Cycle and Style

By Felice Beitzel Hi Stylish Cycling fans! My name is Felice, I am the soigneur (“swan-yer”) for the Giant Bicycles Mountain Bike Team. As a “swanny”, my job is to take care of the athletes – massages, nutrition, first aid, and anything else that they may require throughout training and racing. Last week I had [...]

Growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Krista Park was an avid skier who loved the excitement she got from pushing the boundaries on double black diamond runs, sometimes quite literally, as when she was threatened with arrest for skiing out of bounds in Colorado. In the summer, she loved backpacking and she liked the [...]

I had a chance to interview  Rebecca Rusch  again after her second victory in the Leadville 100 Race. In last year’s Leadville 100  she won the women’s division and shared the podium with the men’s winner, Lance Armstrong (read more about the 2009 race) and it was dramatically documented in the film Race Across the Sky.  This year, although racers [...]

At the 2010 Ford Ironman World Championship, had an especially exciting women’s race. Three-time defending champion Chrissie Wellington had pulled out of the race when a case of the flu took her out of commission. Over the course of the day for 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles of cycling and a marathon run, two strong [...]

We met World Champion Cyclo-cross medalist Katie Compton while at the Cross-Vegas Race. She was not able to compete that night after she hurt her knee in a mountain biking accident 3 weeks prior, but was recovering and looking forward to a great cyclo-cross season. A national Cyclo-cross champion already, her goal this season is to win the Cyclo-Cross [...]

Triathlete Jenny Fletcher, who went pro this year, just got back from France where she competed in a triathlon on the famous Alpe D’ Huez. (How did this former model become a professional triathlete? See previous article) The Alpe d’Huez is one of the main mountains in the Tour de France (although not in the [...]