Hawk Relay becomes sponsor of Momentum Cycling Team – the only USA professional UCI Track Team.
Los Angeles, CA – Momentum Cycling Team announced today that Hawk Relay, a fast-rising Relay provider for people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Speech disabled, has agreed to sign on as a sponsor for the team, the only USA professional UCI Track Team with 2008 Olympians.
Hawk Relay is a Deaf owned and operated telecommunications relay provider for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Speech disabled people. Hawk Relay operators provide functional equivalence in telecommunications – allowing relay users to communicate with anyone.
Hawk Relay and Momentum Cycling Team will establish the fund: "Racing for the Deaf schools". Late in the Fall of 2008, a fundraiser ride will be established to raise funds for the deaf schools in the US, to support providing the best possible education for the deaf children.
Momentum Cycling Team is a professional UCI Track Team based in Los Angeles with current 2008 Olympians Adam Duvendeck, Josiah Ng and Jennie Reed. Jennie is currently a World Champion and a medal favorite in the women's sprints for the Beijing Olympics.
Howard Marans, the owner of the Momentum Cycling Team, had this to say, "We're truly thrilled to have Hawk Relay on board. It means a lot to us to promote Hawk Relay for millions of Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Speech Disabled users in order to break down the communication barriers." Robin Horwitz, a team director for Momentum Cycling Team is deaf and a frequent user of Hawk Relay to communicate with the team members.
"The opportunities for deaf people to interact and work with society has rapidly improved in the last few years and Robin Horwitz is an example of that. His ability to run a professional UCI Track Team with hearing team members is incredible and we wanted to be part of providing communications for the team, sponsors and others" said Sam Hawk, CEO of Hawk Relay. "It's our hope that we can create partnerships with existing and new sponsors in providing access to their services by using the Hawk Relay services" added Hawk.
About Hawk Relay
Hawk Relay was established in 2006 and provides VRS and internet-based TRS services. Its mission is to provide deaf and hard of hearing people with the necessary tools to achieve full and equal telecommunications access.
Reed ends gold drought for U.S. in women's keirin
Manchester, England – Momentum Cycling and USA's Jennie reed won USA's first Gold medal in the world track cycling championships Sunday by winning the women's keirin.
Long Beach resident Reed defeated hometown favorite Vicky Pendelton and Christin Muche to win the World Championship rainbow jersey. "It hasn't sunk in that I'm a world champion now." Reed said after her 1st ever gold medal ride. "I decided to go with a bigger gear than I would have been using and I felt like it would either allow me to win or be my downfall." Pendelton led the field and was overcome by Reed in the last bend.
This came after Jennie Reed won bronze medal on Friday in the women's sprints culminating one of the most successful weekends ever for Jennie Reed who is heading into the Beijing Olympics as one of the favorites for the women's sprints. "It's a huge confidence boost," Reed said. "Now I know I've got the potential and will aim for the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics."
Team owner/manager, Dr. Howard Marans was thrilled with the victory. "We have some tremendous cyclists in this country. This result shows what is possible when they receive the support that they need. Jennie has worked hard and long for this and I could not be happier for her."
Reed will begin her preparation for the Olympics. Currently she trains with fellow Momentum Cycling Team mates Adam Duvendeck and Travis Smith at the ADT Velodrome in Carson, California.
Links:
Jennie Reed's win in the Keirin
Jennie Reed wins the Bronze in Sprints
Reed wins USA Today Olympic Week of Athlete honor
Momentum Cycling Team Interview
With such limited resources, no team should be able to go up against the powerhouses such as French and Australian sprinters to be competitive on the same level. But that's what the Momentum Cycling team was able to do this year on the World Cup level.
Jennie Reed's dominance of the Keirin was hardly surprising,however the way she was able to pull away from everyone was! She also improved her 200m time to be amongst the fastest women in the world and raced to a Silver Medal in the Sprints
Everybody had to wonder about this: What was it she did this year?
Adam Duvendeck went from one of those American sprinters to someone who beat one of the world's best sprinters, Mark French at LA World Cup. His string of 10.4 runs at Sydney, Beijing and Los Angeles also established him as one of the top 15 sprinters in the world. It's also been confirmed he's maxed out at 22.8 watts per kg for 5 second power.
Again, people wondered: How did he do it?
Travis Smith also posted 10.5 at Los Angeles after an amazing comeback from a hip surgery. People were saying – wow, that's a great comeback.
With limited resources, how did the 3 (Adam, Travis and Jennie) go so fast in a hurry?
How did you get started with the idea of coaching other athletes who have really gained so much speed compared to last year?
