For Sepp Kuss, the 22-year-old climbing sensation who will be starting his second year with Rally Cycling this weekend at Vuelta a Murcia, the 2017 season will almost seem like a vacation.
Kuss, an accomplished mountain biker who moved to full-time road racing last year, signed with the US Continental team mid-season after upsetting the apple cart at the Redlands Bicycle Classic by winning the Oak Glen queen stage ahead of Lachlan Morton (now with Dimension Data) and Janier Acevedo (now with Unitedhealthcare).
The promotion to pro racing created a busy schedule for Kuss, who is also pursuing an advertising degree from Colorado University in Boulder and interned for Warren Miller Films in the fall.
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"I got to work on their film tour, doing some marketing and advertising stuff for them," Kuss told Cyclingnews last month at the team's training camp in Southern California. "That was super interesting. It was a busy fall doing that. I had 17 credits and then the internship. It was pretty busy, but I enjoyed it."
Kuss was also racing with the USA Cycling development program at the end of last season, trying to add more European experience to his cycling resume. Now he's got just two online courses to manage before an expected early graduation in May, and he's ready to turn all his focus toward racing.
Unlike last season, when Kuss started his year at regional US races with an elite amateur team, his 2017 campaign will throw him into the deep end of the pool in Europe with some of the World's top teams.
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