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16 April 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Motorpacing Video

For the past few years, our team has been using motorpacing as a means to simulate the fast speeds of a large peloton that we would encounter in bigger international races. Here is a video of the team’s first session held last week. The driver was Samantha Warskett. The video was filmed and edited by [...]

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05 April 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Winter Training Part III- Escape to Training Camp

Several of our team members were fortunate to be able to escape to some warmer climates in March for some pre-season riding. Here is Ali’s recap of her first training camp, in South Carolina, with Allison, Michelle, team sponsor and friend-Martin, as well as ottawa cyclists, Brian and Emily. ******** RE:FORM/Cyclepower’s South Carolina trip was memorable [...]

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10 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Winter Training Part II- Motivation

Well, March has come in as a lion. There is more and more snow when we’d all just wish it would go away. Don’t worry friends,  the days are getting longer and we are beginning to smell a hint of spring in the air. For many of us, it has now been 3 months of [...]

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12 February 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Winter Training Part I

It’s the middle of February and if you live in Canada like we do, you’re probably spending some time on your trainer or rollers in order to achieve a good level of fitness by the time the first races start in April. It can be hard to spend a lot of time indoors on the [...]

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