Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Northern Exposure – An Interview with Canadian Leah Guloien
Last year, I had the good fortune of meeting author Chris Cleave, who was in town for a reading and signing of his latest novel, Gold, which delves into the lives and rivalry of two female track cyclists. During the question and answer portion, a rather astute devotee questioned the reasoning behind his use of [...]
London Calling – Olympian Shelley Olds
When I first met Shelley Olds, she was a budding track cycling star who was still navigating the nuisances of road cycling. But throughout the course of her professional career, the one constant has been the Olympic dream. While it would take some sacrifice and a move from away from her comfort zone, in a [...]
Holding Out Hope – Garmin-Cervelo’s Tom Danielson
Seaside, CA – With Chris Horner (Team RadioShack) tearing the legs off the peloton, including his teammate’s, three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer, up Sierra Road during Stage 4, it is quite easy to overlook the rest of the field, and for that matter the remaining stages. But with an Individual Time Trial [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Leading Lady – Part III
Mud Bug In Part III of my conversation with Meredith Miller, we discuss what she loves most about Cyclocross, what type of course she favors best, and why she is riding in pink this October. Lenny B (LB): For the uninitiated, a Cyclocross race can look very much like controlled chaos, or what a friend [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Leading Lady – Part II
We Can Do It Cycling can at times be a mixed bag, in that the growth of the sport is often met with startling declines. Women’s Cycling, especially domestically, has taken some huge hits in recent years with a number of major team sponsors pulling out of the sport. Meredith Miller has seen and lived [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Leading Lady – Part I
Ready For Her Closeup As a veteran of the women’s professional peloton for over a decade, Meredith Miller has been known as the consummate teammate. Whether riding out front for the Danish-based Team S.A.T.S and the defunct TEAm Lipton, or serving as a role model and mentor during her time with Aaron’s Women’s Professional Cycling [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: An Interview with Erica Allar – Part III
Present, Perfect While Erica Allar (Team Vera Bradley Foundation) and I have remained in touch over the years, it had been some time since we actually shared some decent face time. But that changed this past month as I was able to catch up with her in Arlington, Virginia, the site of her Clarendon Cup [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: An Interview with Erica Allar – Part II
Transitions Change, as they say, is inevitable. For many of us, the biggest transition usually occurs some time after our last final exam when we are finally thrust into a world without the structure, and constraints, of academia. Change can occur at lightning speed and in many instances, all at once during this important juncture [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: An Interview with Erica Allar – Part I
I was not privy to the conversation occurring in the row in front of me for most of the flight, not that I am particularly averse to eavesdropping, but mainly because I am the type that begins to yawn as soon as the door is slammed shut and the cabin is pressurized. But as the [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Graz’s American Speed Kueen – Part III
An American in Graz The second largest city in Austria, Graz sits in the southeastern portion of the country and along the Mur River. In 2003, the city was named as the European Capital of Culture, an annual European Union designation highlighting a city’s cultural life and cultural development, and its Old Town area is [...]
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