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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

did this as basically one solid hour effort with just a few breaks for lights; avg 305, NP 320 for the entire ride; felt great even with having done my early morning spin and circuit classes

The Rules of Rest By Jason Gootman and Will Kirousis Do you ever watch nature shows and notice how much time the wild animals sit around doing nothing? Do you ever wonder how your “lazy” house cat, Frisky, can jump 10 body lengths up onto the windowsill? Sure, his body is constructed for that kind

rode my 8am spin (lots of upper end endurance range, some steady state and tempo for short efforts) and then did my 9am circuit class followed by these tempos efforts outside on the local crit course dodging some snow and ice but with temps in the 30’s; held 325 and 323

Rode a 14:35, tied for my best ever and where I finished last winter in February. Power on the CompuTrainer showed 380, my Stages showed 389 or so. I forgot to hit it at the end of the effort, as usual. Cadence at 97 and HR avg at 168. If my 100% effort would be

Hi Peter, Thanks for talking to me this afternoon as it was very motivating. It is good to hear that you think that I am on track with my progress. It is also very interesting to get your perspective on the different training exercises that you have me doing on a regular basis and what

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe,” Abraham Lincoln once said. Many cyclists embody that axiom and believe that success correlates directly with volume of preparation. But while success often comes to those that train the hardest, the axe of preparation cuts both