Epic Racing in BC! Who will it be?

This is what mtb singletrack is all about.  Riding the mountains with breath taking views for 7 days.  The prize, to get to ride in the perhaps the best singletrack in the world!

“We’re not trying to kill people with huge climbs or really long days,” said Andreas Hestler, the BC Bike Race’s official marketing spokesperson. “This race is more of a tour of the terrain that we in British Columbia have been riding our entire lives. This is for people who love to shred singletrack.”

In the U.S.  most of the land and it's singletrack is off limits for cycling events, that is why this is even more attractive to the mtb racers, they really get ride in the mountains.  There is not not enough cash reward for the teams, to cover the cost, but again, the ride is worth the trip and the glory!

Here is just a small list of a few who have used our services, not just for a fit, but also how to pedal and ride.

Heavy hitters i.e. Georgia Gould, Sue Butler, Lea Davision, Bart Gillespie, Two-time U.S. collegiate XC champion, Sue Butler, Byan Alder, Alex Grant to name a few.  Why do they use over some fitter that puts mtb riders in a road fit?

Because this is not road!!!  The bike setup is very different!

From what we hear, about 400 racers having a blast!

Emily Batty is determining her fate at the Canadian Cup!

WN user's go #1 & #3 at Canadian Cup.

Emily informed us early season on the phone while hanging with Nat Ross at a indoor race about a upper body issue some have pointed out to her? We instructed her to keep doing what she is doing, to keep up the good work and it would pay off. I guess so!!! She wins again!

What a man thinks of himself determines their fate!  Muscle fiber generates tension, they lengthen, shorten or remain the same. Locomotion in most animals is only possible through the repeated contraction at the correct times.  The contraction is controlled by the central nervous system, which comprises the brain and spinal cord.  Voluntary muscle contractions are initiated in the brain!

action potentials are sent to muscle fibers. Action potentials do not arrive at muscles synchronously, and during a contraction some fraction of the fibers in the muscle will be firing at any given time. That is where we make the difference we increase that %.

Typically when a human is exerting a muscle as hard as they are "consciously" able, roughly one-third of the fibers in that muscle will be firing at once, but various physiological and psychological factors (including Golgi tendon organs and Renshaw cells) can affect that. This 'low' level of contraction is a protective mechanism to prevent avulsion of the tendon that lie on bones - the force generated by a 95% contraction of all fibers is sufficient to damage the body. 

Super results from both #1 Emily Batty and #3 Mical Dyck at Canadian #5. Both racers had their fit done by Steve Neal!  

Emily is putting her actions to work!  She  is getting control of her fate!

Monavie Cannondale " A New Look, Emv Drink"

Check out the Monavie Convention at www.monavie-cannondale.com

The launch of a new look for Monavie-Cannondale and a new energy drink called Emv. Love the blue! I will let you know it works, it has kick and you really fade slower. Their new bikes, the Cannondale Lefty bikes also looks hot!

Wobble-naught & My0-facts sEMG/Dartfish, bible in hand headed to SLC, UT to do some "hard preaching", as the team underwent not only a major convention, hard training, but also to make sure their bikes/brains where dialed. Our focus, from GM Matt Orhan was to teach each and everyone of his Monavie-Cannondale Pro Team what we have been doing with Sue Butler. All before some big races in the next few weeks.

When you start the preaching at 7am you need "strong java" and strong self-confidence with every word, bible in hand, held high, and you don't stop preaching the stroke until 11 pm or later. You need the energy to last and Matt Ohran - Director kept the Emv drink coming.

Truth is, if you like it or not computer and instrumentaion technologies continue to advance, and our ability to provide useful information to cyclists and coaches is making a huge difference.

Accurate interpretation and effective "preaching" of the data provided by these high-tech devices will demand a "strong voice", someone willing to take a stand up to all!

This continued research process will never end as long as Wobble-naught CAD & Myo-facts sEMG & Dartfish "Holds Church", always cutting new trails.

It's great to have a guy like 2008 National Short Track Champion J. Bishop on the team. He has a long history with us, for about 5 years now. His coach Hunter Allen knows we make a difference. Bishop was right there with his eyes and ears wide open and learning! He called me a "preacher", a person who preaches or is a minster, who delivers a sermon to a assembled group.

Think about it, these guys come from all over and they are perhaps the strongest 2009 "mtb" team going! They have already won about 22 races this year alone and to get their ears, you best know how to make everyone of them faster.

A dynamic analyses of cycling is only as good as the instructor. So really knowing the roles of movement patterns makes a difference. So many of fits today are off? In fact most of these pros have never had a fit.

A good question, can you see what goes on from a video? No! You can't see the muscles role from just a video or an (led) placed on the skin to track in 3D! The skin moves! You can't see the tone!

We knew this 15 years ago! That is why we did not go that way!

