Alexis Ryan 100% stands on her own when it comes to accomplishments. With a win at Acht van Westerveld, second at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Ronde van Drenthe in 2018; along with third at Dwars der Vlaanderen in 2021 while racing for Canyon-SRAM you…

Seventy-five minutes of laughter, levity, cowboy hats, and some hot takes. It’s Lucas Bourgoyne and he’s 100% worth all of your time.  This week we are brought to you by the Hammerhead Karoo. Visit  right now and use promo code CRITNATION…

We are taking a step back in time to the original days of this podcast. Back in the heady days of 2018 and 2019, a team known as Elevate-KHS dominated the scene. Many of our guests, and even one host, came through that program, and even more were…

A discussion months in the making– have we reached peak crit? The data has been compiled and the takes are all hot. It’s time to give you the thesis and then let Allan Schroeder and Logan Jones Wilkins back it all up.  This week we are brought…

One of our favorite Women’s World Tour pros, and a true Canadian national treasure is back in the studio and ready to talk the Olympics, a full road and track season, and push-ups. So join Maggie Coles Lyster and Jordan Cheyne in this 100% pure maple…

Interview a classics PhD and another guest studying to get her PhD and you come up with intelligent titles with multi-tiers and meanings. The women of Work Hard Be Humble have risen, and turned what could have been the flaming wreck of a season into a…

The beauty of long-form journalism is that the person and the story evolve. You get to see and learn so much more because the time is dedicated, and we all end up better for it. The story of Chris Tolley is evolving and changing. The version that we…

Look up the road or at the front, that’s where you’ll find this week’s guest Michael Garrison of NICH +SpeedClub. Singlehandly he animated, disrupted, and changed the outcome of races like Tulsa Tough this year. In a sport built around the best teams…