Will be meeting with Dawn Weatherwax and Dr. Barbara Walker re a training summit this winter. Haven’t done one in a few years but the last couple we did were well attended. We’ll gear this one towards endurance athletes and not jus cyclists. I’ll also be working with Morgans on their triathlon and mud gauntlet

Had some great questions from a young rider (20 something) from TX re adding in some CX endurance rides and how that would impact training for the upcoming road race season later in the winter and into the spring. Here was my reply: That really is about it. I’m not opposed to the time of

I saw these in the January 2015 edition of Outside Magazine: Altitude training improves performance at sea level: unless you’re also racing at altitude the benefits are negligible and questionable; spending money on the altitude tent might be better allocated elsewhere mental training is only for the pro’s: visualizing your performance, in a good way,

Just found out yesterday that I passed the 75 multiple choice, ten short essay and two training plan design test that we took home from the Lexington, KY clinic. While not planning to do any tri’s myself I do work with several people participating so I thought getting certified wouldn’t hurt. USAT seems like a

Todys 8 minute efforts with 4 minutes between were 339, 350, 350 and 352. The first effort is always a warmup. I set the CycleOps to 340 watts. Effort two and three I went right to 350 from the start. The fourth effort I rode 2:30 at 340, 2:30 at 350 and then 3:00 at

Will be trying to hold about 350 on these or about 4.5 watts/kg. Solo in the basement is always more of a challenge than outside, at least mentally. Power actually doesn’t change much but the time seems to go much slower inside. I always try to pick two songs that last about 4 minutes so

Had a break from the long tempo’s with 4×8 steady states. Hadn’t done these in a while but held 338, 344, 349 and 352. HR was hovering around 165 near the end of the last two so pushed above LT a little.

from the Carmichael Training System email on December 2, 2014 Chris, I’m relatively new to triathlon and to serious training. Over the past several months I’ve been making steady progress, and recently I’ve noticed that I’ve started sweating more. The conditions (temp and humidity) are about the same as they’ve been, but I’m sweating a

sent to me by a friend every morning…thought this was a good one to pass on Thought of the Day Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, Is this all? And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, Actually,

Had that very question from a client. Here is my reply: Good question. It is much more efficient to stay in the saddle when climbing unless you’re after that short bust of power to break away or just to change position on the climb. When you hop out of the saddle you’re calling on more