A smart pro team wants an edge, or better, not to just repeat history because of lack of understanding. If you are doing what every other team does, its only luck!

The Monavie-Cannondale Pro team is willing to learn! Each one had different needs and as soon as we had them dialed (bike/brain) and gave each one things to focus on, they where out on the steep trails loving it! They where all smiles when they came back from their rides.

Two-time USCF Collegiate Champion Ben Sonntag sums it up this way. Ben also has a full ride at Fort Lewis, CO, was also on the German XC Ski National team. Ben put it this way. He knows more about his muscles due to his understanding of XC than anyone he has come into contact until us. "I am my own coach, I seem to know more about the movement I need due to the years of XC skiing. In that sport, you have to focus or you go slow! But I must say, I really like the new bike setup and what I need to focus on!" We will see!

We all should learn from Ben Sonntag! It doesn't matter which school you go (US, German, Norway), you are the one who has to sort through it all. At some point, you have to move on to grow, get above a given team and learn not to repeat history and take it to another level! Schools provide solid ground work for you to learn, but the problem with the info is it is somethims i.e. old school. Most of the things that are taught at school have been around for a while.

It's easy to be cynical about college athletics. Sure, it's athletics, but it's often less collegiate and more corporate. Schools sue each other over marketing rights and the term "student athlete" seems as much an oxymoron as "business ethics" or "honest politician."

We know how the cycling "business ethics" is naught! Today, it seems to be fair play to email, skype, twitter, text message at will what another person or team is doing? Perhaps that form of networking, keeping tabs is good for road teams to keep up? But mtb is different! It is you and the course, not so much a team and pack fill!

In road, you can bring together top guns to help you win!

I would hate to think that our fit is based on just what we say at some race camp for pedaling instructions for our rivals to copy! Who's doing what?

It's our software that our rivals don't have that makes a difference. If the fit is off, your game will never have a chance i.e. just like hitting a golf shot, you might have the best swing, but if you don't make contact with the ball? Yeah, Right, Whatever!!!

www.monavie-cannondale.com

Race Professionals:

Tinker Juarez

Sue Butler

Bart Gillespie

Mitchell Peterson

Bryan Alders

Leana Gerrard

Alex Grant

Jeremiah Bishop

Ben Sonntag

Matt Ohran

Bruke Swindlehurst (Part time)

Even two other caps where in the mix, Cannondale reps from CA., Steve Kwait and Engin Yesilyemis! A lot of fits to do and each one takes about as much energy as one can mustard! This is not easy, after all they all have heard how to go faster! We are pleased to help such an elite team.

Keep an eye on the mtb results!

US Cup East #4 Cowbell "Super Hot Results"

When the heat is on, the body is really put to the test! So here is some cycling science, the muscles drive the system.

There are many muscles that don't really change no matter what you do to get them to fire.

The trick is to know which ones are the primary power producers during cycling. We know which ones transfer energy and teach that! We did this for years with Reba Rusch, she has had the sEMG on her to help her learn the force-generating periods. The other girls have not, but they have learned from both Eddie & Andy our dealers.

Deeper understanding of muscle coordination in cycling can be learned, you just have to know who know's the correct info! Positive movement make you go and negative movement exhibit a significant amount of heat i.e. like the Cowbell.

The temps where not the only thing that where hot at the Cowbell Challenge marathon on Saturday in Davidson, North Carolina. Considering that only 40 athletes out of 200 even finished in the women.

Wobble-naught fitted racers heat it up! When things tax your body, like in this this race, is when the smallest of adjustments can make a difference! Again, any negative fit will lower your performance. This is the second year that a WN user has won the race! If you don't care about the smallest % of heat, don't expect to outgun your rivals when things heat up. You only have about 22% energy to tap into, the rest is heat! If you don't have your bike dialed just so, you are going to "over heat" because you are working harder.

Carey Lowery, fitted by WN & Myo-facts sEMG/Dartfish dealer Eddie O'Dea takes first over Specialized Rebecca Rusch who was on our fits for years until she was hired by Specialized. Rebecca Tomaszewski was fitted by WN & Myo-facts sEMG/Dartfish dealer Andy Applegate and she takes third, while Andy Applegate (a working man) takes 6th in the Elite men.

Carey Lowery also put down the fastest lap for the field in the punishing heat. Goes to show you if you have your bike right you can go!

In Sunday’s cross country race, Thomas Turner (Bear Naked/Cannondale) and Sam Koerber (Gary Fisher 29er Crew) battled in a sprint to the finish. Sam Koerber has also been fitted by Andy Applegate, with Tom Turner taking the win by just two seconds, and both averaging lap times of just under 34 minutes for the eight-mile course.

Another WN racer Travis Livermon, also fitted by Andy Applegate takes 4th in Elite men.

Results
Elite men
1
Thomas Turner
1:42:26

2
Sam Koerber
0:00:00