Training

EXAMPLE OF POST TO THE CREW: Folks ... Joe has checked out the signage and electrical on the van to make sure that we have all the parts we ...

A recent interchange between Jeff Clark, Crew Mechanic, and me: From: "Jeff Clark" To: "Dan Fallon" Dan, your stomach wi...

Of course, just a few short weeks before RAW life's exigencies remind me that life is not `RAW.'  It is more (much more) and better ...

I've got no choice but to do weekday training on the indoor trainer (CompuTrainer a.k.a. "Igor"). Design an 11.2 mile course w...

I wanted desperately to ride a 12 hour after working all day Thursday. Despite weather forecast of rain, wind, lightning and cold. Left the ...

I used my Zipp wheels Saturday and it all went to hell. At mile 42 I had passed almost everybody I could see ahead of me and I was closing i...

I've never been able to put to words why I do biking. I've never considered biking much different than other things I've done in...

I use a very simple mix of powdered stuff for my fuel bottle. I mix a 2 hour (600-700 calories) batch for each fuel bottle. I will have abou...

FROM JEFF CLARK - RACE MECHANIC: Dan, I want to check on some things while we we are still 44 days out from the start of RAW. You had mentio...

I sort of surprised myself in AZ last month on the long miles of climbing: I didn't cramp and I didn't stop. (I am not certain of th...

Midweek during the Arizona trip I made a firm and confident decision to withdraw from RAW 2010. I changed my mind two days ago. I didn't...

The Race Across the West which begins in Oceanside, CA, and ends in Durango, Colorado. The race starts at noon on Wednesday, June 9th, and r...

This is the Garmin 705 data from the 91 mile, 8,100 feet of climbing ride from Prescott to Flagstaff while in Arizona last week.  I'll h...

Monday the 15th I'll be shipping the bike and other gear out to our place in Prescott, AZ.  My wife, Anna, and I will get there on the 1...

The last few weeks has seen Chicago weather bearable for outdoor training.  Temps in the 20's to 40's.  Got in a 177 mile weekend la...

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...