Just a few days ago, Notre Dame Cycling had the opportunity to do some tempo work with our friends at ErgVideo™. Continue reading “ErgVideo Base-Tempo”
ErgVideo Base-Tempo
2014 MWCCC Schedule Preview
The Midwest conference kicks off with the traditional race in Southern Kentucky the weekend of February 22nd. New events on the road schedule for 2014 include a trip to downtown Cleveland for a criterium at up and coming program Case Western, as well as a journey to central Wisconsin at D2 rival Ripon College. Notre Dame will host the MWCCC for the 4th year in a row the weekend of April 12th, while traditional events in MIchigan, St Louis (Lindenwood), and Indianapolis complete the regular season. The conference championship will return to West Lafayette for a weekend of racing at Purdue. The national championship in 2014 will be held in Richmond, VA, and is being used as a test event for the 2015 UCI Road World Championship which will be held in the United States for the first time since 1986.
| Road | |||
| Feb. 22-23 | MWCCC | Lindsey Wilson | TTT, RR, Crit |
| Mar. 15-16 | MWCCC | Lindenwood | TTT, RR, Crit |
| Mar. 23 | MWCCC | Case Western | Crit |
| Mar. 29-30 | MWCCC | Michigan/Michigan State | ITT, RR, Crit |
| April 5-6 | MWCCC | Ripon | TTT, RR, Crit |
| April 12-13 | MWCCC | Notre Dame | TTT, RR, Crit |
| April 19 | MWCCC | Marian | Circuit |
| April 26-27 | MWCCC Regionals | Purdue | TTT, RR, Crit |
| May 2-4 | Nationals | Richmond, VA | TTT, ITT, RR, Crit |
ErgVideo Over-Under Sweet Spot Intervals
Notre Dame Cycling recently tried out the AllenPT over-under sweet spot intervals training session by ErgVideoTM Continue reading “ErgVideo Over-Under Sweet Spot Intervals”
ErgVideo Treshold Test
Innovative Endurance, a proud sponsor of Notre Dame Cycling, gives the team weekly access to their state-of-the art Computrainer™ studio located in downtown South Bend. Continue reading “ErgVideo Treshold Test”
Kit Order Update
The socks arrived at Notre Dame on January 16. The rest of the kit order is scheduled to be shipped on February 3. Once it arrives, we will begin distribution.
2014 Kit Order
The deadline for ordering your 2014 ND Cycling kit is December 5th, 2013. Please read the instructions below and email bike@nd.edu to receive the excel order form (unfortunately we are not able to upload it to the website). Fill it out, save, and email it back to bike@nd.edu to place your order. Please remember to consult the sizing charts. We want to make sure everyone is happy with their uniform when it arrives. Thank you again for your support of ND cycling and please contact us at bike@nd.edu with any questions!
Pricing:
- Men’s and Women’s Velocity (race cut) Short Sleeve Jersey: $100
- Men’s and Women’s Axis Rx (club cut) Short Sleeve Jersey: $85
- Men’s and Women’s Velocity Bibshort: $90
- Men’s and Women’s Element Windtex Polar Jacket: $105
- Velocity Long Sleeve Skinsuit: $105
- Men’s and Women’s Velocity Long Sleeve Jersey $85
- High Cut Socks, 5″ Cuff: $7
- Element Arm Warmers: $30
- Element Knee Warmers: $30
- Velocity Race Gloves: $25
- Element Shoe Covers: $30
Blue-Gold-Green Race
On the weekend of October 11-13, the Notre Dame Cycling Team held its annual Blue-Gold-Green Race. Splitting the team into three squads and racing against ourselves, it makes for some good competition during our offseason from road racing. Festivities got underway with Friday’s (no aero equipment) 6 mile individual time trial. On the women’s side, grad student Lillie Romeiser narrowly took the win with a time of 17:08, 
just five seconds faster than sophomore Paige Handy and freshman Sarah Cullen. The best time of the day was set by junior Jim Snitzer, at 13:54, with grad student Andrew O’Donnell and junior John Pratt taking 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
Saturday’s 21 mile road race made for some very exciting racing with large time gaps. Despite missing the winning break, freshman James Pratt (5th) and sophomore Joe Mueller (6th) put in very strong performances and showed good promise for the future of Notre Dame Cycling.
After a successful attack with about 2 miles to go, John Pratt managed to stay away from chasers Snitzer and O’Donnell to take the win. Handy was the first woman to cross the line.
Sunday, the final day of racing, saw John Pratt take his third consecutive Blue-Gold-Green criterium title ahead of O’Donnell and Mueller, who finished 3rd in his first ever criterium. Sophomore Sam Melgar K (4th) and grad student Tom Frederick (5th) also performed well. Romeiser won the women’s crit, while freshman Emma-Kate Conlin took 2nd. Congratulations to David Berno, Joe Mueller, Martin Duchoissis, John Clifford, Jon Leslie, Tom Frederick, Lillie Romeiser, Sarah Cullen, and Emma-Kate Conlin, all of whom made their Notre Dame bike racing debuts during the Blue-Gold-Green weekend.
Ride with Lance Armstrong
On Saturday, August 3, four members of the Notre Dame Cycling Team (John Pratt, Michael Chifala, Joe Magro, and Jim Snitzer) had the opportunity to ride with Lance Armstrong in Aspen, CO. It all started with a lighthearted tweet from the CyclingIrish twitter page at Lance, asking, “Can we come try to drop you?” Surprisingly, he responded and invited the four of us for a 4-hour ride around Aspen Saturday morning.
The ride started out going downhill from Aspen. After over an hour of easy descending, we knew we were in for a hard next 3 hours. First, he took us up the climb where he did his fitness testing during his training for the Tour. Lance was impressed with how well some of us climbed. Although, we would never drop him, he never managed to drop all of us during any of the day’s climbs. Both Joe and John even outsprinted him at county line signs. For the last 30 miles of the ride, Lance took us on the course of stage 1 of the USA Pro Challenge, before heading back to his house. Even at 41 years-old, he was incredibly strong, as we expected from a Tour de France legend. In total, it was an awesome 80-mile ride and we were all thoroughly tired.
While Lance has certainly been a subject of controversy in the last year, he was nothing short of terrific to us. We thank him for inviting us and are proud to call him a friend of Notre Dame Cycling!
2013 Nationals Brief Recap
TTT – ND Men (Magro, Tilmans, Pratt, Snitzer) 7th place DII, 14 seconds off the podium over 21 miles up and down Antelope Island.
Crit – Magro in early break, suffers slow leak for last 30 minutes. Taken out of contention with O’Donnell avoiding crash on final lap. Pratt crashes hard with 1.5 to go in downtown Ogden.
RR – O’Donnell and Tilmans keep the field together for the first 60 flat miles around the Pineview reservoir. Deliver Snitzer and Magro to the base of the climb in good position. The two Irish riders both summit N Ogden Pass among the leaders and finish 12 and 14 respectively. Pratt fights through injury for 31st.
Individual Omnium – Magro 18
Team Omnium – Notre Dame 15
Collegiate Road National Championships – Division II Preview
“The Midwest Conference assistant director, Matt Jones, expects good things from Notre Dame strong men John Pratt and Joe Magro: “John has proven to have a great sprint in the crits and Joe has been able to find his way to the front at the road races. These two will also be the key to the University of Notre Dame TTT.”
See the rest of the 2013 National Championship Preview HERE!