Our guest DJ this week is the Swiss Missle, Walter Durrer. The time trial specialist races locally for the Matador Elite Masters cycling team and is a multi-time podium finisher at both the US and Swiss Masters Road Nationals. Those podiums include a Swiss Road Race National Championship in 2018 and a couple of silver medals in both countries. His favorite bike is a Specialized Shiv although he has threatened to sell it after several hard TTs.

Walter does a lot of very specific trainer workouts and uses music to keep his cadence in check although he doesn’t always approve of iTunes’ suggestions. “The playlists I listen to during indoor training are all cadence based, trying to rotate intervals between 80s,90’s and 00s cadence. (a foreign concept to iTunes as they keep suggesting Britney Spears to my 90’s playlist ).”
Check out his playlist below.

Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant

Much like New Belgium Brewing, the Rio is synonymous with Fort Collins cycling. Patrick McGaughran, the owner of all five Colorado Rios opened the first restaurant here in Fort Collins in 1986. He first sponsored an elite road team in 1999. His title sponsorship of that team continues nearly 25 years later and has catapulted riders like Tejay van Garderen, Chad Haga and Mara Abbot into the World Tour. In addition to the elite road team, Pat has advertised on YGR since 2009 (my second…

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