New Stages SC3 ordered

I just ordered this from our shop sponsor, Montgomery Cyclery. I’ve been using the CycleOps Indoor 400 for a long time, probably 60,000+ miles inside in 10 years. The old Joule 3 died a while back and the Joule 2 just isn’t as user friendly. This Stages bike looks like a huge upgrade. And I

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Blue Streak

I had pretty good ride. Overall power was 368, cadence 89 and speed at 27.32 on a windy cool night. The first 5.5 miles was at 28.25/371 and the second 4.5 at 26.8/366. Power was;t too far off my best efforts of the year (371). Not a super fast night but felt strong. I did

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Mental Fitness

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

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Steady States

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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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

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

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Smoky Mountain Century

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

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