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Registration is now open for a Base Endurance Road and Education Camp at PCC from November 3 - 5. The camp will be held in Victoria, BC and led by Head Coach Houshang Amiri. The focus will be to prepare athletes for the upcoming season…

After years of dedication, first as a junior and then as an elite cyclist, Holly Simonson won her first national title on Monday at the 2023 Nationals in the criterium. She and her teammate Emily Flynn had been racing crits for the LA Sweat…

Last weekend PCC coached cyclists competed in the BC Road Race and ITT Provincial Championships in Langley, BC. Two athletes came away with provincial crowns. In the Junior Women category Kimberly Chen was 1st in the road race, following…

PCC held its pre-season training camp last weekend in Victoria in unseasonably cold, wintery weather. But it proved to be perfect mental and physical preparation for the spring race season. Snow arrived on the first day of the camp and…

  Last weekend PCC completed its second pre-season camp in Victoria. The camp was planned and structured to provide on opportunity for benchmarking the participants current aerobic fitness in a group training setting. This enabled…

Pacific Cycling Centre will host its second training camp of the season from January 20 -22, 2023. The camp will be held in Victoria, BC and led by Head Coach Houshang Amiri. The focus will be building on the skills and endurance learnt…

PCC Masters athlete Renate Walton recently won the Individual Pursuit at the 2022 World Championships in Los Angeles making her a new 70-74 age group World Champion. A few days later she won a silver medal in the 500m ITT. Here is her story. My…

  Congratulations to Holly Simonson for winning the keirin and for placing 4th in the scratch race at the Vision GP last weekend. Good luck to all PCC athletes at the BC Provincial Track Championships this weekend at the Westshore…

Congratulations to Holly Simonson for winning bronze in the criterium at the Canadian National Road Championships on Sunday in Edmonton. It was an exciting race with several breakaways at the front and the lead riders not decided until the…

PCC Head Coach has been featured on Fast Talk Laboratories latest podcast. Fast Talk is hosted by Trevor Connor, who Houshang coached at Victoria's National Cycling Centre. He discusses Gran Fondo pacing, how steady state riders can build…

Tripleshot Cycling in partnership with 94Forward invite applications from U23 / development level road riders to attend a three-session coached clinic focused on developing road skills and fitness in advance of the upcoming road season.…

Pacific Cycling Centre is offering purchase options for its team training kit in time for the Christmas Season. Designed by Jakroo Canada the kit features a cycling jersey, thermal jersey, pro bib shorts, wind vest, arm warmers, leg warmers…

PCC Camps are back! Registration is now open for the Base Endurance Camp - the first camp of the 2021-2022 season. Dates are December 2 - 5, 2021. Information and Registration

PCC coached athletes took part in the Canadian Road National Championships in Saint-Georges, Quebec from September 10-12th. For many athletes this was the first time they had competed in a provincial or national race in two years because…

PCC’s Holly Henry has just returned from Europe where she has been competing with her team, InstaFund. Holly signed with InstaFund Racing early in the season competing in early July in the Boise Twilight Criterium in Boise, Idaho. She…

The last Windsor Park Criterium of the season took place on Sunday and two U19 PCC-coached athletes – Parker Swanstrom and Luke Hubner – placed first and second in Category A. It was an exciting race with a fast field. Three laps…

After 17 months away from racing PCC athletes are back racing. They pinned on their numbers on Wednesday, July 14th, at the Victoria Cycling League's first road race, Newton Heights. Alex Amiri took the win in the men's A category, while…

With BC now into Return to Sport Restart 2.0 Pacific Cycling Centre athletes are back training as a group on the track and road. PCC will be following the guidelines as posted by ViaSport on indoor and outdoor sport. Track sessions are…

PCC coached rider Zoe Saccio successfully rode her first virtual race with the Echelon Racing League last weekend. On Saturday was the Virtual Indy Crit and Sunday the Dirty Reiver Road Race. These were staged on the racing platform RGT…

Pacific Cycling Centre has revealed its 2021 team training kit. Designed by Jakroo Canada the kit features a cycling jersey, thermal jersey, pro bib shorts, wind vest, arm warmers, leg warmers and a neck wrap. Prices are discounted by 20%…

With a new season comes the return of the Saturday group rides for PCC athletes.  Riders, under the guidance of the Pacific Cycling Centre head coach, meet and ride for four-six hours around Victoria. The first ride was on Saturday, November…

PCC athlete Holly Henry competed in the Burnt Bridge Gravel Fondo last weekend in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. This annual cycling classic had to adapt its format because of the COVID-19 restrictions with wave starts and a time trial…

