Training: Top Stories
Oct. 3, 2008Cyclocross racing tips from Coach Neal Henderson: the key is to keep looking ahead
Greetings from seat 15B of Continental flight 34, Denver to Houston. It’s leg No. 1 of a two-flight journey that will deposit me in Chihuahua, Mexico, a few days ahead of next week’s seven-stage Vuelta a Chihuahua.
I can’t tell you a whole ...
Oct. 1, 2008Nutritionist Monique Ryan shares some meal plans and thoughts about cyclocross nutrition.
Cyclocross season has begun and your race calendar is set. Your diet may require a few adjustments for the shorter, but often very high intensity rides. Fueling and hydration strategies may also need adjustment for cooler weather training, and a ...
Sep. 20, 2008Training Diary: Reporting on Lance Armstrong and riding Pearl Pass
It was a weekend of great contrast here in the land of the coached.
The latest adventure started in Crested Butte last Friday when I got a call from the VeloNews edit desk. Turned out one Lance Armstrong was going to be racing near Aspen ...
Sep. 5, 2008Jason Sumner finishes his summer with an epic.
I’d like to tell you that this week’s headline refers to a late-summer triumph here on the ultra-competitive Boulder road racing circuit, but I can’t. No mountain bike wins either. Not even a lotto scratch ticket.
What I can say is that ...
- Aug. 29, 2008A successfull 'cross season begins now.
Editor's Note: The following column was written by Matt Shriver, an Exercise Specialist and Senior Level Coach with Colorado Premier Training. He also is a professional cyclist ...
- Aug. 13, 2008The Evolution of Aero
I remember a hot, muggy day in Savannah, Georgia, way back in 1983. The state time trial was an event I had looked forward to for a long time. I had trained really hard for it, and always enjoyed the test against the clock. This particular year, I ...
Jul. 25, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner:
The headline says it all. After a seven-day flogging at the BC Bike Race, it’s been R&R time here in the land of the coached. I took a week off after the race and am just now starting to crank it up again.
The 330-mile mountain bike stage ...
Jul. 14, 2008Reading your blood
We live in an age of amazing technology. So amazing it is, in fact, that it takes much of the guesswork and mystery out of our daily lives, for an ever decreasing cost. Things that we may have never known about ourselves, like the regular status of ...
- Jul. 8, 2008Bicycle riding nutrition: losing that last 20 pounds.
The extra 20 pounds
Hi Monique,
I enjoyed your article in the recent VeloNews (May 22, 2008) about nutrition for cyclists. A lot of what you discussed I was already doing (learned from trial and error over my riding career of 25 ...
Jul. 4, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner: BC Survival Camp
I’m going to start this week’s column with an extended photo caption. On the left is Andreas Hestler, professional mountain bike racer and member of the Rocky Mountain Bicycles team. On Thursday, he and partner Max Paxton grabbed the stage 6 win ...
- Jun. 27, 2008Circles: Wasting energy in an energy challenged world
First the disclaimer: this is not a typical training article. This is more of a rant that I have been dying to get out there in the public domain. It does involve training, but it’s more of a statement, so please bear with me.
With gas prices ...
Jun. 23, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner: Any way you slice it, surgery sucks
Two words you never want to hear from your doctor: hernia surgery.
Alas, that was the crux of a conversation I had with my physician about two months ago. The diagnosis was an inguinal hernia, meaning a small portion of my intestine was bulging ...
