segments presented by Advanced Cycling coach Andres Angulo, including nutrition and hydration, approaches to the off-season, racing and training demands of amateur categories, racing preparation, benefits of training with power and physical aspects of the sport.

To view the trailer or to buy this great 6-disc DVD set, visit The Next Generation or go to www.MeccaSports.com for more information.

Allen Lim Power Tour - A Different Perspective
Coach Andres Angulo attended the CycleOps Power Tour lecture and clinic given by world-renown power coach Allen Lim in Richardson, TX on March 4th, 2006. The lecture "Demands of the Tour de France" included detailed data from Floyd Landis' build-up for the 2005 Tour de France, his figures during the race, team tactics, aerodynamics, nutrition, physiology, and everything else you wanted to ask.

During the clinic, Dr. Lim shared with us much of his approach and philosophy not just to training with power, but to training in general. His approach goes well beyond what the plain numbers say. The clinic provided a practical approach for teaching about your power training tools, your training zones and a methodology to quantify your power output from your own perceived exertion.

Although the math behind his approch is not complex, it tends to represent well your effort once your body learns what how strenuous you perceive a workout is, in other words, what "easy", "hard" and "very hard" means to your body. Andres has adopted Dr. Lim's approach and has incorporated into his power based coaching programs.

Power Based Training - by USA Cycling
Andres attended a Power Based Training clinic organized by USA Cycling and held at the National Training Center in Clermont, FL on December 3rd and 4th, 2005. The clinic was open to a reduced number of USA Cycling certified coaches and included topics such as understanding the subtle differences between the main brands of power meters, setting training zones, power meter file analysis, quadrant analysis, workout examples, etc. Dr. Andy Coggan and ex-pro Hunter Allen presented the clinic.

National Road Camp
Andres was a lead coach at the 2005 National Road Camp held in beatiful Madison, Wisconsin in conjunction with Superweek.During the five-day camp, talented riders got the chance to meet their peers from all over the U.S. The camp staff composed of Kristen Dieffenbach, Tim Redus, Andres Angulo and led by Leonardo Campos-Moya, selected a group of riders among the very talented group to take part in multiple race and development opportunities provided by USA Cycling.

USA Cycling Summit
Andres attended the 2004 USA cycling Summit, a USA Cycling event at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, which gave the opportunity to 150 coaching professionals to interact personally with nationally and internationally renowned experts in many fields of cycling. Joe Friel (The Cyclist's Training Bible), John Cobb (Aerodynamics), Allen Lim (Training with Power), Andy Pruitt, M.D., Jim Miller (T-Mobile DS) are just some of the people he had an opportunity to talk to and to learn from. This was 4 days of non-stop cycling talk... what else could you ask for?
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