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Preparing for Loma Linda

The Loma Linda PossAbilities time trial is the last race before Paris, affecting the final athlete selection for the 2024 Paralympic Games. With many athletes in contention for spots at the Paralympic games, this event boasts crucial points for qualification. Like many other athletes in contention, I have been preparing for this event. Last month, I changed coaches, which has helped me gain fitness in areas I have not worked as much on. Since the event is a time trial,...

July 3, 2024Read more...

Introduction

Hello everyone. My name is Elouan Gardon, and I am a C5 para cyclist. . Only a few months back, I did not even know that Para-Cycling was a thing. This was until I was invited to a team USA para camp. I learned a lot and knew that I wanted to continue racing para. After doing well in the Texas road cycling open, I knew that the next step was to race in the World Cups to gather points and experience...

June 7, 2024Read more...

Let’s get started!

Hi everyone! My name is Cody Wills and I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a para-cyclist in the MH2 class How I got here... Last month was another race trip with friend/team mate Barry Wilcox. We were in Europe for 3 weeks to compete at World Cup #2 in Ostend, Belgium and World Cup #3 in Maniago, Italy. These races were especially important because they counted as part of Team USA's selection process to qualify for the 2024 Paralympics, but more...

June 6, 2024Read more...

How to prepare for racing or riding during summer heat

. It's getting closer and closer to summer which for alot of us means riding in the heat. For some riding in the heat is welcomed if you're from a place that has snow and very cold climates during winter months. For myself located in sunny California the summer means triple digit heat and lots of sunburns. With the most important race...

June 5, 2024Read more...

An Emotional May

The title of this blog may be a bit confusing but May was a very difficult month in reference to my performances in Europe. I went in knowing top 5 performances were very realistic. Top 4 were even realistic for Belgium. Leading up to departure for Belgium I was not allowed to even check-in at the ticket counter. I was not aware that 3 months was needed on my passport before expiration upon return to the states for both Belgium...

June 3, 2024Read more...

Bitter sweet April

Hello, this month there has been good performances and less than stellar performances. I mentioned the qualification race in Texas last month in my blog. This was the qualification race for world cup 2 and 3 in Europe next month. I was confident in my training, previous races, and tests up to this point. Well, it is hard to push up against a 20+ mph wind. I fell short of the standard I had to meet to get selection. Honestly...

April 21, 2024Read more...

California Training

If you're not from California it's hard to explain how awesome it is to ride a bike and train here especially at this time of year. For me this is my favorite time of year to train in California. Cool temperatures and no rain makes for some of the best training weather anywhere in the United States. We'll this year has been quite different with an unusual amount of rain keeping me...

March 1, 2024Read more...

Silver Medal in Germany!

Hey folks, I’m über excited with the result on my 1st race in Germany: a well fought 2nd place!  There was also luck involved, as it’s many times the case in Snowboard Cross —ANYTHING can happen on the race course. And so it did: the Chinese I was chasing took a turn too sharp and went down in front of me, so I was able to pass him with a few feet to the finish line! With that I was able to...

February 24, 2024Read more...

Fencing, what it is and why I love it.

Hi everyone! Today will be an intro lesson to the rules of fencing and why it's so much fun :).So the sport of fencing was originally created to practice sword fighting in a safe way to allow you to get good for when you had to duel for real :). Because of this it has things in common with old fashioned dueling, traditional sports rules, and some uniquely fencing things. There are 3 weapons, each with slightly different rules and...

February 10, 2024Read more...

Euro Trip 2024

Gidday folks, I am so excited to announce my upcoming travels for training and racing.  After conversations w my Brazilian snow federation and coach, we set a plan and we are sticking to it —full force! This year I’ll be missing the Finland race, because of work. That’s a very important one because of excellent training camps before & after, on the race course. I will at least get to do the camp after the race, and hopefully see some auroras, fingers crossed! After...

January 31, 2024Read more...