Category: Training

If you ride anywhere in the western states, contending with poor air quality during the summer months is a training reality.  Emissions, wood smoke, ozone, they all contribute to a less than ideal environment for riding.

If you’ve recently signed up for a cycling tour you might be unsure about how best to prepare.  In this post we’ll lay out a clear training strategy to make sure you arrive at your tour with fresh legs and enough fitness to propel you to a strong finish.

Unless your name is Peter Sagan or Eddy Mercx, you will lose 99.9% of the bike races that you start.  Failure in sport is inevitable, but it is also an important part of developing as an athlete and ultimately achieving your goals.  Read on to find out how failure fits in to your development as an athlete.

What Powers Your Sprint?

Your body has three energy systems that power movement. These are the oxidative, glycolytic, and ATP-Pcr systems, each of which serves a unique role in fueling your sprint performance [1].

Power data has transformed what it means to both describe and prescribe effort.  Training lexicon like Functional Threshold Power (FTP) enables intensity prescription down to the watt while providing a language to describe cycling performance in great detail [1].