August 4, 2022 Anti-Aging: Why “Drink Before You’re Thirsty” is Dangerous By Coach John Hughes My client Jack was on a fast cross-country tour: 2750 miles in just 20 days. Seven days into the tour he started riding poorly although he had plenty of training miles in his legs. His buddies noticed he wasn’t urinating at…
July 28, 2022 Anti-Aging Ask the Coach: How to Train for Endurance By Coach John Hughes Joe Lowry writes, “I’m 64 years old, in good health and have been physically active including riding bikes off and on my entire adult life. I have been riding for about two months and built up to riding 28 miles…
July 21, 2022 Anti-Aging: Max Heart Rate – A Coach’s View By Coach John Hughes When I started racing ultra-distance in the 1980s riders were just starting to use heart rate monitors. Now they’re ubiquitous. Healthline just published a review The 10 Best Heart Rate Monitor Watches of 2022. Some of the fancier so-called smart…
July 14, 2022 Anti-Aging: Ride Like the Pros – Train in the Sweet Spot By Coach John Hughes Riding like the pros means climbing better you did than last year. Or increasing your cruising speed. It doesn’t mean averaging over 40 km/h (25 mph) for a multi-hour ride. Or having a killer sprint. Although most…
June 30, 2022 Anti-Aging: Preventing Bonking with Daily Nutrition By Coach John Hughes Last week I responded to a question by RBR reader Brian W., “I have been riding on and off for about 35 years. I am 54. I frequently “bonk” after about an hour. It doesn’t matter if I am doing a moderate…
