I thought we might have a mild winter this year in Minneapolis. (So hopeful, so naive.) I’ve spent most of my life in Michigan and upstate New York, insulated from bitter temps by giant lakes. I can blast through looming snowdrifts in my little Toyota Corolla without flinching. I have mastered winter? Not in Minnesota …
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Pep Talk
Race License: check Track Pass: check Velodrome Bike Parking: check Gear: check Sweet bike: check I have all the gear I’ll need for the season. My bike is good to go. I have lycra for days and a brand new pair of track gloves that I’m in love with. I’m an hour away from being picked …
Interview with Zoe Leverant of Formula Femme, Brooklyn
When I wrote Koochella’s “So You Want To Start A Women’s Bike Racing Team,” I did it after speaking with the women of what would become Formula Femme, a new women’s track team in Brooklyn. Here was a group of women who were basically exactly where we were when we started our team, with the same …
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Try Really Hard
So we have this common saying on the team. It goes something like this… Person 1: Statement about how hard certain part of the course, race, etc was and how silly they looked trying to overcome it. Person 2: But at least we tried really hard! Person 1 & 2: *highfive in agreement* This whole conversation seems …
Koochella challenges you: Be Track Club of the Year 2016
Yesterday at around 11:30 AM (trust us, we were obsessively refreshing the USAC News page) USA Cycling named Koochella Track Club of the Year. Needless to say, we were stoked. About an hour later Koochella Captain Anna “Mama Duck” Schwinn formally congratulated the rest of the team exclaiming, “LONG MAY WE REIGN.” Joking aside, Schwinn …
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