Training

Although my life's work and my profession has been in the `helping' professions I keep having to learn the difference between my pub...

Looking at my Garmin data I noted that on the same date last year (2010) I rode on the indoor trainer for 5 hours and 18 minutes.  It was a...

Winter months keep me stuck indoors.  Can't keep much of a consistent training program when it is all grim suffering on the indoor equip...

Mother nature set an historical February record for snowfall in Chicago.  Snowing now.  Two days of February to go. That is, if you do...

Even though I've long ago reached my psychological limit of indoor training this year it looks like I'll be pushing that limit as fa...

This past weekend there was a bike race that did not involve teams in Sebring, Florida.  In otherwords, the only racers were solo racers.  ...

Though I live in the thick of Chicago I typically drive about 60 miles northwest to the rural farmland roads to put on the miles without man...

-16.8F degrees in my training course in Burlington, IL with a windchill of -17F.  If I were to ride in this temp at 15 mph it would be -39F ...

I've had to cancel participation in the February 19th Bike Sebring 24 hour RAAM Qualifying race.  A family obligation that cannot be res...

Over the past half year I've made a number of significant changes to my Bacchetta Ti Aero. Swapped out the `gooseneck' riser for a...

I'm using the Garmin 705 with all functions except time and HR turned off. These data below illustrate the Maximum Sustained Power effor...

And then there was the time, as a teenager, I planned to ride my Schwinn Varsity 10 speed around both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior in 196...

From September to last night I purposely ignored watching what I ate or drank. Fortunately, I'm not excessive by nature. But it was nice...

This is a hard one.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/opinion/31jacoby.html?hp Few things scare us more than being trapped with no hope...

Quote: As the baby boomers age. Electric assist on bicycles will ramp up in popularity . You get older, you need an assist, whats not to l...

I use an external catheter for on-the-road urination while riding the recumbent. For upright and other bikes you might make some changes. He...

Because my wife and I will be relocating from Chicago to Prescott, AZ, in 2011 I won't be able to enter the Race Across the West in 2011...

Just the other day I established what I thought would be a challenging indoor training goal of maintaining an average heart rate of between ...

Originally Posted by galilee "Just curious but what is your target watt output for the Indiana event?" I don't know yet. So...

This year's indoor training program is completely different from last year's. Although the 2011 cycling event calendar is far less f...

I received an email recently from an ultracycist listserv recognizing the indoor training achievements of a few DF’rs this winter. The autho...

From a post on a recumbent bike forum.  I stated that I thought I could beat my previous times on several challenging routes on a front whee...

Me? I want to be faster, fastest and first. If that is attributable to wind, terrain, unholy engineering, or just a good day ... I'll ta...

It's decided.  Rather than just repeat my previous W-E record set in 2009 I'll attempt an `out and back' record on Saturday, May...