We finish off the 2020 EuroCross Academy Summer sessions series with a great line-up! Katerina Nash talks about multi sport athletes and the ONE time she was disappointed...:)  Then we are joined by maybe the best known cycling coach in the country; JIm Miller from USAC.  His knowledge is awesome as are his insights ..read more

This week at the EuroCross Academy, campers were joined by Mike Teunissen.  Mike reviewed video with us of his 2013 U23 world championship win in Louisville and talked about how his CX skills have helped him be a better road racer.  Then Chris McGovern chats with campers about race day prep with some support from Becca Fahringer ..read more

France has what is probably the largest junior rider participation in cyclocross in the world.  We had French national training coach Francois Trarieux and Caroline Mani join EuroCross Academy summer sessions to talk about their system and how it gets so many junior riders to their national races ..read more

This week the EuroCross Academy class is joined by Tim Heemskerk one of the performance coaches for Jumbo - Visma and Kelsey Erickson the Executive Director of Athlete Health and Wellness for USAC.  Tim talks about how American riders should use training blocks when in Europe.  Kelsey's talk is about the programs USAC has for athlete health and how they work and protect athletes ..read more

This week at the academy we were joined by Karen Ramakers from Telenet Baloise and Stu Thorne from Cannondale Cyclocrossworld.  They talk to the campers about their team structure and operation and what they look for in young riders.  Hint: It's coachability.....our character topic this week ..read more

This week on EuroCross Academy summer sessions companion podcast we bring you Gerben de Knegt the Dutch national coach for mountain and cyclocross.  He tells us what REALLY makes the Dutch system special.  Hint: It's not a training drill.  With Gerben is Puck Pieterse, at 17 she finished top 5 in a Women's elite race last year and took second at Junior Womens Worlds.  Then to finish out the show Allison Arensman talks about strength training, specifically some ideas for back strength and Roger and Curtis take on some bike carrying videos ..read more

This week the class was joined by Niels Vandeputte from Alpecin.  He talked about goals as a young rider, reviewed some video from CX U23 Worlds and is generally a really cool guy.  Then Roger Aspholm discusses what is Grinta and how is it different from Sisu. Key ideas for pushing forward ..read more

We go into week 2 of EuroCross Academy with talking about discipline.  To talk about this topic we were joined by three of the strongest women in the sport of cyclocross.  Lucinda Brand, Shirin van Anrooij, and Rebecca Fahringer!  Lucinda and Shirin talk to "campers" about their specific training and Rebecca gave some great nutrition info and discussed her nutrition approach.  Also! skill of the week IG video reviews ..read more

This week on the first "official" episode of the EuroCross Academy podcast presented by Cyclocross Today we had a visit from Sven Nys! Sven broke down video from a couple races as well as answered some camper questions.  It was a great visit and we present a part of it here.  Then Curtis White discussed the importance of young riders becoming leaders and engaging their local community to help expand the sport. Finishing off with some Sven Hill video reviews and the mention of next weeks guests ..read more

It's finally here! The Intro episode to the 2020 Eurocross Academy Remote Summer Sessions! Go to Eurocross Academy website for application and sign up information.  This week is just the intro episode where we did a dry run, made sure everything was working, introduced the American Pro coaches and get an overview from Geoff...as well as some homework!  We hope you follow along for the next few weeks ..read more