Fake It Until You Make It
A Day in the Life of a Bike Mechanic As many of you already know, I spend my days turning wrenches in a bike shop. Now some of you are probably curious as to what happens behind the scenes of a bike shop and the black magic involved in keeping your bikes running smoothly. So I’m going to pull back
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Kicking off the Season at the Good Friday Road Race After months of winter training, it was finally time to pin a number on again and kick off the racing season at the Good Friday Road Race. The traditional kick off to the season, racers were thankfully greeted by perfect weather for spring racing on the flat, fast course around
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Just Call Me Coach “Those who can’t do, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym coach.” That’s how that saying goes, right? The other weekend I took the first course in my coaching journey. Getting my coaching certificates has been something I have been wanting to do for the last year or so and I have officially started the process.
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How to Get More Aero on Your Bike Every cyclist loves going fast and we are always looking for ways to get even faster. Whether its to win a big race, take a prestigious Strava KOM, beat your riding buddies in the town line sprint, or just ride faster on your favorite Sunday loop, we all are just looking for
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How to Convert Your Road Bike Into a Time Trial Bike In a perfect world, we would all have a specific bike for each discipline of riding we do. A lightweight bike for climbing. A time trial bike for time trialing. A mountain bike for the trails. A cyclocross bike for… well you get the point. But unfortunately most of
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Week 2 and 3 Update for Training Like a Track Sprinter I know I promised to do weekly updates for my training like a track sprinter experiment, but I got lazy and thought week 2 wasn’t worth an update on. I felt like nothing much happened. No changes in weight. And I fell short of my 10 hour goal for
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First Week Wrap for What Happens When I Train Like a Track Sprinter So I just wrapped up the first week of training like a track sprinter with an hour and a half workout this morning. Since I have some time off work currently, its been great living the pro life. All I do is ride my bike, go to
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Sprinting in the New Year As described in my previous blog post, I am going to be spending the next two months seeing what happens when I train like a track sprinter. In order to be able to judge the success of this training, I needed to find out a couple baseline numbers to compare the final numbers against. January
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See What Happens When I Train Like a Track Sprinter In my previous post, I described how a track sprinter trains and explained why I could never be a track sprinter. Basically, I just like riding my bike too much to train like they do. But in the name of science and for the sake of all my readers, I
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Why I Could Never be a Track Sprinter Every once in a while I get a desire to just say “screw losing weight, I just want to lift heavy stuff and be a big track sprinter.” But as I research the sort of training a track sprinter does, I realize more and more that I may not be cut out
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