by 303cycling | Apr 15, 2018 | Featured
By Becky Furuta “Go on…get your hopes up. Have some faith, and stop holding yourself back. Look up, and get ready to rise above.” Saxophone player at Union Station, Washington, District of Columbia I stepped off the metro and on to a...
by 303cycling | Mar 18, 2018 | Featured
By Becky Furuta “Go slow before you go fast.” Matt Vogel, former staff member at Team Novo Nordisk, Santa Barbara, CA Training camp can be hectic. For Team Novo Nordisk, it was often the rare occasion when all the athletes from each discipline – the women’s...
by 303cycling | Feb 18, 2018 | Featured
By Becky Furuta A great burden is lifted in sport and in life when you come to the realization that no one owes you anything at all. Athletes, by definition, have a competitive spirit. It’s why we do what we do. It’s the reason I am on the bike trainer at 4am, in the...
by 303cycling | Jan 21, 2018 | Commentary
A ride down memory lane. A beginning-of-the-week thought, brought to you by Becky Furuta “Today is my favorite day.” 6 year old girl, shaking my hand at Tulsa Tough, Tulsa, Oklahoma Every moment, we have a thousand thoughts floating through our heads, and many of them...
by 303cycling | Jan 14, 2018 | Commentary
A ride down memory lane. By Becky Furuta “You should judge your success by what you had to give up to achieve it.” Guy in seat 24C, flight from Alicante, Spain to Madrid. I was eating a rhubarb croissant, and thinking about how tired my body felt. I had a separated...
by 303cycling | Jan 3, 2018 | Featured, Just For Women, Road Racing
By Becky Furuta The cab driver was visibly annoyed. The roads were so thick with cars and scooters, people and bicycles, that one could hardly see the charcoal tarmac of the city street below. He clearly conveyed that making a U-turn to access the other side of the...
by 303cycling | Dec 17, 2017 | Commentary, Just Bike Talk
A ride down memory lane. By Becky Furuta My life could be as easily measured in the passing of minutes as in the strokes of pedals. Much of my 39 years on the planet has been spent riding, from the moment my dad bought me my first black and white BMX bicycle to the...
by 303cycling | Aug 23, 2017 | Community, Cyclocross
The Amy D Foundation has chosen two riders to support for the coming 2016/18 cyclocross season. Christa Ghent, 27 of Lyons, CO, and Katherine (KK) Santos, 20 of Louisville, KY, will both be racing under the Amy D colors as the organization strives to increase its...