Travis: Well it was easy. Last year they just felt like they had reached where they where going with the training. I had worked with many coaches such as Kurt Innes of CANADA, Erin Hartwell, Jamie Staff and even Roger Young. I felt with the knowledge from all these coaches and going back to what really worked with me was when I was with Jamie. I felt very comfortable taking on the role of designing the program so currently I am coaching Adam Duvendeck, Giddeon Massie and myself. Jennie Reed trains with our group, but does her own training and works with Andy Sparks.
Jennie: I've always been a naturally strong athlete, but struggled to be as explosive as I needed. At P3, they've focused on making me more agile while maintaining my strength. The weight training and bike training really complement one another now.
Adam: The gains in my speed have come from the training program put in place by my teammate Travis Smith. Travis puts our program together and then we critique it as a group. He would ask if we think something is missing or if there is too much of something and we sit down and fine tune it together. We all have trained with many different coaches over the years, and one of the things that makes it hard is if your type of riding/training isn't in tune with a coaches philosophy it can hinder your growth as an athlete. That being said, the type of program that we work with is ideal for each one of us at any given time.
So what is it exactly that s made them (and yourself) so fast? What's your secret?
Travis: Well that is super easy question! It's about making the athlete believe in the program. If the believe in what they are doing. Automatically you will see improvement. All of us riders already have talent. A coach will never give a rider that! All they do is help you hone it.
Adam: For me the difference has been a combination of things. After I "retired" from competing following the 2004 Olympics I went back to school and coached the UC Santa Barbara Cycling Team for two years. I always knew that I wanted to come back into the sport but I was not sure when. It was around this time that I was introduced to P3 and Dr. Marcus Elliot. I explained to him my priorities and also my previous training styles. He assured me that he could deliver a program that would bring me to the next level. I started lifting with him about a year out from the 2006 National Champsionships, at that time I was still going to school and coaching so I didn't have much time to train and the majority of my training was done 2-3 times a week at P3. I really did not start steady training on my bike until about 2-3 months before nationals. I think most of us know the outcome of that event and know that I was a new rider after claiming the 2006 National Keirin title and placing 2nd in the sprints. All I had was to combine that with Travis as the coach.
Jennie: The last few years, I've been really frustrated with the U.S. program. I have been with the U.S. Team for years and have experienced the hiring and firing of coaching every one to three years. It was always difficult to give everything to that coach, including trying new training, not knowing when they'd be gone. Every coach I worked with, including a European coach, told me to put my trust in them and give their training a legitimate try, which accounted for 1-2yrs of my career. I have never been a "textbook" sprinter and "typical" sprint training doesn't work well for me. It was always a battle of having a group to train with but not being completely satisfied with the program or doing my own program and training by myself. And really, to be World Class, you need both. Not seeing this coming together, I was thinking about retiring last year, since I didn't see myself improving in the Sprint and I had been on the podium plenty of times in the Keirin. Then, I was asked to do a Women's Team Pursuit Camp by Andy Sparks over the Summer and it really got me excited again. Andy and I talked about doing some Team Pursuit training just for fun and to give myself a break mentally. I was only going to devote one day a week to Team Pursuit training and the rest would be for Sprint. We both agreed that it couldn't hurt my Sprint and could only improve my Keirin. As the weeks went by, my Sprint just got faster and faster. Andy and I eventually talked about my program and kept the team pursuit training in. Now I have the best of both worlds. I am able to do my individual training program and also train with awesome training partners. I train with my teammates (Travis and Adam) twice a week and then Andy Sparks twice a week. And Andy helps create a training environment that is nothing I've ever had before, which is evident of my results.
Can you give me a typical day of training for a trackie like yourself?
Travis: Well I will give you a hard day!! Twice a week we do weights in the AM and a track session in the PM. Weights are designed by the coaches at P3 (www.p3.md) and the track training will vary depending on the block we are in. It will range anywhere from starts to long lactate efforts.
Adam: For the gym part, Dr. Marcus Eliot and Dr. Phil Wagner of p3.md holds the highest of hopes for all his athletes and contains the expertise to help each one get there. He has taken my once poor form Olympic Lifts and changed them into what I would like to think as a thing of beauty.
Do you do any 3-4 hour rides on the road? do they help with your program?
Travis: Well during a block that involves more road time. We will range up to a 2-3h ride. As of now we only do recovery rides. 1-1.5h maximum but I like criteriums. I'm a big believer that criteriums help make you a stronger rider. Tell me when is there ANY time you can go out for 1-1.5h and hammer as hard as you do in a criterium.
