Daily Archives: January 28, 2015

Four days before the elite men’s world cyclocross championship race, Aaron Schooler spoke with Canadian Cycling Magazine from his home in Tübingen, Germany. The Edmonton native planned to drive to Tabor, Czech Republic the following day, which he figured would take him roughly six hours. It will be Schooler’s first time racing at Tabor, a World Cup venue and host of the worlds in 2010 where Zdeněk Štybar won the elite men’s race. Schooler brushed up on his knowledge of the course through video. “What I like doing, especially for races that have been World Cups before and that I haven’t been to is preview and re-watch old races to see what the course is like and what it could be like in different conditions,” he said.

On Jan. 28, Bell Media will premiere Clara’s Big Ride, a documentary on Clara Hughes’s 2014 cross-Canada ride to raise awareness […]

Matt Lapointe from Thunder Bay, Ont., competed in this year’s inaugural Snow Epic, a fat-bike festival based in Engelberg, Switzerland. For three days, from Jan. 15 to 17, he took to the snow on a fat bike with more than 100 participants. There were five events that included a 26-km ride with 1,000 m of climbing and a slalom down a ski hill at night. Lapointe finished 30th overall.