By Martin Sigrist As you may have gathered from previous articles, I’m a huge fan of training with power. However it’s not perfect. It has one major drawback, one that I have experienced and one that I find it very hard to overcome. It’s a variant on the obvious one: addiction to numbers. My degree…
By Kevin Kolodziejski Michelle Kwan knows what we’re all about. She’s the former ice skater who won 5 World Championships and 9 total World Championship medals over a period of 12 years. During that time, Kwan also earned silver and bronze medals at the Winter Olympic Games.
By Greg Conderacci In an earlier article, we talked about the magic of “Flow,” that wonderful state (on or off the bike) that is so absorbing that you lose track of time, terrain and headwinds and glide along effortlessly. That’s probably what Lance Armstrong was describing when he said it felt like the bike had…
By Greg Conderacci “Flow” – that wonderful high you get when the bike seems to be rolling effortlessly under you – may be one of the main reasons you ride. The great psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi fathered the concept of flow — of being so immersed in an activity that you are completely absorbed by it. In…
By Coach John Hughes I write from experience. I’ve been cycling for 50 years and coaching for 30 years and have personally experienced every affliction you can think of — and some you haven’t imagined! Rather than suffering repeatedly, I’ve learned from each painful experiences. We learn more from our riding problems than from rides…
