May. 22, 2008
The right food for bike racing and trainingEating before a ride, and the food choices and portions you consume can support your training efforts, especially for harder rides. With a little guidance and know-how for each type of training ride, your pre-ride meal can go towards providing you ...
May. 19, 2008
Training: The importance of a mid-season breakMost sports have a distinct off-season. For the super ambitious cyclist, there is a cycling medium for any time of year. Road and mountain bike racing goes all spring and summer, 'cross rages in the fall and winter, and with the sweet indoor ADT ...
May. 9, 2008
The Coach(ed) Corner: Using power meters to train for bicycle racing
Greetings. There’s been a lot going on these last two weeks, so I’m going to skip the snappy lead and get to it. Let’s start with some race talk.
I managed to get myself to the East Coast at the end of April for the sixth running of the ...
May. 7, 2008
The Feedzone: Eating right for stage racingMonique,During a stage race I feel like I have my pre-race and race and post race nutrition worked out and feel happy with that part of my fueling, but could you give me some advice on what to eat during the day after my race so that I'm at my ...
May. 6, 2008
How to be cool at races and in trainingIt’s hot here. Windy too.
I’m at the Tour of the Gila and a recurrent theme thus far is how hot, dry, and windy it is. Everyone is finishing with loads of salt on their faces and their clothing. There have been many heat casualties so far ...
Apr. 28, 2008
Tracking power: Reviewing Flèche Wallonne with Marco Pinotti
Marco Pinotti of Team High Road raced last week’s Flèche Wallonne classic in Belgium for the fourth time in his career, ...
Apr. 26, 2008
Pipp's Power, stage 6: Brasstown“In professional cycling, success is all about picking battles you can win," said Frank Overton, who coaches Health Net-Maxxis rider Frank Pipp, who is competing in the Tour de Georgia this week.
On Saturday's stage 6, which ended with the ...
Apr. 25, 2008
Balancing your bike training with — well, everything else.
Unless you get paid to ride your bike, there inevitably comes a time when life’s little complications get in the way of training and racing. Safe to say the last few weeks have been complicated.
First came a ski-endurance event called the ...
Apr. 18, 2008
Rick Crawford: heart monitoring is still key to trainingThese days, power is getting all the press. With all the power measuring gizmos and fancy analysis software, power has taken over as the main parameter to track. It’s absolutely absolute. It’s like having a dynamometer on your dashboard, ...
Apr. 16, 2008
The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: First-quarter checkupYour tax refund is in the mail, spring is finally here, and the first quarter of the 2008 racing season is finished. Now is a good time to check on your progress and move your nutritional goals up on the priority list to ensure that they are ...
Apr. 11, 2008
Indoor fun, and the coach takes questions
As a general rule, cycling is a game best played outdoors. There’s more room to roam, sights to see and places to go. But there are also exceptions to every rule, which is certainly the case in this case.
Bad weather, short days and any number ...
Apr. 4, 2008
Power at lactate threshold wins racesCompetitive cyclists are not patient people. They tend to go directly to the pain, work too hard too early, and mistakenly overlook the real limiter of their performance simply because it doesn’t hurt enough to satisfy their addiction to pain. ...
