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26 April 2012 ~ 2 Comments

Calabogie Classic Ontario Cup

Report by Véronik Bourgon Calabogie Classic!! Memories from last year came surging in my head… Attacks, chasing and nasty wind.  Last year I did not have a team and found this race very difficult… and was dropped really early.  This year I was mentally prepared!! I had been training hard and as part of the [...]

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20 April 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Tour of the Battenkill

Report by Ali Wilson   I have said it over and over: I love riding gravel and dirt roads. Why? It’s thrilling! They are a little more technical then paved roads: the rider has to constantly look around for obstacles or deep pitting sand, the fast downhills are risky and the seated climbs are hard [...]

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16 April 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Clarence Rockland Classic

Report by Heather Shearer   The vengeful gods of bicycle racing will be well pleased. The participants of the Clarence-Rockland Classic made many noble sacrifices at the altar today, including dozens of tubes and a smattering of blood. However, my Fuji Supreme with 23C tires ruled! From the tales I’d heard about this race, I probably [...]

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21 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Chris Thater Memorial

Chris Thater Memorial

Race Report by Michelle Gauthier Courtnay and I headed to Binghamton, NY for the last race of the USA Crits and penultimate criterium.  We were psyched as this would be one of the bigger and faster crits either of us had ever participated in with $7500 in prizes up for grabs.  The race was a [...]

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17 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Green Mountain Stage Race

By Ali Wilson This year’s Green Mountain Stage Race is definitely one that will be remembered: for good and not so good reasons… One week before the event, I was racing in Ste-Agathe for the Quebec Provincial Road Championships and had pulled out of the race because of terrible racing conditions caused by the tropical [...]

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15 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Challenge Cascades Garneau (Québec-Trois Rivières)

Race Report by DS Samantha Warskett Last weekend the team went to Le Challenge Cascades/Garneau Quebec-Trois Rivieres. This is an interesting race as it is one of the few point to point races we do with a mixed field of master’s men, juniors and senior women for a field of over a hundred cyclists. I [...]

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11 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Tour of the CatsKILLs

Race Report by Alexandria (Ali) Wilson This past weekend was the Tour of the Catskills, a stage race located in the heart of New-York state and boy, was it a hard race! The event tested every aspect of our training; from body and mental strength to recovery and team unity. And I honestly believe the [...]

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27 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Ontario Provincial Championships

Waterloo, ON   July 24, 2011 Race report from Cynthia Nelson Last weekend was the Ontario Provincial Road Race Championships.  We had 3 members of the RE:FORM/Cycle Power team competing.  (We would have liked to have had more however the race was only open to those holding an Ontario license.)  Courtnay and I pre-rode the course on [...]

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02 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Canadian National Championships

Race Report by Allison Lampi The Canadian National Championships for Elite women were held in Burlington on Rattlesnake Point on Friday June 24.  It began as a slightly strange event, being held on a Friday evening at 6pm and the team having to drive through traffic from Hamilton to get to the race. Somehow, this [...]

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22 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Preston Street Criterium

Race Report by Courtnay Darville The 39th edition of the Preston St. Criterium, June 19th, 2011. In the days and hours leading up to this crowd-pleasing race of a 1 km circuit through the streets of Ottawa’s Little Italy, I could not anticipate that this one would be special. This is my second year racing [...]

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