JANUARY
1
Want a cycling makeover for the new year? Of course you do. Check out tips on how to improve your fitness, diet and skills on the bike for 2020 on p.30.
16-26
While columnist Bart Egnal may get a gentle dig at the Tour Down Under (p.11), there’s a lot of action to dig in Australia. The women’s race starts on the 16th and finishes on the 19th, the same day as the men kick things off. Everything wraps up with a finish on the famous Willunga Hill on Jan. 26.
17-19
The fourth annual Western Track Challenge takes to the boards of the Burnaby Velodrome. Riders, in under-17 to masters categories, compete in races that include sprint, keirin and snowball, a variation of a points race.
24-26
Even though 200-m-sprint world-record holder Kelsey Mitchell has been training at Mattamy National Cycling Centre and living in Milton, Ont., since summer 2018, she hasn’t yet competed in a World Cup on her home track. She plans to change that when the uci track cycling World Cup returns to Canada. Read more about Mitchell on p.6.
30 -Feb 2
The uci paracycling track world championships come to the Mattamy National Cycling Centre. Top Canadian athletes, such as Tristen Chernove – already a multiple world champion – Ross Wilson and Keely Shaw, will be vying for rainbow jerseys at home.