Don’t Forget Your Stuff!!

Race season is here, and with this comes travelling to the race site.  This could be across town or across the country, and this requires some organizing, pre-planning and thinking ahead.  Because what happens if you get to your destination without your stuff?  Well, depending on what you forgot you could be totally SOL!

I suggest [...]

The best part of cycling training is……

Cycling fatigue is like flu shot.  In order to effectively fight the flu, we first must be injected with a dose of it.  Our body adapts to it then is able to rebuff the flu when we’re exposed to it.

Similarly, we must expose ourselves to relatively high levels of exercise-induced stress to create fatigue.  Our [...]

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I’m celebrating my 5th Anniversary of coaching you, the endurance athlete.  And I’m thanking you by offering my premium level 1-1 coaching for a full 50% off!  Act quickly though, because this absolutely, positively ends at midnight, April 23, 2010.

Here is a listing of the key features of what you get as a part of [...]

Workout Wednesday – Spring Tempo Ride

The time to build your aerobic base, your aerobic engine is now, in the spring.   There are a couple different ways to accomplish this goal. 

Spend time in the saddle.  The long weekend rides at a “conversational” effort level are great for base building.

Shorter rides at this easy level can accomplish the same purpose, but a [...]

MN Ironman Prep – Step 3 – Clothing

Hey Riders.  Springtime in MN is a guarantee of unpredictable weather.  And nowhere is this more evident than at the MN Ironman Bike Ride.  It may be hot and sunny.  It may be cold.  It may be rainy (but it won’t be cold AND rainy like last year.  Let’s hope not anyway).  We may get [...]