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May. 23, 2008VeloNews' exclusive lab rat reports on his progress the night before a big race.
I’m going to go against the norm this week and start with the bad news. Right now I’m sitting in the Steaming Bean coffee shop in rainy Durango, Colorado, one day out from what is supposed to be my first A-priority event of the 2008 season, ...
May. 22, 2008The right food for bike racing and training
Eating 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, 2008Training: The importance of a mid-season break
Most 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, 2008The 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, 2008The Feedzone: Eating right for stage racing
Monique,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, 2008How to be cool at races and in training
It’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, 2008Tracking 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, 2008Pipp'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, 2008Balancing 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, 2008Rick Crawford: heart monitoring is still key to training
These 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, 2008The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: First-quarter checkup
Your 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, 2008Indoor 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, 2008Power at lactate threshold wins races
Competitive 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. ...
Mar. 28, 2008The lab rat is loose
You know the guy who couldn’t pass a calculus exam even if the fate of the human race depended on it, but who can count blackjack cards like one of those brainy MIT kids or Rain Man? Well, I guess don’t really either, but I do know I am not that ...
Mar. 26, 2008The Feedzone with Monique Ryan — Fat as fuel
Hi Monique,I really enjoy your column and informative responses. My question revolves around the slippery slope of weight management. A big challenge for me is maintaining lean body mass once the season gets started; when the intensity of the ...
Mar. 7, 2008A conversation with Scott Nydam
Scott Nydam attacked early in the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California last month, spending a long and lonely day off the front of the ...
Mar. 3, 2008Spring Forward to Race Intensity
March is here and your first race may be just around the corner, if you haven’t already toed the line. This is the time of year when intensity must inevitably increase as part of your preparation for the demands of racing. Hard, yet focused, ...
Feb. 27, 2008The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Protect your heart this season
Cardiovascular disease is still the number one killer in this country, a contributor to heart attacks, high blood pressure, and strokes. Of course, regular exercise and training is good for your heart and raises the helpful HDL cholesterol, but you ...
Feb. 13, 2008Training Stress Score (TSS)- defined
Training Stress Score (TSS)- The TSS represents a calculated number that takes into account the duration and intensity of a workout to arrive at a single score of the overall training load and physiological stress created by that session. One hour ...
Feb. 12, 2008Powering up for the Tour of California
It is often said that races are won - and lost - in the off season. One thing is certain: The rider who steps to the top of the podium on the last day of 2008 Tour of California has surely been training with rock-solid focus over these past few ...
Jan. 30, 2008The Feedzone with Monique Ryan - Nutrition trends for 2008
Before your thoughts turn to experimentation with new sports nutrition products and carbo-loading strategies that support your training and racing efforts, let’s take a look at some predicted food and nutrition trends for 2008. In the coming ...
Jan. 24, 2008USOC hosting women's leadership meet
A group of roughly two-dozen women will converge on the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs on Friday to learn what they can do to encourage female leadership in cycling. They will be exposed to information from an impressive slate of ...
Jan. 12, 2008Year-end review: Power analysis tips
Happy New Year! 2008 is here and it’s time to capitalize upon your 2007 training files and training log entries. For those of you who didn’t keep a training log in 2007, this is your chance to get started. Reviewing your 2007 training ...
Dec. 23, 2007Time for camp: Lotto heads to Spain
It’s that time of year for roadies. This month, many of the world’s top professional teams have made the move to warmer climes to reassess their 2007 campaigns and to get ready for the coming season. In Spain, the seaside resort community of ...
Dec. 19, 2007Keeping a handle on holiday havoc
So here you are in the middle of December and perhaps you already have a few holiday parties under your belt. How many rides or workouts have you already missed this month due to the change in season and a busy schedule? Don’t feel that all is ...
Nov. 21, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Eat right for 'cross
Cyclocross season is well underway, and as competitors you likely have adjusted your training for the short, but very high intensity racing. Your workouts are likely characterized by various interval sessions, while endurance and recovery ride ...
Oct. 17, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Building better bones
Osteoporosis prevention and treatment has long focused mainly on women. It is true that men build larger and stronger bones early in life and are less likely to develop this disease, which is characterized by less dense, brittle bone mass more ...
Oct. 3, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: That cuppa Joe
Dear Monique, Thanks for a great article titled “Feed Your Head.” I have one question though concerning the following statement:Research on ...
Aug. 29, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Feed your head
Cyclists rightfully focus their dietary attention on consuming the properfoods in adequate amounts so that they can sustain energy during long trainingrides, and replenish muscle fuel stores and recover nutritionally duringthe season. But you ...
Aug. 23, 2007Ask the Doctor: The medical risks of doping
In June I discussed my concern regarding psychological effects of use of performance enhancing drugs. I had also heard from some of the riders about medical injuries ...
Aug. 8, 2007Ask the Doctor: Ryan Cox and iliac artery endofibrosis
Barloworld’s Ryan Cox died on August 1st from complications related to his recent surgery to treat a condition known as iliac artery endofibrosis. Since the death of the ...
Aug. 1, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Good fats, bad fats and achieving balance
Dear Monique,I just read your column about fish. I don’t eat fish for many reasons, some of which you mentioned in your article. I didn’t hear you mention flaxseed oil, which surprised me because I am told that it is a great alternative to ...
Jun. 20, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Nutrition planning for an important race
With the race season now in full view, it is time to map out your nutrition strategy for important races (and the less important races for good practice). Whether you are planning on completing a long road race, criterium, cross-country mountain ...
Jun. 12, 2007Ask the Doctor: The surprising dual toll of doping
An open dialogue about the problem of doping has been, up to this point, the third rail of cycling. Touch it and you die. The culture insists that anyone wishing to continue working in the sport remain silent on the issue, which perpetuates the ...
Jun. 6, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Sweat, salt and fish
Dear Monique,In your April 25th column (More prepping for long rides), you mentionweighing before and after a ride. Is the weight differential entirely fluidor food in the stomach? Can you say a bit more about this differential?Should riders ...
May. 9, 2007The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Is CLA helpful and necessary?
Dear Monique,I just finished reading large sections of your book, which I find fantasticand will highly recommend to friends. With regards to supplements, onethat I take, but did not see mentioned is conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).Any thoughts ...