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Aug. 29, 2008A successfull 'cross season begins now.
The dog days of summer are over, the days are getting much shorter and the road and mountain bike racing events are few and far between. For some cyclists this symbolizes the conclusion of a long road or mountain bike season that began sometime ...
Aug. 13, 2008The Evolution of Aero
I remember a hot, muggy day in Savannah, Georgia, way back in 1983. The state time trial was an event I had looked forward to for a long time. I had trained really hard for it, and always enjoyed the test against the clock. This particular year, I ...
Jul. 25, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner:
The headline says it all. After a seven-day flogging at the BC Bike Race, it’s been R&R time here in the land of the coached. I took a week off after the race and am just now starting to crank it up again. The 330-mile mountain bike stage ...
Jul. 14, 2008Reading your blood
We live in an age of amazing technology. So amazing it is, in fact, that it takes much of the guesswork and mystery out of our daily lives, for an ever decreasing cost. Things that we may have never known about ourselves, like the regular status of ...
Jul. 8, 2008Bicycle riding nutrition: losing that last 20 pounds.
The extra 20 pounds Hi Monique, I enjoyed your article in the recent VeloNews (May 22, 2008) about nutrition for cyclists. A lot of what you discussed I was already doing (learned from trial and error over my riding career of 25 ...
Jul. 4, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner: BC Survival Camp
I’m going to start this week’s column with an extended photo caption. On the left is Andreas Hestler, professional mountain bike racer and member of the Rocky Mountain Bicycles team. On Thursday, he and partner Max Paxton grabbed the stage 6 win ...
Jun. 27, 2008Circles: Wasting energy in an energy challenged world
First the disclaimer: this is not a typical training article. This is more of a rant that I have been dying to get out there in the public domain. It does involve training, but it’s more of a statement, so please bear with me. With gas prices ...
Jun. 23, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner: Any way you slice it, surgery sucks
Two words you never want to hear from your doctor: hernia surgery. Alas, that was the crux of a conversation I had with my physician about two months ago. The diagnosis was an inguinal hernia, meaning a small portion of my intestine was bulging ...
Jun. 18, 2008The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Sodium keeps your mind sharp.
With the hot weeks of summer stretching out before them, cyclists are paying closer attention to their sodium replacement strategies during training and racing. Sodium replacement during training can prevent hyponatremia or lowered blood sodium ...
Jun. 12, 2008A report from RAAM - If you don't snooze, you lose
Writing this article presented some interesting challenges. Here I sit in the support van, halfway across the US in the Race Across America (RAAM), somewhere in Kansas, supporting Team Type 1 in their bid to repeat their 2007 victory and hoping ...
Jun. 8, 2008The Coach(ed) Corner - Feeling the (brotherly) love
On the road again. Seems to be a reoccurring theme here in the land of the coached. This week – a day late I must admit – I’m coming to you from the great American city of Philadelphia. And of course I am here to cover the Commerce Bank Triple ...
Jun. 2, 2008Marco Pinotti’s perfect day and the race data to prove it
On Sunday, two-time Italian national time trial champion Marco Pinotti proved yet again that he is one of the world’s best in that specialty, particularly when it comes to the ...