About two years ago I had a coach call me with some questions regarding the USA Cycling coaches program. At the end of the conversation he left me an interesting comment. He must have been talking to some athletes that I was coaching or had coached and he told me that having them do intervals […]

While it used to seem that mosts cyclists didn’t want to spend time in the gym because they incorrectly thought it would add un-needed weight to their body or they thought the time would be better spent on the bike I can tell you that the trend is towards using the gym to improve cycling

As we head into the off season we will most likely be reducing the time we spend on the bike due to decreased daylight and lousy weather. If that is the case, you’ll also be burning fewer calories per day. This is fine as long as you also reduce your caloric intake. Now be honest,

I rode my last time trial at Cleves last Tuesday. I’ll miss the last one this upcoming Tuesday and missed two others, one in July and one in August. All in all, I think rode 18 at Cleves, one in Dayton, states, nationals, and a few others. Thats a lot of high intensity efforts over

I love riding to Clingmans Dome. From our chalet in Gatlinburg its about 26 miles each way. Other than the initial mile and a half into town and the mile descent before the final ascent a few miles from the top, its all uphill starting 1400′ and ending at 6300′. My best time from the

During the summer of 2009, we had only four days above 90, and two of those were on consecutive days in early September. During the month of July in 2009, we never even met the average daily high for any day. The summer of 2010 has actually been closer to an average summer for our

You do have to wonder why we keep going back to this event. I think they could do a watts/kg test on everyone and just hand out the medals. They charge us $85 plus an extra $20 for day-off race number pick-up so we’re over $100 to kill ourselves on a course that usually seems

So we’ve had 7 time trials at Cleves and the state championship already this season. Oddly enough I rode my best time at Cleves so far this year on the second week when I snuck into the 21’s at 21:58. My two slowest have been the last two weeks at 22:38. The second week was

So does all of your winter training, all of those tempo efforts, steady states, and power intervals hammered in the basement while watching “Shawshank Redemption” for the tenth time, come down to your results in the first race of the season? Thankfully, no. Its a long season and the first event should be used as

I like to update my training every year not only to keep it interesting but also to take my time trial performance to new levels, hopefully. Here are a few things I’m doing for 2010: 1. Visit a Sports Psychologist: Dr. Barbara Walker at the Center for Human Performance is one of our QCW team