Here you will find some of the most significant news and results obtained by Advanced Cycling riders in the national scene. This section will be updated periodically as our riders make headlines!
2009 News and Results
7/28 USA Cycling Nationals
Steven Liguori, from Tyson Racing's Junior Development Program placed 14th in the criterium and 15th in the road race at USA Cycling's National Championships held for the first time in beatiful Bend, Oregon. Other Advanced Cycling participants included Levi Baker in his first year as a U23 and Spencer Jordan in his first nationals.
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6/9 Matt Edmonds & Christa Voss
On June 9th our dear friend and Advanced Cycling member Matt Edmonds and teammate Christa Voss were both killed by a drunk driver while riding their bikes near Tulsa, OK. Their Tulsa and Arkansas teammates and friends remembered their friends on a silent ride held in Fayetteville, AR.
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5/7 Charlie Varela wins Joe Martin Time Trial
Charlie Varela won the opening stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race on May 9th, and finished in 5th place overall in the Masters 50+ categorie. Charlie followed a very judicious approach to this race, especially for the time trial, where he was endured repeated tests on uphill terrain using his power meter, and together with his coach analyzed the details of each file and established the best strategy for the race.
2008 News and Results
12/8 Ironman World Championships 70.3
Debra Dunn, of Fayetteville, AR competed in the Ironman World Champs 70.3 in Florida with excellent results. Debra placed 16th in her age group, and had the 7th fastest time on the bike. Congratulations on a great race!
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9/13 Collegiate Track Nationals
Scott Jackson (Banner Elk, NC) and his Lees McRae team competed in USA Cycling National Track Championships in Colorado Springs. Scott obtained 2nd place in the points race, 3rd team overall and 5th in the team pursuit. Full results available here.
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8/18 USA Cycling Junior and U23 Road Nationals
Scott Jackson (U23 - Banner Elk NC), Adrian Balsara (Jr - Fort Smith AR), Stephen Liguori (Jr - Lowell AR), and Alex Hetherington and Levi Baker from Fayetteville, AR obtained excellent results at Nationals held in Orange County, CA. Scott placed 8th in the road race and 14th in the criterium in a very competitive field. Our best result in the juniors came from Alex, who clocked a 10th place in the time trial but was later disqualified for crossing a shoulder line. Levi had a respectable 31st place in the time trial; Steve a 44th place in the crit, and Adrian a 40th place in the road race. Full results available here.
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7/15 Pro Cycling Consulting
Advanced Cycling now offers athlete representation services by working jointly with Pro Cycling Consulting S.L., an international agency based in Spain whose purpose is to help top cyclists obtain a professional contract while providing full legal support throughout the entire process, as well as marketing and advertising services for our clients. We have representatives in France, Colombia and Portugal. To read more about the Agency, go to www.CyclingConsulting.com. For questions or inquiries, please send us an e-mail to info@advancedcycling.com.
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5/18 The Tour of Arkansas
After taking an impressive 5th place in the Joe Martin Time Trial and 9th overall in the Cat 3's, Adrian (Tyson Racing, Fort Smith, AR) showed his good form the following week at the Tour of Arkansas (formerly known as the Tri-Peaks Challenge) 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.
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5/11 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.
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5/11 Stephen Liguori wins Joe Martin!
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.
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1/10 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.
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2007 News and Results
9/29 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!
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09/16 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.
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8/20 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.
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7/17 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.
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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.
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4/28 Hunter Allen visits 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.
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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.
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2006 News
3/4 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.
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2005 News
12/4 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.
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7/24 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.
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11/18 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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