For months we spend our time carefully crafting training plans, preparing post-ride meals and maintaining our space-age machines after battle with winter’s wet. Every day our season approaches faster and faster, our first ‘Monument’ faster. It seemed like October only yesterday; April, a distant future. Now, after our director orchestrates the day’s tactics and the commissaire drops […]
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40’C Weather
Manual For Speed @Tumblr: The guys asked me to write something about racing in extreme heat, like my experience at Tulsa Tough in 2011. This is what I wrote: Morning Spin Manual For Speed Tumblr Oppressive Dew, Defy Lethargic Mope, Hydrate Sleepy Eyelids, Coffee Tired Legs, Back to Bed Full Throttle Fired Eyes, Blinding UVs Easy […]
Finding a coaching style
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” (Ken Robinson) MUSIC As both a coached cyclist and a coach myself, I have the unique opportunity of experiencing both sides of the objective/subjective dichotomy. As a rider, I ask questions of my coach that are based mostly upon subjective feelings and […]