By Coach John Hughes In last week’s column, Eating Like an Olympian, Part 1, I described in general how an Olympic athlete eats and drinks. More specifically, what can we learn from how they eat daily? How should a regular roadie eat every day? As I noted last week, “Nutrition plans need to…
By Coach John Hughes Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) won gold in the Olympic men’s road race in 6:10:05. Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark) took silver and Rafal Majka (Poland) took bronze. 140+ riders started the race on the 237.5 km (146-mile) course. Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) won gold in the women’s race (141 km,…
By Coach John Hughes It was 95F (35C) and sweat was dripping into my eyes a few years back, so I tied a bandana around my head and put my cowboy hat back on. My wife and I were sitting in the sun listening to Yonder Mountain String Band’s Sunday morning gospel set at RockyGrass,…
By Coach Fred Matheny After 39 years of writing about bikes, I’m riding off into the sunset, retiring from RBR. I wrote my first cycling article for the now-defunct magazine Bike World in 1977. (I hope my article didn’t hasten its demise.) That was followed by a stint writing for Velonews when it…
By John Marsh, Editor & Publisher I’ve done week-long tours before (including the TdW two years ago), but last week’s Tour de Wyoming was different in a fundamental and important way. And because of that, the feedback and lessons I have to share with you today are a mix of universal lessons that…
