QUESTION: I’m a 67 year old cyclist, primarily road/gravel though I love the occasional fling downhill through the woods on my mountain bike. I fell off a high ladder in mid-December and fractured 5 cervical vertebrae. I’m in a neck brace for the next month or so. I had 2 vastly different neurosurgical opinions. The…
By Kevin Kolodziejski But There’s a Remedy That Also Benefits Your Brain You just need to love cycling — not ride 10,000 miles a year — to fear what these two, once quite-accomplished and now long-in-the-tooth, absolute mileage junkies, whom I consider buddies, fear. That lifting weights means riding less. They’re right, you know. But they’re both…
by Fred Matheny Hard training doesn’t always lead to better performances. Combine it with inadequate recovery and you’ll almost certainly get worse instead of better. How can you avoid this depressing phenomenon, known as overtraining? How can you recover better? Stress is Cumulative Pro cyclists rarely overtrain. They ride enormous mileage (on the order of…
by Lars Hundley I am saddened to write that Coach John Hughes passed away suddenly on February 4, following an emergency surgery. I first knew Coach Hughes as a fellow reader, long before I took over as publisher of Road Bike Rider and began working with him directly in 2018. I remember buying the book…
QUESTION: I’ve recently developed a couple of cysts on my upper leg and buttocks. Is this caused by irritation from my cycling shorts? Bacteria? What are the remedies? — Jon B. RBR REPLIES: Cysts and other skin eruptions where the saddle meets the shorts usually result from abrasion. The skin’s surface always contains bacteria. When…
