Northwest Cycling Club

  As race team director for a local club with about 55 racers of all levels from the very beginner cat 5's to seasoned Pro 1/2's and masters, it has always been a challenge to offer up the right amount of coaching to my team. We brought Hunter and his assistant coach Randy down to Texas for a 3 day coaching clinic. The challenge for Hunter and Randy was to offer up the right amount of on-the-bike and off-the-bike instruction and lessons to teach the basics to the beginners while providing an equal amount of education for our more seasoned racers.

Hunter and Randy did a fantastic job of providing a wealth of knowledge that racers at all levels were able to learn from. Hunters experience as a former pro cyclist and his experiences as a coach provided our team with an abundance of information and lessons that can help each of us in our individual racing goals. His on-the-bike lessons on race tactics and strategies helped our team prepare a cohesive plan to enter our season with. Hunter's video review of individual's time trial positioning and form provided a unique opportunity for our race team to identify strengths and weaknesses many of us did not even know we had.

In addition to the many on-the-bike instructions and lessons Hunter and Randy provided, they offered twice as much information in over 6 hours of lectures and handouts. These lectures were very well laid out and provided an abundance of information that one only finds in professional racing and coaching. Together they covered all aspects of racing from heart rate, power and time trial training to stretching and nutrition to team strategies and tactics.

Overall, the clinic ran by Hunter and Randy was very well organized, structured and methodical. From the very beginning, they took control of the clinic and kept it flowing from one topic to the next. In all, the weekend was one of the best coaching clinics our club has ever hosted.

-Russell Lovelace
-Northwest Cycling Club
-2003 Race Team Director
-Houston, TX