We switched to WordPress. All the articles we’ve published since 2001 are still there — they’re just organized a little differently in few categories so they are easier to browse. The change will make it easier to keep the site updated and the newsletter published each week, and the new design loads faster on mobile…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. In a recent study, 19 well-trained female duathletes were assigned to either: • run and cycle with an added strength training program, or • just run and cycle. The strength training program included four lower body exercises, three times each, twice a week for 11 weeks. The added strength training improved…
By Coach John Hughes Jim Hardy wrote, “I’m age 72 and a bunch of geezers like me are prepping for the very, very hilly Bike Ride Across Georgia in 1st week of June. Any training advice (besides “don’t do it!!!”) for guys our age to help us complete this 6-day ride in the mountains? The…
By Coach John Hughes Ned Overend at age 35 won the first UCI World MTB Championship in 1990 in Durango, CO and won again in 1991. In 2015 at the age of 60 he won the first US Fatbike championship! On training he said, “I do exactly what I have always done; it just takes…
By Stan Purdum It was only after the school bus knocked Dave Cardarella and his riding partner Marilyn Perdue off their tandem bicycle and then drove over the bike as they scrambled for their lives that Dave got serious about daytime lights on bicycles. Road riders, Dave and Marilyn, of North Canton, Ohio, pedal about…
