By Coach Rick Schultz In last week’s RBR Newsletter, I wrote an article on learning how to pedal more efficiently this winter. After going through the comments, I felt that there needed to be some clarification. The two main categories of comments were (a) “Is the math right?” (referring to the text description of the…
By Coach John Hughes Robert Marchand, a 105-year-old cyclist, set a world record by riding 22.547 km (14 miles) in one hour on January 4. He rode on the track of the Velodrome National, a state-of-the-art venue used to host the elite of track cycling in Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, France. This was not Marchand’s first…
By Coach John Hughes “If you aren’t falling you aren’t trying!” —Davis Phinney I’m writing this column on January 1. Yesterday, New Year’s Eve, my wife, Carol, and I finished booking a three-week XC skiing holiday in Norway. Today, we went skiing — my 26th day this season — to build fitness to…
In STRETCHING & CORE STRENGTH FOR THE CYCLIST, our new 57-page eBook, Coach Rick Schultz and Amy Schultz clear up the confusion and take the guesswork out of knowing what to do, and how to do it, to implement a stretching and core strengthening program: Just $14.95; $12.71 forPremium Members, who save 15%! In the 3-article WINTER CYCLING…
Question: I ride with a couple of buddies who seem to easily drop everyone on the hills. It’s not like they’re wispy little guys doing it with a crazy power-to-weight ratio. What’s the secret to getting up the hills faster like them? Coach Rick Schultz Replies: My reply may sound a little trite, but it…
