Colorado Springs, CO - NASCAR driver and CTS Athlete Carl Edwards has been pulling double-duty all season, driving the 99 Office Depot car in the Nextel Cup Series and the 60 Dish Network car in the Busch Series. The grueling schedule isn’t slowing him down, though, as evidenced by the fact that he clinched the Busch Series Championship on Saturday in the O’Reilly Challenge at the Texas Motor Speedway. And after Sunday’s Dickie’s 500 Nextel Cup race, despite mechanical problems that took him out of contention for the victory, Edwards was in fifth place in Nextel Cup Series.

Fitness has been a big part of Edwards’ success in the 2007 season. He’s been working with CTS Premier Coach Dean Golich since 2006, with a focus on developing the physical strength and endurance necessary to compete at the top of both the Nextel Cup and Busch series. Golich and Edwards speak on a daily basis, with the coach providing guidance on how to fit workouts and healthy nutrition habits into the driver’s demanding and constantly-changing schedule.

“Carl knows a great deal about training and he loves to work out, which makes him a real pleasure to work with. But his schedule is absolutely crazy, and my role is to keep his fitness at an extremely high level while making sure he can still live up to all his other commitments,” said Golich. “It’s all about time management and adapting training on-the-fly so his fitness keeps improving.”

Kevin Harvick is the only other driver who is in the top ten in both the Nextel Cup and Busch points series, although Harvick only started 24 Busch races compared with Carl’s 33 Busch starts. With two races left in the season and The Chase for the Nextel Cup, Harvick is mathematically out of contention for the Nextel Cup, while Edwards is still in the hunt in fifth place. In the Busch Series, Edwards’ 11th place finish at Texas Motor Speedway gave him an insurmountable points lead.

“Fitness has become one of the key determinants of success in motorsports. The level of competition is so high now that drivers need every edge they can get. Better fitness means you can race at your best longer than the other drivers can; you can take full advantage of what your car and pit crew give you on race day,” said Golich.

Edwards isn’t planning on stopping any time soon, either. He and Golich are already putting together plans for the 2008 season, when the driver wants to become the first person in history to repeat as the Busch Series Champion. “Becoming the first driver ever to win both series in the same year would be fine, too,” quipped Golich.

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Arizona– October 31st – Today VeloVie announced that they have created a partnership with Mix1 Racing for 2008. Mix1 Racing is a Boulder Colorado based, ACA-registered bike racing team. The team was established to support the growing demand for competitive amateur racing in Boulder County, and to help evolve excellent bicycle awareness and stewardship within the community.

Mix1 Racing is focused on men’s Category 3 racing and will compete primarily in the Rocky Mountain States of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Lisa Fitch, former European Pro rider and certified USA cycling coach, is coaching the team.

“Working with the Boulder Velo Racing has been a pleasure for Velo Vie executive team,” said Homayoon Farsi of Velo Vie. “We are delighted with the team’s final selection of Velo Vie and Vitesse 300, one of the finest performance frames on the market.”

Mix1’s squad of 20+ riders hopes to replicate last year’s success in 2008 with podium finishes in road races, criteriums, hill climbs and time trials. The team will also undertake local outreach programs in the Boulder community, including support of the Davis Phinney Foundation. Races for 2008 will include Deer Trail, Koppenberg, Boulder Beer, Dead Dog Stage Race, Salida, and a slew of criteriums throughout the season.

“The cherry on top of our sponsorships is Velo Vie, who will be providing the Vitesse 300 framesets for the Elite Mix1 Masters Team,” said Marcel van Garderen, Mix1 Sponsor Coordinator and Director. “The people at Velo Vie have been a pleasure to work with; going above and beyond to make things work for us. The team consensus is that with the Velo Vie Vitesse 300 in the line up, Mix1 will be the envy of the peloton!”

Source: Velo Vie

About Velo Vie
Velo Vie is an Arizona-based company that manufactures and sells high performance and racing bicycles direct online. Founded in 2006, Velo Vie offers highly customizable bicycle frames featuring Velo Vie™ Carbon Axis technology. Velo Vie offers consumers top quality components through its relationships with manufacturers such as Shimano, Campagnola, SRAM, Zipp, Fulcrum, Reynolds, Easton, Vision, Profile, Ritchey, FSA, Deda, Rolf, Time, Speedplay and Look. For more information about Velo Vie visit www.velovie.com . Contact info press@velovie.com or call 1-877-VELOVIE

RoadBikeReview is proud to announce the hiring of a Dedicated Site Manager for RoadBikeReview.com

RoadBikeReview has been growing steadily over the last year, and as such requires the full attention of a site manager.

Thien has a background in web development and cycling race coverage. He has taken photos and written articles for www.dailypeloton.com and was a forum administrator for the www.thepaceline.com.

Also, Thien is a dedicated road cycling enthusiast, and currently doesn’t even own a mountain bike (meaning that he isn’t a refugee from Mtbr.com, and that he has his focus on the road specific cycling world.).

Gregg Kato will still be around, concentrating on Mtbr.com, while Thien Dinh takes the RoadBikeReview ball and runs with it.

Welcome to the team, Thien!

-gregg kato and francis cebedo