In last week’s QT, I talked about my own recent experience where my Rx cycling sunglasses got so foggy and nasty that I could no longer see out of them – forcing me to try, for the first time ever, riding without any visual aid. It worked on the group ride I was doing…
How Exercise Protects You Every cell in your body is like a balloon full of fluid. A high rise in blood sugar after eating causes sugar to stick to the outer surface membranes of cells. Once there, sugar cannot get off the cell. It is eventually converted to sorbitol that destroys the cell to cause…
Since then, those diaries have piled up on my office shelf. The spiral notebook gave way to crude weekly pages run off on a copy machine and collected in a 3-ring binder. In the last 20 years, I’ve adopted Joe Friel’s Cyclist’s Training Diary from VeloPress. These missals record anything pertinent: resting heart rate, body…
Jack’s training so far for this season has included: Preseason – The last part of 2014 riding at least four days a week and doing physical therapy to rehab an old injury before the main season begins. Base – Five weeks of endurance training. The key workouts were twice-a-week aerobic capacity intervals ridden at moderate intensity so…
Answer at https://www.roadbikerider.com/question-of-week , where you can also find an archive of previous poll results. This week’s Question is based on Coach Fred’s 40 years of keeping a training diary. Please Send Us Your Questions! Coming up with a new poll every week is – believe it or not – one of the harder things I…
