By Coach Fred Matheny For the last 20+ years every March, I’ve coached at PAC Tour Training Camps in southern Arizona. We ride 60-125 miles per day for a week. If I train with consecutive longer rides on weekends beforehand, I feel pretty good at camp—but when I get home it catches up to me…
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By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Can cyclists improve and ride faster by following a diet that is low in carbohydrates and high in fat (LCHF)? Several popular sports magazines have carried articles advocating LCHF diets, even though at present there is no data to support this regimen for sports that require speed, including marathon running and…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Eating during and after long, intense workouts helps competitive bicycle racers recover faster from their workouts and therefore helps to make them stronger and faster. It is the intense workout that makes you stronger and faster, so the more rapidly you recover from an intense workout, the sooner you can take…
Editor’s Note: And now for something completely different. I was approached a while back by the Axeon Cycling Team about covering the team in some way. Founded in 2009 by former Belgian pro Axel Merckx, Axeon is a sort of “team in training” for aspiring pro riders. The team is known for taking in young talent (all…
