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Training Plan for 2013

A couple of days ago my coach sent me a week by week outline for my 2013 training with the state time trial, senior olympics, and track and road nationals being the A races. We also talked about scaling back on the weekly local time trials. Last year I rode over 35 events with about

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Your Brain on a Bike

Your Brain on a Bike, by John Brent Pye, is recently published book about how to be mentally prepared to achieve optimum performance. I’m about 2/3 of the way through the 130 plus pages. I’ll eventually be writing a review for the QCW website that I’ll post here. I worked with Dr.Barbara Walker from the

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The Rest Helped

After last weeks two days of 4×12 steady states and some circuit and spin classes all clustered in three days I rode pretty easy over the weekend. Sunday was an off day with four more of the 12 minute efforts scheduled for Monday. The wattage held on the steady states yesterday was 322, 324, 325

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Book Review

Your Brain on a Bike (Cool Gus Publishing 2012) by John Brent Pyre Without fail every Tuesday from May through September at the Cleves Time Trial Series as we’re sending off riders to battle the 10.25 mile course we hear any of the following: “This is the first time I’ve had this bike out all

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