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Latest in Training & Health
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Your Winter Training Doesn’t Have to Be Slow
By Ric Stern Last week I mentioned that the off-season is dead and that you should continue training over winter if you wish to improve year after year, or maintain your fitness in the unlikely event you’ve reached your physiological limit. However, many people feel that lots of long steady miles is the way forward…
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Quick Tip: Do You Know This Sign of Overtraining?
Most riders expect overtraining to announce itself in the legs: power falls, climbing gets harder, and familiar routes feel slow. Those signs matter. But sometimes the first warning appears somewhere else. You become unusually irritable. Small problems feel large. You do not look forward to rides you normally enjoy. Friends or family may notice that…
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Are You Cycling Slower Than You Need To Be?
By Kevin Kolodziejski Today’s title is a curiously phrased question, made that way by the seemingly puzzling use of need to be. For we all know that if you want to be a successful racer, avoid burnout, or fully enjoy cycling regardless of your commitment level, you need to ride slower rather than faster much of the…
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Cycling Inconveniences, Rightly Considered
By Stan Purdum The term “adventure” is often applied to cycling, but what do we mean when we use that term? The writer G.K. Chesterton said, “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” As a case in point, look at this photo below. Do you think…
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The Off-Season Is Dead
By Ric Stern Last week I wrote about surviving two weeks in the Alps on vacation. Plenty of riding, no structure, lots of coffee and pastries. It was brilliant. But this week I want to talk about what comes next — because for a lot of riders, October means one thing: feet up, bike in…
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Quick Tip: Change Out of Sweaty Shorts
After a long ride, the easiest thing is to sit in the car, stop for coffee or do a few errands before going home. But if you are still in damp cycling shorts, change that plan. Sweat, road spray and a wet chamois hold moisture against skin that has already spent hours under pressure and…
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Quick Tip: When Did You Last Check Your Bike Bag?
Your saddlebag can become a junk drawer over time. When was the last time you opened yours and checked to see what’s actually in it? If you don’t get a lot of flats, it might have been quite a while. Maybe you put a punctured tube back in the bag, meaning to replace it when…
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1X vs. 2X: My Response Is Classified! by Charles Wells
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Our conversation in the last two episodes of Tech Talk about choosing between a traditional double chainring or a newfangled single chainring drivetrain for your next road bike (referred to respectively today as a 2X or 1X drivetrain — say “two by” or “one by”), attracted some great comments,…
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Your Winter Training Doesn’t Have to Be Slow
By Ric Stern Last week I mentioned that the off-season is dead and that you should continue training over winter if you wish to improve year after year, or maintain your fitness in the unlikely event you’ve reached your physiological limit. However, many people feel that lots of long steady miles is the way forward…
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