Training

More Difficult than the Tour de France There are two versions of the `World’s Toughest Bicycle Race.’ Both versions are considered more diff...

The next time you train with the brain box (a bag that attaches to the back of the carbon fiber hard shell seat) make sure that it is slung ...

" I set a pancake flat course. Mentally, I broke up the training into 3 hour segments. For the first 3 hours I completed 35 miles at a...

It may change once the weather turns and I can get out of the dang cellar, but ... On the DF I never had a problem with handling what I ate ...

It was 3.6 F this morning at the site of my favorite outdoor loop in Hampshire, Il. Been that way for a while. Supposed to be that way for...

So the Race Across the West (RAW) has 15 stages over 860 miles. All but two stages are around 50 miles each. If you took the road from one...

I'm whining. I expect nothing to change because of it ... but just feel better going `wah! wah! wah!' It's pointless, yes. Bu...

For a little entertainment I mapped out the Prescott to Sedona AZ route for RAW/RAAM a few years ago and loaded it onto the CompuTrainer. B...

One of the more certain aspects about preparing for RAW is that a change in one area of my life affects many other things. I've been on...

1. To finish 2. To finish first in age group. 3. To finish first on a recumbent 4. To finish among the top five. 5. To finish first. 6. To f...

Until I was around 55 yrs old I used never to `sleep.' I had two states: wide awake and unconscious. Then I got old. Mother Nature sw...

In my earlier post about "I JUST DON'T LIKE IT" I complained about my preference for beating my head against a brick wall desp...

Plan is to go from 200 lbs to about 175 - 165 lbs from Dec 1st, 2009 to June 1, 2010. I've posted the diet here: http://spreadsheets.go...

I just don't like having to read books, articles and training materials about how to become a better cyclist. I'd rather dither, av...

The Carmichael (trainright.com) Field Test (http://trainright.com/info.asp?uid=1265) is an 8 minute `maximum sustainable effort' baselin...

This morning I read a post from a person who did the Race Across the West last year but had to drop out after about 300 miles due to the fac...

From aerobic and long hours to anaerobic intervals, aerobic maintenance and long hours. Today I loped for 1 hour at about a 110 HR, don...

O.K. So now I've learned that riding uppy downy CompuTrainer courses may be fun but it doesn't lend itself to a measurable training...

C'trainer. 4 hours. Flat. Avg HR 122; Avg Watts 118. Though the CompuTrainer can serve as entertainment to help with motivation for ...

Indoor training is where it is going to have to `be' for the next few months. Sure, it is more than feasible to ride outdoors despite t...

C'trainer. I used the DeLorme / Racermate software to construct the Assault on Mt Mitchell (AMM) (102 miles, 11,000 ft of climbing, mos...

Last Friday I had planned 3 or 4 hours on the indoor trainer but I found myself napping at every free minute. Finally concluded that I ...

It has never gone away! No matter that I've ridden bicycles of one sort or another for 60 years. Still ... when I'm riding the bik...

I really don't know what to call these things so I'll try to give a clear description. Spending long hours on the indoor trainer is ...

It's been a long time since I used the C'trainer in a structured plan of training. Though I've had a C'trainer since 1996, w...