Going off the point, describe us what happened with your keirin accident and tell us how you have had to go thru all of this to do a 10.5 at ADT recently.
Travis: Well, I'm sure everybody has heard that I went over the bars in the Keirin event at worlds last season... The result was a fractured pelvis joint. That was the problem. The joint is where ALL the movement comes from when your job is riding a bike!
I can guarantee this; there is NOT one rider out there that has worked as hard as I did over the past ten months. Going from two months of no walking mixed with six days a week of 3-4h a day Physical therapy (performed by the best group of people-Coastherapy) to doing a 12.1. I said right then that the next flying 200m would be a 10.9!!! I had accomplished that one month later and finally 10.5 couple of weeks ago.
How do you measure your progress or your athletes without a powermeter? stopwatch?
Travis: Yeah we use stop watches every now and then. But the best way to measure progress is by racing. If you go into a race and say "Hey Trav, i felt like I was lacking power there". We will go back look at the program and adjust it!
Can you tell me what EXACTLY did you all (Adam, Jennie and yourself) do today?
Travis: Well today we did seated power accelerations after the LA world cup. We noticed that we were lacking a little power in the bigger gears. So today we were in 104" (50-13) for and effort of 300m.
We would race simulate it because the effort is increased when you are racing!!! We would do it from the wall side by side. We would count down 3-2-1 GO and race for 300m as hard as we could seated.
Explain why P3 stands out from others.
Jennie: I've worked with a lot of weight training coaches and P3 is the best training I've had in my whole career. They've looked at how I move as an athlete and set up a program to improve me, individually. They also teach technique extremely well.
Adam: To be completely honest I have yet to meet anyone who has the knowledge and dedication that both Drs. Elliott and Wagner have. What they have done collectively is developed the science to make athletes compete and thrive at the highest of levels.
USA based Momentum Cycling Team rides on a huge wave of success after LA World Cup.
Los Angeles, CA – The Momentum Cycling Team, based in, Los Angeles had one of the most successful World Cup weekends ever in Los Angeles' ADT Event Center Velodrome at the Home Depot Center.
On Friday night of the World Cup weekend, Jennie Reed, United States' star in keirin and sprints, clawed her way through the heats of match sprints and into the finals before being defeated by World Cup Champion Natallia Tsylinskaya. Jennie had this to say "The first ride against Natalia, tactically I did everything I could – but she was just too strong, I'm really pleased" about her silver medal.
On Sunday, Jennie dominated the women's keirin by going thru the heats effortlessly before disposing of a world class field on the last lap to win her second ever gold medal. "I've always wanted to have a good home town performance and I finally did, so I'm really happy" beamed Jennie after accepting the gold medal.
Adam Duvendeck, United States' best sprinter, had one of his best ever weekends by qualifying in 9th position out of over 50 riders in the 200m time trial with a time of 10.4 seconds. In the heats, he was the surprise of the night by upsetting Mark French, a powerful sprinter from the Australia Squad. The ADT Velodrome erupted in cheers when he advanced to face top seed, and new track record holder, Kevin Sireau in the quarter finals. Adam went on to his best World Cup result in the sprints, an 8th place finish.
Adam had this to say "This was a good step leading up to the World Championships in March and towards being a USA Olympian for the Beijing Olympics. Right now, I am focused on the final World Cup of the season at Copenhagen which will be challenging. All of the World Cup events this year are more difficult as everyone is looking for Olympic qualifying points."
Travis Smith continued to amaze people by making a very impressive comeback from a devastating hip injury at last year's World Championships in Mallorca, by posting a time of 10.5 seconds. Travis had this to say "I definitely have my speed back and now it's a matter of being more comfortable in the races. I believe I will be peaking at the right time for the Beijing Olympics".
Josiah Ng and Bobby Lea also had success in heats and advancing to the finals where they faced tough competition.
Dr. Howard Marans, the owner of Momentum Cycling had this to say "I am extremely thrilled about the success this team has experienced. It makes it even more exciting when it happens in an Olympic year. We have a very talented group of riders who just need the proper support to achieve the results that occurred this weekend. I strongly believe that we can continue at this level."
The team now is focused on training for the next Track World Cup at Copenhagen and then the World Championships at Manchester over the next 2 months.
Momentum Cycling, Jennie Reed delivers another gold to the home town crowd
American Jennie Reed went undefeated in the women's keirin, taking both the semifinal and the final with a long turn of speed on the front of the group which no rider could match. Reed's victory in the final over Dutch sensation Willy Kanis and Jinjie Gong (Giant) sent up a huge cheer from her home town fans.
