When a young cyclist has won 10 consecutive national championships – basically dominating one discipline from 10 years old to 20 – convincing people that it's not his specialty can be an uphill battle.
Such is the case for 20-year-old Logan Owen, the Bremerton, Washington, native who has dominated US cyclo-cross in a way that only Katie Compton can match. But the young Axeon Cycling rider is determined this year to turn heads with his performance on the road.
“Everybody overlooks it,” Owen told Cyclingnews last month during the team's training camp in Agoura Hills, California.
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“They're like, 'Oh, you're really good at 'cross, you're strictly 'cross' and all that,” he said. “Honestly, I'm just as good on the road as I am at 'cross. It's just that nobody looks at my road results, like when I was a junior getting fourth at worlds, getting second at a Nations Cup stage race that was pretty hilly and hard, or getting some good results in time trials as a junior – just little things here and there. Yeah, I think it gets overlooked quite a bit.”
Owen first got into competitive cycling when he was just four years old, racing BMX after his dad took him to a local track and introduced him to the sport. A year later, 5-year-old Owen was testing Redline's new titanium frame. He eventually moved on to racing cyclo-cross and then road.
Owen started piling up US cyclo-cross national titles in 2005-2006 when he was just 10. Since then he's moved through four different age divisions and into the U23 ranks, winning another championship each year along the way. The most impressive jump from age group to age group came last year as a 19-year-old when he won his first U23 championship in Boulder, Colorado.
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