Training

I live in Prescott, AZ.  The `flattest' training course I can find is 27 miles and 1,500 feet of climbing. Last year I rode only 7,100...

(I ride without music.  Part of it has to do with safety.  Part of it has to do with the fact that, after a while, it's like chewing dea...

Anger is kerosene looking for a match. Anger is ` ready, FIRE, aim. ' In my private practice I'd tell my patients that `comparin...

I spent the day yesterday glued to a chair and a computer ... like any good ultracyclist.  I don't really like `riding' a bike.  L...

Should be a good year for cycling.  Lot's of major life change issues (retirement, selling house, relocating, renovating new house, scop...

Here in Mile High Prescott, Arizona, it is `ground-zero' for mind-blowing mountain biking $35K Winner's Prize Don't be surpr...

I recently commented on a New York Times article Running Hard at 66 and Living With the Consequences Having just returned from a 24 Hour B...

Training WIthout Brains Sometimes we let fixed ideas dictate our actions.  This is variably described, ranging from `dedicated,' to ...

As 2013 training and riding season is imminent I thought it might be amusing to post my homage to the snake oil industry: "Expensiv...

I'm not certain I'll be able to state this very well. I've been casually attending to cyclist's reports of the watts they ...

Though the temp on the south end of the mountain was 20 degrees warmer (in the sun) than up top it was getting mighty windy by mid-day. I...

Two training sessions today.  First on was outdoors.  Second was on the indoor trainer.  It was 11F in a few of the hollows on the mountai...

"The Use of an External Catheter for Racing (or just convenience)" Of the almost 35,000 pageviews of my blog over the past two y...

2012 has been the first year I was able to maintain some consistency in my cycling training. Some 2012 data: about 7,300 miles cycled; ...

Rollers. Years ago I trained on rollers (DF) and found that they `trained' my ability to maintain balance on a slippery surface. But...

The UltraMarathon Cycling Association sponsors a winter indoor cycling competition for members.  Some members spend as many as 28 hours in ...

Having chosen to train using the Heart Rate Zone method (more specifically found in Joe Friel's "Total Heart Rate Training") I...

Introvert personality. If a crowded cocktail party feels like a holding cell to you, even as you gamely keep up your end of the chatter, c...

They say I'm `retired' now.  Actually, I still have the luxury of work.  But I no longer have the burden of a `job.' (How many...

Yesterday I got a late start on a training ride from Wilhoit toward Bagdad, the Santa Maria River (the low point).  This out and back route ...

Today's training ride put me over the 500,000 feet of climbing since Jan 1 2012 figure: Today's Training Session Miles: 6,435 F...

So ... I just spent a great deal of time and effort explaining and describing a dedicated program of training.  And it dawns on me: ANY p...

In my previous post I described some of the limitations of training exclusively in mountainous terrain.  Essentially, while my climbing abil...

For quite a long time I've been going back and forth on this issue.  First, I've made the distinction between `indoor' trainin...