I listened in on an archived USAT webinar this evening by Jesse Kropelnicki on Mental Fitness. I can’t relate the entire hour here but I will present some of the highlights. A previous webinar that I did from his selection covered the four fundamentals of athlete preparation: training, nutrition/rest, fueling and pacing. The 5th component

Due to rain I did these inside. I set my computer for 300 watts on the 2×12 and held that at around 80 rpms. I then did 3×5 at close to 30 and 1×3 at 317. I took pretty short breaks between all of these, 2-3 minutes. The problem inside is the cadence. That bike

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Last Cleves for 2016. Rode a 22:42, 90 rpms, 27.23 mph at 367 watts. A pretty average effort for the season. One more in Dayton in two weeks. Pretty balanced first and second half on the power with speed just slightly faster on the second half. That seemed to be the biggest issue this year….I

Today hundred mile ride started at our house in Gatlinburg, went to Newfound Gap, Clingmans Dome, Cherokee, NC, back to Newfound Gap, down to Sugarlands, out to Elkmont and then back to the house with 10,000′ of climbing

14 miles from Newfound Gap on the AT, to Sweat Heifer Creek to Grassy Gap to Dry Sluice and back on the AT near Charlies Bunion and back in on the AT

A rather uninspired effort tonight. Did well at 22:45, 27.2 mph but only held 355 watts. Had I put out more I might have had PR for the year but I only had one other rider with me at 5:30. it was essentially solo effort for both of us after two miles. I kept a

Used the crit course for these. Power for each 2 minute/30 second/one minute/one minute went as follows: 338/389/308/380, 337/409/312/383, and 335/390/304/395. The one minute at steady state was always a little low because of the second half being downhill.

After lifting Monday night, racing Tuesday night, and doing both classes yesterday I wasn’t expecting much today but these went fairly well. On the 60 second high cadence I held 117-120-118-118-119 (did one too many). On the 2 and 3 minute efforts with 3 minutes between I held 452/400, 431/393, 430/391. Still not hitting the