zerailleur.com / Zach Bell

Well I know I said I was going to do a blog a day after I finished racing but to be honest there just has not been the time…I have been to the Great Wall on a day that was covered in mist and rain…I have had noodles in the basement of a random building […]

So I am almost exactly 24 hours until I depart for the track for my first race of the olympics. Not sure what to think…I am happy for th huge outpour of support and I have had the best prep I could have hoped for with the resources available. I feel ready to […]

The flight went smooth and I finally have arrived here at the games and other than me not having ANY team kit waiting for me when I arrived (some how I was not on the list…any list) everything is going smoothly. This will be a bit of a report on the state of things […]

I leave for Beijing in about 45min and the last 48 hours has been a little restless and a little full of emotion. I am VERY glad I watched the opening ceremonies from the comfort of my hotel room…there was a lot of stuff I just would not have seen as an athlete there…although […]

A great day of training at the end of a hard block today…We have a few days on the track well on the track every day actually. Speeding around behind the moto and bleeding through our lungs and eyes. Sport is fun. We have been testing out the equipment and making sure […]

So we are here in switzerland and all the stories about this place are pretty much true. The center is amazing everything you could ever need for any cycling dicipline and it is all laid out with the legendary swiss precision. The track is like a Mini world Cup track…everything is just scaled […]

Things are finally starting to come together, I can view all my prep left for the games on one or 2 pages. The interesting thing is it is much different than a lot of the the things I have done in the past. I have a track bike built up with a […]

So I have had a pretty good super week all and all…since my last post there have been 4 days for days of racing and the results have been 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd….and I won the over all of the Tour de Delta for teh 2nd year in a row. Here is the ting…with […]

so I have been inching closer to the top of the results sheet and honestly it is a good thing but I would be lying if I said I was not finding things a little frustrating. I got 3rd in the National Time trial Championships again this year. This is great considering I […]

Training camp #1 started this week in T Town at the Valley Preferred Velodrome in PA. (www.thevelodrome.com) And it has been a hard go. We started the week right off the plane wih 500m efforts…(30 sec all out) And that just about generated a barf factory. Normally I don’t […]