"I've always wanted to have a good home town performance and I finally did, so I'm really happy with it," Reed beamed after accepting the gold medal. She explained that her style of leading from the front may look formulaic, but is actually quite nuanced. "In the first round I definitely went to the front early - I didn't want to take a risk of not to make it in because the first round is always the hardest. In the semi and the final, I was actually quite patient, and when I made my move it was quite sharp. I feel good from the front always."
"I think with every race I read the race, and it may look like I'm using the same tactic, but when I decide to go it's always at a different point in the race, it's always on feeling." Her style suited the Los Angeles velodrome, which is the track she uses for training on a regular basis. "On this track it's really hard to pass if you're too far back," she explained."I train on this track, so I know it quite well and it's a good tactic for this track.
Reed, who took the silver in Sydney behind Victoria Pendleton, was sick and could not compete in Beijing, and will now head to Copenhagen to try for more UCI points. But the Momentum Cycling rider knows exactly where her sights are set: "What I really want is the keirin title in Manchester."
USA's leading team Momentum Cycling prepares for its premier race, UCI Track World Cup Classic at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA – The Momentum Cycling team announced today that It will field a full team for the UCI Track World Cup Classic at Los Angeles' ADT Velodrome. The team will consist of 6 elite men/women riders focused on a variety of races over the weekend.
The Momentum Cycling team is led by American sprinters, Jennie Reed with her impressive recent showing of 2007 UCI World Cup at Sydney with a silver medal in keirin. 2004 Olympian Adam Duvendeck, consistently the fastest American in sprints, will be focusing on sprints with high expectations.
Joining Jennie and Adam are sprinters Josiah Ng and Travis Smith. Josiah Ng, a former World Cup Keirin Champion, is often marked by other competitors in the keirin races. Travis Smith, a Canandian National Champion, is making an impressive comeback from a hip injury suffered in a keirin crash. He is expected to regain his form which got him the 2006 Commonwealth games Silver and Bronze medals in keirin and sprints respectively.
The Momentum Cycling team will also feature three endurance riders – Bobby Lea and Roger Rilling, focusing on Madison, Pursuit and Points races.
"The UCI Track World Cup Classic is an exciting event – nobody should miss this one. This is a combination of powerful cyclists, extraordinary speed and thrilling racing. I'm just very proud of our team who is up with the best of the world." said Dr. Howard Marans, owner of the Momentum Cycling Team.
Adam Duvendeck, well known for his legendary workouts designed by P3 (www.p3.md), returns from a brief break from Track Racing after 2004 Olympics to try for the 2008 Olympic team had this to say about the importance of the UCI Track World Cup Classic at Los Angeles, "The qualification process for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is based on the accumulation of points that are awarded through competing in international competition, so it is imperative that we rack up points while racing at our home track"
The Momentum Cycling's ultimate goal is to send the whole team to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing by being selected by their countries' federation
Momentum Cycling Team Roster:
Jennie Reed - Women's sprint and Keirin
Adam Duvendeck – Men's Sprint
Travis Smith – Men's sprint and Keirin
Roger Rilling – Men's Individual pursuit, and other endurance races.
Racing for their countries
Josiah Ng (Malaysia) - Mens sprint/keirin and team sprint
Bobby Lea (USA)- Madison and other endurance races
Momentum Cycling Sponsors Trainig Races for upcoming World Cup.
January 5th 2008
In order to help prepare racers for the World Cup Event at ADT later in January, there will be a training race at the ADT Event Center Velodrome in Carson California Saturday afternoon January 5th. See the events section for more information.
Momentum cyclist, Jennie Reed earns silver in Sydney Australia.
Jennie Reed earned a silver in the keirin final this past weekend in Sydney Australia and placed 6th in the match sprints.
Josiah Ng placed 6th in the keirin final adding a valuable 5 points towards his Olympic bid.
Adam Duvendeck was the fastest out of the U.S. guys @ 10.41 which placed him 18th.
Travis Smith came in 24th with a 10.5x 200M time.
Next is Beijing China for the second leg of the UCI World Cup.
Pedal Magazine interviews Travis (http://www.pedalmag.com)
July 13, 2007 - Pedal Magazine spoke with double Commonwealth Games medalist Travis Smith in early June to check in on his progress recovering from a bone shattering crash at the 2007 Track Worlds. Smith described his slow road to recovery with Erin Carter and soon after his name was popping up in results in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. Clearly another catch up was needed so Chris Reid picke up where Carter left off and we spoke to Smith again to discover that while he was months ahead of his doctor's predictions in terms of his recovery, but he was still taking things day to day. Read more
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