A day at junior road cycling camp

Don’t let the teddy bear fool you.

It may have kept one of nearly 90 kids company at night, but during the day these young cyclists at junior road camp in Loveland, Colorado were anything but soft.

The youngest practiced drills over and over and rode into strong headwinds. The seventeen year-olds put in many miles on the road, wearing out their coaches and chaperones. As hard as they worked, they enjoyed time getting to know each other and making new friends in a sport that’s not the most popular on the block.

Read about one day at that late April camp weekend in this story published by USA Cycling.