Just under two weeks ago Alex Amiri and Caleb Bender successfully completed their Everesting for MS. Alex reflects back on the day and how the idea originated. A few weeks ago I reached out to a friend of mine, Caleb Bender and pitched the…

After winning a bronze medal at the Track Cycling World Cup early in the year PCC Athlete Amiel Flett-Brown had big plans for road and track racing in 2020, but COVID-19 put a stop to all that. It’s taken me a little longer to put together…

A forced winter training schedule allowed PCC Athlete Caleb Bender to do time on his indoor trainer. But now back in Victoria he is getting back into a routine and planning a mammoth challenge. The past four months have been eventful to say…

In another post in our Training during a Pandemic series PCC athlete Brenna Pauly, found the time to explore trails and rack up mega miles on her bike. While the last few months have redefined the meaning of “normal”, it has been easy…

PCC athletes are sharing their experiences on how they are dealing with the pandemic and what adaptations they have made to their training. Here is Zoe Saccio. This was my first year Red Truck Racing, and I was looking forward to a busy…

Cycling BC has released its Return to Play Guidelines for resuming Cycling BC sanctioned events for its members and clubs.   https://cyclingbc.net/news/2020/06/04/cycling-bc-releases-return-to-play-guidelines/

PCC’s Caleb Bender was training in Tucson last month. Here is his report and an update since he returned to Canada. Reporting post ride, shower, and recovery meal, at the time of writing (before current events created the necessity…

Olympian Svein Tuft has hung up his professional cleats to concentrate on creating memorable cycling experiences. Tuft’s Adventure Tours is offering single or multi-day gravel bike touring in Andorra. Two five-day camps in March and…

Pacific Cycling Centre is offering athletes an opportunity to register for a Performance Training Camp in March which has an option to prepare and race the Aldergrove Long Road Race on March 29 in Langley, BC. The camp has two four-day options…

PCC athlete Amiel Flett-Brown is competing at the World Cup Track Championships in Milton this weekend. He was selected after his solid performances at the Canadian Track Nationals. He has been training at Milton for the last four weeks…

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has sent out a reminder to the Canadian sport community that the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2020 Prohibited List came into effect January 1, 2020. See their media release here. …

Pacific Cycling Centre coached athlete Alex Amiri will be racing for Team California in 2020, a Domestic Elite Cycling Team based in Northern California. Amiri rode with them for a short time earlier this year taking a podium spot at the…

Pacific Cycling Center kicked off the 2019-20 season with its first training camp from October 25-27. The camp started with a two-hour presentation by Coach Houshang Amiri on Friday Oct 25th focusing on planning and nutrition. “In past…

PCC athletes had a successful BC Track Championship last weekend in Victoria – over 40 podium finishes were recorded by nine athletes. Holly Simonson came away with seven medals – three gold, two silver and two bronze. Parker Swanstrom…

PCC coached athletes Micaiah Besler and Caleb Bender competed in the Western Canada Summer Games in Swift Current, Saskatchewan from August 9 – 18 and came away with some notable podium performances. With six provinces and territories participating…

PCC coached athlete Zoe Saccio competed in the 2019 USA Track Nationals last week in California and won a bronze medal in the individual pursuit. This was a remarkable result for the Vancouver-based young American as she has only been racing…

PCC’s Alex Amiri will be spending the summer in Europe riding for 303 Project, a US based UCI Continental Team. Alex, who has having one of his best ever season’s, left for Europe after riding for Cycling BC in the Tour…

Pacific Cycling Centre (PCC) is excited to announce that new applications are now being accepted for on-line and Victoria-based athletes for the 2019/2020 Development and High-Performance Development Programs. The 2018 season was another…

Eight PCC athletes competed in the Tour de Bloom Stage Race last weekend, which resulted in a GC win for Caleb Bender, his first Tour win, and a third place for Holly Simonson in the final road race. The race was a three-day cycling event…

PCC athletes excelled at the Tour of Walla Walla last weekend in Washington. Holly Simonson and Brenna Pauly rode the four-stage race for Team Red Truck and Holly recorded a win on the second stage. The weekend started with the Wilson…

PCC Athletes have been on the road and this past weekend achieved some notable results. Caleb Bender competed in the Bare Bones Track Race in the Burnaby Velodrome and on Saturday won the Men B-Omnium race.  Hailing from Saskatchewan, Caleb…

Pacific Cycling Centre held their annual February road camp from February 20-24 in Greater Victoria.  The five-day camp took place during university reading break allowing most PCC-trained athletes to take part. The camp provided on excellent…